The crowns of the cocoa-palms were all alive with monkeys, big and little, which skipped from one to the other with surprising agility, seeming to be curious about us and disturbed at our appearance, and I was at first surprised when my companions after collecting stones began to throw them at the lively creatures, which seemed to me quite harmless.

Their arms were concealed under the wings; and the resemblance was yet further increased, by marks with beaks adapted to the particular plumage: some personating doves, some magpies; others again, hawks, parrots, &c., according to their natural figure, humour, &c.; while the deception was still further assisted by their extraordinary agility, compared with ours, by means of which they could, with ease, hop eighteen or twenty feet.

Mr. NORMAN FORBES, in the Wood, was an elderly piping faun and performed with astonishing agility a sword-dance over a stick crossed with his whistle.

Some more jumping followed, and it required considerable agility on the part of the four riders to keep their saddles.

There is no end to his liveliness, but he moves about with almost catlike agility without upsetting any objects in a room, and when he hops he has a curious way of catching up his hind legs.

His own superior intelligence had inclined him to despise the sheriff, whom he put down as a fellow of more bulldog power than mental agility.

She slipped from him with sudden agility, and said somewhat sharply: "Gerald, I don't want to be always called petite; and I don't want to be treated as if I were a child.

Then, for a man afflicted with varicose veins the Babu displayed amazing agility.

"That is to say, I was under the impression that there had been some unusual agility in operation.

One day in October he left his sheep, ran to the foot of the hill, and with the sure-footed agility of a mountain boy climbed the rocks and began the ascent of the tree.

We rode down to the shore; but Malcolm walked with graceful agility.

He did his best, but he was of inconsiderable agility of mind and deficient in imagination.

The latter, with infinite agility, leaped aside, and lifting up his club, shivered the sword into a thousand pieces.

She grew rapidly in intellectual agility and keenness, not at all in philosophical grasp, and emotionally remained as dormant as a potato in a cellar.

For why should not Dr. Johnson add to his other powers a little corporeal agility?

In their advanced age they are exempted by the discerning from enterprises that call for a lusty agility, but are drafted into service by those to whom all levies are alike.

He struck furiously at his tormentor with his free hand, but Nap, by some trick of marvellous agility, evaded the blow.

After that first onrush, Lambert, with marvelous agility and quick knowledge of a hand-to-hand fight, had shaken himself free of his opponent's trembling grasp.

I requested my father to proclaim, first, that nobody should have me in marriage who did not surpass me in swiftness (for I was a damsel of a mighty agility); and secondly, that he who did surpass me should be my husband.

He danced about the shaggy, bleeding form of the bear, swinging his axe, howling in his rage, and escaping the smashing blows of the bear with miraculous agility,a weird and savage picture in the moonlight.

While yet they gazed, they were startled by a loud crash from an adjacent closet, and were even more discomposed as a large monkey bounded forth, whose sleek coat, exuberant playfulness, and preternatural agility convinced all that the deceased philosopher, under an inspiration of supreme irony, had administered to the creature every drop of the Elixir of Life.

My prompt agility was not without its effect.

She leapt up with a start of surprise, and a remarkable sinuous agility, and gazed an astounded moment at me, till, separating reality from dream and habit, she realised me: but immediately subsided to the floor again, being in evident pain.

The poor old lady smirks and capers and ogles, until one becomes sick of this sexagenarian agility.

She leapt up with a start of surprise, and a remarkable sinuous agility, and gazed an astounded moment at me, till, separating reality from dream and habit, she realised me: but immediately subsided to the floor again, being in evident pain.