As hail rebounds from a roof of slate, rebounds our heavier hail From each iron scale Of the monster's hide.
"The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow"
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The ball, thrown with much strength, flies, strikes the wall in great, quick blows, then rebounds, and traverses the air with the rapidity of a bullet.
"Ramuntcho"
Pierre Loti
In the smaller tilt-hammers, this is carried still further by striking the tail of the tilt-hammer forcibly against a small steel anvil, it rebounds with such velocity, that from three to five hundred strokes are made in a minute.
"On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures"
Charles Babbage