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Example sentences for "nimbler"

Lexicographically close words:
nilmontant; nima; nimbi; nimble; nimbleness; nimbly; nimbus; nime; nimia; nimio
  1. It is also observable, that those bright scintillations neer the Horizon, are not by much so quick and sudden in their consecutions of one another, as the nimbler twinklings of Stars neerer the Zenith.

  2. He was stronger than the bear, he was swifter than the deer, he was nimbler than the mountain-cat or the panther.

  3. Angels guardians, like The nimbler ship boyes shall be joy'd to strike Or hoist up saile; Nor shall our vessell move By Card or Compasse, but a heavenly love.

  4. Soone 30 yong men of the nation of the beefe arrived there, having nothing but bows and arrows, with very short garments, to be the nimbler in chasing the stagges.

  5. Stay light foot Iris, for thou strivest in vaine, My wings are nimbler then thy feete.

  6. So Sir, you can use your tongue something nimbler than your sword.

  7. So the dull eel moves nimbler in the mud Than all the swift-finned racers of the flood.

  8. I tested the vessel with the tiller and found she responded but dully; she would be nimbler under canvas no doubt, but it was enough that she should answer her helm at all.

  9. But for our calling they are the fittest of all the nations in the world; better even than the Portuguese, and with truer trade instincts than the trained mulatto--nimbler artists in roguery than ever a one of them.

  10. Little Louisa's fingers were nimbler than her mother's.

  11. Some other be despatch’d of nimbler feet, To those tall ships, remotest of the fleet, Where lie great Ajax and the king of Crete.

  12. To the experienced eyes of the English sailors, however, this immediately communicated encouragement, for they saw at once that they were not calculated, like their own nimbler vessels, to tack and obey the helm promptly.

  13. Thar Satan waits, an' he gits nimbler every time ye shake yer foot.

  14. And with glad assurance he capered up and down, the bow elongating the sound to a cadence of frenzied glee, as his arms sought to accommodate the nimbler motions of his legs.


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