flexile
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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
One is an admirable imitation of Indian corn in tassel, the silky fibres as fine and flexile as can be imagined; another is a group of ostrich plumes, so downy that a zephyr waves it.
From The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 by Various
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
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
After soaking in hot water, the overgrown horny layer is pared away, and the part painted daily with a saturated solution of salicylic acid in flexile collodion.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson
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