A small pile of shoes was in a corner of the room; wide, resilient suction soles, built like sandals.
Upon the entire surface of this thirty-foot globe, a group of masters were seated, in little, cup-like seats upon resilient stems.
Keeping in mind the idea of making your weapon as beautiful, as symmetrical and resilient as possible, free from dead or overstrained areas, work it down with utmost solicitude until it approaches your ideal.
The finer the grain and the greater the specific gravity, the more resilient and active the wood, and stronger the bow.
Some few of the younger and more resilient passengers, in an effort to shake off what seemed to them useless gloom, went and asked the Captain to allow the band to play on deck.
She was her gay, resilient self once more, bright and hard as the stones she loved to wear, and more reserved and withdrawn from her family than ever.
The van behind me nudged us up the ramp and we hurtled forward against a thick, resilient pad that stopped my car without any damage either to the car or to the inhabitants.
The bedding rested on wideresilient straps fixed to the cross-bars at top and bottom of the bed.
As he followed rapidly downward toward the dead sea-bottom, where he knew he must lose the spoor in the resilient ochre vegetation, he was suddenly surprised to see a naked man approaching him from the north-east.
The ladies have especially been helped by the more resilient balls which rise more readily.
For the hard balls of those days you had to have a certain softness in the heads of the wooden clubs which is not wanted with the resilient rubber-cored balls.
They are resilient and have a curved quill which itself is buoyant.
It will usually be a resilient open-coil spring, probably satisfactory when used with an all-cotton or all-hair mattress, but unsuitable as a foundation for an inner spring.
A duck feather pillow is firmer and heavier than a goose feather pillow and is less resilient and buoyant.
In the form of curled hair it is the most resilient and costly upholstery stuffer.
Chicken and turkey feathers make pillows which are heavier and less resilient than waterfowl pillows.
From this sublime height the American pipits rise on resilient wings hundreds of feet into the air until they disappear in the cerulean depths of the sky, singing all the while at "heaven's gate.
Sheba did not know, as her resilient muscles carried her forward joyfully, that she was answering the call of youth to youth.
All the allies he could summon were his bare hands and feet, his resilient muscles, and his stout heart.
When the sough of it was no longer in her ears or the tug and flutter of it among the folds of her garments; when she ceased to be conscious of the cool resilient pressure upon cheek and neck and forehead--her brief sweet hour of joy was over.
Footfalls made no noise on the floor, presumably of stone, covered with thick, resilient red rubber.
Jim tried to reach Lucille, but he could move his arm only a few inches against that resilientforce pressing in on all sides of him.
He hammered at the resilient air, while the sweat ran down his face, he braced his feet upon the wooden tongue, and sought to stay his forward progress.
The terrorist threat today is both resilient and diffuse because of this mutually reinforcing, dynamic network structure.
Some groups, however, are more resilient and can promote new leadership should the original fall or fail.
Each consists of two facings of the best maple with a core of hard but resilient wood in the middle.
A highly resilient structure is given the cushion for the pocket table, and one less so for the carom.
Another group was schooled in bending the resilient but tough hickory.
From repulsion are derived compressible and incompressible, resilient and irresilient.
Economic recovery was helped by a financially sound banking system and resilient small- and medium-scale manufacturers.
But fifteen years is the resilient age, and two days after Peter was buried, Vic asked her embarrassedly if she thought it would look right for him to go to the ball game.
It had put a resilient quality into her walk, firmness into the poise of her head.
His hunger satisfied, he lay back on the resilient vines and fell into a sleep of exhaustion.
Lanceford chose one and sank wearily to its resilient surface.
At their best, they are dustless, somewhat resilient and of low tractive resistance.
The mixed macadam is a somewhat resilient surface of excellent riding qualities and considerable durability for medium traffic.
Westervelt tried to listen for footsteps, but the resilientflooring prevented him from guessing which way the ex-spacer had gone.
The cushions could have been cut from slabs of some foamy, resilient substance that had been manufactured in several rather dull colors.
Its buoyant and resilient energy, full of the unconquerable irreverence and glorious shamelessness of youth, takes life fairly by the throat and mocks it and defies it to its face.
All power is bound In quickening refusal so; And silence is the lair of sound; In act its impulse to deliver, With fluctuance and quiver The endeavouring thew grows rigid; Strong From its retracted coil strikes the resilient song.
Treading with resilientgesture Air, and with that Cup divine?
He had still to learn what an adaptable, resilient organism man is.
He sank back in the thick, resilient upholstery and resolved to take what the gods provided--to dance as it were, and reckon with the piper when he presented his bill.
Not only is it weakest, but being more resilient than the portions below it, it suffers more from the alternate movements of expansion and contraction of the foot than does the horn below.
What should be a dense, fairly resilient substance is transformed into a material affording a yielding sensation to the fingers not unlike that imparted by a soft indiarubber, and as easily sliced as cheese-rind.
