Significados de flexile em inglês

The movement, in its sinuous, flexile gliding, resembled somewhat a serpent's crawl.

Her motions were listless and languid, but flexile as a willow.

He wore the light flexile mail of the ancient heroes of Araby or Fez.

The flexile and dubious expression of youth was forever gone.

The throwing of an ax was a little matter to the sharp-eyed and flexile-muscled cave men.

He lay in the Englishwoman's gentle arms-a little brown bundle of flexile limbs and cotton night-shirt

The voice was marvellously flexile, powerful, and melodious.

Eudora had more sparkling eyes, lips more richly coloured, and a form more slender and flexile.

She was rich of figure, and flexile.

With a sudden flexile turn of a wrist that had thrown many a reata, he flung it straight through the open window.

These poems are exceedingly sweet and touching; yet they are all marked by the same flexile use of difficult rhythms and unprecedented rhymes.

The Ionians, on the contrary, were susceptible, flexile, and more characterized by the generosity of modern knighthood than the sternness of ancient heroism.

On they glided, like swans descending a tranquil stream, their flexile forms swayed by the ebb and swell of unseen and gentle waves.

At the first movement made by the unwitting trespasser on guarded ground, two long, flexile rods are thrust out, reconnoitring right and left.

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

The broad chest and flexile lips of Father de Berey rang out the grand old song in tones that filled the stately old hall: