"Jerky" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... from one to two hundred. He is interesting and unique as the most skilful farmer among the animals in his preparation of his winter supply of fodder. During the weeks when the grass is most succulent he actually mows it down with swift jerky swings of his head, cutting about twenty or thirty stalks with his sharp long front teeth. Then he allows his grass to cure and later puts up his prepared hay in a most scientific manner. First he makes a mound about a foot high. Through this he pushes down into the ground ...
— Beasts, Men and Gods • Ferdinand Ossendowski
... frozen in their position above his head. He turned slowly, with little jerky movements, as though he had to fight to make himself look. And then ...
— The Rangeland Avenger • Max Brand
... laughter increased. In many lodges, the people held social dances, the women, dressed in their best gowns, ranged on one side, the men on the other; all sung, and three or four drummers furnished an accompaniment; the music was lively if somewhat jerky. At intervals the people rose and danced, the "step" being a bending of the knees and swinging of the body, the women holding their arms and hands in ...
— Blackfoot Lodge Tales • George Bird Grinnell
... ask if she was about the house," Henley made reply, in a jerky sort of fashion. "There is a little matter I wanted to ...
— Dixie Hart • Will N. Harben
... be but one reason for this; the bird is inconspicuous. The olive-green of its back, with its light under parts, serves to hide it completely amid the foliage. Even the bird-lover learns to find it first by its jerky song, and then by watching for its movements ...
— The Meaning of Evolution • Samuel Christian Schmucker
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