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  • An orang-utan may be taller, may have very strong and agile arms and long canines, but if it does not know how to use these as weapons, they are of little use.†   (source)
  • Tally remembered her first ride out to Dr. Cable's office, the violent agility of the hovercar with its cruel pretty driver.†   (source)
  • "Quick now," said the duke, and the Bishop of Bath and Wells tossed Bod into the dark opening, then leapt in after him, followed by the Honorable Archibald Fitzhugh and then, with one agile bound, by the Duke of Westminster, who, as soon as he was inside, called out, "Wegh Kharados!" to close the ghoul-gate, and the stone crashed down above them.†   (source)
  • His agility is on par with the top students at Drake.†   (source)
  • Their first couple of steps were lumbering, but then they recovered, growing steady and strong and agile.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile, a flourishing black-market trade in aids to concentration, mental agility and wakefulness had sprung up among the fifth— and seventh-years.†   (source)
  • She moved with great agility for such an old woman.†   (source)
  • Number Two sat at the computer and with quick, agile fingers, typed a string of commands.†   (source)
  • Chickering was agile.†   (source)
  • King Kohler could be surprisingly agile when he was pisse.†   (source)
  • Silks are quick and quiet, perfectly balanced and agile.†   (source)
  • There were men at Cambridge who were mentally agile as teachers, and still played a decent game of tennis, still rowed, who were twenty years older than him.†   (source)
  • Suddenly Okagbue sprang to the surface with the agility of a leopard.†   (source)
  • Allie was impressed by his agility, knowing that what he had done so quickly and easily was harder than it looked.†   (source)
  • It is fiercely agile in the sky, dipping and spinning and diving with ease, its wings infinitely versatile.†   (source)
  • Eventually she would describe her new lover: the fat butcher who gave her prime cuts of meat, the agile blacksmith who made her hooks.†   (source)
  • The bobkittens wouldn't bother much about birds, as they would lack the lightness and agility necessary to catch them.†   (source)
  • He bounded down the cliff with impossible agility, finding footholds no bigger than postage stamps, dodging whirlwinds that tried to attack him as he picked his way toward Leo.†   (source)
  • Memories of Nat came crowding back to her agile and sure-footed, as she had first known him, leaning far out on a yardarm to grasp a billowing sail throwing back his head in laughter, or shooting hot sparks of temper — sitting on a thatched roof in the sunshine — coming miraculously out of the fog that morning, bending tenderly to lift a frightened old woman into the rowboat — and as she had seen him last, standing erect by the door of the magistrate's office, sending across the anger and confusion a steady reassurance and strength.†   (source)
  • The young fishermen brought the caravan to the window, and the couple, fit and agile, lowered themselves into it.†   (source)
  • They were in good shape, light and agile, and above all excited about the battle to come.†   (source)
  • There's El Cantil, a tall, skinny man named after a particularly agile and poisonous snake.†   (source)
  • It's like basketball again: once someone is tall enough, then we start to care about speed and court sense and agility and ballhandling skills and shooting touch.†   (source)
  • Terror gave me speed and agility I never knew I had.†   (source)
  • He had been out of his chair and around to where she lay dazed on the carpet, brandishing the cane, moving with a fat man's grotesque speed and agility, little eyes flashing, jowls quivering as he spoke to her just as he had always spoken to his children during such outbursts.†   (source)
  • "Then there will be no one to hear you scream," the Sicilian said, and he jumped with frightening agility toward her face.†   (source)
  • Eventually, in an attempt to avoid his nightmares, he began to read, late at night, which was when his motionless body felt most restless, his mind agile and clear.†   (source)
  • They were more agile on the vines than I could have imagined.†   (source)
  • Oh yessss!" they'd cry, arms outstretched, dancing in the aisles, slithering around with the agility of the Pink Panther, shuddering violently, purse flying one way, hat going another, while some poor old sober-looking deacon tried grimly to hang on to them to keep them from hurting themselves, only to be shaken off like a fly.†   (source)
  • I made a few lunges at him, but it was clear he had both speed and agility on his side.†   (source)
  • Even though he's just a piece of software, he has reason to be cheerful; he can move through the nearly infinite stacks of information in the Library with the agility of a spider dancing across a vast web of cross-references.†   (source)
  • He had the body control of a ballerina and the agility of a basketball player.†   (source)
  • When they took in his expression, they started moving, weaving their way agilely through the partiers, almost like they were dancing, too.†   (source)
  • She was lean, agile, and young—she had been only fourteen when she'd married Baba jan. Adel had another, older mother too, and three older half brothers, but Baba jan had put them up in the east, in Jalalabad, and Adel saw them only once a month or so when Baba jan took him there to visit.†   (source)
  • But Lio Morales has turned out to be surprisingly agile.†   (source)
  • Green mamba, mistress of camouflage, agility, aggressiveness, and speed.†   (source)
  • As I suspected, the bigger guys were instantly in the most trouble, because the key elements were balance and agility.†   (source)
  • That was the background, but the specific image that stuck in my mind that day was this: every time the ball rolled Zubaid's way, his teammates, faster and more agile than he was to a player, never interfered or snuck in to take it away from him.†   (source)
  • Also almost a hundred years old, but fit and agile in spite of her inconceivable fatness, which frightened children as her laughter had frightened the doves in other times, Pilar Ternera was not surprised that Ursula was correct because her own experience was beginning to tell her that an alert old age can be more keen than the cards.†   (source)
  • I didn't have the same straight-ahead speed, but I have good agility and quickness.†   (source)
  • She looked once at Gurney, back to Paul, nodded, and was off down the rocks, leaping with a gazelle-like agility.†   (source)
  • Though the creatures were more agile than Saphira, she had the advantage of bulk and strength.†   (source)
  • Her mother might feel frustrated looking at these emblems of her more agile self.†   (source)
  • "Then there will be no one to hear you scream," the Sicilian said, and he jumped with frightening agility toward her face.†   (source)
  • She was solidly built, agile for her size, no-nonsense.†   (source)
  • Handling an unconscious monkey in Level 4 is a tricky operation, because monkeys can wake up, and they have teeth and a powerful bite, and they are remarkably strong and agile.†   (source)
  • From within the snow pit, Ch'idzigyaak looked up at her more agile companion who slowly circled the shelter.†   (source)
  • It wasn't one he'd seen before tonight; this one had the wrinkled face and agile hands of a huge monkey, but the long, barbed tail of a scorpion.†   (source)
  • Agility.†   (source)
  • He is a heavyweight with a welter-weight's spontaneous agility, but his eyes are hooded and lazy.†   (source)
  • My mother was silent for a long time, my father's voice the only one wafting up through the floor, explaining how he couldn't help it, didn't want to lie anymore, had to come clean, all of this with his booming sportscaster voice, so agile at curving around scores and highlights, stumbling over the simple truth that his marriage was over.†   (source)
  • He tears at an empty carton of milk with his long, agile fingers.†   (source)
  • Not Gracie or the monks or the agile writers in Ismael's crew.†   (source)
  • It wasn't going anywhere and it was keeping him lazy, like a pampered honey bear who had only to stick out his paw for another scoop, and so had lost the agility of the tree-climbers, but not the recollection of how thrilling the search had been.†   (source)
  • I am more agile when I'm drunk.†   (source)
  • Then he sat down at the head of Joe's bed, on a corner of the mattress, folding himself half around Joe in an agile way that made me think of a grasshopper.†   (source)
  • He gave the men the colors of the day and reviewed the weather conditions with an agile, flashy versatility, casting sidelong, simpering looks at General Dreedle every few seconds to draw increased encouragement from the excellent impression he saw he was making.†   (source)
  • But the competition required agile movements through narrow passages; a thinner tether would be a key advantage.†   (source)
  • The alumni team, however, was simply unstoppable: their casual speed, strength, and agility far outstripped the students'.†   (source)
  • Waving his hands above his head crazily, Hassan ran considerably faster and with more agility than Colin had ever thought possible, weaving around trees and hurdling bushes in a vain attempt to discourage the hornets.†   (source)
  • Their bodies have been misshapen by the evil they do, and thus they have gained the senses of hounds, as well as their agility and speed.†   (source)
  • It is not simple velocity or agility that constitutes the perfection of it, but grace.†   (source)
  • Sergeant Grabowski would have cycled down that lonely road in spite of anything, because in a little cottage just beyond Loenen lived an agile young widow who slept with him in exchange for food.†   (source)
  • He avoided collisions with the agility of an out-of-shape broken-field runner trained by the Ballets Russe.†   (source)
  • Hunter cast off again with an agile flick of his wrist.†   (source)
  • Yet even in this moment my mind remains agile, flip-flopping like a man on a trampoline.†   (source)
  • He had always lacked the supernormal speed and agility to make it into the NFL, but that had never been his ambition.†   (source)
  • She was setting the table, when she saw the figure of a man hurrying up the path to the house, a swift, agile figure that leaped over boulders with the casual ease of a flight.†   (source)
  • Grinning, she shifted her body, quick and agile, and overbalanced him.†   (source)
  • Suddenly, with startling agility and speed, straight off the ground with a jump like a grasshopper or a frog.†   (source)
  • He wasn't very agile though.†   (source)
  • With only a slight hesitation, the giant continued its mighty swing, but the agile drow still had ample time to dodge the blow.†   (source)
  • You are a father, a dictator, a servant, the most agile actor this land has ever known.†   (source)
  • Now the slimmest swiftest cats are killed because they aren't agile enough to cross streets where once-and I remember it-a cow could nap all afternoon.†   (source)
  • Frank became so agile and quick with one leg and a crutch that he joked about entering a marathon.†   (source)
  • He was muscular, with a washboard stomach, and looked agile and fit.†   (source)
  • Lourdes's agility astounded Rufino.†   (source)
  • Infantry is no match against the speed and agility of cavalry.†   (source)
  • And later, at an opportune moment, when Franny was pretending to sample a cup of chicken broth, Mrs. Glass had climbed up on the window seats with the agility of a mountain nanny goat and stripped all three of the sash windows of their heavy damask curtains.†   (source)
  • The Baltimore Herald, therefore, is happy to announce That it is sending two representatives to "Heavenly Hillsboro": The most brilliant reporter in America today, Myself And the most agile legal mind of the Twentieth Century, Henry Drummond.†   (source)
  • Fiedler followed, slight and agile, like a terrier behind his master.†   (source)
  • He moved agilely through the rocky stream bed bouncing from one rock to the next.†   (source)
  • He dodged with speed and agility I'd never seen in a man before.†   (source)
  • Still, there was a predatory swiftness in his gait and a slight outward bend to his legs that suggested speed and agility in his youth, which, thought Bouchard with misplaced arrogance, was quite some time ago.†   (source)
  • equally persistent partition of the affections in Northern Ireland between the British and Irish heritages; but surely every dweller in the country must hope that the governments involved in its governance can devise institutions which will allow that partition to become a bit more like the net on a tennis court, a demarcation allowing for agile give-and-take, for encounter and contending, prefiguring a future where the vitality that flowed in the beginning from those bracing words "enemy" and "allies" might finally derive from a less binary and altogether less binding vocabulary.†   (source)
  • These were the lovely days of summer; the water of the inlet deep green from the shadows of the spruce, the children in and out of the river all day long, agile as seals, and the village full of laughter.†   (source)
  • They feel that the pure style was designed to accommodate the needs of a smaller race, with reliance upon speed, leverage, and agility, rather than strength.†   (source)
  • One of the swans, a small male considerably less agile and scruffier than the others, had also been injured near the eye—doubtless in encounter with some savage Brooklyn biped—and was left with a walleyed appearance that reminded Sophie of her cousin Tadeusz from Lodz, who had died many years before, at thirteen, of leukemia.†   (source)
  • He is quick and has an agile brain.†   (source)
  • It was fascinating to watch that agile mind trying one opening after another, testing and rejecting all the theories that Stormgren himself had abandoned long ago.†   (source)
  • Her mouth, usually agile and humorous, was drawn into a taut, colorless line.†   (source)
  • He didn't need to watch to see it all in bitter clarity: her long skinny legs, more agile than his, as ghostly white as the white silk nightie, the long, webbed feet as limber as the feet of an ape.†   (source)
  • MORE (There is a pause while his agile mind scans the full frightening implications of this for himself; it is almost with a start of recollection that he remembers to answer CHAPUYS at all) I see.†   (source)
  • I'm a better archer than you are—or at least as good—so I'll take the hind end, as I'm not as agile tonight as I should be.†   (source)
  • He felt emotion climbing hand over hand up his body, with itf strange and perfect agility.†   (source)
  • The baboon god swiped at Bes, but the dwarf was agile.†   (source)
  • The far door was held open for Lady Lola who folded herself in with a terrible agility.†   (source)
  • Even in a soaked turtleneck Langdon was an agile swimmer.†   (source)
  • Running drills, agility drills, strength drills —I took him on.†   (source)
  • Then without waiting for a response, he hurried with surprising agility toward his encampment.†   (source)
  • Less than half our size, she was like some agile black shark hounding a whale.†   (source)
  • But what she'd lost in agility she'd gained in perception—in her capacity to peer into him.†   (source)
  • He wasn't just big and strong and agile; he had a kind of physical intelligence.†   (source)
  • It's a small one, an agile number with a lot of glass.†   (source)
  • They could smell something in the air, and again my mother's anxious, agile mind slipped away.†   (source)
  • You are truly as agile as Agent Iparis claimed.†   (source)
  • He stepped aside with too much speed and agility for a giant, as if the earth were helping him move.†   (source)
  • Fast, agile, and it can go where transports can't.†   (source)
  • Blocking sleds, nets, tires for agility drills.†   (source)
  • I remembered her agility as she'd stalked us through the night skies.†   (source)
  • "The hardest thing for me to deal with," said Taylor, "was that big, agile left tackle."†   (source)
  • He's the most agile person I've ever met—he should have aced his Trial's physical.†   (source)
  • Grimm was four inches shorter, 30 pounds lighter, and far less agile than Jacoby.†   (source)
  • His knee: they must have wanted to study his unusual physical abilities, his speed and agility.†   (source)
  • To be the next Michael Jordan, Michael Oher needed to be quick and agile—and he was.†   (source)
  • Even as he became one of the biggest human beings in Hurt Village, he remained quick and agile.†   (source)
  • He had great long arms and the grace and agility of a star basketball player.†   (source)
  • He has as much strength and size and agility and power as any lineman I'd ever seen.†   (source)
  • Despite her claims to the contrary, Jerry moved with quick agility through the door.†   (source)
  • Agile and quick, she reached back, unclipped the clasp of her bra.†   (source)
  • He sprang to his feet with surprising agility.†   (source)
  • Cordelia is less agile at this: less able to do what she likes, more disappointing.†   (source)
  • He maneuvered his squad car with a manhandling agility I would later recognize in New York cabbies.†   (source)
  • With a whipsaw motion of youthful agility, Lou pulled free of the destroyed guts of the car.†   (source)
  • The body may remain agile, even improve with care, but the face reflects time; it is inescapable.†   (source)
  • He was a towhead, agile, naturally athletic, a boy who liked to run and climb.†   (source)
  • Not to question your quick, agile, and suspicious mind, by why not just whack her in an alley?†   (source)
  • The agile and powerful killer sidestepped me and chopped my neck hard.†   (source)
  • Drizzt was the first to go, the agile elf veritably running up the cord.†   (source)
  • The agile Rob leaps up and cranks his stereo to pain-decibel levels.†   (source)
  • He thought of Bran, clambering up a tower wall, agile as a monkey.†   (source)
  • Agile, she scrambled up the small bank and reached for the towel.†   (source)
  • Emma clambered out with the agility of a monkey.†   (source)
  • Remus was a smaller, more agile bot designed to explore the interior of the mocked-up submarine.†   (source)
  • You've good speed and agility, and endurance enough.†   (source)
  • His agility — and a strong dose of pure luck — saved him.†   (source)
  • Of course, he was younger then and a lot more agile.†   (source)
  • He was a thin man with a scrawny-strong physique, a big blade nose, and a quiet, agile way of walking.†   (source)
  • As we sat there, along came McDermott, running along the top of the snake fence, agile as a squirrel, and zigging and zagging.†   (source)
  • I tried to compensate, drawing upon my boundless reserves of agility, but Mikey kicked me in the back.†   (source)
  • "Then take off your Invisibility Cloak — there is no need for it now — and let us take the plunge," And with the sudden agility of a much younger man, Dumbledore slid from the boulder, landed in the sea, and began to swim, with a perfect breaststroke, toward the dark slit in the rock face, his lit wand held in his teeth.†   (source)
  • Jacob sprang lightly to his feet, his agility at odds with his sheer mass, and trotted over to where Edward and I stood on the fringe of things.†   (source)
  • Grawp raised dirty knuckles, each as big as a cricket ball, to his eyes, rubbed vigorously, then, without warning, pushed himself to his feet with surprising speed and agility.†   (source)
  • They were in attendance at A Christmas Carol to watch Mr. Kenmore slaughter the part of the Ghost of Christmas Present; but I could see them in their short-sleeved summer garb, with their identically sunburned noses—they always sat down low in the bleachers, because Donny was not agile and Mrs. Kenmore feared he would fall through the slats.†   (source)
  • I grew bolder and more agile.†   (source)
  • He crossed the room in his quick, agile way, and it made her cold to think of how quick he could have crossed it a minute before, how quick he could have had his belt on her.†   (source)
  • He wrested the sonic away just as the second Ouster swung into the room, agile as an Old Earth chimp.†   (source)
  • Kayla was more agile.†   (source)
  • On offense, the Fugees' strength was at left forward in Josiah, a fast and agile ball handler, whose streaking forays down the sideline had resulted in a half dozen goals so far.†   (source)
  • Dustfinger had always been proud of his own agility, but the boy was far nimbler, fast as a deer and with legs just as agile.†   (source)
  • Furthermore, to even enter the damaged store, strewn everywhere with debris and broken glass, would have required an agility that she did not possess.†   (source)
  • If you had met them at five or six years of age, you would have been overwhelmed by their curiosity and mental agility and sparkle.†   (source)
  • Its body was covered with rough hair, plagued with small ticks, and the skin was hardened with the scales of a remora fish, but unlike the priest's description, its human parts were more like those of a sickly angel than of a man, for its hands were tense and agile, its eyes large and gloomy, and on its shoulder blades it had the scarred-over and calloused stumps of powerful wings which must have been chopped off by a woodsman's ax.†   (source)
  • Each year, somebody would challenge a new guy to race me in quickness agility drills—guys like Ahmad Black, David Nelson, and Aaron Hernandez.†   (source)
  • It took a certain degree of agility, and she was eighty years old, weakened by staying awake for twenty-four hours while floating near her ceiling, thinking only that she might drown in her own home.†   (source)
  • The stars of the Under 14 offense were a small, agile Eritrean refugee named Ashora, who had been referred to Luma after repeatedly acting out at school, and a tall, muscular center forward from Liberia named Luckie, who had a habit of commenting on the games from the field, in real time, in the manner of an excited television play-by-play announcer.†   (source)
  • The only Refus who make it that far are, by definition, the ones who were agile enough to make it out to the Raft in the first place, resourceful enough to survive the agonizingly slow passage through the arctic waters, and tough enough not to get killed by any of the other Refus.†   (source)
  • It is an agile and keensighted creature, diurnal and social in habits, and feeding in its native range—the Kalahari Desert of southern Africa—on, among other things, scorpions, to whose venom it is completely immune.†   (source)
  • Presumably, Vladimir could simply have broken the top off the bottle, but with surprising agility he produced a corkscrew from a pocket, spun it in his hand, and pulled the cork.†   (source)
  • The dry night air slipped between the fabric of her dress and her skin, and she felt smooth and agile in the dark.†   (source)
  • My father took pleasure in the agile body of his five-year-old son and Buckley's peals of delight when Holiday knocked him over and nudged him with his nose or licked his face with his long pink tongue.†   (source)
  • 'Maybe —' With a speed and agility that was terrifying, the big dog changed direction and came at the car.†   (source)
  • Deceptively agile.†   (source)
  • Agile as Gwin, Farid jumped down from the rostrum and ran over to the cage, without once taking his eyes off the Shadow.†   (source)
  • I was pleased with my performance—I even had the fastest three-cone time of all the quarterbacks at the Combine and third or fourth-fastest overall, a test of quickness and agility.†   (source)
  • An instant later, with deceptive agility, the camerlegno spun, grabbed an oil lamp, and headed for the opening.†   (source)
  • Dustfinger had always been proud of his own agility, but the boy was far nimbler, fast as a deer and with legs just as agile.†   (source)
  • Some of the Feds are agile enough to dart in from behind and try to get her that way, but she's ready with the bundy stunner, which turns their nervous systems into coils of hot barbed wire for a few minutes but isn't supposed to have any other effects.†   (source)
  • Lots of it was conditioning and agility stuff—drop step and go left, drop step and go right, backpedal, explode.†   (source)
  • The NFL teams, through their representatives and club scouts, take physical examinations; test your strength, speed, and agility; work you out in football drills; and interview you.†   (source)
  • The Fire practiced twice a week from six-thirty p.m. to eight p. m.—their practice facility was lighted so evening practices were not a problem—and the team met on additional nights for speed and agility training.†   (source)
  • Not speed, not agility, not finesse.†   (source)
  • I carefully inch my way down to the ground—I'm agile, but I'm not Day—and follow shadowed alleys to the lakefront.†   (source)
  • Cockerell tried to put his hand over Fenoglio's mouth, but Fenoglio bit his fingers and sidestepped him with more agility than Meggie would ever have expected of the old man.†   (source)
  • I already know how agile Day is.†   (source)
  • Doleman now knows that Wallace is quick enough and agile enough and intelligent enough to deal with his speed rush.†   (source)
  • There weren't many people on the planet, and only a few in the NFL, with Walter Jones's combination of size, speed, agility, hands, feet, and arms.†   (source)
  • Every game they played he arranged it so that his role in it stressed, and trained, his quickness and his agility.†   (source)
  • We did calisthenics and agility.†   (source)
  • Marks for speed, agility, and strength trailed like a pattern of vines from his wrists up and over the swell of each bicep, disappearing under the sleeves of his T-shirt.†   (source)
  • Somehow, they managed not to fall off as Anion scaled the cliffs, jumping from foothold to foothold with impossible speed and agility.†   (source)
  • He committed long passages of prose and poetry to memory and engaged in lively recitation duels with his sister Edie as they bounced over the local roads in the Model T. Graced with an agile mind, he had the makings of a man of letters.†   (source)
  • The Set animal wasn't as agile.†   (source)
  • The Zephyr responded with unexpected agility and actually missed the car, leaving the careless man to live another day.†   (source)
  • 'Very agile,' replied Marie.†   (source)
  • He wore a long dark woolen coat, buttoned all the way to the throat, where she could see black Marks—Soundless, Agility, Accuracy—like a sort of necklace against his skin.†   (source)
  • He tried again, moving the thread to his left fist and awkwardly carving the tracking rune onto the back of it with his right, less agile, hand.†   (source)
  • But she recalled how antelope escaped cheetahs: by twisting and turning, so that the heavier, less agile cats shot past and tumbled to the ground before they could right themselves for another attack.†   (source)
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