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Lissome

adjective
1.
Moving and bending with ease.  Synonyms: lissom, lithe, lithesome, slender, supple, svelte, sylphlike.



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"Lissome" Quotes from Famous Books



... laurel bushes close beside the path, a tall, slender form stood forth, the lissome figure of a girl in the budding charm of womanhood. There was a lithe, curving beauty in the lines that the scant homespun gown outlined so clearly. The swift movement by which she revealed herself ...
— Heart of the Blue Ridge • Waldron Baily

... of age, and still preserved, not the fresh, high-colored beauty of the Basse-Normandes, but a fragile loveliness of what may be called an aristocratic type. Her figure was lissome and slender, her features delicate and clearly cut; the pale face seemed to light up and live when she spoke; but there was a quiet and devout look in the great dark eyes, for all their graciousness of expression—a look that seemed to say that the springs of her ...
— Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories • Edited by Julian Hawthorne

... courtyard of her castle the little Jallanges, who under the superintendence of an old groom was turning and wheeling about on a fine horse, bending with the movements of the animal, dismounting and mounting again with vaults and leaps most gracefully, and with lissome thighs, so pretty, so dextrous, so upright as to be indescribable, so much so, that he would have made the Queen Lucrece long for him, she who killed herself from having been contaminated ...
— Droll Stories, Volume 1 • Honore de Balzac

... goes with eyes of amberish-brown and freckles. These latter she had, I observed with a renewal of the thought of the country girls and the old district school. She was slender of waist, full of bust, and, after a lissome, sylph-like fashion, altogether charming in form. With all her roundness, she was slight and ...
— Aladdin & Co. - A Romance of Yankee Magic • Herbert Quick



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