flexile

Example Sentences

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But Claire's figure was of such supple and flexile slenderness that the weight and volume of this apparel made her light step and airy contour win a new charm and a new vivacity.

From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Fawcett, Edgar

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 Waterloo, Stanley

“Nor long the term, an hour's short space elaps'd, “When the same teinted flower the blood produc'd: “Such flowers the deep pomegranate bears, which hides “Its purple grains beneath a flexile rind.

From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by Howard, J. J.

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 Howard, J. J.

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