flexile

Example Sentences

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Then might his fingers become flexile, his mind untied.

From Melomaniacs by Huneker, James

Of fishes in my net I dragg'd; and now, “Plac'd on a rock, I with my flexile rod “Guided the line.

From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by Howard, J. J.

Radical leaves.—Very numerous; two or three feet long; about two lines broad; gracefully flexile; serrulate.

From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Parsons, Mary Elizabeth

As the flexile youth progressed, amazement gave place to indignation and then to disgust.

From The Husbands of Edith by McCutcheon, George Barr

But chief at sea, whose every flexile wave Obeys the blast, the aerial tumult swells.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 by Various