The flexuous bed of the stream. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
What a kitten-like, flexuous, tender creature she was!. From Wordnik.com. [Life's Little Ironies] Reference
Cirrus: Parallel, flexuous or divergent fibres extensible in any and all directions. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
The rachis of the spike is very slender, angular, flexuous, narrower than the spikelets, scaberulous with a few long cilia at the angles. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
The fruit is slender and flexuous; frequently measures more than three feet in length; and is often gracefully coiled or folded in a serpent-like form. From Wordnik.com. [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference
Elsewhere it looked flexuous, here it looked vermiculated and lumpy, and her marine experiences suggested to her in a moment that two currents met and caused a turmoil at this place. From Wordnik.com. [A Changed Man] Reference
Spikes or branches are slender, alternate, 1 to 2-1/2 inches, becoming shorter upwards, thickened and puberulous at the base, and the secondary rachis is flexuous, grooved, angular, and obscurely pubescent. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
Her flexuous and stealthy figure became an integral part of the scene. From Wordnik.com. [Tess of the d'Urbervilles] Reference
By Mr.A. May. the expression lies in the continuous flexuous movements. From Wordnik.com. [The expression of the emotions in man and animals] Reference
The outer lip is simple and sharp, pillar lip flexuous and concave above. From Wordnik.com. [Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds] Reference
It is generally flexuous, and constricted at intervals so as to present a varicose appearance. From Wordnik.com. [VIII. The Lymphatic System. 2. The Thoractic Duct] Reference
The vertebral column is a flexuous and flexible column, formed of a series of bones called vertebræ. From Wordnik.com. [II. Osteology. 3. The Vertebral Column] Reference
Only Henchard did not conform to these flexuous changes; he remained stately and vertical, silently thinking. From Wordnik.com. [The Mayor of Casterbridge] Reference
Temanu was tall, slender, serpent-like, her body flexuous and undulatory, responding to every quaver of the music. From Wordnik.com. [Mystic Isles of the South Seas.] Reference
Elsewhere it looked flexuous, here it looked vermiculated and lumpy, and her marine experiences suggested to her in. From Wordnik.com. [Victorian Short Stories: Stories of Successful Marriages] Reference
A little further on we crossed the main ridge of Sakkiazung, a long flexuous chain stretching for miles to the westward from Phulloot on. From Wordnik.com. [Himalayan Journals — Complete] Reference
The combination of the indifferent sentiment, the lingering melody and the flexuous backdrop is both unsettling and instantly memorable. From Wordnik.com. [UCLA Stories] Reference
Miss Templeman deposited herself on the sofa in her former flexuous position, and throwing her arm above her brow -- somewhat in the pose of. From Wordnik.com. [The Mayor of Casterbridge] Reference
These consist in the head and whole body being lowered and thrown into flexuous movements, with the tail extended and wagged from side to side. From Wordnik.com. [The expression of the emotions in man and animals] Reference
The man rode, and the girl walked in front with the elastic lightness, the unconscious flexuous grace of poise given her body by an outdoor life. From Wordnik.com. [Crooked Trails and Straight] Reference
For physic carrieth men in narrow and restrained ways, subject to many accidents and impediments, imitating the ordinary flexuous courses of nature. From Wordnik.com. [The Advancement of Learning] Reference
"Its back was dark green and it stood in the water in flexuous hillocks and went through it with infectious noise," says one account of her sighting. From Wordnik.com. [The Chronicle Herald - Maintenance Feed] Reference
The face was young in the groundwork, old in the finish; the general contours were flexuous and childlike, but the finer lineaments had begun to be sharp and thin. From Wordnik.com. [Far from the Madding Crowd] Reference
His thought had been unsuspended; he was becoming ill with thinking; eaten out with thinking, withered by thinking; scourged out of all his former pulsating flexuous domesticity. From Wordnik.com. [Tess of the d'Urbervilles] Reference
His thought had been unsuspended; he was becoming ill with thinking; eaten out with thinking, withered by thinking; scourged out of all his former pulsating, flexuous domesticity. From Wordnik.com. [Tess of the d'Urbervilles] Reference
The = stem = is very slender, flexuous, or straight, fistulose, tough, with soft hairs at the base, usually yellowish, sometimes the same color as the cap, and viscid like the cap when moist. From Wordnik.com. [Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.] Reference
Add that this colouring kept an April freshness; add, too, her mother's height and more than her mother's grace of movement, an outline virginally severe yet flexuous as a palm-willow in April winds; and you have. From Wordnik.com. [Hetty Wesley] Reference
A few wrinkles, a few flexuous furrows, which announce that the stumps are bundles of tissue cunningly folded and reduced to the smallest possible volume. From Wordnik.com. [Social Life in the Insect World] Reference
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