but if any resident of Bumsteadville should happen to be caught near the country editor's last home after dark, he would get over that part of his road in a curiously agile and flighty manner;(just the same as a Positive philosopher with a sore throat, or at an uncommonly showy bit of lightning, would repeat "Now I lay me down to sleep," with surprising devotion.)

Active, agile, nimble, brisk, sprightly, spry, bustling.

His thin face was finely molded, his eyes and hair were very black, and his figure was marked by an agile grace.

"He always was most agile.

She also kisses her languid little brother laid on the sofa, and performs a hundred gay and agile motions suited to her age.

Agile and sweet of fourteen years that idol whom I praise: His ear-rings in her soul retains the moon of fourteen days.

Pompey had light, agile frigates, and fought in a strait, where the current and caverns occasion swirls and a roll.

Following, an agile youthful form shot down through space.

Your Highness will, no doubt, be surprised when I inform you that this gentleman, so agile and so athletic, was no other than Lord Vernon!

Whitey raised his slender, agile, efficient hand.

Discretion, Worldly Wisdom, and other trusted officers of her court, and even, sometimes, that agile page called Memory, no sooner see their royal mistress depart than, by various doors, they leave the palace and wander far away.

Not by any means tall she found him, but having the square shoulders and broad chest which give, in so much greater a degree than mere height, an impression of strength,a frame agile and compact, with that easy carriage of the head and that rapid movement so deceptively increasing the stature.

The great invention of Jarley, however, was the result of his study of Jarley junior as that very charming and exceedingly agile child developed from infancy into boyhood.

We separated a hundred feet or so, and treading slowly the pebbled or bouldered and often slippery floor of the river, keeping to the shallow places, we lighted the rippling waters with our torches, and sought to spear the agile and fearful prey.

The cripple, hideously agile, scrambled out and held the boat; Simpson gathered up his bag and followed.

The other is a more lithe and agile figure, and there is a quick fire in his countenance which might overbalance the massive strength of his opponent.

"With upward speed his agile wings he spread."Prior.

At any rate Lord INVERFORTH was insufficiently agile.

"You're getting all tired and hot," she continued, skilfully pursuing the agile and elusive dropped stitches down the grey woolen wake of the sock and bringing them triumphantly up to resume their place in the sun.

'The dear Doctor!' said Cadurcis: 'five years have brought no visible change even to him; perhaps he may be a degree less agile, but I will not believe it.

Indeed she looked very captivating, with a pastoral hat, then much in fashion, and a dress as simple and as sylvan, both showing to admirable advantage her long descending hair, and her agile and springy figure.

He was lithe and seemingly agile; a thin, brown beard covered his face, which was cheery indeed, as was the smile which shone through two big brown eyes.

What a picture the sturdy little brown man made, carrying a rifle longer than himself, agile and sure-footed as a goat, perfectly at home in the depths or on the heights!

As the unknown person passed, Ludlow recognized the agile form of the free-trader.

Retreating a step or two, he examined the light and agile form of the other, from head to feet.