jounce

• “But it is in going down hill, and leaping from a "jounce" that the skier is at his best.”

  Healthful Sports for Boys

• “The eight occupants began to "jounce" when opposite the Orde place, and Bobby saw with admiration that this was a”

  The Adventures of Bobby Orde

• “It looks like a left index finger rising slightly toward the sky, and right index and middle fingers coming down to curve around it and jounce up and down.”

  The Washington Post: What sign-language interpreters make of the likes of Lady Gaga and Bon Jovi

• “They hop on anyway, sidesaddle, legs dangling, with baskets, with boxes, with a small kid or whatever, and jounce around town.”

  4 Campoalegre « Unknowing

• “While the bass and the drums undeniably take control of your hips, it's more of a slow and purposeful rock that you'd utilize in an after-hours lounge-type scape, rather than a fast and furious jounce that would be appropriate in a dance club.”

  The Huffington Post: Alyssa Miele: Neon Indian, Miniature Tigers, Nite Jewel, the Dom and Prefuse 73 Rock Governor's Island

• “Were here, announced Jace as the smooth roll of wheels over pavement turned to the jounce of cobblestones.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Mortal Instruments: Book One: City of Bones

• “No sense just giving the cart a push and letting it jounce down, when it might crash to flinders at the bottom.”

  The Warslayer

• “Then, stooping, I stepped in between her and the man in the jump seat, feeling the little jounce and sag of the carriage body under my weight.”

  Time and Again

• “To the exact rhythm of our horses 'hoofs and the jounce of our bells, we lined it out: Bells on bobtail ring!”

  Time and Again

• “The slow absolutely regular clip-clop, clip-clop of our horse's hoofs on the hard-packed snow — a little louder and more ringing when we crossed bare cobbles — was soothing, and so was the rhythmical sway and slight jounce of the hansom body on its springs.”

  Time and Again

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