flexile
Example Sentences
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As the flexile youth progressed, amazement gave place to indignation and then to disgust.
From The Husbands of Edith by McCutcheon, George Barr
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 Parsons, Mary Elizabeth
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 Melville, Herman
“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 Howard, J. J.
The members of the genus fall naturally into three general groups:— First—The Globe Tulips, which have flexile stems, sub-globose, nodding flowers, and nodding capsules.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Parsons, Mary Elizabeth
