All 4 Uses of
flexible
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- His arms became stiff, his legs lost their flexibility, and he was almost breathless.†
Chpt 22-23 *
- Between these sickly shrubs grew a scanty supply of garlic, tomatoes, and eschalots; while, lone and solitary, like a forgotten sentinel, a tall pine raised its melancholy head in one of the corners of this unattractive spot, and displayed its flexible stem and fan-shaped summit dried and cracked by the fierce heat of the sub-tropical sun.†
Chpt 25-26
- Haidee was reclining upon soft downy cushions, covered with blue satin spotted with silver; her head, supported by one of her exquisitely moulded arms, rested on the divan immediately behind her, while the other was employed in adjusting to her lips the coral tube of a rich narghile, through whose flexible pipe she drew the smoke fragrant by its passage through perfumed water.†
Chpt 49-50
- Chateau-Renaud contented himself with tapping his boot with his flexible cane.†
Chpt 91-92
Definition:
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(flexible) bendable or adaptablein various senses, including:
- easily bent without physical damage or injury -- as of a hose or gymnast
- able to adjust readily to different conditions -- as of a plan
- willing to make concessions -- as of a negotiator or a boss