They drilled gymnastically, not to say theatrically. From Wordnik.com. [The Lincoln Story Book] Reference
Artists stretch ever more gymnastically to find forms that have not been exhausted. From Wordnik.com. [Defining the Whitney Biennial] Reference
And then what started to happen after about like two and a half months was, one of the guys was very gymnastically inclined. From Wordnik.com. [Brad Balfour: Q & A With Mickey Rourke--A Requiem Through The Wrestler] Reference
Sometimes they swing on dangling hoops, or rotate gently but gymnastically from slings that resemble overlong bedsheets suspended from the ceiling. From Wordnik.com. [Creative Cirko De Mente evokes . . . well, it's hard to say] Reference
I want to see this man dancing so fast and lying so gymnastically that he has no time to govern, no time to advance an agenda, and no opportunity to further erode the ideals and institutions of this country. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Desperation.] Reference
As though he still weighed one hundred and forty pounds instead of one ninety, Milton flipped gymnastically into the air and landed on his feet, completely unaware of both his nakedness and his dream-filled morning erection. From Wordnik.com. [Middlesex]
Other Browne's neologisms which spring immediately to mind include - 'electrical' 'electricity' 'hallucination' 'caricature' 'pathology' 'ambidextrous' 'antediluvian' 'retromingent' 'callyphygae' , 'gymnastically' and many, many others. From Wordnik.com. [Author, author: Henry Hitchings on neologisms] Reference
Three gymnastically inclined brothers from San Diego also make the initial cut. From Wordnik.com. [USATODAY.com News] Reference
"I will do my best to make one, Miss Croyden," I replied, speaking as gymnastically as I could. From Wordnik.com. [Winsome Winnie and other New Nonsense Novels] Reference
She dropped as elegantly out as she had gymnastically floated in, and "ces dames" must much have wished they could emulate her art. From Wordnik.com. [A Small Boy and Others] Reference
I have already learnt the rustic manner of leaning upon a gate; and I was thus gymnastically occupied at the moment when my eye caught the house that was made for me. From Wordnik.com. [Alarms and Discursions] Reference
Lucky ones who had bought of it diffidently, discreetly, with modest visions of four and a half per cent in their unimaginative minds, saw their dividends doubling, trebling, quadrupling, finally soaring gymnastically beyond all reason. From Wordnik.com. [Fanny Herself] Reference
Hogarth here saying: "There you have a menagerie of gnome-land: observe those two black beetles, sedately nodding; and there is daddy-longlegs, working his legs gymnastically; and the three pairs of gallant grey stallions, galloping grandly neck to neck; and those two ridiculous beings, rubbing their palms together, round and round: each preoccupied, comically solemn, busied about its own quaint affairs -- like a varied gnomeland". From Wordnik.com. [The Lord of the Sea] Reference
Her giraffe-like legs gymnastically spread. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Evans: Strictly Taboo] Reference
Here, at all hours of the day, students may be seen reading alone, or conversing in groups, seated on the benches placed at intervals among the trees, or stretched at full length on the fragrant grass, kicking their heels gymnastically in the air, or sauntering with arms interlocked along the gravel walks, singing, perhaps, some college song, such as. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
These steps, when drawn up, -- which, however, from their extreme clumsiness, required the united strength of two ordinary men, and was not that instantaneous work which it should have been, -- made the place above a tolerably strong hold; for the wall was perfectly perpendicular and level, and it was only by placing his hands upon the ledge, and so lifting himself gymnastically upward, that an active assailant could have reached the eminence, -- a work which defenders equally active, it may easily be supposed, would not be likely to allow. From Wordnik.com. [Paul Clifford — Complete] Reference
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