It was not that she sensibly showed nimbler heels to it; its lifting tendency enabled her to ride the under-running seas more buoyantly, and if it increased her speed by half a knot an hour it was worth a million to me, whose business it was to take the utmost possible advantage of the southerly gale.
"The Frozen Pirate"
W. Clark Russell
Even if the spirit of the poet cannot be said to rise buoyantly above the depressing and paralysing influence of this conviction, yet he draws a higher lesson from it than the maxim of 'Eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
"You just leave that to me," she cried buoyantly.
"The Son of his Father"
Ridgwell Cullum