The old is the most original and independent in appearance of all the Sierra evergreens; the young is the most regular,a strict follower of coniferous fashions,slim, erect, with leafy, supple branches kept exactly in place, each tapering in outline and terminating in a spiry point.

Flexible, pliable, pliant, supple, limber, lithe, lissom.

The sad wan light revealed the lonely pedestrian to be a man of supple frame; his gait suggested that he had somewhat passed the period of perfect and instinctive agility, though not so far as to be otherwise than rapid of motion when occasion required.

A supple twistthe French trickand Dorn's powerful lunge, with all his ponderous weight, drove his bayonet through the enemy's lungs.

She was obliged to close her umbrella when she glided through the breach in the fence in the wake of the girl, who, slim and supple like a cat, glided on in front, bareheaded, in her ragged shawl.

The most cleanly and convenient apparatus is a cork nipple, upon the plan of M. Darbo, of Paris, fixed in the sucking-bottle.[FN#9] The cork, being of a particularly fine texture, is supple and elastic, yielding to the infant's lips while sucking, and is much more durable than the teats ordinarily used.

Or her stinging words pelted him as she breasted the hill slopes with supple ease.

As her lithe, supple limbs carried her from one moss hump to another, she was busy with the problem of escape.

What! cringe and crawl to souther's clay, And be the base, the supple tool, Of hell-begotten slavery?

The supple Agrippa (the Herod of Acts xii.), seeing how the wind lay, offered to plead his cause with the Senate, and succeeded partly by arguments, partly by intimidation, and partly by holding out the not unreasonable hopes of a great improvement on the previous reign.

It was supple as leather, strong as steel, cold as night.

He has come among a supple, glib-tongued tribe, who live for show, servile to public opinion.

After the fall of the Empire, the inhabitants of the Engadine fell under the dominion of the Franks and Lombards, then the Dukes of Swabia; but the blood never mingledthe type remained Italian; black hair, the quick eye, the mobile countenance, the expressive features, and the supple figure.

When he sat he sat gracefully erect; when he stood to face the other two, or paced the length of the table, he stood straight or moved with supple joints.

The explanation given was, that the south winds prevail in the time of sap, when the trees are supple with life and heavy with foliage, and consequently, that they yield before them.

As he beheld the eager faces and noted the lithe, supple bodies of the boys, in whose eyes shone the light of fearlessness, the ranchman replied: "I have no objection, if you don't go beyond the foothills.

She secures it to the end of a strong supple twig, usually at a good height from the ground, and she likes an elm tree best of all, because it is not easy for cats or House People to climb far out on the slender swaying branches.

Then the landlord's supple cutting-whip, wielded by a vigorous hand, wound round the tenderest part of his legsfor at the critical instant Mr. Dunborough dragged him from the walland with a gasping shriek of pain, pain such as he had not felt since boyhood, Mr. Thomasson leapt into the air.

" I stooped and kissed her hand, which was burning hota thin little hand, with long, supple fingers which bent in one's grasp.

"Exactly as if it were in one of the best Paris drawing-rooms," thought Maria Dmitrievna, listening to their quick and supple talk.

" The young supple creature trying to restrain her shivers and sobs of anguish against the bark house side was really a moving sight; and Jean Bati' McClure's wife, flattening a masculine upper lip with resolution, said promptly, "I am going this moment to the Fur Company's quarters to send young Monsieur Crooks after you.

Also, who laid the rainbow's piers, Also, who leads the docile spheres By withes of supple blue?

Her tall supple figure was clothed in white, and over her gold hairlurid and brilliant, but without a tinge of redshe wore a white lace mantilla.

The women tore off their rebosos and waved them like banners, smashed their fans, and stamped their little feet; the men whirled their sombreros with supple wrists.

Now a fresh man, young and supple, bounding into the ring, revived the flagging rattlers, drummers and trumpeters; now a wearied dancer, finding his strength going, gathered all his force at the cry of "Dancé zisqu'a mort!" rallied to a grand finale and with one magnificent antic fell, foaming at the mouth.