Bounded

Examples

• Without waiting to note the outcome of his plea, he turned and bounded toward me. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• You think I'm an old woman whose ideas are bounded by Milton, and whose own crow is the whitest ever seen. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• As for my father, his desires and exertions were bounded to the again seeing me restored to health and peace of mind. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• The wind was down or we were protected by mountains that bounded the curve the lake had made. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• He bounded over the crevices in the ice, among which I had walked with caution; his stature also, as he approached, seemed to exceed that of man. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• No longer a serf, but a freeman and a landholder, Gurth sprung upon his feet, and twice bounded aloft to almost his own height from the ground. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• In the saddle --abroad on the plains--sleeping in beds bounded only by the horizon: fancy was at work with these things in a moment. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• He still grasped Jane in one great arm as Tarzan bounded like a leopard into the arena which nature had provided for this primeval-like battle. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• I climbed a near tree: the level sands bounded by a pine forest, and the sea clipped round by the horizon, was all that I could discern. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Our children, freed from the bondage of winter, bounded before us; pursuing the deer, or rousing the pheasants and partridges from their coverts. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The boat here stopped at a small landing to take in wood, and Eva, hearing her father's voice, bounded nimbly away. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• I say _whiteness_--for the dimity curtains, dropped before a French bed, bounded my view. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• A quickset hedge bounded the last field; they lost time in seeking a gap in it. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Here Mr Fledgeby bounded up, and bounded down, and went rolling over and over again. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Peace, my worthy guests, said Cedric; my hospitality must not be bounded by your dislikes. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Across the dewy meadows he bounded fawn-like, singing as gayly as the lark already saluting the sun in the fresh blue sky. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• The landlord, however, whose estate is bounded by a kelp shore of this kind, demands a rent for it as much as for his corn-fields. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Pilot pricked up his ears when I came in: then he jumped up with a yelp and a whine, and bounded towards me: he almost knocked the tray from my hands. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• And Jo shook the blue army sock till the needles rattled like castanets, and her ball bounded across the room. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• My own spirits were high, and I bounded along with feelings of unbridled joy and hilarity. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• At this moment his heart bounded to hear footsteps running towards him, and two men, roused by Thomasin, appeared at the brink above. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• She started up and bounded towards him in an instant: he was evidently in great straits for breath. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• A huge rock, falling from above, boomed past me, struck the path, and bounded over into the chasm. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• He had bounded across the room and had wrenched a small phial from her hand. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• I now clapped my hands in sudden joy--my pulse bounded, my veins thrilled. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The man bounded in and out from the lodgings to the street, always returning with some fresh particulars of disaster. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Eustacia involuntarily turned to the open window which overlooked the garden as far as the bank that bounded it. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• George bounded in afterwards, and flung his arms round the Major's neck (as they saw from the window), and began asking him multiplied questions. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I shudder at this moment with the tremendous sensation of seeing it done, and feeling that the ball has bounded on to Mr. Creakle's sacred head. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The door opened, and a group of little children bounded out, shouting and romping. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.

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