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  • His suppleness even exceeded his strength.   (source)
    suppleness = moving and bending easily
  • After they were done making me smooth and supple, attention was turned to my nails.†   (source)
  • There was something inebriating in the suppleness of this feat.†   (source)
  • Marin was what most guys at Rosewood Day would call a MILF—she had long, red-gold hair, smooth skin, and an incredibly supple body, thanks to her daily Vinyasa yoga ritual.†   (source)
  • Your six words are: pink, round, firmness, succulent, supple, and pillowy.†   (source)
  • The scabbard was soft grey leather, supple as sin.†   (source)
  • In the poor light they looked like the ordinary plaster casts for sale at Pearl Paint—studio pieces for students to sketch from —but when I drew my finger across the top of the foot I felt the suppleness of marble, silky and grainless.†   (source)
  • But for all the attention paid to such rituals, Buddhism as practiced by the Sherpas was a refreshingly supple and nondogmatic religion.†   (source)
  • I saw the deck of the cargo bay give way to the ocean's silvered surface, dark and supple as a snake's skin, four hundred feet below.†   (source)
  • She would buy her mother a new recliner, a much nicer one, with supple burgundy leather.†   (source)
  • Tendons and hips seemed to be the main problems, but guys needed muscle-stretching exercises to keep them supple for the day ahead.†   (source)
  • In "Birches" Robert Frost imagines climbing the supple birches up toward heaven, then being lightly set back on theground, and he declares that both going and coming back would be good (even without wings).†   (source)
  • In due course, we will get to wherever it is your usually less supple mind is trying to take us.†   (source)
  • Our inhibitions were freed and my hands groped her supple body as her tongue freshened the inside of my ear.†   (source)
  • Had given him his strength, his supple grace.†   (source)
  • His motion reminded me of quicksilver rolling from a jar onto a tabletop: effortless and supple.†   (source)
  • The boy knew the devious ways of the Bene Gesserit and he looked supple and confident.†   (source)
  • He saw again the strength of her legs, the brown of her ankles and calves, the suppleness of her spine, the film of sweat at her throat.†   (source)
  • Spring The first twigs are thin, green, and supple.†   (source)
  • They reminded him of when he was their age and had their strength and their suppleness of movement and their certainty of purpose and their bond with one another, that bond he and his friends used to say was like that of brothers, but was in some ways stronger than that of brothers, or at least than his bond with his own brother, his kid brother, who had passed last spring from cancer of the throat that had withered him to the weight of a young girl, and who had not spoken to the old…†   (source)
  • The map was ragged, so thumbed that it had grown as supple as a piece of chamois.†   (source)
  • They are full of life, full of suppleness.†   (source)
  • The catalpa leaves moved like supple green hearts in the wind, and beyond them the crowd rippled and swayed.†   (source)
  • Free the power within us so that, like the mighty felines of the wild, we know the lithe suppleness of our animal brethren and we are not bound by human chains or caged by their ignorant weaknesses.†   (source)
  • She was not an old woman, but already stiff and misshapen by toil and the lack of that saving salt of pride, the stimulation of joy, which keeps us erect and supple.†   (source)
  • His suppleness, combined with his bigness of frame, and his large, wide-set rather glowing eyes, heavy black hair, and markedly bronze complexion gave him some of the handsomeness of an Indian.†   (source)
  • They were low boots just a little higher than my ankles, reinforced on the soles, but still supple enough to let me move unsuspected through other people's houses.†   (source)
  • And the system pretends to go along, to become more supple and resourceful, less dependent on rigid categories.†   (source)
  • Beijing Opera movements are all about flexibility and suppleness.†   (source)
  • His legs were stretched out before him, showing high boots of supple leather that fitted him well, but had seen much wear and were now caked with mud.†   (source)
  • Nicolas walked to the bed and tried to recall the dark, supple Amanda, the fruity, sinuous Amanda of their encounters in the darkness of the locked rooms, but between the caked wool of the shawl and the gray sheets there was a strange woman with huge, lost eyes who was staring at him with inexplicable harshness.†   (source)
  • John Milton was supple and concise.†   (source)
  • As he watched the supple young bodies in the busy store, he was thinking of Hollywood's A parties, its A restaurants, even its A stores.†   (source)
  • Her hand made slow, supple movements.†   (source)
  • I studied this lean, supple creature as if seeing him for the first time.†   (source)
  • "Makin' love and till the morning light," Patty sang, joining her friend in a slinky but surprisingly supple move.†   (source)
  • "Of course we don't generally carry royal anointing oil out here, but my lads make a coconut oil that keeps cricket bats nice and supple.†   (source)
  • There was a kind of supple angularity to him, born of his work, which somehow she had expected.†   (source)
  • The heavier she got, the more supple her body became.†   (source)
  • Both of these new patrons were dressed in black slacks, white silk shirts, and black leather jackets as supple as silk.†   (source)
  • A man could spend half a lifetime there alone, but the soft mound of her belly whispered to him, and his mind reached down and kneaded it ever so gently until it was supple and waiting.†   (source)
  • In a quick and supple notion, he pulled me up from the ground and into his arms.†   (source)
  • Quickly, Max stripped off his tunic and hauberk, swapping the heavy, cumbersome rings for a garment more supple than linen.†   (source)
  • The sight of her slim, supple body beneath the thin fluttering material sent the contentment he'd felt skyrocketing into need.†   (source)
  • The wind that coursed through the pines made their supple branches paint the deep blue sky behind them, and just beyond the first line of markers three riflemen were firing volleys in the air.†   (source)
  • Surely some of them, some of those young prime field hands, glossy skinned, supple-jointed, surely some of those strong young men must have reached the North.†   (source)
  • His boots were knee-high, shining supple leather trimmed in black fur.†   (source)
  • This came from Oz, who was so ex-cited the boy seemed to float above the supple grass like a tethered bubble.†   (source)
  • His supple, six-foot-two body was dressed in a white satin suit.†   (source)
  • Graf, his red coat glistening and tail whipping, bounded up the steps, supple as a seal.†   (source)
  • She had so seldom thought of her mother, that sweet dim self-effacing soul, and now for a moment she could only think of her mother's elegant expressive pianist's hands, strong-fingered, at once supple and gentle, like one of the Chopin nocturnes she played, the ivory skin reminding her of the muted white of lilacs.†   (source)
  • The gin was well-formed, almost buxom; the girl, like Mary, slim, supple, and lithe.†   (source)
  • "Then take that," said Reepicheep, "and that — to teach you manners — and the respect due to a knight — and a Mouse — and a Mouse's tail —" and at each word he gave Eustace a blow with the side of his rapier, which was thin, fine dwarf-tempered steel and as supple and effective as a birch rod.†   (source)
  • Each time I came to their dock, I tied the boat on the run despite fingers as supple as fence posts.†   (source)
  • I knew in three seconds that I was up against a better swordsman than myself, with a wrist like steel yet supple as a striking snake.†   (source)
  • Much he learned from her tender, supple hand.†   (source)
  • His dark, supple fingers, she noted, always had about then: movement that which was like the movements of one who played upon an instrument of music.†   (source)
  • Under her faded sari her breasts hung loose; gone was the tense suppleness that had been her pride and her power.†   (source)
  • They rock and sway in the doorway, they laugh so much. How supple their movements are.   (source)
    supple = easy (moving and bending easily)
  • Mark, the intense father, had scholarly white hair and the suppleness of youth.†   (source)
  • If you don't have suppleness, you can't be good in my class.†   (source)
  • Himes straightened up with a groan, under any exertion his rheumatic old back always punished him cruelly for the days of indolence that had let its suppleness depart.†   (source)
  • The smooth suppleness of his walk reminded me of someone else, and, as I watched, his features started to change.†   (source)
  • My usually less supple mind was trying to figure out how high our rockets were flying.†   (source)
  • At the bottom of the ridge, the grasses rose around her, tall and supple.†   (source)
  • The leather soft and supple, lovely to the touch.†   (source)
  • The supple armor had been a gift from the deceased Antonio de Lorca and was nigh impregnable.†   (source)
  • He twisted his torso, and the nanomail bent with him, smooth and supple.†   (source)
  • On the walls hung bridles and harnesses, some cracked and worn out, others well oiled and supple.†   (source)
  • Elsewise Oberyn was clad in supple leather and flowing silks.†   (source)
  • The singer's boots were supple blue calfskin, his breeches fine blue wool.†   (source)
  • There was a supple geometry to his arc, a fish bending through a current.†   (source)
  • It was close-woven of many rings, as supple almost as linen, cold as ice, and harder than steel.†   (source)
  • You're stronger than others, more supple, more willing.†   (source)
  • But he scarcely heard Hermione: He had pulled out his Invisibility Cloak and was running it through his fingers, the cloth supple as water, light as air.†   (source)
  • The material's supple, like fabric, and can be drawn back like a hood in case I don't want it up full-time.†   (source)
  • Nice and supple.†   (source)
  • She had worn that scent as long as I could remember, and it was as much a part of her as her supple seamstress hands or her large, slightly mournful eyes.†   (source)
  • They were good boots, as befit one of Lord Tywin's men; heavy leather, oiled and supple, much finer than what Bronn was wearing.†   (source)
  • Her legs grew stronger; her blisters burst and her hands grew callused; her soft thighs toughened, supple as leather.†   (source)
  • He wore black leather boots, black woolen pants, black moleskin gloves, and a fine supple coat of gleaming black ringmail over layers of black wool and boiled leather.†   (source)
  • Brown-haired, green-eyed, and flat as a boy, she walked with a supple grace that Bran could only watch and envy.†   (source)
  • She had to wait for him at the top of the steps, for her legs were slim and supple while his were short and stunted and full of aches.†   (source)
  • The Maid brought him forth a girl as supple as a willow with eyes like deep blue pools, and Hugor declared that he would have her for his bride.†   (source)
  • On the track, while other riders flailed and winced and scratched their way around, the Iceman "sat chilly," as loose as water, his legs and hands supple and still.†   (source)
  • Beneath a mottled sandsilk cloak of dun and gold, her riding clothes were old brown leather, worn and supple.†   (source)
  • The dancers in bathing suits, bare limbs molten-bronze from the firelight, shook their shoulders and rolled their hips, dipped and swayed, beat their supple arms like wings or clawed at the radiant air, and to Joe each celebrant seemed to be two entities at the same time.†   (source)
  • The girls led them up four steep, very long flights of creaking wooden stairs and guided them through a doorway into their own wonderful and resplendent tenement apartment, which burgeoned miraculously with an infinite and proliferating flow of supple young naked girls and contained the evil and debauched ugly old man who irritated Nately constantly with his caustic laughter and the clucking, proper old woman in the ash-gray woolen sweater who disapproved of everything immoral that…†   (source)
  • The Yunkai'i claimed that she fed her dragons on human flesh and bathed in the blood of virgins to keep her skin smooth and supple.†   (source)
  • Her hands would be hummingbirds of hard black sounds, her feet supple against the floorboards of the night.†   (source)
  • He chose boots of supple black leather, soft lambswool breeches of silvery-grey, a black velvet doublet with the golden kraken of the Greyjoys embroidered on the breast.†   (source)
  • So when her workday was finished Janet took off her lightweight casual slip-ons and got the running shoes out of her locker, a pair of firm padded sneakers with shock-absorbent midsoles and a supple and confident feel.†   (source)
  • The day was warm, a little windy, and leaf shadows, supple emanations from the tree boughs that brushed the cell's barred window, tantalized Perry's tamed squirrel.†   (source)
  • Rather than hesitate in the cold he removed the pistol belt, tied a harness around his legs and waist, positioned his equipment, had some chocolate and a sip of water, and put on his gloves, wool-lined deerskin thin and supple enough to give him a feel for the rock.†   (source)
  • "Don't do any more," Caroline said, stopping Doro at the top of the steps, brushing past the dense, supple leaves of the lilacs.†   (source)
  • From Jalabhar Xho, Joffrey received a great bow of golden wood and quiver of long arrows fletched with green and scarlet feathers; from Lady Tanda a pair of supple riding boots; from Ser Kevan a magnificent red leather jousting saddle; a red gold brooch wrought in the shape of a scorpion from the Dornishman, Prince Oberyn; silver spurs from Ser Addam Marbrand; a red silk tourney pavilion from Lord Mathis Rowan.†   (source)
  • The old hunter stood, staring thoughtfully at the path before his feet, rubbing his jaw with long, supple fingers, the daze of his recent experience yet upon him.†   (source)
  • She promptly stripped naked, lit up a cigarette, and blew smoke rings from a place into which only a creative-minded and supple-bodied prostitute would think of placing a cigarette.†   (source)
  • The clouds went straight up in mountainous walls of gray and green, the trees bent in apprehension, the lightning was so thick, supple, and young that before it attacked the town it played in the clouds and lit up the world, just as young horses gallop in a field just to feel the wind.†   (source)
  • It was five feet long, slender and supple, thick as her thumb, with leather wrapped around the shaft a foot from the top.†   (source)
  • She plunged her nails into the side of his neck and gouged as he worked his way up the supple, full hills and ledges of her rounded body until he covered her completely and pressed her into submission, his fingers pursuing her thrashing arm persistently until they arrived at the wine bottle finally and wrenched it free.†   (source)
  • He guided her hands to Bran's teats and showed her how to grip them properly and also how to rub them to get them supple to help the flow.†   (source)
  • Her looms stood where she could continually get the newcomer's figure against the light, with its swift motion, its supple curves, and the brave carriage of the well-formed head.†   (source)
  • The mail was gilded, finely wrought, the links as supple as good leather, the plate enameled, hard as ice and bright as new-fallen snow.†   (source)
  • The leather scraped across her brow, dry and stiff, but as her blood soaked into it, it softened and turned supple.†   (source)
  • The turned-down collar of the rumpled shirt was unbuttoned at a brown throat; the face above seemed to her eyes neither old nor young, though the light, springing gait when he walked, the supple, easeful attitude now that he rested, one hand flung high on the curious tall staff, were those of a youth; the eyes of a warm, laughing hazel had the direct fearlessness of a child, and a slouch hat carried in the hand showed a fair crop of slightly grizzled, curling hair.†   (source)
  • The queen's men had made it from the trees of the haunted forest, from saplings and supple branches, pine boughs sticky with sap, and the bone-white fingers of the weirwoods.†   (source)
  • Ramsay had given him gloves, fine gloves of black leather, soft and supple, stuffed with wool to conceal his missing fingers, but if anyone looked closely, he would see that three of his fingers did not bend.†   (source)
  • …bright state of being awake, which he had experienced that one time at the height of his youth, in those days after Gotama's sermon, after the separation from Govinda, that tense expectation, that proud state of standing alone without teachings and without teachers, that supple willingness to listen to the divine voice in his own heart, had slowly become a memory, had been fleeting; distant and quiet, the holy source murmured, which used to be near, which used to murmur within himself.†   (source)
  • He developed blinding speed, bending all the young suppleness of his long thin body behind the ball, exulting as it smoked into the pocket of the mitt with a loud smack, or streaked up with a sharp dropping curve.†   (source)
  • The trunks of the pines projected from the snow that covered all the ground, and he lay in the robe feeling the suppleness of the bed under him that he had made, his legs stretched long against the warmth of the robe, the air sharp and cold on his head and in his nostrils as he breathed.†   (source)
  • The posture seemed to accentuate the charms of her person and to suggest to my inflamed senses the suppleness of her members.†   (source)
  • She was very close to me, with the laughter still on her face—and echoing somehow deep inside me—and I was holding her hand, as I had held it a long time back, fifteen years back, twenty years back, to help her up to stand swaying for an instant in front of me before I could put my arm around her and feel her waist surrender supplely to the cup of my hand.†   (source)
  • I could worship my hand even, with its fan of bones laced by blue mysterious veins and its astonishing look of aptness, suppleness and ability to curl softly or suddenly crush—its infinite sensibility.†   (source)
  • Morrison had the suppleness and skill of a dancing-master.†   (source)
  • She smiled wanly at the eyes he was making, put a hand to the braid at the back of her head, and preceded him down the stairs—soundlessly, supplely, her head thrust slightly forward.†   (source)
  • Denis Eady was the son of Michael Eady, the ambitious Irish grocer, whose suppleness and effrontery had given Starkfield its first notion of "smart" business methods, and whose new brick store testified to the success of the attempt.†   (source)
  • She was of medium height, neither robust nor heavy, yet giving an impression of unusual strength and suppleness for a girl.†   (source)
  • In his dream he saw the turntable whirling around its spindle, so fast it became invisible, inaudible, not simply rotating wildly in place, but moving in a strange lateral undulation so that the arm beneath which it turned began to oscillate supplely, as if it were breathing—very useful, one might suppose, for the vibrato and portamento of strings and human voices.†   (source)
  • Ethan had no suppleness in deceiving.†   (source)
  • And as she always returned safe and sound, he marvelled at the strength, at the suppleness of the human body, which was able continually to hold in check, to outwit all the perils that environed it (which to Swann seemed innumerable, since his own secret desire had strewn them in her path), and so allowed its occupant, the soul, to abandon itself, day after day, and almost with impunity, to its career of mendacity, to the pursuit of pleasure.†   (source)
  • It belonged to him like his suppleness of thumb, or his peculiar way of tilting up his hat at the back every now and then, as if he were contemplating some half-finished work of his hand and thinking about it.†   (source)
  • Thinking thus, he slipped, with the suppleness of a serpent, to the lowest branches, the ends of which bent almost to the ground.†   (source)
  • 'Have you anything to say?' demanded Squeers again: giving his right arm two or three flourishes to try its power and suppleness.†   (source)
  • And here's another thing,' he said, stopping for a moment with a good-humoured laugh in his eyes, and laying his closed right hand, with its peculiar suppleness of thumb, on Clennam's arm, 'no inventor can be a man of business, you know.'†   (source)
  • But his brilliantly white, strong teeth which showed in two unbroken semicircles when he laughed—as he often did—were all sound and good, there was not a gray hair in his beard or on his head, and his whole body gave an impression of suppleness and especially of firmness and endurance.†   (source)
  • It regulated its pace by that of the first; but in the voluntary slowness of its gait, suppleness and agility were discernible.†   (source)
  • Beads of wet form on my rough skirt; my shoes become supple and dark.†   (source)
  • Paddle-foot, Feather-straight, Supple-neck, Button-eye: These have the world's wealth.†   (source)
  • And especially her husband, he was so supple, fertile, and changeable.†   (source)
  • He held Julia's supple waist easily encircled by his arm.†   (source)
  • In the depth of accident, you be supple--never sleepy but at sleeping time.†   (source)
  • They held Hines, cursing, his old frail bones and his stringlike muscles for the time inherent with the fluid and supple fury of a weasel.†   (source)
  • What he had failed to grasp as thought, her last gesture, the last supple huskiness of her voice conveyed.†   (source)
  • He hated her because she was young and pretty and sexless, because he wanted to go to bed with her and would never do so, because round her sweet supple waist, which seemed to ask you to encircle it with your arm, there was only the odious scarlet sash, aggressive symbol of chastity.†   (source)
  • …abstract hairs while (Grandfather said) Rome vanished and Jericho crumbled, that this would be right if or that would be wrong but of slowing blood and stiffening bones and arteries that Father says men resort to in senility who while young and supple and strong reacted to a single simple Yes and a single simple No as instantaneous and complete and unthinking as the snapping on and off of electricity, sitting there and talking and now Grandfather not knowing what he was talking about…†   (source)
  • His fingers were supple on the ball and he weighed it casually in the palm of his hand before he threw.†   (source)
  • He set his teeth then, and he went out and chose a slim, supple bamboo from the grove and he stripped off the branches, except for a cluster of small branches at the top, thin and hard as cord, and he ripped off the leaves.†   (source)
  • The Bishop stood watching the flowing, supple movements of their arms and shoulders, the sure rhythm of their tiny moccasined feet, no larger than cottonwood leaves, as without a word of instruction they followed the irregular and strangely-accented music.†   (source)
  • Once they were on the pier they saw the sea spread out before them, a gently heaving expanse of deep-piled velvet, supple and sleek as a creature of the wild.†   (source)
  • In the overcoat buttoned awry over the bathrobe he looked huge and shapeless like a disheveled bear as he stared at Quentin (the Southerner, whose blood ran quick to cool, more supple to compensate for violent changes of temperature perhaps, perhaps merely nearer the surface) who sat hunched in his chair, his hands thrust into his pockets as if he were trying to hug himself warm between his arms, looking somehow fragile and even wan in the lamplight, the rosy glow which now had nothing…†   (source)
  • His smoothness was a huge satisfaction to him, as, also, his extraordinary English that hadn't hampered him in making a fortune, plus his insignificance in the old country--people gave way before his supple wrinkles and small eyes and, comparably, the onslaught of his six-cylinder car, a yellow Packard.†   (source)
  • Supple-faced, with rippling skins, that are always twitching with the multiplicity of their sensations, prehensile like monkeys, greased to this particular moment, they are discussing with all the right gestures the sale of a piano.†   (source)
  • When he gestured with those strong, long, supple white hands, it was a mixture of Svengali and an atom-busting machine.†   (source)
  • Then he seized one of her wrists and lifted the arm to shoulder level and worked it back and forth a couple of times to show the supple articulation, saying, "Yeah."†   (source)
  • She reached up her hand to me, and I took it and helped her as she rose easy and supple—God, how I hate a woman who scrambles up off things—and I still held her hand as she swayed at the instant of reaching her full height.†   (source)
  • I never saw her again, but I know what she looks like now when cocktails, bonbons, late hours, and nearly forty years have done their work on the peach bloom of cheeks, the pearly, ripe but vigorous bosom, the supple midriff, the brooding, black, velvety-liquid eyes, the bee-stung lips, the luxurious thighs.†   (source)
  • THE FIRST: Ay, but the cold, supple Gascon—that is the stuff success is made of!†   (source)
  • She was as strong and supple as a panther.†   (source)
  • Fay led the way, light, supple, tireless, and Shefford never ceased looking at her.†   (source)
  • You've a splendid figure—tall, supple, strong; you're like a Nez Perce girl I knew once….†   (source)
  • A slender girl slipped from one of the covered wagons; she was dark, supple, straight as an Indian.†   (source)
  • He was lithe and supple, brawny but not bulky.†   (source)
  • He was supple and swift and flushed; his eyes (which he believed to be cynical) were candidly eager.†   (source)
  • I feel a foil as quick and supple as my own.†   (source)
  • He fancied himself an athlete of possibilities and a supple dancer.†   (source)
  • He did not say good night until she had become supple to his gentle, seductive entreaties.†   (source)
  • In lithe, supple action Bess swung up to Black Star's saddle.†   (source)
  • * He made of her something supple and corrupt.†   (source)
  • Her brown, supple arms twined and untwined around her waist, like two scarfs.†   (source)
  • Experience, however, had not quenched her youth; it had simply made her sympathetic and supple.†   (source)
  • I tell you that rogue, Grushenka, has a supple curve all over her body.†   (source)
  • He suddenly lay down on his stomach with a supple movement to show how he had done it.†   (source)
  • In his hand he held a switch which was as supple as a vine-shoot and as heavy as iron.†   (source)
  • I wandered with thee, pressing thy supple arm.†   (source)
  • Leo poked out a supple red tongue at him, but a moment later broke into a giggle at a tintype of two men, uncomfortably seated, with an awkward-looking boy in baggy clothes standing between them: Jake and Otto and I!†   (source)
  • The gentle sea-breeze blew Marguerite's hair about her face, and sent the ends of her soft lace fichu waving round her, like a white and supple snake.†   (source)
  • Their good nature, freed from all taint of snobbishness and from the fear of seeming too friendly, grown independent, in fact, has the ease, the grace of movement of a trained gymnast each of whose supple limbs will carry out precisely the movement that is required without any clumsy participation by the rest of his body.†   (source)
  • She sat with the ease that belongs to persons of an essentially happy nature, who can find a comfortable spot almost anywhere; who are supple, and quick in adapting themselves to circumstances.†   (source)
  • But his eyes were keen and used to the dark, and by peering closely he recognized the huge bulk and black-bearded visage of Oldring and the lithe, supple form of the rustler's lieutenant, a masked rider.†   (source)
  • Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.†   (source)
  • The sentiment of the opening bars, their languor and supple movement, evoked the incommunicable emotion which had been the cause of all his day's unrest and of his impatient movement of a moment before.†   (source)
  • And it would be empty because she belonged to K., because this woman at the window, this lush, supple, warm body in its sombre clothes of rough, heavy material belonged to him, totally to him and to him alone.†   (source)
  • With the same abrupt violence, and a manner of contempt, Stewart threw Hawe off the porch, then Don Carlos, who, being less supple, fell heavily.†   (source)
  • But at its best, Anderson's prose style in Winesburg, Ohio is a supple instrument, yielding that "low fine music" which he admired so much in the stories of Turgenev.†   (source)
  • Creeping, cold thrills chased over her as Bo, supple and quick, slid an arm and a leg over Pony and straightened up on him with a defiant cry.†   (source)
  • I supple and suave.†   (source)
  • Glimpses that he had caught of "bad" men returned vividly as he noted the clean-shaven face, the youthful, supple body, the cool, careless mien.†   (source)
  • He shuffled along the floor, too bulky to be guided, his steps unrelated to the rhythm of the jungle music, and in his staggering he would have fallen, had she not held him with supple kindly strength.†   (source)
  • Or was it that, being as weak of sight as he was shy of mind, he drew less pleasure from the reflection of the glowing sensible world through the prism of a language many-coloured and richly storied than from the contemplation of an inner world of individual emotions mirrored perfectly in a lucid supple periodic prose?†   (source)
  • She leaned back in his arms, supple, pliant with quivering life, and for the first time gave him wide-open level eyes, in which there were now no tears, no shyness, no fear, but a dark smouldering fire.†   (source)
  • Although the shape of his hands was not particularly aristocratic, he took good care of them, keeping the skin supple and setting them off with a simple platinum band and his grandfather's signet ring; his teeth, which were rather soft and subject to damage, had been repaired with gold inlays.†   (source)
  • And, as Hans Castorp happened to notice one day, this fellow's eyes were staring in the same direction as his own; like his own, they were fixed fondly—and shyly and insistently, if not to say fawningly—on Madame Chauchat's supple body.†   (source)
  • Consider the marvelous symmetry of the human frame, the shoulders and the hips and the breasts as they blossom at each side of the chest, and the ribs arranged in pairs, and the navel set amid the supple belly, and the dark sexual organs between the thighs!†   (source)
  • That's a display put on by the skin's sebaceous glands, which give off the skin's oils, a kind of protein-rich, fatty secretion, you know—not exactly appetizing, but it keeps the skin supple, so that it doesn't dry out and crack or break and remains pleasant to the touch.†   (source)
  • He restricted himself to harmless, furtive exchanges at meals with the teacher on his right, teasing the old maid about her weakness for their supple fellow patient until she would blush, and all the while trying to maintain his dignity by imitating old Grandfather Castorp's chin-propping method.†   (source)
  • …of his high school, where there had been riding crops in every room; and although social disparities had prevented teachers from laying a hand on him, he had once been thrashed by a bigger classmate, a lout of a fellow, who had applied the supple switch to his thighs and calves, right through his thin stockings, and it had hurt something awful, he would never forget. it had been beastly, almost mystical, and to his shame he had heaved great sobs and hot tears of rage and agony had…†   (source)
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