flexile
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Second—The Star Tulips, having low, flexile stems, erect, starlike flowers, with spreading petals, and nodding capsules.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons
But chief at sea, whose every flexile wave Obeys the blast, the aerial tumult swells.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 by Various
Radical leaves.—Very numerous; two or three feet long; about two lines broad; gracefully flexile; serrulate.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons
“Soft grow her limbs, and flexile seem her bones; “Her nails their hardness lose.
From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by J. J. Howard
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
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