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Jounce

verb

(past & past part. jounced; pres. part. jouncing)

Move up and down repeatedly. Synonym: bounce.

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"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

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... 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

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... 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

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... 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

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... 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

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Words linked to "Jounce" : travel, locomote, bounce, bump, go, jar, move, blow