单词 | lithesome |
例句 | His presence was overwhelming, yet equally evident was the lithesome grace of it. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The lithesome Godé-Darel, whose most distinctive feature was her large, beaked nose, is the star here. Art Review: ‘Ferdinand Hodler: View to Infinity,’ at Neue Galerie 2012-09-20T21:50:42Z The lithesome, elegant musical style known as choro originated in Rio during the 19th century, as an adaptation of folk traditions like the Cuban habanera and the Polish mazurka. The Essentials of Brazilian Music for Olympic Listening 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z Ms. Waltz knows her way around a stage; her lithesome dancers are individuals. Review: Sasha Waltz’s ‘Continu,’ Dances of Contrasting Moods 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z Mattel has long contended with complaints that Barbie, with her lithesome figure and focus on fashion, is not a positive role model for girls. Advertising: Barbie’s Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue Causes a Stir Online 2014-02-12T00:51:41Z But suddenly the orchestra gives us a new key, a new melody, a sprinkling of lithesome staccatos falling like a shower of apple-blossoms. Stars of the Opera 2011-11-29T03:00:15.563Z Oh, he had thought, if he could only be as free, and had their lithesome, lissom wings! Harry Milvaine The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy 2011-09-08T02:00:23.340Z He was very much enamored of the petite and lithesome Sarah, but the expected union did not materialize, and George sought pastures new, and ere long returned, bringing a beautiful wife with him. The Mormons and the Theatre or The History of Theatricals in Utah 2011-03-14T03:01:07.627Z Barely in her seventeenth year, lithesome and generously built, the young girl wore her golden-blonde hair braided in two strands coiled over her head and crowning her blooming cheeks. The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century 2011-01-27T03:00:40.940Z How the strong, young form swung free and lithesome to the lifting deck, and found a wondrous joy in its own glorious virility! The Belovéd Traitor And then, with a long-drawn gasp that was half a screech, her lithesome figure straightened, her head went back, and from her throat there trilled the very joy of health and youth and happy days. The Haunted Pajamas She was about sixty, rather undersized, and very thin, but more lithesome in her movements than is common at that age. Yiddish Tales Groups of dancers surrounded us as we descended, twisting their lithesome bodies into all sorts of elegant and fantastic attitudes; beautiful mer-children sported with the most hideous sea monsters it was possible to conceive. Tales of the Wonder Club Volume I She wore a gown of shimmering white which clung to her lithesome figure in soft folds. Bee and Butterfly A Tale of Two Cousins But to Pete she had always remained young, the same fair face, lithesome figure, and charm of youth. The Frontiersman A Tale of the Yukon My heart misgave me at sight of her face; indeed the whole sweep of her lithesome reedy figure was pregnant with Highland scorn and pride. A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 He was as lithesome as an Indian, and could outdo him in some physical efforts and endurance. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 There in the corner pharmacy, This lithesome lady lingers, And potent pills and philters true Are fashioned by her fingers. Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z An airy, lithesome figure she has, and the beat of her footfall is cadenced to the measure of joyous music. The Story of a Summer Or, Journal Leaves from Chappaqua It was really very neatly and prettily done, for, as an exponent of lithesome agility, the otter is—when the pine-marten is not by—certainly quite It. The Way of the Wild As they were ushered along the passage of that mighty castle, both felt a sinking of heart, Hubert more than Martin, for the latter had far more moral courage than his lithesome companion. The House of Walderne A Tale of the Cloister and the Forest in the Days of the Barons' Wars Then would come a happy cure to aching bones—made whole with honourable bruises, oblivious of pain, the "brachia livida," lithesome and triumphant. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 The feet of our men are bare, and are rubbed with an oleaginous preparation, which keeps them lithesome, and prevents them from being browned by the sun. Another World Fragments from the Star City of Montalluyah This dark background of submissive yielding, of hopeless patience, threw into full light the unbending resolution carved in every line of her passionate face and lithesome figure. The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel I would trim myself down to more lithesome proportions and I would start the job right away. One Third Off The long, yellow wave curled inwards from both flanks, the men going forward with quick, lithesome steps. Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front Dorothy felt bright and lithesome as of yore, as she felt the touch of her lover's hands again. Heiress of Haddon See inflexibility. pliable, a. flexible, pliant, supple, limber, lithesome, lithe, flexile, malleable; irresolute, yielding, facile, compliant. Putnam's Word Book From my seat among the stones I stretch my hand and touch My friend the elm, urnlike, lithesome, tall. The Song of the Stone Wall Flowers of innocence bloom and flourish in her peaceful lithesome heart. The Garies and Their Friends But ah! a light footstep within the lone room Hath scattered the dream; loving eyes pierce the gloom, A lithesome young figure at Grandma's side kneels, A firm youthful hand into Grandma's hand steals. Grandma's Memories She came in half an hour after the kill, and there was no longer the lithesome alertness to her slender legs, or gladness in the tilt of her ears or the poise of her head. Kazan Antonyms: distaste, aversion, inappetency, hatred, antipathy, disapproval. limb, n. branch, bough. limber, a. flexible, pliant, limp, pliable, supple, lithe, lithesome. Putnam's Word Book Toots was an exquisite blonde, tall, slender and lithesome. Her Weight in Gold Tall, lithesome, handsome, intelligent, proud of superior abilities, prouder of his style. Confessions of a Beachcomber His mind—all the senses he possessed—travelled no farther than the lithesome red and gold figure ahead of him. God's Country—And the Woman How her lithesome waist supples itself to thy circling arm! Zanoni She had tiny little hands and feet, and her healthy, lithesome little figure reminded one of a Florentine statuette of the sixteenth century. Virgin Soil Yet under all the unrealities the clumsy-handed world has built about her, I shall see, I know, the lithesome little maid with fond, admiring eyes. Paul Kelver, a Novel But in Josephine he saw now the swiftness and lithesome grace of a fawn. God's Country—And the Woman |
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