Both Uses of
lithe
in
For Whom the Bell Tolls
- She looked at his brown face, his lithe build, his shock of hair, and the quick heel-and-toe way that he walked.†
Chpt 11 *lithe = graceful and flexible (moving and bending with ease)
- Robert Jordan watched her climbing lithely up to his lookout post, the sack over her shoulder, the bucket in one hand, her cropped head bright in the sun.†
Chpt 28lithely = with grace of movement and flexibility
Definitions:
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(1)
(lithe) a graceful, flexible body -- often implying thinness
or:
graceful, flexible body movement -
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely, lithe can mean that something is easily bent or flexed--such as "a thin blade of lithe steel," or "twisted the lithe vines."