Tajikistan was jolted by a strong earthquake.
Whenever the wheels sank farther than usual into a rut, or jolted suddenly over a stone, she bounded involuntarily into the air, came down again, pushed back her funny little straw hat, and picked up or settled more firmly a small pink sun shade, which seemed to be her chief responsibility,—unless we except a bead purse, into which she looked whenever the condition of the roads would permit, finding great apparent satisfaction in that its precious contents neither disappeared nor grew less.
"By the way, Mortimer," said I as we jolted along the rough road, "I suppose there are few people living within driving distance of this whom you do not know?
Of course they were jolted over the somewhat rough road, but the vehicle arrived without any accident, and was soon loaded with the case and rigging of the balloon.
It jolted me back to reality, as quick as lighting.
Excitement jolted my empty-nest heart upon seeing the name of my eldest son, who now lives eleven hundred miles away.
THE SKY WAS A DEEP BLACK when the phone jolted me from sleep.
" I remembered the way the mosque had jolted Sohrab from his stupor when we'd driven by it, how he'd leaned out of the window looking at it.
The three o'clock bell soon jolted me from my thoughts and I dejectedly grabbed my book bag from my desk and shuffled out the door for home.
But it registers "steps" when jolted, so if he has not met his daily target, "I might watch TV and wave my arm around .
I heard people on the street, jolted from sleep and probably still in their pajamas, with ruffled hair and puffy eyes.
The three o'clock bell soon jolted me from my thoughts and I dejectedly grabbed my book bag from my desk and shuffled out the door for home.
One small incident, however, which struck me as significant and jolted me out of my irritability, remains fixed even now in my memory.
