All 3 Uses of
supple
in
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- While speaking thus in his softest voice, he approached extremely near the gypsy; his caressing hands resumed their place around her supple and delicate waist, his eye flashed more and more, and everything announced that Monsieur Phoebus was on the verge of one of those moments when Jupiter himself commits so many follies that Homer is obliged to summon a cloud to his rescue.†
Chpt 2.7.8
- Her brown, supple arms twined and untwined around her waist, like two scarfs.†
Chpt 2.8.4 *
- He beheld her, again, stripped by the savage hands of the torturers, allowing them to bare and to enclose in the boot with its iron screw, her tiny foot, her delicate rounded leg, her white and supple knee.†
Chpt 2.9.5
Definition:
moving and bending easily -- sometimes used figuratively to indicate mental flexibility when adapting to different conditions