'That's your own fault, Joe,' a tall lissom, brunette lieutenant chipped in. From Wordnik.com. [Masters Of The Vortex]
The lissom limbs were not rigid, a peach-bloom touched the cheeks, the lips were red. From Wordnik.com. [Conan The Warrior]
My towel had gone and a smooth lissom body was moving alongside my exhausted hairy neck. From Wordnik.com. [The Vatican Rip]
Those rounded arms, that lissom figure, those twinkling legs were all his, every bit of them!. From Wordnik.com. [The Bill-Toppers] Reference
The long, lissom legs, the proud mound of the bikini, the perfect breasts in their pearly cups. From Wordnik.com. [Black Butterfly] Reference
I stopped walking and nearly bumped into a pair of lissom dark-haired teenagers, who glared snootily at me. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Lady Agency and the Prince] Reference
She looks very pretty as she lies there, her slim lissom form stretched out in the full glare of the sunshine. From Wordnik.com. [Only an Irish Girl] Reference
Jon admired his face, as of ivory, with dark hair and eyes, and narrow nose and lips, and his lissom attitude. From Wordnik.com. [A Silent Wooing] Reference
With his light touch and long lissom hands, the fellow seemed to have a natural instinct for successful bandaging. From Wordnik.com. [The Idler Magazine, Vol III. May 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference
The lissom birch thrives ungarnered in the thicket, where grace and gentleness supply the whilom vigor of its sway. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals] Reference
But it is not her face nor her figure, lithe and lissom for all its ripe maturity, that so holds men's hearts in thrall. From Wordnik.com. [Only an Irish Girl] Reference
He was only twenty-two years old; tall and handsome, with a lissom figure and an air of easy grace that became him well. From Wordnik.com. [For The Admiral] Reference
I stood reflecting in great content: homeward bound, champagne, good Burma cheroot, and lissom little Phoebe under starter's orders. From Wordnik.com. [Flashman And The Dragon]
He put up with it for half a mile, and then steered a course toward a tree which seemed to have particularly slender and lissom branches. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of Ten Worlds]
The mark seemed instinct with something of her lissom figure. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortune of the Rougons] Reference
Faultless evening dress clung with loving closeness to Sidney's lissom form. From Wordnik.com. [The Man with Two Left Feet And Other Stories] Reference
"It's so far to walk, sir, and my legs bean't as lissom as they used to be.". From Wordnik.com. [The Toilers of the Field] Reference
Her figure was as lissom as a nymph's, her hair a raven black, her complexion. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova] Reference
"'Tis a mercy 'tis no wus," said David; "we bean't so young nor lissom as we was; Maester Simon.". From Wordnik.com. [Tom Brown at Oxford] Reference
Alas for my hopes of a glorious being, young and lissom and bright with the warm riches of the south!. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies] Reference
Disdain of her own weakness and contempt of him were eloquent in every movement of the lissom figure. From Wordnik.com. [A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45] Reference
Brief though their acquaintance had been, both of these lissom young gentlemen admired Sally immensely. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Sally] Reference
He believed himself alone, when a hand touched one of his -- a hand as cool and lissom as a serpent's skin. From Wordnik.com. [The Valley of the Kings] Reference
Miss Seldon reeled up, put her rod against the tree, and sauntered off with the lissom grace that was hers. From Wordnik.com. [The Highgrader] Reference
The water hens, so lissom in their escape, ran to the floating leaves of the water lilies without going under. From Wordnik.com. [Nobody's Girl (En Famille)] Reference
He gazed at her sweet face and lissom form, and some lines that he had read years before floated into his mind. From Wordnik.com. [Jess] Reference
In play-time they desired no better companion, for she was a child herself in gaiety of heart and lissom sportiveness. From Wordnik.com. [The Whirlpool] Reference
They wrapped her softly in the blankets, and without a word spoken, lowered the still, lissom body into its rude grave. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Dog] Reference
They are good-natured as well as frivolous, lissom of mind as well as of body, indulgent to others and charming in themselves. From Wordnik.com. [The Choice of Life] Reference
Tommy Smith comes up, and us two'll give yer a real 'poo, sir -- none of yer sham' uns -- and make yer jyntes as lissom as injy rubber. From Wordnik.com. [Fire Island Being the Adventures of Uncertain Naturalists in an Unknown Track] Reference
Slim, lissom, sinuous, with those arresting eyes that seemed, so Fibinio tells us, to search out the very souls of all who came near her. From Wordnik.com. [Terribly Intimate Portraits] Reference
'Everything In Its Right Place', from the supposedly 'challenging' and contrary album Kid A, rolled along on a lissom techno-funk bounce. From Wordnik.com. Reference
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