The previous night's raucous, skinny-dipping revellers were in the grip of a collective hangover, groggy and painful, each one braced to lash out at the threats to our shared position of privilege.
Together, pressed against each other, they braced themselves.
As the curtain rises, they stand there braced, each with one leg pointing back and one arm raised ahead.
Each year, she braced herself for this dark period by going all out for Amaya's birthday, in January.
Two others — each with bones braced between their paws — crunch and gnaw for the rich marrow inside.
As the couple walked down the aisle of the church for his funeral, they braced each other, friends recalled, as if they could not stand alone.
Kaplan quotes a letter from father to son, written in 1804, that recalls how during one of their voyages they held onto each other and "braced our feet against the Bed boards and Bedsteads to prevent us from having our Brains dashed out against the Planks and Timbers of the Ship".
Each winter Judith Caletti braced herself for the inevitable: crippling sinus headaches followed by an infection.
When worn over several months, each brace steadily moves the patient's teeth into the desired position.
I bought two 10-foot pieces ($7.70 each), a seam connector ($2.70), end caps ($1.50 each), braces ($6.50 for a package of four) and rivets ($5.50 for a package of 100 one-eighth-inch rivets), all made by Amerimax, along with a rivet tool (Arrow Light-Duty rivet tool, $10).
