Stop-and-start, start-and-stop

Usage examples of jerky.

And the commander, turning to look at the adjutant, directed his jerky steps down the line.

And just now the bumping of the Tube train shaped his emotion into something that began with Success that poisons many a baser mind With thoughts of self, may lift-- but stopped there because, when he changed into another train, the jerkier movement altered the rhythm into something more lyrical, and he got somewhat confused between the two and ended by losing both.

Bethel gave us haoma, biscuits, and jerky for a midday meal, and sat down to eat with us herself.

She struck across the tufty grass, following the line of the fence bordering the main road but keeping fifty or so yards inside it and moving at a jerky half crouch.

Not the easiest thing to do without so much as a pot or blanket between us, and no food save for the jerky and waybread we had in our pouches.

Fruit, sweet and stickythin bare twigs tangled amid a bluest skythe jerky pain of hair caught too tighta tiny bird with stilled wings glued to the tendrils of a webby clouda huge lump of packed-down exultation struggling to be born, then suddenly soaring free, freeoh, in such an ecstasy!

Tired of biscuits and jerky, especially since she did not care for meat, Wynn had purchased dried lentils, barley, onions, and carrots, as well as late pears and smoke-dried fish.

Oriole was cleaning the baby Quail, Fox was helping her, and Antelope was packing the jerky.

Only one jerky thrust and Mank was coming, too, stars flashing before his eyes.

A liberal sprinkling of black-and-white people -- persons who are accessing the Metaverse through cheap public terminals, and who are rendered in jerky, grainy black and white.

Then, pocketing his glittering revolver with a defiant, jerky motion, Sark shifted a squarish package under his arm and stalked along the street and around a corner.

Michaele slammed the squeegee on top of the pump and with jerky movements replaced the nozzle in its holder.

Lightning was so frequent that often the land seemed to be lit by a stroboscope, with everything moving in a jerky slow motion.

Perhaps because she was unencumbered by petticoat or buttoned bodice or long overskirt tied back at the sides or buckle shoes with light cotton stockings, in short because she was not dressed as I was, even in my unpreparedness for the street, she was at my side in a few jerky moves before I was even five steps closer to the door.

In a jerky nervous motion I reached back a hundred years and into the blurry outlines of unsolid iron.