"Jumping" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... she cried, clapping her hands and jumping up and down. "Now you can have everything you want! you won't ...
— New National Fourth Reader • Charles J. Barnes and J. Marshall Hawkes
... "What!" I said, jumping to my feet, "and they came to a respectable house like this! There's never been a breath of scandal about this house, Miss Hope, and if this comes out ...
— The Case of Jennie Brice • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... her, in another dense thicket, near the head of a glen, I came upon three, who no sooner sighted me, than all in line they charged down my way. Fortunately at the time my gun-bearers were with me; so, jumping to one side, I struck them all three in turn. One of them dropped dead a little way on; but the others only pulled up when they arrived at the bottom. To please myself now I had done quite enough; but as the princes would have it, I went on with the ...
— The Discovery of the Source of the Nile • John Hanning Speke
... barking in response to his; two dogs hanging a third, cutting him down, when he lay apparently dead, other dogs driving in, in a cart, and carrying away the body; others waltzing on their hind legs, and others jumping the rope. Two horses played see-saw, and one rolled a barrel up an inclined plane with his fore legs; he hated to do it. But the marvellous fishes and ...
— The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss • George L. Prentiss
... looked on for a while at a certain parody of devotion, which seemed to strip the wretch of his last claim to manhood. Then followed the brutal instant of extinction, and the paltry dangling of the remains like a broken jumping-jack. He had been prepared for something terrible, not for this tragic meanness. He stood a moment silent, and then - "I denounce this God-defying murder," he shouted; and his father, if he must have disclaimed the sentiment, might have ...
— Weir of Hermiston • Robert Louis Stevenson
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