Though I could not see her face, the instant change in her attitude, the eager movement of her hands, and the elastic spring that suddenly braced her form, expressed her feeling plainly enough.

He went ahead; he stopped and braced himself; he tautened the rope about her waist and said: "Come on.

They braced the yards a little to starboard, hauled the foretopmast staysail sheet well aft, and the captain, thinking he had everything snug, stood looking over the weather rails, watching the approaching squall.

It is unnecessary to speak of the mental prayers and conflicting emotions with which Mrs. Willoughby and her daughters prepared themselves for the struggle; and, yet, even the beautiful and delicate Maud braced her nerves to meet the emergency of a frontier assault.

And yielding all thought of self she had braced every faculty to accomplish the holy task of which she alone felt the urgency.

And yet he braced himself up for one more grand effort,for a life and death struggle with Antony, one of the ablest of Caesar's generals; a demagogue, eloquent and popular, but outrageously cruel and unscrupulous, and with unbridled passions.

She braced herself to meet his need, realizing it to be greater than she knew.

But, albeit he was braced for endurance, the long hours of waiting were very hard to bear.

The last of life seemed to go from him, and Sinclair braced himself to meet a hysterical appeal.

He also discovered the "Northeast Corner of the Crazy Horse Lode" plainly marked on the white surface of a pine stake braced upright in a pile of rocks.

He was mentally braced for devilment, but his arch-enemy, Fay, was not in sight.

After a few moments of desperate clinging together, they were forced into the front row, where they stood on the very edge, braced back against the pressure, half laughing, half vexed.

It is rather a sapling of Vergil's Hellenistic garden, slowly acclimated to the Italian soil, fed richly by years of philosophic study, braced, pruned, and reared into a tree of noble strength and classic dignity.

She was sitting now with her feet braced against the thwarts, and with every muscle tense she strained and strained until the perspiration streamed down her face, and the hot air of the swamp as it rose up seemed to choke her.

" Gordon braced off, his hands on the table before him.

"I had a pocketful w'en I braced yer for one.

Then Hugh braced up and pitched the game through to the end in brilliant style, Yale winning by a score of ten to seven.

Ted hung his head, gave consent to his uncle's question by silence and braced himself for a lecture, though he was a little relieved that he need not bring up the subject of that inconvenient flunking of his, himself; that his uncle was already prepared, whoever it was that had told tales.

Rutlidge his legs braced, his body inclined toward the edge of the precipice, was gathering his strength for the last triumphant effort.

For the indefinite continuance of chaos and bloodshed in Macedonia, after the other powers had really braced themselves to the thankless task of putting the reforms into practice, Germany alone was responsible.

I went out with him to show him what there wasa grange on the south side, with a loft, which has already had to be braced up with posts, and which I believe to be dangerous.

There are three or four Harvard men who can tell what that means and they were braced for it, which this fellow wasn't.

Round they came again in a moment, and I braced myself for the lash of the whip that I felt was coming.

He braced himself on his hands and called to his brother Tony.

With awful labor that brought a clammy moisture to his face, he managed to drag himself close to his brother and writhe round to a position where he could sit up, braced against the other's body.