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Oh, it's going to come out all right in the end," he said, with his unbuoyant hopefulness, "and I reckon I've got to help it along.

From Dr. Breen's Practice by Howells, William Dean

But the water was tepid, and brown, and tasteless, and unbuoyant; and I felt, rather oddly, as if I were swimming in a gigantic cup of tea.

From The Unpopular Review, Volume II Number 3 by Various