flexile

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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

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 Thomson, Alexis

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 Massee, George

One is an admirable imitation of Indian corn in tassel, the silky fibres as fine and flexile as can be imagined; another is a group of ostrich plumes, so downy that a zephyr waves it.

From The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 by Various

P. 1.5-2.5 cm. conico-campan. papillate, striate, somewhat bay; g. adnate, ascending; s. 3-7 cm. equal, flexile, even, reddish; sp.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George