That tall and lithe-bodied and abrupt-tongued friend of hers, colorless cheeks even paler against the black background, of her Mongolian costume, still had eyes for the change which had come over the younger girl, in spite of the terror which had been congealing her own heart since the moment of unmasking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Then I'll Come Back to You] Reference

It was a long, low, lithe-bodied, form that moved with the easy, gliding movements of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shepherd of the Hills] Reference

He shucked out of the log stable a smooth, round, lithe-bodied little cayuse of a blue-gray color.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Trail of the Goldseekers A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse] Reference

The lithe-bodied audience had gathered here for Wanderlust, a new festival that blends indie rock and yoga.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Global Home] Reference

The man who had ordered Vermilion to release her, and who had fired the shot that had killed him, stood calmly watching four lithe-bodied canoemen securely bind the arms of the two scowmen who had attacked Big.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gun-Brand] Reference

The exhalations from the aged are by no means an elixir of health or life to the young, and the fact that the young were apt to lose health by sleeping with the aged was wrongly attributed to their loss being the others 'gain, and the result of its passing into the bodies of their aged companions, and not to its true cause, -- the deteriorating influence to which they were subjected; and, further, when we analyze the subject still more, we can understand how a full-blooded and active, lithe-bodied, thin, and active-skinned Sunamite maid might and would impart caloric to King David; but, from our knowledge (not altogether practical) of the difference that exists between differently constitutioned and differently built maids in imparting caloric, and from our knowledge of the physique of the Netherland maids, who are cold and impassive, with a layer of adipose tissue that answers the same purpose as that of the blubber in the whale, -- that of retaining heat and resisting cold, -- we can.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance] Reference