He paused and set his teeth, bracinghimself to the final effort of confession.
In the urgency of the moment she laid a light hand upon him; and Wyndham, bracing the muscles of his arm, tried not to be aware of her finger-tips through his coat-sleeve.
In all our foreign or home experience I do not recollect such weeks of hot sunshine, yet never oppressive; such a delicious bracing air always.
It was fiercely cold, but Tuesday brightened into a glorious winter's day, and I had a most enchanting walk through sunshine and bracing air to Fontaines.
Anyway, Injun sure had buck fever for the first time in his young life, for in bracing himself for his next shot he sat too far back on his left leg, and when he let go his arrow, over went the canoe.
Once it had come nearer and instinctively she had sprung up, bracing herself--then rolled back again with a thwarted, muffled murmur.
Even then, striding at her side, bracing himself for whatever lay before them, he wondered at her, thrilled at the joyous adventurousness in her.
Tristram waited for the hating, satiric smile, bracing himself to meet its triumph.
Soldiers and sailors, whose duty exposes them at all hours, either on a march or in boats, are often struck down by the heat, and sigh with all their hearts for the bracing frosts of higher latitudes.
It is thought more bracing than Mentone, and may suit some constitutions; but it seems to want the shelter which most invalids require, and which is obtained elsewhere.
Again to quote him: "The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious.
The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious.
Over all bent softly brilliant skies, and the bland, bracing air was charged with the electricity of life and happiness.
Bracing herself with all her remaining strength against the pull of the dangling stick, she got one paw firmly fixed against a small jutting branch.
Its butt the trapper drove slantingly into the sand where the water was an inch or two deep, bracing it securely with stones.
Bracing her forepaws upon the wood she pulled fiercely to free herself; and the wire drew taut till her throat was almost closed.
As I began to breathe the bracing air of Cape Horn, my strength in a measure revived, and having no other employment on board ship, I sketched the outlines of most of the chapters of this little volume.
Presently he saw that a light van was standing before one place, backed up against the sidewalk to receive parcels, its shuddering horse holding its head down and bracing itself with its forelegs against the wind.
Made me feel as if I was bracing up a chap that was going to be electrocuted," he thought, feeling sickish again.
Bracing his courage, he went on, a little faster than before but without hurrying, and for two or three minutes heard no fresh noise.
He heard nothing, and it was rather curious that he could not smell smoke, but bracing himself he stooped and crept into the dark hole.
No," said Featherstone simply, "you have given us great pleasure and made us realize the bracing life my son is leading.
It hinted at a pitiless, unchangeable purpose, and bracing himself with an effort he clenched his fist.
Bracing enough it was, at any rate: he remembered the winds used almost cut his nose off.
Neither Helen nor Janetta were very healthy girls, and at last a London doctor gave as his absolute fiat that they must cease to live in their warm inland village, and migrate, for some years at any rate, to a bracing sea-side place.
The clear sky and bracingair here, when they do come, give the folks good spirits; but the extremes of heat and cold limit the time, and decrease the inclination for exercise.
How sweet and cool is the morning air, and how refreshing and bracing the light breeze is to the nerves that have been relaxed in warm repose!
A verybracing ride they'll have in more senses than one; but they can spin plenty of yarns about it when they get home.
All night, I've been bracingmyself to take it, and now nobody knows when it will come, or how.
Now, when the necessity for immediate exertion had passed away, the reaction was very great, and it was fortunate that she had at this crisis the bracing companionship of James Graham, and Clara's friendly and stimulating acerbities.
He squared his great shoulders as if instinctively bracing himself to meet opposition.
But you want a dose of more bracing air to make you quite strong again.
The proximity of the Adirondacks gives the bracing ozone of mountain air, and in the cosmopolitan throng is generally included the best the country can show of fashion and wealth.
It is hoped that the bracing breezes of the mountain air, with good healthy food, will make new children of these boys.
But, bracing to the ordeal, she told the children to wait at the little Observation Tower, as she called it, in front of the hotel, and hurried to the office.
It is to this want of due proportion in the elements of diet that we must attribute the comparative muscular weakness of the Mongols, in spite of the abundant supply of mutton and the bracing air of the desert.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bracing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
