flexile
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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
Snowy linen, touches of soft color, graceful lines of bust and side, the slender fingers that could almost speak, so beautifully flexile were they.
From Other Main-Travelled Roads by Hamlin Garland
Perfect symmetry, obedience, mark their finely chiselled lines— In the highest sphere of being flexile grace with law combines.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 3, March, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
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
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