flexile
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Who knows now, but that flexile gracefulness, however questionable at the time of that thirtieth boy of yours, might have been the silky husk of the most solid qualities of maturity.
From The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville
As the flexile youth progressed, amazement gave place to indignation and then to disgust.
From The Husbands of Edith by George Barr McCutcheon
After soaking in hot water, the overgrown horny layer is pared away, and the part painted daily with a saturated solution of salicylic acid in flexile collodion.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson
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 Hamlin Garland
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
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