He drew back against the wall, curling himself up withsupple agility, and smiled into his companion's eyes.
Swiftly, as might the boy, she threw off her velvet cloak, letting it fall to the ground, and showed herself tall and supple and straight in her white dress.
And supple sprays of blossom Twined by thy soft hands.
She had taken her place in the middle of a great flagstone, and stood there swaying her supple body to the shocks.
Sir Charles squatted by the ashpit wall; and Grimalkin from the scullery steps noted with admiration how he drew his supple paw behind his ears after applying it to his tongue, and how he scientifically smoothed his sooty waistcoat.
And now he cries for help, now he presses the sweet andsupple body to his breast.
But, in these simple frames, he has confined the power of an art which is prolific, supple and profoundly living.
In the quality of his style, at once so firm and clear, so gorgeous yet so sober, so supple and so firm, he equals the writers of the seventeenth century.
This Marchas was as sharp as possible, as cunning as a fox, and as supple as a serpent.
She looked like some stately, supple Aphrodite; she might, but for the delicate soupcon of powder and over-red lips, have sat for a madonna.
From one of the children she took a supple cane, and this she determined to use when real occasion came.
To such a festival bring no fauns and dryads, no lewd and supple goddess, no Orphean flute.
This girl of the woods was no more a dream to him, but supple love, ardent flesh, blood-red reality.
She was in and about his room, a shadow moving in the sunlight, a shaft of youth, supple and very tender.
The world's saints are plump and comely; the true goddess has a supple knee.
What she beheld was a straight-lipped, clean-limbed man, slim as a cypress, supple as good steel.
Then she busied herself with supple and noiseless movements, walking with so light a step that she scarcely touched the floor, in putting away some linen which was on the table.
When, seized with remorse, he would talk about working, she would link her supple arms through his and laughingly hold him prisoner, so that he should not make himself ill again with overwork.
I would spit the dust out of my mouth burst out of these stiff wire webs supple incautious like the crocuses that spurt up too soon their saffron flames and die gloriously in late blizzards and leave no seed.
The outlines of his elegant and supple figure are set off by a light tunic of purple color; his broad hose, worn loose in Oriental style, exposes his boots of green leather, wrought in silver and tipped with gold.
It was not her advice to practice it too softly, but it was done with all the resonating organs well supported by the diaphragm, the tone in a very supple and elastic "watery" state.
He took her consent for granted, for he was already rolling cigarettes in his deft, supple fingers.
His mind was supple and flexible, his wits nimble, even subtle.
We shall repeople the world with sons and daughters more bright and beautiful and more supple than any that have ever been seen yet.
He stood silently on the steps, a splendid, supple figure of menacing power, and watched his foe pass down the road.
Or her stinging words pelted him as she breasted the hill slopes with supple ease.
But as he looked at his friend, all the supple strength stricken out of him, weak and helpless as a sick child, he felt a queer tug at the heart.
As her lithe, supple limbs carried her from one moss hump to another, she was busy with the problem of escape.
Grace, however, had for once departed from her favorite blue and wore a white chiffon gown whose exquisitely simple lines made the most of her slender, supple figure.
If you and Supple can't get things open again, and start the troops and machine-guns before then, look out!
Among them he caught a glimpse of the supple figure of Bern Hayden.
One of these—tall, handsome, supple and graceful—was hailed joyously as “Bern.
Without paying any regard to what I said, he instantly seized my supple jack, and twisted it here as you see; but I will make him heartily repent it.
I believe you remember my supple jack, a very pretty little cane, which my father gave me.
It has the effect of breaking up the albuminous matters of hides and skins, which are rapidly reduced to a soft and supple condition, while the ammonium salts cleanse them.
When properly tanned by the natives, these skins produce a supple finish, especially those of the Smyrna variety.
The mild acids produced by the fermentation of these materials not only neutralise the lime but also reduce the gristly nature of the skins to a soft, supple condition.
She had smooth hands with supple tapering fingers, an irregular expressive-lipped mouth like a pimpernel-bloom, firm slim feet and the quivering suggestive white knees of a wood-nymph.
My Body looks slender and supple and newly-married and in-the-drawing in the linen house-dress.
Then I looked down at my Shoes of black soft dull leather and cloth, buttoned snugly around my ankles and with tough supple soles fit to take me to Jericho and back.
With no conceivable effort of mine could I manage to be supple when I do not feel supple.
Each wore a plumed hat, a scarlet sash, a poniard, and the gold lace upon the black velvet showed their lithe and supple forms to advantage.
They are generally larger in feature and figure, have not the dainty feet and supple grace of the Lima belles, and lack their voluptuous languor.
Her face is bright and pretty, her figure as perfect as nature unaided by art can be, and her movements show a supplegrace and elasticity that cannot be imitated by those of her sex who are encumbered by modern articles of feminine apparel.
The young ones, so supple as to bend before the winds, are the ideal of grace and loveliness, as picturesque in repose as they are in motion.
