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buoyant

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buoyant
(of a liquid or gas) able to keep a body afloat or cause it to rise


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, entombed in ice, will never ride the buoyant waters more.
The Frozen Deep by Collins, Wilkie View in context
She turned away and was about to ask the countess again how to go to him, when light, impetuous, and seemingly buoyant steps were heard at the door.
War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
Unerringly impelling this dead, impregnable, uninjurable wall, and this most buoyant thing within; there swims behind it all a mass of tremendous life, only to be adequately estimated as piled wood is --by the cord; and all obedient to one volition, as the smallest insect.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
 
 
 
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