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"Jog" Quotes from Famous Books

... aggravating way of falling into mournful revery and of forgetting his subject. Mr. Bixby was forced to jog him again. ...

— The Crossing • Winston Churchill

... Ignatius Gallaher, "here we are in old jog-along Dublin where nothing is known of ...

— Dubliners • James Joyce

... take the liberty of reminding the Signor Conte that he is expected at the Casa Doria at seven o'clock,' observed his valet in a subdued and discreet murmur, one of his offices being to jog his master's memory. 'Everything ...

— The Child of Pleasure • Gabriele D'Annunzio

... results in an overuse or overdevelopment of the cerebral metronome. Both readers and writers get into a certain 'swing' which turns to monotony and sing-song in reading and to excessive uniformity of sentence length and structure in writing—what is called a jog-trot style. This pause as it affects the reading of verse is only slightly dependent upon the logical content of words, for it takes its pace, especially in rimed verse, from the normal line length, ...

— The Principles of English Versification • Paull Franklin Baum

... his horse to a jog-trot, and the five Hillmen pattered in his wake, huddled so close together that the horse could easily have kicked more than one of them. The night was cold enough to make flesh creep; but it was imagination that herded them until ...

— King--of the Khyber Rifles • Talbot Mundy

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