flexile

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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.

Staminate catkins.—Two to ten inches long, consisting of a flexile chain of funnel-form bracts, depending one from another; each having six flowers like clappers.

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

The long pale-green chains at the ends of all the branches hang limp and flexile, shaken with every breath of wind, or, falling over other branches, drape and festoon the whole shrub exquisitely.

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

But Claire's figure was of such supple and flexile slenderness that the weight and volume of this apparel made her light step and airy contour win a new charm and a new vivacity.

From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Fawcett, Edgar

Second—The Star Tulips, having low, flexile stems, erect, starlike flowers, with spreading petals, and nodding capsules.

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