Both Uses of
lithe
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Catch-22
- Inevitably, Major — de Coverley was among them, seated straight as a ramrod in a jeep he had obtained from somewhere, glancing neither right nor left as the artillery fire burst about his invincible head and lithe young infantrymen with carbines went loping up along the sidewalks in the shelter of burning buildings or fell dead in doorways.†
Chpt 13
- Yossarian choked on his toast and eggs at the enormity of his error in tearing her long, lithe, nude, young vibrant limbs into any pieces of paper so impudently and dumping her down so smugly into the gutter from the curb.†
Chpt 16 *
Definition:
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(lithe) a graceful, flexible body -- often implying thinness
or:
graceful, flexible body movement