"Jabbing" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... they sung for a long time, the old men jabbing their spears at each other, and the old women pretending to hit each other ...
— Blackfoot Lodge Tales • George Bird Grinnell
... clearly blameless and was let go at once. This angered the many friends of the Tolliver, and when he was arrested there was an attempt at rescue, and the Tolliver was dragged to the calaboose behind a slowly retiring line of policemen, who were jabbing the rescuers back with the muzzles of cocked Winchesters. It was just when it was all over, and the Tolliver was safely jailed, that Bad Rufe galloped up to the calaboose, shaking with rage, for he had just learned that the prisoner was a Tolliver. He saw how useless interference was, ...
— The Trail of the Lonesome Pine • John Fox, Jr. |
