flexile
Example Sentences
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After soaking in hot water, the overgrown horny layer is pared away, and the part painted daily with a saturated solution of salicylic acid in flexile collodion.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson
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
Bounds on the arch-buffoon, with flexile face, With bagman smartness and batrachian grace.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, March 1, 1890 by Various
What think you of callas—their frozen calm kindled by the ruddy flush of azaleas, and their superb stateliness opposed by the flexile vivacity of the feathery willow acacia?
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various
Of fishes in my net I dragg'd; and now, “Plac'd on a rock, I with my flexile rod “Guided the line.
From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by J. J. Howard
