To-day the sound of the escape ricochets up and down the palisaded channel so that we cannot hear each other speak.
"The New North"
Agnes Deans Cameron
The gentleman at the firing-point is taking what is known as "a fine sight"-so fine, indeed, that each successive bullet either buries itself in the turf fifty yards short, or ricochets joyously from off the bank in front, hurling itself sideways through the target, accompanied by a storm of gravel, and tearing holes therein which even the biassed Ogg cannot class as clean hits.
"The First Hundred Thousand"
Ian Hay
The lead of the roof is scorching, he ricochets, gets to the edge, bounces over and disappears.
"Sword Blades and Poppy Seed"
Amy Lowell