Vocabulary Word
Word: lithe
Definition: flexible; supple; CF. limber
Definition: flexible; supple; CF. limber
Sentences Containing 'lithe'
One morning when I went into the parlour with my books, I found my mother looking anxious, Miss Murdstone looking firm, and Mr. Murdstone binding something round the bottom of a cane--a lithe and limber cane, which he left off binding when I came in, and poised and switched in the air.
In another instant he stood at the side of the hole and was hauling after him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face and a shock of very red hair.
To look at the tawny brawn of his lithe snaky limbs, you would almost have credited the superstitions of some of the earlier Puritans, and half-believed this wild Indian to be a son of the Prince of the Powers of the Air.
Hark ye, lad--fleet interlacings of the limbs--lithe swayings--coyings--flutterings!
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