lissom

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Somewhere along the way during the past 14 years the lissom whippersnapper with the fleet feet turned into the craggy old hulk who will line up against England on Sunday.

From The Guardian • Feb. 6, 2013

"I hope you are not on the cover tomorrow," the lissom Russian smiled to a table of fellow competitors as she left a Daegu cafe near the athletes' village on Wednesday.

From Reuters • Aug. 31, 2011

You would expect lissom harmonies and dreamy-eyed songs about girls, of which there are plenty tonight – not least "Candyfloss", their single.

From The Guardian • Jan. 23, 2011

But a number of Kim’s gold-medal predecessors were present Thursday, and all seemed thoroughly impressed that Kim had been so poised and lissom in her presentation and vaulting in her jumps.

From New York Times • Feb. 26, 2010

Certainly it is not because of sympathies solemn or lugubrious; for the character of these lissom damsels of Seville is the reverse of gloomy.

From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) by O'Shea, John Augustus