Battered though he was, the splendid vigor of the man still showed in a certain tigerish litheness that sore, stiff muscles could not conceal.
But when he moved it was with the litheness of a panther.
With pantherish lithenessthe Arizonan ducked a swinging blow.
With the litheness of a cat he picked the fallen man in his arms.
Our visitor had the advantage in litheness and in trickery.
With a litheness that I had never judged possible he squirmed and swung himself, till in a short time he had completely disappeared among the trees.
One despairing effort the active red man made to twist himself clear, but in the narrow space his litheness was of no avail, and by sheer strength Stephens got him under and turned him on his face.
She was running with a ghostlike litheness through the moonlight, her eyes wide and frightened and her whole seeming one of unreasoning panic so that the man, who knew her dauntlessness of spirit, felt his heart sink.
Reassurance came as he watched her walking ahead with the unconscious grace that belonged to her pliant litheness and expressed itself in her superb, almost boyish carriage.
This was no charm of little cherubs; this was the stark radiance of tigerish enchantment: the golden glitter of his eyes, the sinewy litheness of his stealthy paw.
This litheness had in it none of the meagre outlines of the little mother, its curves were all moulded with that soft roundness which betrays a southern origin.
Garda was of medium height, but her litheness made her seem tall.
There was a litheness in his movements which denoted obedient muscles.
Scrope was in years nearer forty than thirty, dark of complexion, aquiline of feature, and though a trifle below the middle height he redeemed his stature by the litheness of his figure.
Saxon had not failed to note the litheness and grace in that lean and withered body.
She watched for Mrs. Higgins' return, and knew that the litheness and grace had not been imagined.
His figure had none of the litheness and grace of movement which is so common among that class, and his sallow skin had nothing in common with the rich olive complexion of the Tuscan face.
She was tall and slight, with all that litheness and grace of movement which is peculiar to Indian women, and yet she seemed more European than Indian.
His powerful figure was carried erectly, doubtless from the severity of his early military training, but it possessed a litheness quite unusual, a litheness which the angular figure of Von Salzinger completely lacked.
At first Bearslayer thought it sport, And jousted in light-hearted way; But, fighting fierce, the Black Knight brought Great strength and litheness to the fray.
No answer came, so Spidala turned then, With gliding litheness serpentlike she stirred, And deeply gazed into his eyes again.
