flexile

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P. 1-2 cm. campan.-convex, exp. obtuse, hygr. even when dry, glabrous, cinnamon then pale; g. adnate, crowded; s. 3-5 cm. rigid, flexile, glabrous; sp.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

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

Then might his fingers become flexile, his mind untied.

From Melomaniacs by Huneker, James

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

But Claire's figure was of such supple and flexile slenderness that the weight and volume of this apparel made her light step and airy contour win a new charm and a new vivacity.

From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Fawcett, Edgar