The mail was brought by a tiny "jerk-water" bobtail dummy and coach run by one, Tony, from Pearl City, a mile away, to a station near the end of the peninsula.
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Jerk-water
Synonyms for "jerk-water" (9 found)
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Noun(3 words)
Adjective(1 words)
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That seems to disappoint them, for every sociologist likes to go back to some jerk-water college and tell those who are in the sociological class how they had to get their information by pantomime."
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He had risen to the head of the greatest street car system in the world from the position of brakeman on a jerk-water railroad.
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Can the keen-minded Mr. Willard at Baltimore be more anxious than the keen-minded Mr. Rea at Philadelphia to undertake the management of jerk-water branches in Connecticut or in Rhode Island or down on Cape Cod ?
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