'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
'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
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
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