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Usage examples of agile.

He venerated the language, verbalized everything that came into his fertile, agile, searching mind.

He had to guess, of course, which way agile Tallareyish would spin, and even though he guessed correctly that the elf would go to his right, his swipe was batted aside, not once but three times, before it ever got close to hitting the mark.

Even a bit drunk, Jill was agile, and she got through the dancing with her purity intact.

He had one hand below him and managed to push the hatch back as they descended, Avelyn rolling right over the hatchway, the deceivingly agile powrie hopping to its feet atop the now-closed portal.

He held Cric back, hiding behind some scrub, while agile Chipmunk worked his way into position.

I sat all the time in this same place at this table, chose and placed cards, and watched those broad-boned agile hands in the same way.

On the outside, induction cables lashed round in anarchic hundred-kilometre arcs, preventing even the most agile void-hawks from rendezvousing.

My hands are small and agile and will serve both of them well this eve.

Without the interfering strands hanging in her eyes she was better able to see to her task and her fingers moved with agile speed and efficiency even though the blood continued to ooze, though with much less frequency as the wound was stitched closed.

The veteran cop saw it coming and rolled out of the way as though he were an agile young man, barely avoiding the blow.

What worked with the wary antelope should work for agile honkers as well.

That gave Audubon not only the wires but also his watercolors and the strong spirits for preserving bits of the agile honker.

The spoor was but a couple of days old when the two discovered it, which meant that the slow-moving caravan was but a few hours distant from them whose trained and agile muscles could carry their bodies swiftly through the branches above the tangled undergrowth which had impeded the progress of the laden carriers of the white men.

With a gasping shriek the king ape collapsed, clutching futilely for the agile, naked creature nimbly sidestepping from his grasp.

Had this not been the case the escape of the two would have been a feat of little moment, since Meriem was scarcely a whit less agile than Korak, and fully as much at home in the trees as he.