flexile

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Snowy linen, touches of soft color, graceful lines of bust and side, the slender fingers that could almost speak, so beautifully flexile were they.

From Other Main-Travelled Roads by Garland, Hamlin

But chief at sea, whose every flexile wave Obeys the blast, the aerial tumult swells.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 by Various

Rostrum elongatum, rectum vel arcuatum, flexile, gracillimum, ad basin depressum, mandibul� superiore inferiorem amplectente et tant�m non obtegente.

From Zoological Illustrations, Volume II or Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals by Swainson, William

Who knows now, but that flexile gracefulness, however questionable at the time of that thirtieth boy of yours, might have been the silky husk of the most solid qualities of maturity.

From The Confidence-Man by Melville, Herman

The flexile willow, and the waving reed; The fenny bulrush, osier, and the cane Diminutive, the stagnant depth conceal'd.

From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by Howard, J. J.