"Jounce" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... have seen both done. The secret of successful jumping is to give the horse his head as he rises, feel your knees against his sides firmly, rising with him as he rises and be again in your seat before his feet reach the ground. This helps him and saves both a killing jounce. I finally trained him so that as a jumper he was without a peer in our part of the army. I have had the men hold a pole fully a foot higher than my head, as I stood on the ground, and have jumped ...
— War from the Inside • Frederick L. (Frederick Lyman) Hitchcock
... would not try to show off Vera's supreme accomplishment in this rattlety-banging wagon. How it did jounce over occasional stones ...
— Jewel's Story Book • Clara Louise Burnham
... 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
... secret of successful jumping is to give the horse his head as he rises, feel your knees against his sides firmly, rising with him as he rises and be again in your seat before his feet reach the ground. This helps him and saves both a killing jounce. I finally trained him so that as a jumper he was without a peer in our part of the army. I have had the men hold a pole fully a foot higher than my head, as I stood on the ground, and have jumped him back ...
— War from the Inside • Frederick L. (Frederick Lyman) Hitchcock
... above the other, and lay down upon the hay in the bottom of the cart. There might yet be some stray wanderer to meet and run the gauntlet of his cross-questioning. The wheel struck a stone, and there was a jounce; the bottom fellows wriggled out, what was left of them, and sat up, gasping. They had rather run the risk than try that again. But they ...
— The Little Gold Miners of the Sierras and Other Stories • Various
... jounce Kipling and even take a side-swipe at Luella Prentiss Budd, who was the Poetess Laureate for the Ward ...
— Ade's Fables • George Ade |
