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buoyant
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  • The wooden boat is buoyant even without a captured pocket of air.
    buoyant = tends to float
  • His Mae West was uninflated, but its buoyancy was pulling him into the ceiling of the plane.   (source)
    buoyancy = tendency to float
  •   "My swimming instructor said that I don't have the right boyishness or something."
      "Buoyancy," Jonas corrected him.   (source)
  • I did not have to weight myself with rocks as a mortal would have, fighting against my own buoyancy.   (source)
  • In fact, the buoyancy of the life jackets was such that they...   (source)
  • A cephalopod mollusk that pumps gas into its chambered shell to adjust its buoyancy.   (source)
  • But then the great miracle of the human species—our buoyancy—came through, and as I felt myself floating toward the surface, I twisted and turned as best I could so that the warm night air hit my nose first, and I breathed.   (source)
  • A batsman who has played a fine innings will say afterward that he felt he could not miss the ball, and a speaker or an actor, on his lucky day, can sense his audience carrying him as though he were swimming in miraculous, buoyant water.   (source)
    buoyant = with a tendency to cause things in it to float
  • Additional fact: if you relax, your body's buoyancy will cause you to float.   (source)
    buoyancy = tendency to float
  • In traditional tanks, the person would float on his back in a hyperbuoyant saline solution that kept his face above the water so he could breathe.   (source)
    hyperbuoyant = causing a greater tendency to float than normal water
    standard prefix: The prefix "hyper-" in hyperbuoyant means extremely or excessively. This is the same pattern as seen in words like hypersensitive, hyperactive, and hypercritical.
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  • The water was so buoyant that I felt I might float away if I loosed my hold on the bench.   (source)
    buoyant = with a tendency to cause things in it to float
  • Supported by the dense, mineral-saturated water, I was buoyant as an oiled feather, kept from floating away only by my grip on the curved muscles of his shoulders, and the snug, firm clasp I kept of him lower down.   (source)
    buoyant = with a tendency to float
  • its buoyancy in the waters of the Dead Sea:   (source)
    buoyancy = tendency to float
  • The planets, buoyant balloons, sail swollen up and away.   (source)
    buoyant = tending to float or rise
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  • Students are in buoyant spirits with the start of the winter break.
    buoyant = cheerful
  • "That Deutscher," he summed up buoyantly.   (source)
    buoyantly = cheerfully
  • She had auburn hair, a curvy figure, a buoyant disposition, a quick mind, and a family cat named Chopper.   (source)
    buoyant = cheerful and optimistic
  • Every other teacher in the place was looking grimmer than usual, but Lockhart appeared nothing short of buoyant.   (source)
  • She left the rabbi's office in a buoyant mood.   (source)
  • I asked as Lucy stopped in front of me to give a buoyant curtsy.   (source)
    buoyant = cheerful
  • Normally buoyant, she had a drawn look on her face.   (source)
  • The young ailing girl who had caused her mother so much heartache had been transformed, almost overnight, into a healthy, buoyant maiden.   (source)
    buoyant = cheerful and optimistic
  • As much as Alyss had wallowed in the depths of her sorrow moments before, she now entered into the buoyant pleasure of the chase, laughing with each near-tagging of her younger self.   (source)
    buoyant = cheerful
  • Every morning she woke with a new confidence and buoyancy she could not explain.   (source)
    buoyancy = lightheartedness or cheerfulness
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  • There was a shrewd, buoyant air about him as he sat up, looked round and rubbed both front paws over his nose.   (source)
    buoyant = cheerful and optimistic
  • Quincey wrote me a line too, and from him I hear that Arthur is beginning to recover something of his old buoyancy, so as to them all my mind is at rest.   (source)
    buoyancy = cheerfulness and optimism
  • Your habitual expression in those days, Jane, was a thoughtful look; not despondent, for you were not sickly; but not buoyant, for you had little hope, and no actual pleasure.   (source)
    buoyant = cheerful and optimistic
  • And, hard though it be to crush her buoyant spirit, I must persevere in making her sad while I live, and leaving her solitary when I die.   (source)
  • I had four buoyant oars.†   (source)
  • A buoyant man in his late sixties, Dr. Collier greeted me warmly and ushered me into the family room off the kitchen, where we had coffee while with great enthusiasm he told me about his brainchild, the debutante ball.†   (source)
  • Still, he feels buoyant, elated almost.†   (source)
  • "Lindsey!" he said, forgetting his serious self, his heavy body buoyant.†   (source)
  • Buoyant stream of Dutch.†   (source)
  • In this particular exercise, I had to practice with a dive bell, making what is called a buoyant ascent while keeping the pressure in my inner and outer ears equalized.†   (source)
  • I asked, tentative, not wanting to upset his buoyant humor.†   (source)
  • When he was so far out that he could look back not only on the little bay but past the promontory that was between it and the bigbeach, he floated on the buoyant surface and looked for his mother.†   (source)
  • Mae noticed, as they narrated the story of his recent health, that her mother was brighter, more buoyant.†   (source)
  • His father's voice was buoyant, eager—and Adam suddenly realized, with a chill, the truth: his father was playing the game, not trusting the walls, acting as if no phone call had been received from Mr. Grey.†   (source)
  • -they were naked, they were light and free-it was all lightness, bright and fast and buoyant, light as light, a helium buzz in the brain, a giddy bubbling in the lungs as they were taken up over the clouds and the war, beyond duty, beyond gravity and mortification and global entanglements-Sin loi! they yelled.†   (source)
  • I felt buoyant knowing I would have the chance to hear another story soon.†   (source)
  • I finished my column, turned it in to my editor, and drove home for the night, feeling somehow lighter, almost buoyant, as though a weight I did not even know I had been carrying was lifted from me.†   (source)
  • "But I did answer all four hundred and thirteen e-mails," he said, momentarily buoyant.†   (source)
  • The mood of the nation during those days of voting was buoyant.†   (source)
  • And so the dream lay undisturbed under her eyelashes, and she breasted the slope of the big mountain with a buoyant step, oblivious of fatigue.†   (source)
  • Her face was buoyant.†   (source)
  • You have to know the feel of a baseball in your hand, going back a while, connecting many things, before you can understand why a man would sit in a chair at four in the morning holding such an object, clutching it—how it fits the palm so reassuringly, the corked center making it buoyant in the hand, and the rough spots on an old ball, the marked skin, how an idle thumb likes to worry the scuffed horsehide.†   (source)
  • Like a balloon filling slowly with air, becoming all smooth and buoyant, I felt like I finally fit within myself, edge to edge, every crevice filled.†   (source)
  • It worked: Stinky became neutrally buoyant, hovering at whatever depth it was placed at.†   (source)
  • With his buoyant personality and perpetual grin, he was a balm for his mother's sadness.†   (source)
  • The fore was still buoyant, but sinking fast, and more torches were extinguished with each passing moment, plunging the companions into darkness.†   (source)
  • Yossarian laughed with buoyant scorn and shook his head.†   (source)
  • His stride was long and quick and buoyant.†   (source)
  • During his years delivering the mail, his buoyant personality made him friends throughout the thousand-employee company.†   (source)
  • I feel buoyant with relief.†   (source)
  • Her head throbbed and her back flared with pain, but she felt buoyant, full of hope, as light as a feather.†   (source)
  • His step was buoyant as a boy's, and he approached his grim duties with a renewed energy.†   (source)
  • Her Jorge did not resemble the huge, buoyant man on the ocean, the gentleman with silent words she could not understand.†   (source)
  • When Connor had departed for Blys, he was in many ways a broken person, a boy whose naturally buoyant personality had been smothered by a sense of guilt and thoughts of vengeance against his captors during the Siege.†   (source)
  • When she took it, the buoyant feeling returned.†   (source)
  • Before he began his lecture, he warmed me with a buoyant, exhilarated smile.†   (source)
  • "Definitely," she tells me, her voice buoyant again, the verve of fourteen.†   (source)
  • They left the trees in a buoyant mass that floated upward like a cloud.†   (source)
  • His mood is buoyant, expectant.†   (source)
  • She was brash and buoyant, bobbing like a brightly colored cork in the maelstrom, unsinkable and unafraid.†   (source)
  • I looked down at Sophie as I thought these buoyant thoughts.†   (source)
  • My own nervousness was soothed; my mood was buoyant: I would leave the steamer with Yvette.†   (source)
  • He no longer looked buoyant and rosy-faced; there was no more spring in his step.†   (source)
  • As Smith strode away in an annoyingly buoyant fashion, Ron glared after him.†   (source)
  • I found one of the buoyant ropes in the locker.†   (source)
  • I cut four more segments of the buoyant rope and tied the lifebuoy to each side of the square.†   (source)
  • I brought the buoyant rope through it and hitched it.†   (source)
  • She had been buoyant, which she deserved.†   (source)
  • Brother Leon was buoyant today and his mood had spread throughout the class.†   (source)
  • Already my step's lighter and I'm feeling buoyant.†   (source)
  • Over the buoyant waves, across the beach, and on the other side of the mountains, was Rome.†   (source)
  • Her feet disconnected for a moment from the tower, as buoyant as a cork on water.†   (source)
  • The horse was alert, buoyant, animated, all of his faculties alive to his rider.†   (source)
  • Evasion I felt oddly buoyant as I walked form Spanish toward the cafeteria, and it wasn't just because I was holding hands with the most perfect person on the planet, though that was certainly part of it.†   (source)
  • Hermione's sulkiness could not mar his buoyant spirits; The sudden upswing in their for-tunes, the appearance of the mysterious due, the recovery of Gryf-findor's sword, and above all, Ron's return made Harry so happy that it was quite difficult to maintain a straight face.†   (source)
  • This night, though, he was buoyant, and her mother was feeling good, having found some sherry in the B&B's tiny kitchen, which she shared with Mae.†   (source)
  • "Hola!" cried Jose, doing a happy step backward when he saw me on the sidewalk; he was the youngest and most buoyant of the doormen, always trying to sneak away before his shift was over to play soccer in the park.†   (source)
  • The living room—normally so airy and open, buoyant with my mother's presence—had shrunk to a cold, pale discomfort, like a vacation house in winter: fragile fabrics, scratchy sisal rug, paper lamp shades from Chinatown and the chairs too little and light.†   (source)
  • He seemed unshaken, even buoyant as he shook Stenton's hand, and then Bailey's, and then, while still holding Bailey's hand with his right hand, he took Mae's with his left, as if the three of them were about to dance.†   (source)
  • I took the rest of the buoyant line.†   (source)
  • And it is my hunch that the ponds reached down to the sides of this huge, buoyant mass and opened onto the ocean, which explained the otherwise inexplicable presence in them of dorados and other fish of the open seas.†   (source)
  • …2 buoyant orange smoke signals 2 mid-size orange plastic buckets 2 buoyant orange plastic bailing cups 2 multi-purpose plastic containers with airtight lids 2 yellow rectangular sponges 2 buoyant synthetic ropes, each 50 metres long 2 non-buoyant synthetic ropes of unspecified length, but each at least 30 metres long 2 fishing kits with hooks, lines and sinkers 2 gaffs with very sharp barbed hooks 2 sea anchors 2 hatchets 2 rain catchers 2 black ink ballpoint pens 1 nylon cargo net 1…†   (source)
  • 5 kilos in all 16 wool blankets 12 solar stills 10 or so orange life jackets, each with an orange, headless whistle attached by a string 6 morphine ampoule syringes 6 hand flares 5 buoyant oars 4 rocket parachute flares 3 tough, transparent plastic bags, each with a capacity of about 50 litres 3 can openers 3 graduated glass beakers for drinking 2 boxes of waterproof matches 2 buoyant orange smoke signals 2 mid-size orange plastic buckets 2 buoyant orange plastic bailing cups 2…†   (source)
  • Howard was buoyant.†   (source)
  • He was feeling buoyant, flexible.†   (source)
  • Nate was his buoyant self, excited to see Jeremy and relieved to have him back in town under his watchful eye.†   (source)
  • I needed to reign in the enthusiasm before I gave him the wrong idea—it was just that it had been a long time since I'd felt so light and buoyant.†   (source)
  • With Jared, he is positively buoyant.†   (source)
  • I lay back in the buoyant liquid.†   (source)
  • She dances for days to her Beny Moré records, her hands in position for an impossibly lanky partner, to "Rebel Heart," her slippers scraping the floor, to "Treat Me As I Am," a buoyant guaracha.†   (source)
  • Her buoyant message—call me back if you insist—reminded him of just how independent Celine had become over the years.†   (source)
  • Captain Flume had entered his bed that night a buoyant extrovert and left it the next morning a brooding introvert, and Chief White Halfoat proudly regarded the new Captain Flume as his own creation.†   (source)
  • On the bus to the Cape, he's at his buoyant best, leading the group in song, bouncing with ease through an array of hip-hop hits.†   (source)
  • In the photo he was smiling broadly, and his buoyant expression reminded her of Kevin whenever he scored a goal in soccer.†   (source)
  • He was still buoyant when he arrived home, otherwise, he wouldn't have had the courage to call all those Barretts and to actually talk to the girl.†   (source)
  • Alessandro Giuliani was tall and unbent, and his buoyant white hair fell and floated about his head like the white water in the curl of a wave.†   (source)
  • It was just a game, thinks Phillip, who was feeling so buoyant a minute ago and doesn't want this to end with the two of them rolling on the hard linoleum.†   (source)
  • With his wife, Edith, he raised seven whip-smart, buoyant children: Jim, Johnny, Bill, Edie, Betty, Norah, and a little girl whom, with characteristic Pollard whimsy, they called Bubbles.†   (source)
  • Venice seemed buoyant, as in a dream, and gave Alessandro the uncanny feeling that were he to leave the train he might defeat time by reaching out to grasp the opposite part of the loop upon which time was about to billow.†   (source)
  • Only Seabiscuit was buoyant.†   (source)
  • When someone below merely clapped his hands, when a truck lurched by, or when the wind itself became anxious or fierce, they rose in a buoyant cloud that hovered over the trees like a ball of hot smoke and then formed into a wing that rallied back and forth until it broke into a hundred thousand anarchic flights and the air was uniformly colored by birds darting on the winds of catastrophe.†   (source)
  • When Mary heard that terrible "next year" of the struggling farmer, she felt sick; but it was not for some days that the buoyant hope she had been living on died, and she felt what was ahead.†   (source)
  • But with those words he had totally undermined the buoyant joy and confidence about my work which his earlier encouragement had implanted within me.†   (source)
  • The great weight of blood and tears had lifted completely out of the boy's heart, leaving him dizzily buoyant, wild, half-conscious only of his rushing words.†   (source)
  • And this feeling was accompanied by a buoyant exhilaration and a desire to laugh so irresistible that I was compelled to give way to it.†   (source)
  • The water was buoyant and cold.†   (source)
  • There was something about the prospect of a struggle of wits with a man—with any man—that put her on her mettle and, after months of battling against countless discouragements, the knowledge that she was at last facing a definite adversary, one whom she might unhorse by her own efforts, gave her a buoyant sensation.†   (source)
  • In a narrow bunk, on a hard mattress, there might have been rest, but here the beds were broad and buoyant; I collected what cushions I could find and tried to wedge myself firm, but through the night I turned with each swing and twist of the ship—she was rolling now as well as pitching—and my head rang with the creak and thud.†   (source)
  • I looked round over my shoulder and saw, tall, smiling brilliantly and buoyant—Leonora.†   (source)
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  • Your head goes like this, thus creating buoyancy; your feet go like this, thus propelling you forward; your arms go like this to steer you.†   (source)
  • The benches were the top surfaces of the sealed buoyancy tanks.†   (source)
  • They had a buoyancy and a freshness, and that's the way he was.†   (source)
  • The buoyancy here was not so great as in Old Earth'sseas, but it still took energy to dive so deep.†   (source)
  • They concentrated on buoyancy control and surface swimming for the first few days, made us stretch our bodies, made us longer in the water, timing us, stressing the golden rule for all young SEALs-you must be good in the water, no matter what.†   (source)
  • This was one of the many small adjustments she had to get used to—now there were thousands out there seeing what she saw, having access to her health data, hearing her voice, seeing her face—she was always visible through one or another of the campus SeeChange cameras, in addition to the one on her monitor—and so when anything deviated from her normal buoyancy, people noticed.†   (source)
  • I arrived at a point which alarmed even me, where I had no desire for the internal night, the buoyancy of letting go, the bliss of the void.†   (source)
  • His father had taught him to sail on it, taught him the language of wind and water, of buoyancy and air.†   (source)
  • His buoyancy evaporated; sour suspicions filled him.†   (source)
  • Crank Powerful Words Strong enough to latch on to me, bear the weight and lift me, induce buoyancy, float me in a brilliant, blue sky above the reach of personal demons.†   (source)
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  • Aunt May's spirit, Miss Lucy's kindness, Miss Marlee's buoyancy, and Mom's strength were invaluable, and more enlightening than any class I ever took.†   (source)
  • She was buoyantly certain, and determinedly delighted with everything.†   (source)
  • He halted the powered descent and checked for buoyancy.†   (source)
  • Their buoyancy problems weren't over though.†   (source)
  • The plane lurched upward buoyantly with the lightened load.†   (source)
  • They hug again, promise to write, and soon the Cutlass is on its way to Boston and Cedric is strolling buoyantly back toward the dorm.†   (source)
  • Going upstairs I visualized Dr. Bledsoe, with his broad globular face that seemed to take its form from the fat pressing from the inside, which, as air pressing against the membrane of a balloon, gave it shape and buoyancy.†   (source)
  • She lay there, trusting buoyancy.†   (source)
  • But the trees were less than three thousand feet below him, and this buoyancy wouldn't last more than It occurred to him that he was already falling.†   (source)
  • "It was tremendous!" she announced with such enthusiasm and buoyancy that Alessandro smiled.†   (source)
  • Uncle Albert also got the message, or perhaps he had received more direct communications, for when the song was done Angeline and George trotted buoyantly off together, while Albert mooched morosely down to the den and settled himself in for an all-night siege of pups.†   (source)
  • It is at once a buoyancy and a steadying, allowing for the simultaneous gratification of whatever is centrifugal and whatever is centripetal in mind and body.†   (source)
  • The rest of his body was wreathed in steam, giving his head an eerie, balloon-like buoyancy.†   (source)
  • It allowed the operators to add to or remove air from the chamber to fine-tune buoyancy on the fly.†   (source)
  • This destroyed what little reserve buoyancy the ship had, and the acute down-angle returned.†   (source)
  • This gave the Sea Cliff a thousand pounds of positive buoyancy.†   (source)
  • The simplest solution was to affix weights to the frame to counterbalance the buoyancy.†   (source)
  • Lisa Spence, the flight lead at NASA's Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory, sat beside Swean.†   (source)
  • Unlike a rigid container, it carried no air when deflated so it wouldn't add buoyancy.†   (source)
  • My father no longer insulted me; instead, he treated me with pity, since he now assumed that I was missing the chromosome necessary for buoyancy.†   (source)
  • I inflated all twelve cones with air and I filled each buoyancy chamber with the requisite ten litres of sea water.†   (source)
  • The floor, consisting of narrow planks of treated wood, was flat and the vertical sides of the buoyancy tanks were at right angles to it.†   (source)
  • Inside, it was not as spacious as might be expected because of the side benches and the buoyancy tanks.†   (source)
  • Without any real expectation I reached underwater for the distillate pouch that was clipped to the round buoyancy chamber.†   (source)
  • The surface of the stern and side benches was continuous and unbroken, as were the sides of the buoyancy tanks.†   (source)
  • That was a cramped space; between the broad back of the zebra and the sides of the buoyancy tanks that went all round the boat beneath the benches, there wasn't much room left for a hyena.†   (source)
  • It consists of an inflatable transparent cone set upon a round lifebuoy-like buoyancy chamber that has a surface of black rubberized canvas stretched across its centre.†   (source)
  • While Barbara is delighted that Cedric, so tightly wound yesterday, is now buoyantly bouncing as he walks, an unwanted self-consciousness is welling up inside her.†   (source)
  • 'Go up, go up, go up!' he shouted frantically at McWatt, hating him venomously, but McWatt was singing buoyantly over the intercom and probably couldn't hear.†   (source)
  • Everyone else was in the shade or in the house, sleeping, going mad with the scirocco, or, in Alessandro's case, buoyantly reading in a tub of cool water.†   (source)
  • It has as much to do with the energy released by linguistic fission and fusion, with the buoyancy generated by cadence and tone and rhyme and stanza, as it has to do with the poem's concerns or the poet's truthfulness.†   (source)
  • With her slight positive buoyancy, the October was drifting upward a few feet per minute despite the plane setting.†   (source)
  • The explosion had also ruptured a trim tank, causing more negative buoyancy than they had at first allowed for.†   (source)
  • The team had tied on a couple of capped pipes to provide extra buoyancy, but they clearly didn't need the extra lift, so they removed one.†   (source)
  • Lisa Spence, the flight lead at NASA's Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory, was also in there grilling the kids.†   (source)
  • "It's got glass microspheres embedded in an epoxy resin so it keeps it shape under pressure while still providing buoyancy," Cristian said.†   (source)
  • Then she had been pale and sad but there had been a buoyancy about her.†   (source)
  • But I take up my task with buoyancy and hope.†   (source)
  • Now that buoyancy had gone, as if the surrender had taken all hope from her.†   (source)
  • Buoyancy seeped out of him.†   (source)
  • With her, too, I danced more easily now, in a freer and more sprightly fashion, even though not so buoyantly and more self-consciously than with the other.†   (source)
  • Then it breaks free, rising suddenly as though the emaciation of her "body had added buoyancy to the planks or as though, seeing that the garment was about to be torn from her, she rushes suddenly after it in a passionate reversal that flouts its own desire and need.†   (source)
  • They had tacked, and they were sailing swiftly, buoyantly on long rocking waves which handed them on from one to another with an extraordinary lilt and exhilaration beside the reef.†   (source)
  • His escape from the bleak horror of disease and hysteria and death impending, that hung above his crouched family, left him with a sense of aerial buoyance, drunken freedom.†   (source)
  • As his load lightened with the progress of his route, his leaning shoulder rose with winged buoyancy, his straining limbs grew light: at the end of his labor his flesh, touched sensuously by fatigue, bounded lightly from the earth.†   (source)
  • Martin sank or rose to Clif's buoyancy, while Clif rose or sank to Martin's speculativeness.†   (source)
  • I'd get tired of his confounded buoyancy.†   (source)
  • They marked the buoyancy of her tread, like the skim of a bird which has not quite alighted.†   (source)
  • He became Martin's collaborator; unpaid, tireless, not very skillful, valuable in his buoyancy.†   (source)
  • With his natural buoyancy of spirits, he began to hope again.†   (source)
  • It is well to have some water in your neighborhood, to give buoyancy to and float the earth.†   (source)
  • I don't know!" cried Mr. Skimpole buoyantly.†   (source)
  • Mr Dorrit laughed in the buoyancy of his spirit.†   (source)
  • The rapid rush through the air gives me a delicious sense of strength and buoyancy, and the exercise makes my pulses dance and my heart sing.†   (source)
  • She could not herself have explained the sense of buoyancy which seemed to lift and swing her above the sun-suffused world at her feet.†   (source)
  • I had heard of such things being made of paper and hollow rushes which quickly became saturated and lost all buoyancy.†   (source)
  • She left him—he was for the moment buoyantly relieved—she dragged a footstool to his feet and sat looking beseechingly up at him.†   (source)
  • How permanently it was imprinted upon his vision; that look of her as she glided into the parlour to tea; a slim flexible figure; a face, strained from its roundness, and marked by the pallors of restless days and nights, suggesting tragic possibilities quite at variance with her times of buoyancy; a trying of this morsel and that, and an inability to eat either.†   (source)
  • The noble buoyancy of her attitude, its suggestion of soaring grace, revealed the touch of poetry in her beauty that Selden always felt in her presence, yet lost the sense of when he was not with her.†   (source)
  • She did not, in recovering something of her buoyancy, forget her determination to begin the liberalizing of Gopher Prairie by the easy and agreeable propaganda of teaching Kennicott to enjoy reading poetry in the lamplight.†   (source)
  • The customer joined him in the worship of machinery, and they came buoyantly up to the tenement and began that examination of plastic slate roof, kalamein doors, and seven-eighths-inch blind-nailed flooring, began those diplomacies of hurt surprise and readiness to be persuaded to do something they had already decided to do, which would some day result in a sale.†   (source)
  • The liability of shipping another such sea was enormously increased by the water that weighed the boat down and robbed it of its buoyancy.†   (source)
  • There are days when the close attention I must give to details chafes my spirit, and the thought that I must spend hours reading a few chapters, while in the world without other girls are laughing and singing and dancing, makes me rebellious; but I soon recover my buoyancy and laugh the discontent out of my heart.†   (source)
  • Up this road from the precincts of the city two persons were walking rapidly, as if unconscious of the trying ascent—unconscious through preoccupation and not through buoyancy.†   (source)
  • The fact that her immediate anxieties were relieved did not blind her to a possibility of their recurrence; it merely gave her enough buoyancy to rise once more above her doubts and feel a renewed faith in her beauty, her power, and her general fitness to attract a brilliant destiny.†   (source)
  • She had noted the slight, dry cough, the daily brightening cheek; nor could the lustre of the eye, and the airy buoyancy born of fever, deceive her.†   (source)
  • She goes buoyantly to her place at the writing table; pushes the electric lamp out of the way; pulls over a great sheaf of papers; and is in the act of dipping her pen in the ink when she finds Frank's note.†   (source)
  • …world—a conventional phrase which, being interpreted, often signifieth all the rascals in it—mingled their tears together at the thought of their first separation; and, this first gush of feeling over, were proceeding to dilate with all the buoyancy of untried hope on the bright prospects before them, when Mr Ralph Nickleby suggested, that if they lost time, some more fortunate candidate might deprive Nicholas of the stepping-stone to fortune which the advertisement pointed out, and…†   (source)
  • Usually the dead Sperm Whale floats with great buoyancy, with its side or belly considerably elevated above the surface.†   (source)
  • The tempest swept on its way, and the sky began to clear as suddenly as it had been overcast; yet the stormy waves continued for a long time to threaten our frail bark with destruction, in spite of its buoyancy and steadiness.†   (source)
  • The deep distress that so evidently affected Marmaduke was in some measure communicated to Elizabeth also; for a look of dejection shaded her intelligent features, and the buoyancy of her animated spirits was sensibly softened.†   (source)
  • Still the power of the wind pressed so hard upon her as to bear her down nearly to her beam-ends, whenever the hull was not righted by the buoyancy of some wave under her lee.†   (source)
  • From the instant that his buoyancy of feeling revived, his thoughts were keenly bent on the various projects that presented themselves as modes of evading the designs of his enemies, and he again became the quick witted, ingenious and determined woodsman, alive to all his own powers and resources.†   (source)
  • Socially he had received a startling fillip downwards; and, having already lost commercial buoyancy from rash transactions, the velocity of his descent in both aspects became accelerated every hour.†   (source)
  • In the ruffled mane, the rider's breezy hair and erect attitude, there was a suggestion of suddenly arrested motion, of strength, courage, and youthful buoyancy that contrasted sharply with the supine grace of the 'Dolce far Niente' sketch.†   (source)
  • They dispersed about the room, reminding me, by the lightness and buoyancy of their movements, of a flock of white plumy birds.†   (source)
  • With a buoyancy and hopefulness and a gaiety that hardly ever flagged, Richard had a carelessness in his character that quite perplexed me, principally because he mistook it, in such a very odd way, for prudence.†   (source)
  • "I should think even marrying once what Master Cap calls a circumstance," put in Pathfinder, laughing in his quiet way, for by this time his spirits had recovered some of their buoyancy.†   (source)
  • Habit, and the buoyancy of youth, seemed to be getting the ascendency over the secret causes of his uneasiness; though there were moments when the same remarkable expression of disgust would cross his intercourse with Marmaduke, that had distinguished their conversations in the first days of their acquaintance.†   (source)
  • Your only salvation lies in eluding it; but if it comes sideways through the opposing water, then partly owing to the light buoyancy of the whale boat, and the elasticity of its materials, a cracked rib or a dashed plank or two, a sort of stitch in the side, is generally the most serious result.†   (source)
  • Till, gaining that vital centre, the black bubble upward burst; and now, liberated by reason of its cunning spring, and, owing to its great buoyancy, rising with great force, the coffin life-buoy shot lengthwise from the sea, fell over, and floated by my side.†   (source)
  • Jasper was pale as death, but, in Mabel, maiden modesty had caused the blood to mantle on her cheeks, until their bloom was heightened to a richness that was scarcely equalled in her hours of light-hearted buoyancy and joy.†   (source)
  • It is worse; for you cannot sit motionless in the heart of these perils, because the boat is rocking like a cradle, and you are pitched one way and the other, without the slightest warning; and only by a certain self-adjusting buoyancy and simultaneousness of volition and action, can you escape being made a Mazeppa of, and run away with where the all-seeing sun himself could never pierce you out.†   (source)
  • As when the stricken whale, that from the tub has reeled out hundreds of fathoms of rope; as, after deep sounding, he floats up again, and shows the slackened curling line buoyantly rising and spiralling towards the air; so now, Starbuck saw long coils of the umbilical cord of Madame Leviathan, by which the young cub seemed still tethered to its dam.†   (source)
  • …That music always round me, unceasing, unbeginning, yet long untaught I did not hear, But now the chorus I hear and am elated, A tenor, strong, ascending with power and health, with glad notes of daybreak I hear, A soprano at intervals sailing buoyantly over the tops of immense waves, A transparent base shuddering lusciously under and through the universe, The triumphant tutti, the funeral wailings with sweet flutes and violins, all these I fill myself with, I hear not the volumes of…†   (source)
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