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.
"A Prisoner in Fairyland"
Algernon Blackwood
It was more vigorous and more staccato and jerkier.
"The Loudwater Mystery"
Edgar Jepson
I could see that I had hit him, for he grew jerkier than ever.
"The Professor's Mystery"
Wells Hastings Brian Hooker