| 单词 | litheness |
| 例句 | Even from the rear Nel could tell that it was Sula and that she was smiling; that something deep down in that litheness was amused. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z There is the camaraderie of folk dancing; the light, litheness of ballet; and the grounded shapes of modern dance. Review: The Sophisticated Simplicity of a Mark Morris Masterpiece 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z I also admired the litheness of his approach to writing "historical fiction". Edinburgh international book festival: writers' picks 2011-08-12T21:55:15Z Van Zweden has never had a true grasp of the fleet litheness of the Classical repertoire, almost never touches Baroque music with the Philharmonic. Review: The Philharmonic’s ‘Passion’ Is a Surprising Achievement 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z Harry Christophers, the society’s artistic director since 2008 and a noted early-music specialist, draws an appropriate litheness from chorus and orchestra. Classical Playlist: Handel's 'Messiah,' Beethoven, Schumann and More 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z The Cool School influence is apparent in the restraint and gentle abstractions, but there’s a litheness to the players’ interactions. ‘Temporary Kings’ Review: Alluringly Reserved 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z Fortunately, Ann Petersen's portrayal of the Irish princess was so strong as to command the attention: a wonderful voice, accurate and wholly flexible with a comparable physical litheness, and radiating emotional intensity throughout. Tristan und Isolde – review 2012-05-22T11:57:52Z It was gratifying to hear Strauss’s waltzes played with historically informed attention to articulation and litheness of sound. American Classical Orchestra Ends Its Season in ‘Prague’ 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z With these cerebral abilities, says Ms Stern, Shakespearean actors need a “physical litheness and grace”, as Laurence Olivier epitomised. The making of a Shakespearean actor 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z He was of a large, heavy build, and yet, as I surmised from the litheness of his walk, very close-knit. The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance 2012-01-26T03:00:17.027Z Her airy, undulating litheness had become less willowy, giving her person the calm tranquillity of bodies that are beginning to crystallize in their definitive form. The Enemies of Women (Los enemigos de la mujer) 2012-01-02T03:00:27.980Z A slim young man in flannels; tall with a muscular litheness; dark with a burnished tan; handsome; arose from his work at the long refectory table. Out of the Air 2011-11-21T03:00:14.460Z His powerful figure was carried erectly, doubtless from the severity of his early military training, but it possessed a litheness quite unusual, a litheness which the angular figure of Von Salzinger completely lacked. The Men Who Wrought 2011-07-26T02:00:16.320Z His beard had been clipped close, and she recognised the moulding of his head, the slope of his shoulders, a peculiar loose litheness in his gait. The Black Opal 2011-07-13T02:00:16.323Z Her scant skirts swishing in and out of the candlelight, she walked up and down the room beyond the table, with something of the litheness of the caged tiger. Ruth Fielding In the Red Cross Doing Her Best For Uncle Sam 2011-06-14T02:00:23.757Z Julian Grant's litheness had become fragility, almost emaciation. The Messenger 2011-03-26T02:00:14.523Z In mature age, the rose still miraculously clung to her cheek; litheness had not yet completely uncoiled itself from her waist, nor smoothness unscrolled itself from her brow, nor diamondness departed from her eyes. Pierre; or The Ambiguities 2011-01-17T03:00:45.163Z This was no charm of little cherubs; this was the stark radiance of tigerish enchantment: the golden glitter of his eyes, the sinewy litheness of his stealthy paw.... The Hidden Force A Story of Modern Java 2010-12-24T03:00:34.823Z She wore a dress whose simplicity accentuated the 151 slender erectness of her young body and the litheness of her carriage. The Law of Hemlock Mountain One would not think the strength was there, but then the black dress did not cling like the wet clothes that other night to show the litheness of the rounded limbs. The Belovéd Traitor Hot-blood Rollo leaped upon him without a word, taking the older and stronger man at unawares with his young litheness. The Firebrand Certain litheness and suppleness of motion still lingered in his body. Kastle Krags A Story of Mystery The soft lines of the white flannel skirt and the pink silk sweater disclosed the youth and litheness of the figure. The Bachelors A Novel She was slender, with a youthful litheness in her motions, and her white arms flashed as they moved backward and forward in her work. Stories That End Well An Adventure in Altruria——Through the Terrors of the Law——The Real Thing——The Old Partisan——Max—Or His Picture——The Stout Miss Hopkins' Bicycle——The Spellbinder——The Object of the Federation——The Little Lonely Girl——The Hero of Company G——A Miracle Play The litheness of his body is apparent even through his armor. Tuscan Sculpture of the Fifteenth Century A Collection of Sixteen Pictures Reproducing Works by Donatello, the Della Robia, Mino da Fiesole, and Others, with Introduction Nothing but his marvelous quickness and Indian litheness saved him. The Frontier Boys in the Grand Canyon A Search for Treasure This litheness had in it none of the meagre outlines of the little mother, its curves were all moulded with that soft roundness which betrays a southern origin. East Angels In her walk and her gesture there was that also which reminded one of Spain: the same blended litheness and dignity; and there was a firmness in her tread which took nothing from its elasticity. The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly Her years of dancing, her early hardening life in the mountains, had given her a strength and litheness now tearing 162 at the weight, the masculinity, of Santacilla. The Bright Shawl Leaning back with folded arms, he showed, however, despite his weight and rotundity, the pliance and the litheness of the Westerner. The Plow-Woman He was a tall man and very slender, with a certain squareness of shoulder, and great bodily litheness and activity. Home Life of Great Authors Garda was of medium height, but her litheness made her seem tall. East Angels Nevertheless, her hair glinted where the sun struck it, and her litheness was only accented by the wrinkled clothing. The Barbarians He was thirty-four years old and was accounted as men go a handsome dog, with a figure just turning from the litheness of youth into a slight rotundity of very early middle age. In the Heart of a Fool The ill-cut garb she could afford added greatly to her staid appearance, obscuring a certain full-bodied litheness. Zero Data His movement was deliberate beside Sinclair’s litheness, and his face, though burned by sun and wind, was boyish, while Sinclair’s was strongly lined. Whispering Smith Portia did deliver judgment, but the counselor's cap became the pretty locks it could not hide, and the jurist's cloak lent additional grace to the symmetry and litheness of female youth. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III The strength and litheness of a clown cannot compare with those of this budding flesh, this hardly coagulated glair. The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles In the way she sped through the mesquit, evading the clutch of the cholla by supple dips to right and left, there was a kind of pantherine litheness. Brand Blotters The lightness of their tread, their suppleness of movement, and their spring and litheness, fill us with delight. The Heart of Nature or, The Quest for Natural Beauty She was tall and strong, but her figure was very slight; and there was a charming litheness about her which suggested the good horse-woman. The Explorer He was saved from being grotesque, however, by a certain care-free grace, a litheness of movement. Penny of Top Hill Trail Hardly in middle age, and with a figure of uncommon litheness and power, he had a face of extraordinary sweetness and repose. The Riflemen of the Ohio A Story of the Early Days along "The Beautiful River" And as he felt her dear young fragrance 304 of hair in his nostrils, the warm, soft litheness of her body against his, the rage and terror in him flooded his veins. Brand Blotters Miss Joline’s clean litheness, her gaiety that had never been made timorous or grateful by defeat or sordidness, her whirlwind of nonsense, blended in a cocktail for Una at dinner. The Job An American Novel The reason why a small waist is a beauty is because, when it is natural, it goes together with the peculiar litheness and activity of a slenderly-built figure. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science He remembered the girl's beauty, the grace and litheness of her form, the holy miracle of her kisses. The Snowshoe Trail Adepts said that Stanford's "heft" and tall stature were fairly offset by Low's superior litheness and activity. The Wit and Humor of America, Volume X (of X) She was then a girl of sixteen, without either beauty or education, but thoroughly matured, and with a quick Creole intelligence and a graceful litheness of figure which made her a most attractive woman. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.) He lifted her up the steep ways he had seen her climb with the litheness of a squirrel. A Little Girl in Old Quebec Few of them were men of high stature; yet there was a litheness in their bodies that showed them to be capable of great activity. The Scalp Hunters She gave an impression, not so much of fleeting grace as of litheness and supple strength, an air of independence, frankness, and—I say it again—impudence. The Ideal As he swung over the rail and stepped on deck a hint of catlike litheness showed in the apparently heavy body. A Son Of The Sun The man was of medium height and size, but his movements seemed heavy and clumsy, whereas Darrell had been impressed by a litheness and agility in the movements of the other. At the Time Appointed Then with the litheness of a panther he dropped plump on Rabig's shoulders. Army Boys on the Firing Line or, Holding Back the German Drive I gathered a quick impression of litheness and a noiseless footfall, of a sleek, black head, and something stirring within me, which was stronger than curiosity. Dross He was straight as an arrow and moved with the litheness and silence of the real Indian. Bob Hunt in Canada He was tall and muscled beyond his years, and when he walked his figure showed a certain litheness and power like that of the forest bred. The Young Trailers A Story of Early Kentucky She who had been heavy on her feet now stepped with a light noiselessness, and her body showed its full woman's outlines straightened and lengthened to the litheness of a boy. The Emigrant Trail She was an Amazon in physique yet so nicely balanced of proportion that one felt more conscious of delicate litheness than of size. A Pagan of the Hills Reassurance came as he watched her walking ahead with the unconscious grace that belonged to her pliant litheness and expressed itself in her superb, almost boyish carriage. The Lighted Match He hated her catlike litheness, her undulating walk, and the unmistakable invitation of her whole personality. The Road to Mandalay A Tale of Burma The heat was intense, the cloths were not clean, neither were the hands of the two waiters who rushed about with a certain litheness and facility of motion unlike any Englishman. Great Possessions The game went on all day long, but no man had either strength or litheness of limb to cope with Kjartan. Laxdæla Saga Translated from the Icelandic She watched him; fascinated by his grace and litheness. The Title Market At first Bearslayer thought it sport, And jousted in light-hearted way; But, fighting fierce, the Black Knight brought Great strength and litheness to the fray. Bearslayer A free translation from the unrhymed Latvian into English heroic verse Battered though he was, the splendid vigor of the man still showed in a certain tigerish litheness that sore, stiff muscles could not conceal. The Big-Town Round-Up A tense litheness had passed into the rough rider's figure. Tangled Trails A Western Detective Story She had coarsened more than actually changed—her sturdy little figure had lost its litheness in solidity, her round face had thickened and the skin roughened. Secret Bread Cursing under his breath, he seized a glass and flung it furiously at his host, who laughed and moved aside with the litheness of a panther. Diane of the Green Van In honest if reluctant admiration for an instant, he sat appraising his companion's extraordinary litheness and agility. Little Eve Edgarton But when he moved it was with the litheness of a panther. The Big-Town Round-Up Their chests are broad and deep, their bosoms, even in girls of Vanquished Often's age, rounded, superb, and their limbs have an ease of motion, an animal-like litheness unknown to our clothed and dress-bound women. White Shadows in the South Seas Life in the open had given her the litheness and the grace of a woodland creature. A Man Four-Square She was young, hardly more than twenty, St. George fancied, and of the peculiar litheness which needs no motion to be manifest. Romance Island Out of her diminutiveness, out of her leanness, out of her extraordinary litheness, little Eve Edgarton stared up speculatively at Barton's great hulking helplessness. Little Eve Edgarton Scrope was in years nearer forty than thirty, dark of complexion, aquiline of feature, and though a trifle below the middle height he redeemed his stature by the litheness of his figure. Ensign Knightley and Other Stories One saw that the stiffened limbs shook themselves into litheness once more, and the listless faces brightened, and into the hearts that were heavy came new hope, and that was the song's work. Havelok the Dane A Legend of Old Grimsby and Lincoln He had the eye of a hawk, with the litheness of a young panther; and his prudence during the late debauch had preserved his steadiness of hand. Bred in the Bone The whole forcible figure expresses irresistible energy and superhuman litheness combined with massive strength. The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti A certain ferretlike acuteness and litheness seem to have enabled him to hunt down the opponents of interest-taking through the most tortuous arguments of scholasticism. History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom There was a litheness in his movements which denoted obedient muscles. Ensign Knightley and Other Stories There was an aspen in the orchard, the very embodiment of youth and spring in its litheness and symmetry. The Golden Road Even Crashaw, whose translation of Strada's "Music's Duel" is a masterpiece for litheness of phrase and sinuous suppleness of rhythm, quails before the "Dies Iræ," and contents himself with a largely watered paraphrase. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860 Christian Vellacott was one of those men whose litheness is greater than their actual muscular force; but a lithe man possesses greater powers of endurance than a powerful fellow whose muscles are more highly developed. The Slave of the Lamp Jack Meredith lighted a fresh cigarette, and leant back with the somewhat exaggerated grace of movement which was in reality partly attributable to natural litheness. With Edged Tools He slipped from the saddle with a litheness which contrasted strangely with his closely cropped grey hair and white moustache and Imperial. From One Generation to Another When they neared Undern there were gates to open, and he admired her litheness as she jumped in and out. Gone to Earth All the soft, slim litheness with its quick turns revealed—a little figure of unconscious sweet enchantment. Hidden Creek The thing, whatever it was, had come more forward over the rail; but now, before the light, it recoiled with a queer, horrible litheness. The Ghost Pirates He sprang after it, unmindful of the brambles, and ferreted around the bushes with the litheness of a young dog. Three short works The Dance of Death, the Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitaller, a Simple Soul. A half-hour she lay so in the warm bath of light, her little body so quickly fallen into vagrancy not without litheness beneath the moldy skirt. Gaslight Sonatas Miss Van Tuyn turned quickly, with a charming, youthful grace, made up of a suppleness and litheness which suggested almost the movement of a fluid. December Love The Indian is built more, perhaps, for fleetness than strength; and his litheness and agility will come in, at another place, for their due illustration, when treating of certain of his pastimes. A Treatise on the Six-Nation Indians His fingers trembled at the litheness of the flesh under her clothes. Three Soldiers The strange Mexican was standing proudly and looking into the squinting eyes with only a grayness of face and a tigerish litheness to tell what he felt. Bar-20 Days The night came that drew him out upon his second venture, and as he walked the dark street he felt in himself a great resemblance to a cat—a certain supple, swinging litheness. Flappers and Philosophers But his adversary, though perhaps a little lighter, was a terrible enemy, and fought with the strength and litheness of a leopard. Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn O wondrous days of litheness and assurance, when, for a few filberts, on a perilous perch we braved the abyss! Bramble-Bees and Others The floor, far from hindering her, was a positive assistance to one of her natural agility and litheness. The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid He was a man of thirty, with soft, pleasing features and a singular litheness of movement, which, combined with a nut-brown, gypsy complexion, at first suggested a foreigner. Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation His listless eyes grew fascinated by its motions—its litheness, suppleness, grace, stealth, exquisite caution. The Choir Invisible Instead, he found the same meager form, the same old suggestion of youth which would not age, the same pale hands, of almost feminine litheness. The Seventh Man He was got up with no thought of effect, but the tigerish litheness, the picturesque competency of him, spake louder than costuming. Wyoming, a Story of the Outdoor West Rather tall, slender, her every motion betrayed the admirable proportions of her figure, and had that grace which results from the harmonious blending of litheness and strength. Other People's Money He had changed from his hard-used riding-garments into a suit of roughly corded black silk, which threw into relief the steely litheness of his spare figure. Mistress Wilding She watched for Mrs. Higgins' return, and knew that the litheness and grace had not been imagined. The Valley of the Moon Saxon had not failed to note the litheness and grace in that lean and withered body. The Valley of the Moon |
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