lissom
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
It is as far from either model as it is from the double target roughly caricatured in the description of Professor Lissom.
From Time Magazine Archive
When they got married, Giorgio presented them with all the forged money and papers needed for a trip to England and escorted them off to let Aquila meet the great Professor Lissom in person.
From Time Magazine Archive
Once, my dear—but the world was young then— Magdalen elms and Trinity limes— Lissom the blades and the backs that swung then.
From From a Cornish Window A New Edition by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
A maid, Lissom and white as the roe, Lived recess'd in a glade.
From Helen Redeemed and Other Poems by Hewlett, Maurice Henry
See our article, "Lissom Hands and Pretty Feet."
From The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 355, October 16, 1886 by Peters, Charles
