"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 |
