"Jounce" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the trail of those ahead. This was a rather difficult task, for the lantern had been put out, and it was pitch-dark tinder the trees. More than once their steeds went into a hollow with a jounce that threatened to throw one or another ...
— The Rover Boys on the Plains - The Mystery of Red Rock Ranch • Arthur Winfield
... drove that car! Not a jounce or bump disturbed the pale little patient, and he "drove the car at a walk" as ...
— The Girl Scouts at Home - or Rosanna's Beautiful Day • Katherine Keene Galt
... on my part, then, for me to assert that many of the stylistic peculiarities found in these Sonnets are attributable to the locale of their inspiration the rear platform of a Sixth Avenue car. One can plainly hear the jar and jounce of the elliptical wheels, the cry, "Step lively!" the six o'clock stampede, the lament of the strap-hanging multitude in such ...
— The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor • Wallace Irwin
... all the world. It may have been written with the thought that it would amuse Franklin P. Adams, but it is attended (in a body) by the Unintelligentsia. It may have been heavily seasoned in the hope that it would jounce the rough boy of Baltimore, H. L. Mencken-and lo, there in the third row on the aisle, is Dr. Frank Crane, being made visibly ill by it. Your playwright may write a piece to touch the memories and stir the hearts of elderly sinners, but he ...
— Nonsenseorship • G. G. Putnam
... clumsiness Allyn clambered into the buggy. For a time, he was content to jounce rapturously on the cushion and snap the buckle of the reins. Then he ...
— Teddy: Her Book - A Story of Sweet Sixteen • Anna Chapin Ray
... bunks in it, which is considered extra genteel, and we went to bed, first one and then the other, not having room enough for more than one to undress at a time. When our clothes were hung up, and we inside the bunks, the pen was choke full, and off we rattled, with a jounce now and then that made you catch your breath. It was like sleeping in a cradle, with some great hard-footed nurse rocking you ...
— Phemie Frost's Experiences • Ann S. Stephens
... CRANBERRIES, and how to tend them, and pick them, and put them up, and market them; and not another blamed thing! Her and her daughter can't be any more company for each other NOW than mud turtle and bird o' paradise. Poor thing, she was looking for a baby to jounce; I ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain |
