"Bouncing" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... with France? Depend upon it, Sir, he who does what he is afraid should be known, has something rotten about him. This Dalrymple seems to be an honest fellow[606]; for he tells equally what makes against both sides. But nothing can be poorer than his mode of writing, it is the mere bouncing of a school-boy. Great He! but greater ...
— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 2 • Boswell, Edited by Birkbeck Hill
... in, in the most delightful bustle; and the children had a grand time assisting the little mother to unpack every thing. You would have imagined, to look in at the windows, that the house was full of fishes out of water; they kept up such a continual bouncing and fluttering about, but they were not fishes, nor pollywogs, nor tadpoles, nor any thing like them; they were a company of capering children, taking all sorts of little boxes and bundles out of trunks, and putting ...
— The Fairy Nightcaps • Frances Elizabeth Barrow
... mile, before we heard on our left a noise very much like the barking of a large mastiff, but ending in a hiss like the fuf [Footnote: Thus is Mr. Park's MS] of a cat. I thought it must be some large monkey; and was observing to Mr. Anderson "what a bouncing fellow that must be," when we heard another bark nearer to us, and presently a third still nearer, accompanied with a growl. I now suspected that some wild animal meant to attack us, but could not conjecture of what species it was likely to be. We had not proceeded ...
— The Journal Of A Mission To The Interior Of Africa, In The Year 1805 • Mungo Park
... some chops and vegetables, and took the covers off in such a bouncing manner, that I was afraid I must have given him some offence. But he greatly relieved my mind by putting a chair for me at the table, and saying very ...
— History of English Humour, Vol. 2 (of 2) • Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange
... And, bouncing out of her chair, she began sketching out one of those bold cancan steps which astound the policemen on duty in ...
— Other People's Money • Emile Gaboriau
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