14 Synonyms for « lithesome »

The mountaineer was tough, agile and actuated by a rage which mere punishment only increased.

With a deft gesture, he rearranged it.

Observing the man quickly, as he walked through the ante-room into his private office, the salesman noted that he was tall, square-shouldered, with a square face and jaw, wide forehead and a slow, elastic, graceful stride.

"The sage picked up from a near-by table a graceful vase whose handle was blazing with diamonds. '

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They never spoke of such things again, as it happened; but this one conversation made them peculiar people to each other; knit them together, in a way which no loose indiscriminate talking about sacred things can ever accomplish.

Nimble refers to lightness, freedom, and quickness of motion within a somewhat narrow range, with readiness to turn suddenly to any point; swift applies commonly to more sustained motion over greater distances; a pickpocket is nimble-fingered, a dancer nimble-footed; an arrow, a race-horse, or an ocean steamer is swift; Shakespeare's "nimble lightnings" is said of the visual appearance in sudden zigzag flash across the sky.

But if we are here dealing with fairies whose bodies must be presumed to be of a purely ethereal and plastic nature, and not with skeleton-framed mammals at all, is it such a very illogical mind that accepts the exquisite grace therein found as a natural quality that is never absent?

And a pliableimagination persuaded her, we must suppose, for a brief moment, thatFyodor Pavlovitch, in spite of his parasitic position, was one ofthe bold and ironical spirits of that progressive epoch, though hewas, in fact, an ill-natured buffoon and nothing more.

Grace and ease of movement, untiring animation of manner, ready, pliant, conversational powers--all these are unquestionable merits, and all these he certainly possesses.

But if the magazine did not flourish, it was resilient; it got by.

The Thoracic Walk ¶ "The springy step" must have been invented to describe the walk of the Thoracic.

“What makes ye so spry, this morning, Tom?

The fabric of the jacket was reinforced with copper mail that shielded the chest, protected it from the water’s pressure, and allowed the lungs to function freely; the sleeves ended in supple gloves that didn’t impede hand movements.