"Jumping" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... you are within your Adversaries reach, that you get put of it by stepping or Jumping backwards; which you must observe to do on ...
— The School of Recreation (1696 edition) • Robert Howlett
... than if they were stocks and stones, arouses her ire; sympathy is what she needs, sympathy to help her to face the world and continue her crusade against cruelty. She says all this in a scattered and disconnected style, jumping from one point to another, turning occasionally to her friend for support or confirmation. This friend is a meek, subdued-looking person of uncertain age, somewhat washed-out and bedraggled in appearance. Her attire is nondescript, and seems to consist ...
— A Girl Among the Anarchists • Isabel Meredith
... celebrated their victory by savage pomps and conjurations. They tied the Captain to the ceremonial stake, then, all painted and decorated in their fiercest and most hideous war paint and trappings, they danced their wild dance of triumph. Shouting and jumping, they brandished their war clubs in his face, whirling round and round their captive, like so many demons, each more frightful than the other. But, since they did not kill him at once, Captain John, nothing daunted, kept them wondering, by telling strange stories of the sun, the stars, and the world ...
— The Story of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith • E. Boyd Smith
... jumping up she ran to the mirror and snapped on the light to make a radiant face at ...
— Miss Pat at Artemis Lodge • Pemberton Ginther
... irresistible, and he could only drive before it. In a few minutes, as he was swept along the shore, he was carried between it and another immense reef. Here, the waves being broken and less powerful, he contrived to get the heavy canoe ashore again, and, jumping out, dragged her up as far as he could on the land. When he had done this, he found to his surprise that the gale had ceased. The tremendous burst of wind had been succeeded by a perfect calm, and the waves had already lost their ...
— After London - Wild England • Richard Jefferies
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