Like invigorating air beginning to boost activity at Epsom?

Usage examples of bracing.

Besides the rustling of the gas cells there was the creaking of the aluminium framework along which he walked and the musical cries of thousands of steel bracing wires.

But Bibi had nodded strong agreement with Taverik, and Marita went by that, bracing herself as she followed Taverik into the alley.

Then, moving stiffly, Calandra rolled over and got to her feet, her sense that of someone bracing for unwanted but necessary activity.

I imagine Hilda did her best to sound bracing, whilst putting the daffs firmly in their place.

He staggered dizzily against the side of the trench, dropped the pick, and swayed heavily, bracing himself against collapse.

Lusty shouts rang out as men indulged in a game of toss-the-ball in the more bracing frigidarium adjoining.

Tolerant of tobacco, although he did not smoke, he fronted the fire, envying Gower Woodseer the contemplative pipe, which for half a dozen puffs wafted him to bracing deserts, or primaeval forests, or old highways with the swallow thoughts above him, down the Past, into the Future.

The closing together and bracing of which hemicycle or arch, worthie of admiration, of a rare and subtile deuise, and exquisite polyture, did thus obiect and present it selfe to my sight.

Suppressing her groan, she sat up on the couch, bracing her elbows on her knees as she raked her fingers through her hair.

I thought, bracing my feet against the tire, leaning into the angle of the wrench like a sculler leaning into an oar.

Enveloped in a moral atmosphere at once bracing and tender from her childhood upwards, it had never occurred to her to regret that she was not only orphaned, but sisterless and brotherless as well, in the ordinary acceptation of the phrase.

At the thought Darby, bracing himself, body and sowl, let a warning howl out of him.

At the thought Darby, bracing himself body and sowl, let a warning howl out of him.

Michael Pemulis and Jim Troeltsch and Hal Incandenza are splayed on reticulate-mesh patio chairs in street clothes and with their street-sneakers up on reticulate-mesh footstools, Struck and Axford with suspiciously bracing Gatorades and what looks like a hand-rolled psychochemical cigarette of some sort being passed between them.

And then from beneath his cloak he reached with his thumbless bandage of a hand and scooped up the instrument and the bow, to his chest, quickly bracing it with the other maimed hand.