Lithe

(v. i. & i.) To listen or listen to; to hearken to.

(a.) Mild; calm; as, lithe weather.

(a.) Capable of being easily bent; pliant; flexible; limber; as, the elephant's lithe proboscis.

(a.) To smooth; to soften; to palliate.

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• At last he saw it, not twenty feet away--the long, lithe, muscular body and tawny head of a huge black-maned lion. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• Handsome some he was not, being small and dark, but he was as lithe as a serpent, and his dark eyes flashed with the fierce fire of genius. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• His attitude is stately; he is lithe and supple; all his movements are full of grace. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• She came swiftly out to us, as straight as a lily on its stem, and as lithe and supple in every movement she made as a young cat. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• She looked up to see his lithe form drop softly from a near-by tree. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• Her breath came quick and fast, and every inch of the lithe figure was quivering with strong emotion. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• He was a fine figure of a man, tall, lithe, and agile, with a springy step and a pleasant, open face. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• At last came she whom Tarzan sought, with lithe sinews rolling beneath shimmering hide; fat and glossy came Sabor, the lioness. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• A sunburnt, quick, lithe, little man, though rather thickset. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• So with every lithe action of the girl, with every turn of her wrist, perhaps most of all with her look of dread or horror; they were things of usage. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Rather tall, of a lithe nimble figure, extremely pale, with large faded eyes, and a quantity of streaming hair. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Since then Tarzan of the Apes had felt a warm, lithe form close pressed to his. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• In vain I searched among the groups of travellers and leave-takers for the lithe figure of my friend. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• Who else has a shape so lithe, and proud, and graceful? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Gently the lithe boy dropped to the soft earth at the end of the village street. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• As I approached I found Dejah Thoris lying prone upon her silks and furs, her lithe form wracked with sobs. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• The three pieces of stick were three broken and frayed fragments of a stout lithe cane. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Mr. Krook therefore drives her out before him, and she goes furtively downstairs, winding her lithe tail and licking her lips. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• She looked at his brown face, his lithe build, his shock of hair, and the quick heel-and-toe way that he walked. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Slowly the powerful neck and shoulders spread the bars apart, and the lithe body protruded farther and farther into the room. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.

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