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Ricochet   Listen
verb
Ricochet  v. i.  (past & past part. ricocheted or ricochetted; pres. part. ricocheting or ricochetting)  To skip with a rebound or rebounds, as a flat stone on the surface of water, or a cannon ball on the ground. See Ricochet, n.






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"Ricochet" Quotes from Famous Books



... the by, why is he never to be seen nowadays?" asked the President. He spoke with the air of a man in whom thousands of forgotten and dormant impressions have suddenly begun to stir, and shaping themselves into one idea, reach consciousness with a ricochet, as ...
— Cousin Pons • Honore de Balzac

... Voltaire, and Rousseau. The first was by no means a revolutionist, for he decided in favour of a mixed form of government, like that of England, which guaranteed the State against the dangers of autocracy, oligarchy, and mob-rule. Only by a ricochet did he assail the French monarchy. But he re-awakened critical inquiry; and any inquiry was certain to sap the base of the ancien regime in France. Montesquieu's teaching inspired the group of moderate reformers who in 1789 desired to re-fashion the institutions of ...
— The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2) • John Holland Rose



Words linked to "Ricochet" :   backlash, recoil, repercussion, reverberate, kick back, leap, kick, spring, bound off, bounce, skip



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