jerkings

He still kept his teeth together, but severe muscular contractions attacked his body, strange twitchings and jerkings, till he was all a-quiver and writhing in silent torment.

BÂTARD 2010

Her left arm had developed involuntary jerkings and twitchings.

THE UNEXPECTED 2010

Chokings and nervous jerkings, however, are nothing new to me when I think with anxiety of those I love.

Great Expectations 2007

Raymond is a witness what nervous jerkings I have in my legs.

Great Expectations 2007

Its movements were simply the random jerkings of muscle tissue stimulated by electricity ... and yet ...

Death Stalks The Ruins Adams, Stephen 2005

And then, lost in his thoughts and recollections, he sat, regardless of a peculiar noise on the outer wall of the convent, of the jerkings of a rope hitched on to a bar of his window, and of grating steel as it cut through iron, which ought at once to have attracted the attention of a less absorbed man.

Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon 2003

I moved my arms, slowly, imitating their undulations, their jerkings.

Trumps of Doom Zelazny, Roger 1985

He was doing his best to answer to his name, and at least his limited jerkings and muted grunts made it plain that he was alive.

St. Peter's Fair Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1981

He was doing his best to answer to his name, and at least his limited jerkings and muted grunts made it plain that he was alive.

St. Peter's Fair Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1981

At once, all the tremblings and jerkings inside him ceased.

The Battle of Forever Van Vogt, A. E. 1971