flexile

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Snowy linen, touches of soft color, graceful lines of bust and side, the slender fingers that could almost speak, so beautifully flexile were they.

From Other Main-Travelled Roads by Garland, Hamlin

The members of the genus fall naturally into three general groups:— First—The Globe Tulips, which have flexile stems, sub-globose, nodding flowers, and nodding capsules.

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

P. 1-2 cm. campan.-convex, exp. obtuse, hygr. even when dry, glabrous, cinnamon then pale; g. adnate, crowded; s. 3-5 cm. rigid, flexile, glabrous; sp.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

The scrub is mostly dry, while the larger forests are comparatively damp, and often beautiful with flowering trees, small tree-ferns, and flexile climbers.

From Impressions of South Africa by Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount

“Nor long the term, an hour's short space elaps'd, “When the same teinted flower the blood produc'd: “Such flowers the deep pomegranate bears, which hides “Its purple grains beneath a flexile rind.

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