They, too, braced their legs and slid gravely to the end of their momentum.
He tranquilly braced his four feet like a bundle of stakes, and then, with a gentle gaiety of demeanour, he slid swiftly and gracefully to the bottom of the hill as if he had been a toboggan.
The donkey drew a long breath and braced his legs.
Grimm braced for the next man, Bowen, and struck him out, as Bowen let even good balls go by, hoping to profit by the pitcher's wildness.
No matter how indifferently they might have been going with other teams, they always braced when they had each other as opponents.
Farley had braced himself for the pull, and the lack of resistance nearly threw him to the ground.
Nearer and nearer crept the men, one on each side of the Lieutenant, and the latterbraced his muscles for the coming struggle.
Lawless braced himself for the coming struggle, and twisted his legs round some wire guys to secure a firmer grip of the machine and leave his arms free.
Or if the body weakened, she drew deep upon the innermost reserve and braced nerve and muscle with her will.
But this obsession gradually left him, as the brisk sea breeze brought him to a proper perspective and braced him to face the full consequences of his long, restless night's orgy.
Up and out of the depths tremendous walls were growing like the massive ramparts of a mediaeval city; tremendous steel forms, braced and trussed and reinforced to withstand the weight of the countless tons, stood in regular patterns.
The result was that when the Mail screamed I invariably braced myself.
Reaching a gap at length, he braced himself for the final effort.
He braced himself, almost as if he expected a blow.
Her words were rapid and sounded feverish, as though she were bracedfor some ordeal.
It braced its sinewy legs and halted at the very brink, while bunny crossed to the safe woods.
It gave him somewhat of a scare, much like that a young swimmer gets when he finds he has drifted away from his floats; and, like that same beginner, it braced him to help himself.
You braced the--" Then a remarkable transformation came over the outlaw.
I'd be particular proud to be braced with a man of your reputation.
Without a sound one end went slowly under water and the farther end appeared lightly braced against the overhanging willows.
Groin and barrel vaultings covered side aisles and central vessel; and the transverse arches which braced the vaulting were often pointed, since it was found that such an arch exerted less side thrust.
Its crypt, which is one of the largest in France, is braced on heavy, semicircular arches.
Its barrel vaulting is braced by pointed arches and there are the channeled pilasters of Rome's tradition in the region.
Originally no flying buttresses braced this early-Gothic choir; those that were added, about 1180, are probably the first ever made.
The transept then was put into harmony with the nave, and its tower built, which latter now is braced by clumsy obstructions within the church.
The tunnel vaulting was braced by transverse ribs that were slightly pointed; clearstory windows were opened in the upper walls.
The five deeply recessed portals correspond to its five aisles, and the western towers are set clear of the aisles, as at Rouen; that to the southwest is now braced by a flying buttress and detached buttress pile.
The body of the edifice belongs to the first half of the XII century; its barrel vault is braced by slightly pointed transverse arches.
Those side aisles of St. Maximin are almost as high as the central vessel; they braced the main span and did away with the need of flying buttresses.
Those talks did her good, they set the real Humfrey before her, and braced her to strive against weakness and despondence.
He put himself on guard, braced himself against the side of the little gulch, and waited for the attack.
There, his back braced against the building and the building shielding him from the cold wind that came up from the distant sea, Sidney Prale sat and tried to think it out.
She put her back to the door and braced her hands against the white enameled panels.
Gaining the cross entrance, he braced his strength against the forces of wind which imprisoned the door, and crept down the passage.
For, while her husband labored to upbuild the outer man, Mrs. Gregory breathed courage into the fainting heart, and braced it to the effort of recovery.
I braced myself up for a struggle, with my gun in my left hand and my handkerchief in my right.
They could only move it by resting their hands against the sill of the open door and then pressing forward with all their might, their feet being braced against the earth, so that their bodies seemed almost in a horizontal position.
Cheek to cheek they saw the darkness come, and afterwards the silver moon steal up over a frozen world, in which the air bit like steel and braced the heart like wine.
The gallant nature of the contest and the great stake braced her; she felt the blood quicken in her pulse.
No, I--hadn't quite braced myself up to telling her the situation.
But when the door again opened she stood bracedto face the person she had expected--Lady Lyndwood's maid.
The Countess, braced by hatred of the other woman, inspired by the fury of this interference, stepped into the centre of the room, a slender, almost childish figure in the clinging white dress.
Before he could get out of her way she flung her arms round the horrified young man's neck and em-braced him copiously.
He staggered back and braced 'imself up agin the wall for a bit, and arter staring at Bill Lumm in a wild way for pretty near three minutes he crawled back to 'is lodgings and went straight to bed agin.
He clung to the rail there and braced one naked foot against a stanchion.
The pilot braced both feet against a stanchion and tried to take the weigh off her by pulling.
So five breathless minutes passed, Trooper Shannon standing tense and straight with every nerve tingling as he braced himself for an effort, Courthorne stooping a little with forefinger on the trigger, and the Marlin rifle at his hip.
Maud Barrington braced herself for an effort, though she was outwardly very calm.
It give us a first-class jolt to find all the girls so quiet-looking; and they being that way braced up the whole crowd to be like a dancing-party back East.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "braced" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
