flexile

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Bounds on the arch-buffoon, with flexile face, With bagman smartness and batrachian grace.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, March 1, 1890 by Various

Goneril blushed; her hat had slipped back and showed her short brown curls of hair, strong, regular, features, and flexile scarlet mouth, laughing upwards like a faun's.

From Tales from Many Sources Vol. V by Various

The purple clematis, twisting its flexile branches with those of the pale woodbine, formed a sweet and fragrant canopy to the arched bower, while the flowery tendrils hung down on all sides.

From Coelebs In Search of a Wife by More, Hannah

The wind is snapping in the bamboos, knocking together the resonant canes and weaving the myriad flexile wreaths above them.

From The Apple-Tree The Open Country Books—No. 1 by Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde)

Staminate catkins.—Two to ten inches long, consisting of a flexile chain of funnel-form bracts, depending one from another; each having six flowers like clappers.

From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Parsons, Mary Elizabeth