He increased the leanness and suppleness of the organization. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
His figure had always promise of athletic suppleness. From Wordnik.com. [The Hunted Outlaw or, Donald Morrison, the Canadian Rob Roy] Reference
He unites suppleness with force, he combines grace with vigor. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
That india-rubber suppleness, those little nerves of iron, his. From Wordnik.com. [The Bill-Toppers] Reference
Acrobats do not use any artificial preparation to increase their suppleness. From Wordnik.com. [Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume VIII, No 25: May 21, 1887] Reference
A short-stop should be a player of more than ordinary suppleness and activity. From Wordnik.com. [Base-Ball How to Become a Player] Reference
The top end WR-81 gets new materials aimed at improving suppleness and comfort. From Wordnik.com. [Interbike Tech – new shoes from Shimano, brakes from TRP and bikes from Litespeed] Reference
The "Red" Ralestones were marked also by height and a suppleness of body and movement. From Wordnik.com. [Ralestone Luck] Reference
The true mode of representing him is to give him suppleness, agility, the playfulness of. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Pantomime] Reference
But the grace, suppleness, and precision, so characteristic of the human hand, are lacking. From Wordnik.com. [A Fleece of Gold; Five Lessons from the Fable of Jason and the Golden Fleece] Reference
Because I lack suppleness I have not been able to win the sympathy or interest of my masters. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
There was a feline suppleness in his stance just as a jungle cat might wait coming of its prey. From Wordnik.com. [Key Out of Time] Reference
But when discipline hardens into dogma, a president loses the suppleness to respond to problems. From Wordnik.com. [What FDR Teaches Us] Reference
They are perpetual, and on that condition only does a dancer retain her activity and suppleness. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847] Reference
Pupils test the strength and suppleness of the branches and find the gummy nature of the surface. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study] Reference
An unusual suppleness in all bodily exercises gave to his carriage and to his movements grace and ease. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919] Reference
Physical exercises are then in order, to achieve for us suppleness of movement and to extend its scope. From Wordnik.com. [Poise: How to Attain It] Reference
Though of a build unusually powerful, his limbs possess all the grace and suppleness of the Apollo Belvedere. From Wordnik.com. [Venus in Boston; A Romance of City Life] Reference
Therese half turned her head and saw in the shadow Le Menil, who was bowing to her with his brusque suppleness. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
They watched her graceful movements, those two angular old ladies, and marvelled over her roundness and suppleness. From Wordnik.com. [Marcia Schuyler] Reference
This water cannot be entirely eradicated without injuring the leather, which will lose in suppleness and appearance. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 286, June 25, 1881] Reference
He was tall, and had that curious, loose-jointed suppleness that, I have heard women say, comes only from gentle blood. From Wordnik.com. [Montlivet] Reference
"All the Democrats have swooshy elements, a curve somewhere designed to signify a suppleness and willingness to listen.". From Wordnik.com. [The Stumper Stickers] Reference
"Sit down!" he said gently, and she sank to the ground as easily and with all the graceful suppleness of a native woman. From Wordnik.com. [Leonie of the Jungle] Reference
He was magnificently dressed in some vesture that had the luster of a polished plate of gold, and the suppleness of velvet. From Wordnik.com. [Edison's Conquest of Mars] Reference
Ann Hicks showed her suppleness by being one of the first to land and beating some of the boys; but she did not run with them. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding on Cliff Island Or, The Old Hunter's Treasure Box] Reference
They need not have felt embarrassed for there was the grace in their movements that goes with strength and youth and suppleness. From Wordnik.com. [Frontier Boys on the Coast or in the Pirate's Power] Reference
There is also a certain remarkable feebleness of constitution, combined, it may be, with vigour, suppleness and strength of body. From Wordnik.com. [From Slave to College President Being the Life Story of Booker T. Washington] Reference
"Have you anything to say?" demanded Squeers again, giving his right arm two or three flourishes to try its power and suppleness. From Wordnik.com. [The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book] Reference
In reality, I am not sociable, and I lack, absolutely, suppleness, delicacy, politeness, as much in my character as in my manners. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The suppleness of his Slavonic character displayed itself in this desperate game, in which, the happiness of his life was at stake. From Wordnik.com. [French and Oriental Love in a Harem] Reference
We weighed these shreds and they amounted to 194 lb. During this operation the skin had dried, and consequently lost its suppleness. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference
Stockholm in 1912, when a group of Finnish girls proved by their suppleness of body and gymnastic proficiency that the traditions of. From Wordnik.com. [Through Finland in Carts] Reference
Moreover, strength and suppleness have grown together; you have not stiffened by becoming stronger, but find yourself more flexible. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861] Reference
We often admire the suppleness of the fingers by means of which we can perform such a variety of acts with swiftness and delicacy. From Wordnik.com. [Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics] Reference
He lacked their dusky bloom, their clearness of eye, the suppleness and easy flow of muscle that is the hall-mark of these frontiersmen. From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Plains] Reference
I was enchanted with the suppleness and intensity of her movement and slowly edged to hide myself askew from the jam as not to disturb her. From Wordnik.com. [Our Closet] Reference
Rosina, who outfoxes her guardian to marry the man she adores, is an ideal showcase for Bartoli's comic timing, her uncanny facial mobility and her vocal suppleness. From Wordnik.com. [The Diva Goes Barefoot] Reference
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