flexile

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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

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.

Then might his fingers become flexile, his mind untied.

From Melomaniacs by Huneker, James

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

As the flexile youth progressed, amazement gave place to indignation and then to disgust.

From The Husbands of Edith by McCutcheon, George Barr