flexile
Example Sentences
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“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
Goneril blushed; her hat had slipped back and showed her short brown curls of hair, strong, regular, features, and flexile scarlet mouth, laughing upwards like a faun's.
From Tales from Many Sources Vol. V by Various
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
Who knows now, but that flexile gracefulness, however questionable at the time of that thirtieth boy of yours, might have been the silky husk of the most solid qualities of maturity.
From The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville
