What is "resilient"

Usage examples of "resilient".

Jedrik moved softly with her own preparations, straightened the bedog and caressed its resilient surface.

It carries the additional bonus of reducing tension and, if done on a regular basis, toughens the exerciser, making him more resilient and better able to handle stress.

Symbols are very resilient, but the pentacle was altered by the early Roman Catholic Church.

He and Dincrist bounced off the walls, ceiling, and floor of the tank, turning in midair as the gravity field was rotated, tumbling and landing neatly, rebounding from the resilient, transparent panes.

Rematching velocity this time was a simple matter, and upon the towering, powerfully resilient pillars of her landing-jets the inconceivable mass of the Tellurian ship of war settled toward the ground, as lightly seeming as a wafted thistledown.

Despite her suffering, poor Maude, recognizing the shameless display she had just made of herself, clapped her left palm over the intimate hollow to hide it from him, and was promptly rewarded with another magisterial stroke of the rod, this one switching fiercely across the broadest, most resilient curves of both her bottomcheeks.

He reached into a drawer of his desk and drew out a resilient ball cast of some clear elastometer shot with flakes of gold.

The hornlike material proved resilient enough to stop the attacks of most other creatures.

I weigh out two pounds of kozo, tough and resilient bark that must be cooked and beaten, broken and pounded.

Its huge treads and resilient struts were sufficient to engulf the rugged path, rolling over outcroppings and straddling ravines.

The slim needles slapped into the resilient Plexiglas, becoming solidly embedded in the clear plastic.

Along the flow-way, down and down, through the cellars, across the vast manufactury with its shrouded machines and stores of raw materials, past the undeployed maze, down down until she bounced off the resilient membrane that protected the househeart.

He had used a specially shaped piece of fresh antler, strong and resilient enough to resist breaking, as a digger and a lever to pry out the exposed lump of hard silica from its chalky matrix.

He was tough and resilient, a man who dealt uncomplainingly with adversities, who ate everything life threw at him, spit out what he did not like, and used the rest to make himself stronger.

After the first shock wave of desire ripped through him, he told his hands to stop kneading her resilient body, to stop rocking her hips against his violently aroused flesh.