Then Violet, who was always thinking up some happy way out of a difficulty, gave a little bounce in the swing.

[Illustration] XII SYBILLA Showing What Comes of Disobedience, Rosium, and Flour-Paste About noon Bushwyck Carr bounced into the gymnasium, where the triplets had just finished their fencing lesson.

"Even if you're bounced out of the Naval Academy?" demanded Hepson savagely.

And then I almost bounced from my seat, for I would have sworn that the man who stood on the threshold was the man who had opened the secret drawer.

Shortly afterwards we have from Pigot a description of a trip to Harrogate, when his lordship's favourite Newfoundland, Boatswain, whose relation to his master recalls that of Bounce to Pope, or Maida to Scott, sat on the box.

The glass broke upon their backs and nearly set them wild, but being so accustomed to running the road, they never once left the track, and went flying on down the grade towards the next station, eight miles distant, the coach bouncing over the loose stones and small obstacles, and surging from side to side, as an eggshell would in the rapids of Niagara.

After lunch Joe watched Kate walk with long strides toward her office, hair bouncing on her shoulders.

You should snap and bounce at regular intervals; at one moment you should seem a blazing star, and the next be lost in trackless darkness.

It was a large, very concave Makloofa saddle, and he was conscious that he was bouncing about on it with as little power of adhesion as a billiard-ball upon a tea-tray.

Indeed, one might think that a part of the city had come bouncing down the slope, for now it lay resting at the bottom, sprawled somewhat for its ease.

"They are freshies and ought to be bounced off the fence and given a lesson in the bargain.

"But I hate being bounced like this.

And, in fact, the whole story is a bounce of his own.

But does your worship thinke you shall endure the bouncing of the Gunns?

On occasion, some colonel, beefy as a brisket and with rolls of fat on the back of his close-shaved neck, would be seen bouncing by, balancing his tired stomach on his saddle pommel; but, without exception, the men in the ranks were trained down and fine drawn.

These stretching shapes and branches, these candle-holders and bushy twigs have sharp, hard points, and bouncing against them too suddenly might severely wound a fish, or it might slip into a crevice where it would be pricking work to get out.

Then came bounce after bounce, and the sound of breaking glass, and then a crash.

First she stared at them, then bouncing up to her husband's knee sought to kindle an equal excitement in his mind.

Slipping and sliding, clutching wildly at every little projection that would decrease the speed at which we were travelling, we rolled with bruised and bleeding bodies on to a small platform, and lay half stunned for a moment, as a thousand pieces of rock, dislodged by our bodies, bounced past us into the valley.

But I didn't know it, and I came running downstairs, ending with a little bounce for the last step.

A blue flame, the size of a beach ball, was bouncing under the wooden ceiling joists.

"The ponies were snorting and pulling grass, the buckboard bouncing behind 'em like a rubber ball, and we were crowding into the teeth of the northwest wind, which made it seem as if we were travelling 100 per cent.

And so it looked to the audience when the long row of men were tied up like dummies in sacks that reached to their necks; for, after the first muddle at the start, two small brick-top figures went bouncing along in the lead, like hot-water bags with red stoppers in them.