Gracefully flexible

Usage examples of lithe.

All in one lithe operation, the murderer was off into the night, carrying the alumite bust as a bonus.

One, slender and lithe with dark hair, was clearly female despite her anachronistic and less than flattering khaki uniform.

We ordered beer, a mixed antipasto, spaghetti with capers and olives and garlic, and osso bucco from a lithe, young woman who seemed genuinely happy to serve us.

She is his deepest innocence in spaces of bough and hay before wishes were given a separate name to warn that they might not come true, and his lithe Parisian daughter of joy, beneath the eternal mirror, forswearing perfumes, capeskin to the armpits, all that is too easy, for his impoverishment and more worthy love.

He awoke to heavy stamping and jumped off the shelf with sword in hand, quick and lithe as a panther, but groggy in mind.

Slaecca spoke to one of the serving lasses, who trotted off only to return in a few minutes with another servant, a blonde woman, heavy-breasted yet lithe.

Ediacaran organisms were devoured or outcompeted by the lither and more sophisticated animals of the Cambrian period.

Then were these young lumps transformed to limber, lither, merry fellows.

An embarrassed Captain Jounine spent half an hour apologizing to disgruntled matrons, some of whom seemed all the more irascible for being squeezed into armor meant for younger, lither versions of themselves.

Norman blood ran also in his veins, for his figure was lither and lighter, his features more straightly and shapely cut, than was common among Saxons.

The jaygee, a couple of years younger and lither than he, slid out first from his own side.

The other was a taller, lither man, with flashing red face and flaming hair of gold.

The queen stopped laying and grew thinner, lither, in preparation for a long flight.

He was nine now but, like all of them here, much smaller, lither, than normal boys his age.

Demanius, lither than me, hauls himself out of the window and drops into the alley below.