单词 | flexile |
例句 | 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. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z But chief at sea, whose every flexile wave Obeys the blast, the aerial tumult swells. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 2012-02-10T03:00:15.463Z 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. An Ambitious Woman A Novel 2011-11-23T03:00:54.137Z As they gathered their soft dresses about their limbs and stooped to enter the door, the flexile line of waist and hip and thigh came out beautifully, modestly. Rose of Dutcher's Coolly 2011-04-10T02:00:07.273Z She stood no more than a pace from him, a flexile figure that poised and swung, to provoke the wild beast in him to spring. The Unknown Sea Second—The Star Tulips, having low, flexile stems, erect, starlike flowers, with spreading petals, and nodding capsules. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z The purple clematis, twisting its flexile branches with those of the pale woodbine, formed a sweet and fragrant canopy to the arched bower, while the flowery tendrils hung down on all sides. Coelebs In Search of a Wife Bounds on the arch-buffoon, with flexile face, With bagman smartness and batrachian grace. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, March 1, 1890 Then might his fingers become flexile, his mind untied. Melomaniacs “Soft grow her limbs, and flexile seem her bones; “Her nails their hardness lose. The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II Radical-leaves.—Strongly ribbed underneath; dark, shining green above; one to three feet long; three to eight lines broad; flexile; rosy pink at base. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z The wind is snapping in the bamboos, knocking together the resonant canes and weaving the myriad flexile wreaths above them. The Apple-Tree The Open Country Books—No. 1 What think you of callas—their frozen calm kindled by the ruddy flush of azaleas, and their superb stateliness opposed by the flexile vivacity of the feathery willow acacia? The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy These poems are exceedingly sweet and touching; yet they are all marked by the same flexile use of difficult rhythms and unprecedented rhymes. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 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. The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II Staminate catkins.—Two to ten inches long, consisting of a flexile chain of funnel-form bracts, depending one from another; each having six flowers like clappers. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z The scrub is mostly dry, while the larger forests are comparatively damp, and often beautiful with flowering trees, small tree-ferns, and flexile climbers. Impressions of South Africa 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. The Confidence-Man A powerful charm came from her superb physique, her radiant color, and from her beautiful, flexile lips and sound white teeth. The Eagle's Heart Of fishes in my net I dragg'd; and now, “Plac'd on a rock, I with my flexile rod “Guided the line. The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II 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. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z One is an admirable imitation of Indian corn in tassel, the silky fibres as fine and flexile as can be imagined; another is a group of ostrich plumes, so downy that a zephyr waves it. The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 Snowy linen, touches of soft color, graceful lines of bust and side, the slender fingers that could almost speak, so beautifully flexile were they. Other Main-Travelled Roads Perfect symmetry, obedience, mark their finely chiselled lines— In the highest sphere of being flexile grace with law combines. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 3, March, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy “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. The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II Radical leaves.—Very numerous; two or three feet long; about two lines broad; gracefully flexile; serrulate. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z As the flexile youth progressed, amazement gave place to indignation and then to disgust. The Husbands of Edith Goneril blushed; her hat had slipped back and showed her short brown curls of hair, strong, regular, features, and flexile scarlet mouth, laughing upwards like a faun's. Tales from Many Sources Vol. V 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. A Man and a Woman 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. Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life The voice was marvellously flexile, powerful, and melodious. A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. He came up to me, as if knowing his benefactor by instinct, looking curiously about him, and curling and retracting his flexile snout and lip, after the manner of his kind. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy As the flexile hose has to be stiffly distended to bear an aqueous gravity of twenty-five to fifty pounds to the square inch, the force of the current can be estimated. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 See inflexibility. pliable, a. flexible, pliant, supple, limber, lithesome, lithe, flexile, malleable; irresolute, yielding, facile, compliant. Putnam's Word Book With a sudden flexile turn of a wrist that had thrown many a reata, he flung it straight through the open window. The Splendid Idle Forties Stories of Old California Beside him spreading elms, His friendly barrier from th’ invading north, Contrast their shields defensive with the willow Whose flexile drapery sweeps his rustic lawn. The Poets and Poetry of Cecil County, Maryland Her motions were listless and languid, but flexile as a willow. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 07, May, 1858 At the first movement made by the unwitting trespasser on guarded ground, two long, flexile rods are thrust out, reconnoitring right and left. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 04, February, 1858 Antonyms: See unlimited. limp, a. flaccid, flabby, limber, soft, flexile. Putnam's Word Book The fountains piled their flexile columns of spray and waved them to and fro. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859 Eudora had more sparkling eyes, lips more richly coloured, and a form more slender and flexile. Philothea A Grecian Romance He lay in the Englishwoman's gentle arms—a little brown bundle of flexile limbs and cotton night-shirt. With Edged Tools Also every foreign Signor and Madame that came into the house to teach them spoke with enthusiasm of the apt minds and flexile tongues that honoured their instructions. Queechy Her cheeks are like blood-red anemones and her face like an apple; she hath lips like wine and breasts like double pomegranates and a shape flexile as a willow-wand. The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV And O the shame of the branch at sight of his flexile grace! The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume II During this protracted absence, Aspasia persuaded Phidias to bring Eudora frequently to her house; and her influence insensibly produced a great change in that young person, whose character was even more flexile than her form. Philothea A Grecian Romance To —— Thy spirit was a flexile harp, whereon The moonlight fell like delicatest air, Thro' thee its beauty flowing into tone Which charmed the silence with a sound as rare. Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis It is wrought of all degrees of fineness, and is always so flexile that it may be folded and wound in any shape. Venetian Life By the soft and flexile motions of her shape she captived me, Swaying as the limber branches sway upon the cassia-tree. The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV She inherited her mother's tall, flexile form, and her long dark eyelashes, eyebrows, and hair; but she had her father's large blue eyes, and his rose-and-white complexion. A Romance of the Republic Accordingly, in our American Man must be found, first, social largeness and susceptibility,—whatsoever, in the breadth of a flexile and sympathetic nature, may contribute to the keeping of the Golden Rule. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 12, October, 1858 The wonder was it did not crack under the strain; but Northern ice ahs the air of being strangely flexile. The Magnetic North The movement, in its sinuous, flexile gliding, resembled somewhat a serpent's crawl. The Prince of India — Volume 02 I would not change this flexile, warm existence, Though swept by storms, and shocked by Jove's dread thunder, To be a king beneath the dark-green waters. Mosaics of Grecian History On they glided, like swans descending a tranquil stream, their flexile forms swayed by the ebb and swell of unseen and gentle waves. Life of Chopin The flexile and dubious expression of youth was forever gone. Zanoni His nostrils were remarkably large and flexile, with a tendency to slight motion: I found on further acquaintance that when he was excited, they expanded in a wild equine manner. Robert Falconer Goneril blushed; her hat had slipped back and showed her short brown curls of hair, strong regular features, and flexile scarlet mouth laughing upward like a faun's. Stories By English Authors: Italy (Selected by Scribners) A far more correct musician than Mary might have paused with equal admiration of the really scientific knowledge with which the poor depressed-looking young needlewoman used her superb and flexile voice. Mary Barton Smitten with singing from thy mother's east, And murmurous with music not their own: Nay, the lips flexile, while the mind alone A passionless statue stands. Sister Songs; an offering to two sisters From their flexile and unformed minds I can carve out my fittest tools. Last Days of Pompeii |
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