flexile
Example Sentences
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A man of the world, with experiences, and in his quality, no doubt, the logical, inevitable result of such experiences—one with a conscience flexile and seeking, but hard as rock when once satisfied.
From A Man and a Woman by Stanley Waterloo
“Soft grow her limbs, and flexile seem her bones; “Her nails their hardness lose.
From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by J. J. Howard
P. 1-1.5 cm. campan. subpapillate, striate, brownish yellow; g. broad, yellowish-ochre; s. 4-7 cm. equal, flexile, yellow, apex mealy; sp.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
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 L. H. (Liberty Hyde) Bailey
Of fishes in my net I dragg'd; and now, “Plac'd on a rock, I with my flexile rod “Guided the line.
From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by J. J. Howard
