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Suddenly, a tall, lithe woman in a long overcoat stood up and made her way to the stage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2026

The lithe physique of the rubber man of tennis enabled him to chase down seemingly lost causes and he combined a brutally efficient game with a rock-solid defence.

From Barron's ● Jan. 31, 2026

The cast includes William Warfield, Leontyne Price and Cab Calloway, who at one point is shown scat-singing in a Vienna tavern, a born entertainer caught in a wonderfully loose, lithe and swinging performance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 14, 2026

With the lithe, athletic body of the ballerina, she was nothing like her fellow models.

From BBC ● Dec. 28, 2025

Incredibly handsome, too, tall and lithe and muscular, with beautiful, smooth skin, big teeth, and a great smile, always laughing.

From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah

Pappano, the longtime music director of the Royal Opera House in London, offers a lighter, lither reading, not rushed but evenly flowing, airy even when agitated.

From New York Times ● Oct. 27, 2021

Crispy-edged and light, like lither thin-crust pizzas, tortizzas can be topped with whatever you like and nothing you don’t.

From New York Times ● Sep. 10, 2021

So in the long term on Mars I think we will eventually see a lighter, lither build than on Earth.

From Scientific American ● Dec. 19, 2012

Coutured and made up to seem a younger, taller, lither Davis, Neal reads her early lines with a castrating wit, accompanied by the flinging of an eyebrow for emphasis.

From Time ● Aug. 11, 2010

Cotgrave explains it by "lither, lazie, sloathful, idle; faint, slack; dull, simple," and Shakespeare uses it in a great variety of meanings.

From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Ernest Weekley

Beyond everything he enjoyed the sight of the lithest and most elegant of the girls, whom he knew to be Eliza Brating and who was dancing with a partner whose skill obviously needed no lessons.

From Mr. Prohack by Arnold Bennett

I could brew a jug of Punch, and at a jig could dance down the lithest gambriler of those parts, Dan Meagher, the Blind Piper of Swords.

From The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... by George Augustus Sala

This Gunnar was the best skilled in weapons, and the lithest of limb of all bonderfolk who have been in Iceland; the second was Gunnar of Lithend; but Steinthor of Ere was the third.

From The Story Of Gunnlaug The Worm-Tongue And Raven The Skald 1875 by William Morris

Were the snake himself coiled round that consecrated bauble, the prayers of the devout Father Checkley would unclasp his lithest folds.

From Rookwood by William Harrison Ainsworth

The porteuses, said to be the lithest, hardiest women of the occident, wore a pitiable look of fatigue, as they came down from the hill-trails, steadying the baskets upon their heads.

From She Buildeth Her House by William Wistar Comfort