Слово "bracing". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

Then it began to make a slow hissing sound in the water and he still held it, bracing himself against the thwart and leaning back against the pull.

I was bracing myself against the passenger door --

His brown, hardening body lived naturally through the half-fierce, half-lazy work of the bracing days.

The sun was warm, but the air had a bracing coolness.

The sea air was bracing, and yet Langdon felt no clearer in his head.

Pure, bracing ventilation they must have up there at all times, indeed: one may guess the power of the north wind blowing over the edge, by the excessive slant of a few stunted firs at the end of the house; and by a range of gaunt thorns all stretching their limbs one way, as if craving alms of the sun.

Then, with horses bracing against a rapid fall, they gently tipped it to lie on the sledge, dress side up.