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More "Jack-in-the-box" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... had been close upon his heels from the instant he entered them. There was something uncanny in the feeling that possessed him. Such espionage as this signified something deep and imperative in the presence not only of O'Dowd but the Jack-in-the-box gardener a few minutes earlier. He had the grim suspicion that he would later on encounter ...
— Green Fancy • George Barr McCutcheon
... to show you and Miss Dunbar a live prince, and I did it. That is done and over with. He has been seen and heard. There is no reason why he should pop up here and there all over Great Britain like a Jack-in-the-box. He's becoming a bore." ...
— Frances Waldeaux • Rebecca Harding Davis
... other door like another Jack-in-the-box appeared Sergeant Schultz in exactly the same attitude. At a nod the sergeant melted into the semblance of human movement: he drew aside a chair, selected a certain document from a pile of them, and handed it to the lieutenant. Zu Pfeiffer pushed a box of cigars across the ...
— Witch-Doctors • Charles Beadle
... they had reached the foot of the rock, when all at once, like a "Jack-in-the-box," a sentinel started up before ...
— Off on a Comet • Jules Verne
... getting unbearable. He is a jack-in-the-box the way he pops into the chair. He does not assume form slowly. He pops. That is the only way to describe it. I cannot stand looking at him much more. That way lies madness, for it compels me almost to believe ...
— The Turtles of Tasman • Jack London
... place. He watched the two silent readers. All the others watched them too. They read on, making slow progress, for the light was poor and their eyes were poor. And the watchers could hardly contain themselves; they could hardly wait. Sergeant Jimmy Bagby kept bobbing up and down like a pudgy jack-in-the-box that is slightly stiff in its joints. A small, restrained rustle of bodies accompanied the rustle of the folded newspapers held ...
— The Escape of Mr. Trimm - His Plight and other Plights • Irvin S. Cobb
... called the 'etui,' (or needle-case,) of the marrow. But each of the cords which together form this etui, is itself composed of an almost infinitely delicate thread twisted into a screw, like the common spring of a letter-weigher or a Jack-in-the-box, but of exquisite fineness." Upon this, two pages and an elaborate figure are given to these 'trachees'—tracheas, the French call them,—and we are never told the measure of them, either in diameter or length,[39] and still less, the ...
— Proserpina, Volume 2 - Studies Of Wayside Flowers • John Ruskin
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