The strength as well as the agility of this animal is remarkable; it carries off a deer with the greatest ease.
To catch the gymnoti with nets is very difficult, on account of the extreme agility of the fish, which bury themselves in the mud like serpents.
Feraud crouched and bounded with a fierce tigerish agility fit to trouble the stoutest heart.
This last, completely unstrung by such a show of agility on the part of a dead man, was trembling yet.
No teacher can furnish the child with the agility which he acquires through gymnastic exercises: it is necessary that the pupil perfect himself through his own efforts.
The same is true of the pianist who, refining at the same time his musical sense and the agility of his hand, comes to love more and more to draw new harmonies from the instrument.
The address and agility of Huon enabled him to avoid the terrible blows which the ferocious Amaury aimed at him.
His horse happened to stumble, and the hero, forgetting for a moment his assumed character, recovered the animal with a strength and agility so peculiar to himself, that they instantly recognized the inimitable Launcelot.
Meriem might reach the trees before Tantor overtook her, but even her agility would not carry her beyond the reach of that relentless trunk--she would be dragged down and tossed.
She could pass through the branches of the great trees now with all the agility and stealth of The Killer himself.
With the agility of a squirrel Meriem was upon her feet and at the same instant the great bull lunged for her.
Even at great heights he never felt the slightest dizziness, and when he had caught the knack of the swing and the release, he could hurl himself through space from branch to branch with even greater agility than the heavier Akut.
And so the days passed, and with the traveling and the hunting and the climbing the boy's muscles developed and his agility increased until even phlegmatic Akut marvelled at the prowess of his pupil.
There was one thing that troubled him--the agility with which the she had clambered from her pony's back into the safety of the tree ABOVE her.
With a bound he grasped a low limb, and with the agility of a little monkey swung himself and the boy to temporary safety.
Akut, startled by the sudden rush from his rear, and following hoary instinct, was in the tree beside the girl with an agility little short of marvelous in so heavy a beast.
One or two of the women performed this with considerable agility and adroitness, considering the clumsiness of their boots and jackets, and seemed to pride themselves in some degree on the qualification.
For the angel had, in her case, displayed the greatest indiscretion, and such agility that it was impossible always to forestall his enterprise.
General Milpertuis, with an agility truly superhuman, kept carrying out movements of the most dazzling rapidity around his immovable adversary.
Hastily saluting, the two officers who had been addressed sprang towards the steep gangway which led below, and swarmed down it with an agility which was commendable.
Turning abruptly to the stern again, he ran there with the Chinaman and threw a rope-ladder overboard, up which the dusky Dyaks ascended with the agility of monkeys.
Bert loved the old fort and its cannons none the less because of his adventure, and as he grew older he learned to drop down into it from the garden fence, and climb back again, with the agility of a monkey.
Ropes were hastily flung over the side, and swarming down these with the agility of monkeys, they took Bert out of his rescuer's hands and passed him up to the wharf; Connors followed unassisted, so soon as he had recovered his breath.
The Jarochos know nothing of scientific fencing, and trust altogether to strength and agility of body.
His frame was lean enough to repudiate the incredible agility and recuperative strength it housed, and his carriage was consistently "out of plumb.
The older males either ignored him entirely or else hated him so vindictively that but for his wondrous agility and speed and the fierce protection of the huge Kala he would have been dispatched at an early age.
But when the way was through the lower trees they moved more swiftly, swinging from branch to branch with the agility of their smaller cousins, the monkeys.
He was on his feet in an instant and, leaping with the agility of the monkey he was, he gained the safety of a low limb as Horta, the boar, rushed futilely beneath.
Chapter V The White Ape Tenderly Kala nursed her little waif, wondering silently why it did not gain strength and agility as did the little apes of other mothers.
So they set out, D'Arnot marveling as had Clayton and Jane at the wondrous strength and agility of the apeman.
Yet who else in all the world was there with the strength and agility to do what this man was now doing?
And with a swish of her full skirts and a toss of her huge hat and feathers, the lively flirt of sixty tripped off with all the agility of sixteen, leaving Courtney to follow her or remain where he was, just as he chose.
I darted to the left, making no endeavour to push aside his weapon with my own but relying only on the agility of my body.
Myself an admirer of the human form, a lover of muscle and sinew, strength, agility and virility, it always was the physique of a person that arrested my attention.
Towers leaped, with an astonishing agility to the counter of the bar and raised his clenched fists high above his head.
But with a readier agility Bear Cat leaped and his right hand, still gripping the pistol, swept outward in an arc.
The Jew stepped back in this emergency, with more agility than could have been anticipated in a man of his apparent decrepitude; and, seizing up the pot, prepared to hurl it at his assailant's head.
It is strength or agility that recommends the young man to his mistress; and to be a skilful or swift hunter is the highest merit with the woman he may choose for a wife.
Te Ponga waited his opportunity, and when the time came, danced so beautifully that the people of the village were surprised at his agility and grace, and as for the young girl, Puhihuia, her heart conceived a warm passion for Te Ponga.
He preferred the water-vole, whose agility was not too fast to see.
With the agilityof a hare, Tessibel dashed around him toward Frederick, and snatched the blankets from the bed.
Tess could climb to the top of the highest pine tree in the forest yonder; she could squirm through the underbrush with the agility of a rabbit.
It has been said that whatever he did, he did with all his might, and his brain work was as notable in its results as were the strength and agility of his body.
He dropped his gun, and seizing a limb that happened to be within reach, climbed into the tree with the agility of a monkey.
He had Frank's first mountain sheep upon his back, and though the way was rough he jumped from stone to stone with surprising agility for one who spent so much time in the saddle.
At all events we read of a lively old gentleman who still skipped and capered about as a dancing priest with anagility which threw the efforts of his younger colleagues into the shade.
Altogether the agility and endurance which he displayed were remarkable.
A stranger to this sort of motion was both alarmed for the safety, and delighted with the agility of persons leaping into the boat, under those perilous circumstances.
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