bounded

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Through the gate he bounded, then stopped still and growled in suspicion.

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  1. Having bounds or limits; limited; circumscribed; confined; cramped; narrow. The meaner cares of life were all he knew; Bounded his pleasures, and his wishes few. Crabbe, The Library. An eye well-practised in nature, a spirit bounded and poor. Tennyson, Maud, iv. 7.

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  • She gave a quick glance of intelligence into the compelling eyes and off both bounded, and were in the bush before any one realised they were gone. —  Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary
  • The words were hardly out of his mouth before the ferns and cycads by the side of the road quivered… and a stag bounded across. —  Gardner Dozois - The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection (2006)
  • Up the stone steps to the Hall he bounded, and only on the Hall's threshold was he brought to a pause. —  Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story
  • Up this he bounded, and reached the open air above, while his pursuers were still knocking their shins and heads on the rocks at the wrong end of the cave below Without a moment's pause the exulting boy dashed away towards Ulfstede. —  Erling the Bold
  • How her heart bounded, her joy and happiness was so great. —  Isabel Leicester A Romance by Maude Alma
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