flexile
Example Sentences
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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
The scrub is mostly dry, while the larger forests are comparatively damp, and often beautiful with flowering trees, small tree-ferns, and flexile climbers.
From Impressions of South Africa by James Bryce, Viscount Bryce
Radical-leaves.—Strongly ribbed underneath; dark, shining green above; one to three feet long; three to eight lines broad; flexile; rosy pink at base.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons
Human shape no more The god permits his foolish ears to wear; But long extends them, and with hoary hairs Fills them within; and grants them power to move, From their foundation flexile.
From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by J. J. Howard
And it is well known, that the canary birds, that are propagated in this country, and the finches, that are kept tame, will build their nests of any flexile materials, that are given them.
From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
