buoyancy

• The heat and the glaring sun made the earth like a platter of molten copper The Aeromunde had lost much of her buoyancy--the flight had been a very long one. —  007 - The Lost Oasis
• But the run of the sea and their greater buoyancy were already widening the distance between them and the comparatively massive piece to which I had lashed myself, and I regretted that it had not occurred to me earlier to abandon the mainmast in favour of one of them the moment that the light of dawn revealed them to me I struggled into a standing position on the spar that supported me, steadying myself upon my somewhat precarious perch by grasping the arms of the crosstrees, and carefully examined such fragments as came within my ken with the heave of the sea. —  A Middy of the King A Romance of the Old British Navy
• Currency, buoyancy, they ought not to have impressed upon sedition, upon conspiracy, upon treason. —  The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1
• Currency, buoyancy, they have impressed upon sedition, upon conspiracy, upon treason As to Mr. O'Connell himself, it is useless, and it argues some thick darkness of mind, to remonstrate or generally to address any arguments from whatsoever quarter, which either appeal to a sense of truth, which, secondly, manifest inconsistencies, or, thirdly, which argue therein a tendency ruinous to himself. —  The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1
• He said that it had neither shape nor buoyancy, and predicted that it would burst or fall apart after a week. —  Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War

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