And lush and lithe do the creepers clothe Yon wall I watch, with a wealth of green: Its bald red bricks draped, nothing loath, In lappets of tangle they laugh between.
But Sulamith is lithe and strong, and her body, anointed with oil, is slippery.
Even the Professor breathed a little faster as the lithe figure swayed and bent and curved into wonderful lines, which melted ever into new ones.
With a singlelithe spring he had leaped across the intervening space.
But the lithe dark body, the vivid color, the beady eye only reminded Jane oddly of a darting little lizard, and tempted her to laugh.
He was a tall, thin, lithe old man, with a crumpled wife and prodigiously large family.
Frightened cows with heavy swinging udders were being piloted by lithe middle-aged women.
The air of lazy jesting disappeared; his face became earnest, and he walked with a kind of meekness beside the girl, looking at her guardedly with a devotion that did not lose the grace of a single motion of her lithe figure.
Was my beauty dulled, The golden hair turned dross, the lithe limbs shrunk?
It was black of the most lustrous quality, and fitted her person with a perfection that showed the shape of the bust, and the lithe suppleness of the slender waist to the utmost advantage.
At the thought, he swung his long litherod over his shoulder, and strode on, his heavy fishing boots sounding loudly on the rugged stones.
Anyway she used to come out of the cabinet--a lithe lissom creature like a panther or a snake--and execute such twists and bounds and pirouettes, as would have made her fortune on the stage.
His figure is long and lithe and supple, as that of a cat, and he can bend to the ground and rise again with the utmost ease and grace.
The record of years of clean, hard living showed in his bright hazel eyes, and the general alertness of his lithe young body.
Juarez was an apt pupil and he soon learned to use his lithe strength to the best advantage.
In appearance, Juarez was no longer the Indian, except for the lithe grace of his movements and his tireless endurance.
Gretel was lithe and quick; her eyes had a dancing light in them, and while you looked at her cheek the color paled and deepened just as it does upon a bed of pink and white blossoms when the wind is blowing.
That lithe little form makes no effort, but it cannot stop--not until the goal is passed!
On the other hand, he knew that she, with her strong but lithe little frame, needed but a week's practice on good runners to make her a better skater than Rychie Korbes or even Katrinka Flack.
Ann, lithe and supple though she was, staggered uncertainly in the effort to retain her balance, her feet sinking deep into the shifting sand, as she turned to wave a reassuring hand to the solitary watcher on the beach.
The Grande Anse girls were distinguished by their clear yellow or brown skins, lithe light figures and a particular grace in their way of dressing.
Poised for the leap upon the black lava crag, and against the blue light of the sky, each lithe figure, gilded by the morning sun, has a statuesqueness and a luminosity impossible to paint in words.
In the blue water their lithe figures look perfectly red,--all but the soles of their upturned feet, which show nearly white.
Lithe as a fawn, lovely even though she was dressed in cumbersome garments, Barbara leaped from the wagon and waved excitedly, "Hello, Daddy!
He gave no thought to the incongruity of the scene, that anyone should be able to look graceful while feeding pigs, but felt only delight because he saw something lithe and beautiful.
The figures hitched and sprang around the homely iron stove likelithe animals.
Two rows of women extend for a distance of several hundred feet, each woman being armed with a lithe stick.
I had two revolvers at my belt, and I also carried a long, lithe Malacca cane, armed at one end with a formidable knob of lead worked over with string.
Her cheeks were pink and white, like apple-blossom, and her lithe form was clad in a dress of blue velvet, plainly adorned as for a country maiden.
The men, as I have said, were for the most part lithe and tall, and they danced with grace.
She was a strong woman, lithe and vigorous, living in the open air and used to walking.
At last he saw her coming, swinging down the road, lithe and dark, with the big white basket of clothes poised on her head.
Never a blink was there in those gray-green eyes, never a quiver in that long, lithe tongue.
The four-voiced part has such a clearness withal, it seems as if warm spring breezes were waving the lithe leaves of the palm tree.
The color, the "lithe perpetual escape" from the formal deceived his critics, Schumann among the rest.
She looked up to see the tall, lithe form of Jonathan Zane as he strode across the porch.
A man, lithe and supple, slipped from the back of one of the horses, and, giving the halter to Elsing with a single word, turned and entered the gate.
Brandt uttered an exclamation of surprise, and Metzar a curse, as the lithe Indian leaped the brook.
His lithe body became rigid as he leaned forward, his head toward the ground, and turned slightly in a manner that betokened intent listening.
The yellow thicket on the slope opened to let out a tall, dark man who came down with lithe and springy stride.
They brought her thoughts back to the Indians leading the way with lithe and stealthy step.
When the last dark, lithe form glided out of sight among the yellowing copse, Jonathan leaped from the low cliff, and had hardly reached the ground before Wetzel dashed down to the grassy turf.
