From this pinnacle of elation and pride they were precipitated to the abyss of despondence or dejection, by the account of the miscarriage at St. Cas, which buoyed up the spirits of the French in the same proportion.
May we not suppose that by the contemplation of such a vision she was buoyed up and soothed amid the many trials and privations, perils and uncertainties that surrounded her in that rugged colonial life.
This buoyed her up for a while, but it was evident to them both that her strength was fast failing.
So with much serenity he disclosed his plans, and Muriel marvelled afresh at the confidence thatbuoyed him up.
A warmth like that of flame soon kindled within his body, and spreading through his limbs, buoyed up his mind by deadening his thoughts.
Duroy, drawing in the air to the full depth of his lungs, felt himself suddenly seized with hope, and, as it were buoyed up by the approach of happiness.
Don't you remember how, even at her deathbed, he could not face the reality of the moment, but buoyed her and himself up with pitiful romancing?
He went back to the hotelbuoyed up in spite of himself, and found Alan moping in the reading-room.
The next morning, at low water, I went and sounded and buoyed the bar, the ship being now ready for sea.
These were the sublimating thoughts that now buoyed the Admiral, as he looked along the far-stretching coast,--or at least his friend Bernaldez got this impression from his intercourse with Columbus after his return to Spain.
I believe, during the voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, not one rock near the surface was discovered which was not buoyed by this floating weed.
From the body being buoyed up with so much air, the branchial openings are out of water, but a stream drawn in by the mouth constantly flows through them.
This impenetrability had the effect of a somewhat buoyant disposition, not because he could bebuoyed on the tide of any strong emotion, but because few things could disturb or excite him.
And the grind of it, for the pleasure-loving wife who had buoyed herself with dreams of gaiety and delight which her life in the North had denied her, had driven her back upon the elemental that was only latent in her.
And as the moments passed, and his confidence in the protecting mask grew, so a wonderful spirit buoyed him.
And at last, the highest peak, on which the fortress stood, looked out alone upon the waste of waters, and the floating ark buoyed up securely on them.
He had ruthlessly dispelled the dream of Syrian hegemony which had buoyed up Ben-hadad, he had forced Damascus to withdraw the suzerainty it had exercised in the south, and he had conquered Northern Syria and the lower basin of the Orontes.
With indomitable courage, and buoyed up perhaps by the hope that some big scheme for their succour was being devised in Paris, they held to their policy under General de Lévis, now in command, of disputing the position foot by foot.
It seemed that the wind caught him up and buoyed him from stride to stride, and the cowpunchers with hungry, burning eyes watched without a word until the grey and the chestnut blurred on the horizon and dipped out of view together.
The water buoyed a weight which he could not otherwise have budged; he stumbled in the shoaling gravel to his knees, rose again lifting and straining, until blackness rushed across his eyes; and he pitched forward on his face.
But best of all, they were buoyed up by the near completion of a nearly seven months' journey of hardships and danger.
But wearied as he was, he was deeply touched with Colonel Bent's kindness and thoughtfulness, and was buoyed up with new heart and hope that after all the hardships of the long journey he was yet able to prosecute it to the end.
He was not buoyed up by the praises he had received.
A short spell of close-hauled work, as the smack tacked towards the entrance, was followed by a run, full and by, down the buoyed channel to the bar buoy.
It was paid out from the trawler with considerable rapidity, the end being buoyed and dropped overboard some miles from the spot where the original cable used to land.
And the child used to remain quiet at home, buoyedup by the hope of that sweetmeat.
We had been so buoyed up by the promises held out to us.
The letters also suggest indirectly the happy home-coming of these college boys, riding thither on horseback over many miles, buoyed up by high spirits, college news, and the prospect of vacation.
She conceived him bowed by shame, but she was buoyed up by her conviction that they should meet again.
In 1397 the Graue Bund (Grey League) was started in the valleys of the Vorder-Rhine by the Abbot of Disentis, some of the nobles, and the people at large.
The exact sum paid by Bern is not known, but probably it reached seven or eight million francs.
The young man buoyed himself up with these thoughts through the long evening.
Her disappointment, the shock of the severance, must have affected her otherwise than appeared if she had not been buoyed up by some such expedient.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "buoyed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
