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The eight ball bounced off the side cushion and rolled into the corner pocket.

The basketball bounced off the backboard, and dropped into the net.

The bovine bounced off the truck and was hit by another pickup.

To celebrate Bastille Day (14 July) or the 1944 Liberation (25August), blue, white, and red laser beams are bounced off the Eiffel Tower, Arc de Triomphe, and Hôtel de Ville.

" I gave the self-evident answer that I should be a ruined man, upon which he jumped from his chair, reproved me for my habitual levity, which made it impossible for him to discuss any reasonable subject in my presence, and bounced off out of the room to dress for a Masonic meeting.

Papa won't do you any harm." CHAPTER III Rebecca Is in Presence of the Enemy A VERY stout, puffy man, in buckskins and Hessian boots, with several immense neckcloths that rose almost to his nose, with a red striped waistcoat and an apple green coat with steel buttons almost as large as crown pieces (it was the morning costume of a dandy or blood of those days) was reading the paper by the fire when the two girls entered, and bounced off his arm-chair, and blushed excessively, and hid his entire face almost in his neckcloths at this apparition. "It's only your sister, Joseph," said Amelia, laughing and shaking the two fingers which he held out. "I've come home FOR GOOD, you know; and this is my friend, Miss Sharp, whom you have heard me mention." "No, never, upon my word," said the head under the neckcloth, shaking very much-"that is, yes-what abominably cold weather, Miss"-and herewith he fell to poking the fire with all his might, although it was in the middle of June. "He's very handsome," whispered Rebecca to Amelia, rather loud. "Do you think so?" said the latter. "I'll tell him." "Darling! not for worlds," said Miss Sharp, starting back as timid as a fawn.

Is it my fault?' 'Your fault!' cried Mrs V. reproachfully. 'There-you had better make haste out.' 'What have I done?' said poor Gabriel. 'It was agreed that Mr Edward's name was never to be mentioned, and I have not spoken of him, have I?' Mrs Varden merely replied that she had no patience with him, and bounced off after the other two.

But there, I mustn't stand talking and all the place to clean down afore your ma comes home.' 'I don't see why she should ever have had such lots of diamonds,' said Anthea when Martha had Bounced off. 'She was rather a nasty lady, I thought.

Then they went back to Ethel and Charlie’s lodgings, and, the curtains being still drawn, Rachael threw one of the balls at the window; but the ball merely shook the curtain gently and tumbled into the jasmine, so she threw another, which bounced off again from the window-sill and lodged on the top of the porch. “Let me have a shy,” said Roger, and he shied furiously.

"At a range of , 'Johnston' opened fire, aiming for 'Kumano's superstructure, bridge and deck, since her 5 in (127 mm) shells would have bounced off the enemy's belt armor."

The Desert Force cut a swath through the Italian rear areas, stitching its way between the desert and the coast, capturing strongpoint after strongpoint by cutting off and isolating them, The Italian guns proved to be no match for the heavy British Matilda tanks and their shells bounced off the armour.

Return fire from 'Cumberland' and 'Congress' bounced off the iron plates without penetrating.

Later in the quarter, Falcons defensive back Ronnie Bradford intercepted a pass from Elway (that had bounced off Shannon Sharpe) and returned it to the Broncos 35-yard line.

He started the season in an unmemorable fashion in a home game against the Chicago Bears by dropping a sure touchdown that bounced off his chest in the end zone.

By speeding up Morse code using an audio tape recorder, or using a computer, very short bursts of signal can be bounced off the ionized gas trail of Meteor burst communications allowing DX.

On the next play Griese threw to Warfield, who was open at the 2-yard line, but the ball was deflected by Green and bounced off Warfield's chest.

"A month into his first season with San Jose, on November 10, Roenick scored his 500th goal, against his former team, the Phoenix Coyotes - an unassisted mark from center ice that bounced off the end boards, then hitting the side of the net, goalie Alex Auld attempting to clear the puck out of the crease from the side of the goal mouth, accidentally bumped the puck off the heel of his goalie stick into the net."



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