And the Beast-Man did be upon me with two quick boundings; and I stood up to the Man, and it made no sound or cry as it came at me; and there did a great froth of brute anger and intent come from the mouth of it, and the teeth came down on each side of the mouth, very great and sharp.

And, in verity, there did be one of the monsters that came upward over certain rocks that were to my rearward; and surely it to have been stayed hid there, or resting, and to have heard us or to have smelled us; but anywise then to have knowledge of us, and to come with low and brutish heavy boundings, very lumbersome, after us.

But still it will go on with its boundings.

It is good sometimes to behold the joy of mere brute freedomthe boundings of the noble horse freed from his stable and his halterthe glad homeward flight of the bird from its cagebut here was besides the rational joy of a heaven-born nature.

It is good sometimes to behold the joy of mere brute freedomthe boundings of the noble horse freed from his stable and his halterthe glad homeward flight of the bird from its cagebut here was besides the rational joy of a heaven-born nature.

And thou hast mark'd in childhood's hour The fearless boundings of my breast, When fresh as summer's opening flower, I freely frolick'd and was blest.

Broken twigs lay around ... the brute must have broken them in his mad boundings.

His Mirth, his Frolick, and Joy upon the Sight of me has been observed, and I have been gravely desired not to encourage him so much, for it spoils his Parts; but I think he shews them sufficiently in the several Boundings, Friskings, and Scourings, when he makes his Court to me:

The fish being, of course, unable to attain their object, have been seen, after various aerial boundings, to fall, in the course of their exertions, upon the dry gravel bank between the river and the pool of water, where they were picked up by the considerate natives.