flexile
Example Sentences
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As the flexile youth progressed, amazement gave place to indignation and then to disgust.
From The Husbands of Edith by George Barr McCutcheon
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
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
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 Edgar Fawcett
P. 4-7 mm. conical then exp. papillate, deeply striate when moist, brownish or greyish then pale; g. narrowed and adnate, greyish white; s. 6-14 cm. livid, flexile, rooting; sp.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
