...When approached it conceals itself in the bush, andwhen flying progresses by a series of short jerky undulations, the wingsproducing a loud humming sound...
P. L. Sclater 「Argentine Ornithology, Volume I (of 2)」
...The cuckoo glides through the air as easily as if he werefloating down stream, whereas the thrasher's flight, like the wren's,is tilting, uneven, flapping, and often jerky...
Neltje Blanchan 「Birds Every Child Should Know」
...A yard or two away ashaggy dog was rising from the tumble caused bythe jerky uptossing of the bull's head...
Albert Payson Terhune 「Lad: A Dog」
...Roodie brought the abused runabout to another jerky stop within a fewinches of the unconcerned collie...
Albert Payson Terhune 「Further Adventures of Lad」
...This jerky shift of position, on the part of the foe, spoiled Bruce'saim...
Albert Payson Terhune 「Bruce」
...Swaying withthe jerky motion, but managing to brace himself, he peered through theinky darkness toward the steps leading to the deck...
Forrestine C. Hooker 「Prince Jan, St. Bernard」
...The flight of the hoopoe is undulating or jerky,like that of a butterfly...
Douglas Dewar 「Birds of the Indian Hills」
...This is nocartage by a team hauling in the open, but a jerky removal, the workof invisible levers...
Jean Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles」
...For a long time, with jerky steps,the mother explores the body in every direction; she takes her stand bypreference on the head, which she sounds by tapping on it with herfront tarsi...
J. H. Fabre 「The Wonders of Instinct」
...Marking his jerky course withan underwake and a shiver of the rushes,he reappears, to calmly observe you froma safer distance...
Rowland E. Robinson 「In New England Fields and Woods」
...He came easily enough till his tailcleared the water; then the wiggling, jerky strain was too much...
William J. Long 「Wood Folk at School」
...Moved around the nestrapidly and waved the antennæ, but all movements were jerky...
Horace Gunthorp 「Journal of Entomology and Zoology」
...Racked by these thoughts, he murmured tortured, jerky phrases,unconscious he was giving voice to the things that flogged his brain...
Various 「Astounding Stories, February, 1931」
...Luminous, white disks, three feet in diameter, glared at him,and the creature, which progressed with jerky leaps toward him, almostfilled the mouth of the mine...
Various 「Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930」
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