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lithe

[lahyth] / laɪð /


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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

These Olympians, almost none of them were alive when Snoop broke into music, the lithe kid from Long Beach alongside Dr. Dre.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 12, 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

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

From BBC Dec. 28, 2025

He had been light and lithe and strong.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin

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

The birds were about the size of the hermit thrushes, but lither and suppler.

From Birds of the Rockies by Keyser, Leander S. (Leander Sylvester)

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 Bennett, Arnold

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 Comfort, William Wistar

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 Morris, William

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 Sala, George Augustus

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

From Rookwood by Ainsworth, William Harrison




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