jumping-jacks

Don, t do jumping-jacks on the hood of tresspasser's cars.

When you were a kid what great words of wisdom did your Father have? 2009

Don, t do jumping-jacks on the hood of tresspasser's cars.

When you were a kid what great words of wisdom did your Father have? 2009

"That was splendid too; that is, the orchestra was, though I'd have enjoyed it more if those jumping-jacks had kept quiet or gone off the stage."

Chapter 24 2010

It is also hard to imagine that National Security Advisor Jim Jones was doing the diplomatic equivalent of jumping-jacks when he recently said that if he could tell President Obama to resolve one conflict it would be the Arab-Israeli one.

David Halperin: To Do Nothing Is an Insane Policy 2009

And, as always, fun with postmodern linguistic jumping-jacks.

Titled! Ow, my books! yuki_onna 2006

But, considered as an artistic whole, the English novel is so disjointed and uneven that the interest often flags and almost dies, while many of the characters are as grotesque and wooden as so many jumping-jacks.

The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 Various

And the eyes of those little boys, lively as a parcel of mice, sparkled in advance with the joy of seeing in their imagination pink paper bags filled with cakes, lead soldiers drawn up in battalions in their boxes, menageries smelling of varnished wood, and magnificent jumping-jacks covered with purple and bells.

Christmas in Legend and Story A Book for Boys and Girls Elva S. Smith

They are all like jumping-jacks to the man that knows them.

The Redemption of David Corson Charles Frederic Goss

On they rushed through the darkness, bobbing up and down like jumping-jacks, the little car rumbling and screeching, and bounding forward like a live thing.

The Young Railroaders Tales of Adventure and Ingenuity Francis Lovell Coombs

Pantaloon are borne about for sale, -- or over the heads of the crowd great black-faced jumping-jacks, lifted on a stick, twitch themselves in fantastic fits, -- or, what is more Roman than all, men carry about long poles strung with rings of hundreds of _giambelli_, (a light cake, called jumble in English,) which they scream for sale at a _mezzo baiocco_ each.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860 Various