And the sumptuousness of her figure--its faultless curves and lines, its lissome roundness, its young grace, the beauty of arm and neck and ankle!
She was as daringly dressed as a lissome dancing-girl.
She was dressed in rich brown velveteen, made to fit her lissome figure.
Mary moved with a lissome grace like that of some wild creature, but as she halted opposite the man who had given her back the life she would have thrown away, there was only tender pleading in her voice, though her words were an arraignment.
Countless craft, manned by lissome blacks or tawny Hottentots, instantly shot forth from the crowded quays, and surged in picturesque disorder round the great hull, scarred by the ordure of ten score pure Arab chargers.
And first there leapt, like bird on wing, A lissome Lamb that played in the air.
She is straight and lissome as a young ash-tree; her hands and feet are small and well shaped; in a word, she is chic from the crown of her fair head down to her little arched instep.
Some Quinces planted about eight years ago are now perfect pictures, their lissome branches borne down with the load of great, deep-yellow fruit, and their leaves turning to a colour almost as rich and glowing.
Their graceful, lissome spray moving to the wind looks active among the stiffer trees, and their white stems shine out in startling contrast to the other dusky foliage.
The beauty all was in the wearer's soft young curves and lissome grace.
Side by side they strolled away across the sunlit lawn, he so strong, virile, erect, she so lissome and graceful.
Where were the graceful, lissome figure, the dainty complexion, the passion-darkened eyes.
He pictured her slim and lissome figure as she had stood with him at the window many an evening, and watched the purple shadows stealing over the hills.
It was a Titian-haired, lissome young woman upon whom he had never laid eyes before, and who returned his stare with self-possessed interest.
She was dressed in deepest green box-cloth, and the heavy folds that clung to that lissome form made her ankles behind great pompons of black silk seem astonishingly slender.
As she drew back a step in her displeasure, my gaze dwelt adoringly upon the graces of her lissome form.
She told herself that she didn't mind the stir that Lydia Lissome made when she was driven up in the morning in her great blue limousine with the two Japs sitting so straight and immobile in front, like twin Nipponese gods.
She told herself she didn't mind when the director said: "Miss Fuller, if you'll just watch Miss Lissome work.
She was not strictly pretty, but she was young and fresh, and the spotless muslin fell in graceful folds round her tall, lissome figure.
Many things I might have wished to say and do with that slender figure and lissome waist so near me.
And with that she went in, the copper spangles glancing at her waist red as the light on ripe wheat, and all her tall figure lissome as the bending corn.
His arm around her, the tall lissome figure of her bent, and her head resting on his shoulder.
She patted a curly strand of hair into place, and came toward him in her leisurely, lissome way.
The little girl crept up close to him, and began to play with his buttonhole, curving her lissome fingers in and out, like rosebuds in a trellis, and looking down at the teardrops on her pinny.
It had long been understood between them, that Fay might forsake upon occasion what we now call 'higher culture,' and try her lissome tongue at the soft Ionic sounds, which those who know nothing of the West call Doric.
He has twined his arms round her lissome figure, and is gazing anxiously into her eyes.
But ever and anon the eyes of both old ladies wander thoughtfully, admiringly, to where the lissome Monica stands, like a pale, pensive lily.
I were lissome in those days, though not so very stiff at this time of speaking, and bound to be guarded in the guidance of the tongue.
I took his hands, and made them lissome with a soft, light rubbing.
