flexile
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These poems are exceedingly sweet and touching; yet they are all marked by the same flexile use of difficult rhythms and unprecedented rhymes.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 by Various
The long pale-green chains at the ends of all the branches hang limp and flexile, shaken with every breath of wind, or, falling over other branches, drape and festoon the whole shrub exquisitely.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons
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 J. J. Howard
P. campan. obtuse, glabrous, slightly striate, tinged olive; g. crowded, cinnamon; s. very slender, flexile, glabrous, cinnamon; sp. 10-13 long.
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
