Frazer's suggestion is that the women want the bullets to bounce off, and it is the power of the god to which they appeal and on which they rely for the fulfilment of their prayer.
Since we are pretending that he makes everything he touches elastic, the instant you touch him you bouncehelplessly away in the opposite direction.
But you may be unable to see yourself, just as you may be unable to bounce the ball on the plank so that you yourself can catch it.
Glass is elastic; you know how you can bounce a glass marble.
If he can see you, you can see him, just as when you bounce the ball to him he can bounce it to you.
Yet you can easily bounceit to your friend and he can bounce it to you.
The sound does not reflect well from the soft clothes of the audience and the uneven surfaces of their bodies, just as a rubber ball does not bounce well in sand.
Air waves do the same thing; when they strike against a flat surface, they bounce back like a rubber ball.
And these molecules get into the spaces between the water molecules and bounce around among them.
As the molecules of any liquid bounce around, some get hit harder than others.
Suppose you and a friend are standing a little way apart on sandy ground where you cannotbounce a ball, but that between you there is a plank.
If each of you is standing well away from the plank, neither one of you can possibly bounce the ball on it in such a way that he can catch it himself.
As soon as they strike the object you are looking at, they reflect (bounce back) from it to your eyes.
Suppose youbounce up into an automobile for a ride.
I don't think those who bounce most are the bravest.
Well, I guess she's given him the grand bounce at last," said Fulkerson to March in one of their moments of confidence at the office.
Well, neither do I; but I know you were ready to kick the trough over for them when the old man wanted us to bounce Lindau that time.
But I think you twig now that I don't stand nonsense--or go on paying salaries in exchange for bounce and impudence.
The separate drops which bounced away from one another, and scattered in all directions, are unable to bouncewhen the sealing-wax is held up, because of its electrical action.
To show that this is no fancy, I have now in front of the lantern two fountains of clean water coming from separate bottles, and you can see that they bounce apart perfectly (Fig.
You would expect when they hit one another afterwards that they would join, but I shall be able to show you in a moment that they do not; they act like two india-rubber balls, and bounce away again.
They will then for a short time bounce away from one another without mixing.
I resolved tobounce her, heavenly disposition and all.
I'd love to see them giving the bounce to McGuffey," said Captain Scraggs musingly.
Bear a hand an' we'll bounce these muckers overboard.
Then she would bounce down from the fence and race off to the kitchen in a towering rage, and the impudent youngsters would fly up into the nearest tree top and ca about it delightedly.
And from time to time one or another of the boldest would alight on the very edge of the hole, cock his head, and peer in, to bounce away again instantly with a startled squawk as the squirrel would jump up at him, chattering with rage.
Both in one mind, they bounce and kick, And each man flourishes his stick; When Diom.
He took a lunging step forward and hurled me onto the bed, where I carried the springs deep down, to bounce up and off and forward to come up flat against the far wall.
They lost one character over a rough bounce and he went tail over scalp into the grass along the way.
The body seemed to bounce a little way from the earth.
As you pass his village he will bounce out on you with the fiercest bark and the most menacing snarl; but lo!
Would you believe it that, some time back, he undertook to do more destruction, and to destroy more lives in one hour, than Giant Bounce could in a day?
Only this was not natural, for on the secondbounce the ball went higher in the air than on the first, and on the third bounce higher still.
Illustration] I got through the house to the back porch, rushed out and was in the back yard just in time to see the ball take its first bounce onto the concrete.
I shall get smart young chaps with plenty of bounce and go, but not much education.
The fellow's bounce and impudence utterly deserted him.
Bounce in surprise; "I tell ye wot, sir, I consider yer company a honour.
Almost at the same moment Bounce strode into the circle of light and deposited his cask on the ground.
In a few minutesBounce gained the bank of the stream, and seized the end of the canoe.
Here Bounce paused, drew several whiffs, and rammed down the tobacco in his pipe with the end of his little finger.
March Marston smiled as he said this, and Bounce grinned by way of reply.
It must not be supposed that such experienced men as Redhand and Bounce were altogether unprepared for a surprise of this sort.
Stay," cried March Marston as Bounce was stepping in, "let me go in the canoe, Bounce.
Ere the last shaft had fallen harmless to the ground, Bounce had entered the forest and was gone.
In the midst of their observations, Bounce broke the silence with a grunt.
While the old trapper and the artist were conversing, Bounce had busied himself in stringing the claws of the grisly bear on a strip of deerskin, for the purpose of making a collar.
In addition to this, Bounce smote his thigh with unwonted vigour.
Bounce turned, pushed off the canoe, and leaped in as an arrow grazed his neck.
He tried two or three times to pull away, but Al Bumen's arm would stretch out like a rubber band and then "snap," Billy would bounce back like a return ball.
I feel brighter already--now I'll find Billy Bounce and Honey Girl without a bit of trouble.
Everybody thought I was a terrible fellow, but now that Billy Bounce has discovered me I'm a broken old man who wouldn't hurt a fly unless it woke me too early in the morning.
