Slender and lissomas a fawn, she was yet a creature of exquisitely rounded curves.
Who was destined one day to own those full-blown seventeen years, those twinkling legs, that lissom body, trained to spin round and round, unerring and exact?
Those rounded arms, that lissom figure, those twinkling legs were all his, every bit of them!
She was boyish as Rosalind, woman in every motion of her slim andlissom body.
The masculine in him approved mightily her lissom grace and the proud lilt of her dark head, with its sun-kissed face set in profile to him.
She gave a little cry of fear and strained from him, fighting with all her lissom strength to free herself.
In abandonment there seemed no bones in it; it was supple as a salmon; as lissom as a wand cf green lancewood.
Her gown hung closely to her lissom and rather full form.
He had the lissom hands and cheerful self-absorption that bring success.
He noted her lissom figure and shining coils of hair.
So now, as he thought of Hazel's lissom waist, her large eyes, rather scared, her slender wrists he cursed until the peewits arose mewing all about him.
In place of a lissom maid he saw a grim, rough-clad man waiting on him with death in his eyes.
For Marjory Veitch had grown into a beautiful, lissom girl, with the same old litheness of body and gaiety of spirit.
Like lissom lizards drinking the sun's fires Of gold, with great wide eyes and bronze-nailed feet, Crawl towards your body my long, green desires.
She looks very pretty as she lies there, her slim lissom form stretched out in the full glare of the sunshine.
But it is not her face nor her figure, lithe and lissom for all its ripe maturity, that so holds men's hearts in thrall.
The girl had got out to relieve the horses, and as her young, lissom body took the hill scattering flakes of snow were already flying.
But this slim Irish girl with the young, lissom body held her own.
Every movement of her lithe limbs was full of grace; she was slender without being thin, and lissom as an untrained beautiful creature of the woods.
Maiden figures soon flitted in the darkness outside, and coyly accepting an invitation to enter, our barn resounded with the music of castanet and guitar, while lissom forms and light fandango graced its erewhiles unlovely floor.
Bevis did not answer: he crept cautiously out on the top which vibrated under him; then suddenly seizing a lissom bough, he slipped off and let himself down.
A lissom steely sense strung their sinews; their backs felt like oak-plants, upright, sturdy but not rigid; their frames charged with force.
Like Sam, he had never even heard of an Irish Wolfhound, or seen a dog of any breed who approached Finn in the matter of height and length and lissom strength.
Now she eyed him, from her vantage-point, fearlessly, and with invitation in every line of her lissom form.
Hungrily I followed her graceful, lissomfigure with my eyes until she had crossed the threshold.
I cried, as I watched the tall, lissom figure vanish through the portals of the château.
At the foot of y Wyddfa the white; Oh, lissom her feet as the mountain hind, And darker her hair than the night!
Standing on a piece of rock that was flush with one of the steps by which I had descended was a slender girlish figure, so lissom that it might have been the famous 'Queen of the Fair People.
Brenda entered in a pale green cotton dress, which suited her lissom young figure to perfection.
It clung softly to her lissom young figure, and had an indescribable air about it which not even Madame Declasse could achieve.
The finger-post says Mamble, And that is all I know Of the narrow road to Mamble, And should I turn and go To that place of lazy token That lies above the Teme, There might be a Mamble broken That was lissom in a dream.
Their lissom and statuesque inhabitants become softened and bent, and pad dejectedly through the muck as though they were ashamed to live, but had to go on with it.
She turned and twisted the whole of her long, lissom person, now putting up a hand to smooth her slim throat, now stretching out a slender ankle; but all the time posing, and admiring the poses in the nearest mirror.
Certainly one of the longest," I said, thinking of those unendinglissom limbs swathed in the Futurist draperies of that cobra-woman.
Leslie glanced very kindly at the flushed face, at the compact yet lissomlittle body sitting up on its heels on the Club lawn.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lissom" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
