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Usage examples of bounce.

Sunlight, filtered through a great sandstorm far away in the desert, bounced off an open bay window and down, too bright, as if amplified, into the courtyard to illuminate a patch or pool of deep red.

Arecibo dish would be a perfect antenna to capture Soviet signals as they drifted into space, bounced off the moon, and were reflected back to earth.

Crystal shivers poured down from the chandelier, the mantelpiece mirror was cracked into stars, plaster dust flew, spent cartridges bounced over the floor, window-panes shattered, benzene spouted from the bullet-pierced primus.

Adam bent the corner of his paper and stared at Billie as she bounced around the kitchen.

On Monday Billie had bounced out of bed, her normal cheerful self, and had asked if she could visit Charlene before camp.

If she bounced into the penthouse and blurted it out to Perrit, which she was certainly capable of, there was no way of telling how he might react.

Giles would bluster and bounce ponderously over the mess, but he would recover in time.

The club struck Bowser in the ribs of his left side, so hard it bounced, leaving behind flesh that rippled liquidly in a way a human rib cage never should.

Thick gleaming oil slopped out and a couple of hypoid gears bounced across the deck.

A stone from a mangonel, bouncing from the armored fighting castle at the bow, slammed through the deck and hull, opening the galleass to the sea as she came within a dozen lengths of the gates.

It bounced off a stay, collided with the midmast, then struck the deck with a splintering crash.

Bunsome saw the Montagne staring indifferently through a side port, seemingly unbothered by the dust, noise and bouncing.

And add to that the fact that until she disappeared into one of the bedrooms with the Breed doctor, Elyiana Morrey, she had been bouncing around like a Mexican jumping bean.

Automatic firing was quicker, possibly more certainbut that mushy cutoff could bounce them like a ping-pong ball.

Here and there, bodies which had missed their mark on the conveyor or heads that had bounced and rolled free from the overfull barrels were left where they fell until a convenient time for removal could be found.