All 3 Uses of
lithe
in
Gone with the Wind
- She made a little curtsy as he bowed, and then, as he straightened and started toward her with a peculiarly lithe Indian-like gait, her hand went to her mouth in horror, for she knew who he was.†
Chpt 2.9 *lithe = graceful and flexible (moving and bending with ease)
- He stood nearly six and a half feet tall, a giant of a man, ebony black, stepping along with the lithe grace of a powerful animal, his white teeth flashing as he led the gang in "Go Down, Moses."†
Chpt 3.17
- When the devil drove, Mammy could be as swift as a lithe black sixteen-year-old and her curiosity to get into Rhett's room made her work faster.†
Chpt 5.59
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."