jerky

In jerky little sentences he sketched his adventure, mingling fiction with fact as the fever grew on him again.

He had rattled on in a jerky, excited, nervous manner, and he wound up by drinking off nearly a tumblerful of champagne.

He actually started toward the watercourse, walking with jerky, uneven steps.

Dade did not hear a word he was saying, after those first jerky sentences.

Nervous and jerky he walked to the center of the stage, and raised his hand begging silence.