First of all, it describes his face and frame: quite the exception in a profession so devoted to lissomeness in its anchorpersons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Politics and Power: VF Daily] Reference

The lissomeness with which he moved hither and thither was most impressive, as was his homicidal ardor when doing what I believe is called tackling.    From Wordnik.com.  [I can't go on, I'll go on] Reference

Her movements retained all the lissomeness of youth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mountebank] Reference

It enveloped her exquisite form, without concealing the grace and lissomeness of her movements.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Dog] Reference

The waist line, rather high but clearly defined -- a precursor of the later more accentuated fashion -- gave grace to her long slender limbs, and emphasised the lissomeness of her figure.    From Wordnik.com.  [I Will Repay] Reference

Although his limbs still smarted from the weals and sores left by the cords they had now recovered their lissomeness; but he was weak from want of food, and no longer walked with the free elastic stride which distinguished the Scottish infantry.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lion of the North A tale of the times of Gustavus Adolphus] Reference

And from its base the column, after a gentle inward curve -- enough to give it a look of lissomeness and elastic strength -- sprang upright straight and firm to the lantern, ringed with a gallery and capped with a cupola of copper not yet greened by the weather; in outline as simple as a flower, in structure to the understanding eye almost as subtly organised, adapted and pieced into growth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ship of Stars] Reference

Her dress of a delicate pink, touched here and there with black, her wide black hat, and the eyes which glowed from the small pointed face beneath it; the tumbling masses of her dark hair as contrasted with her general lightness and slenderness; the red of the lips, the whiteness of the hands and brow, the dainty irregularity of feature: these things made a Watteau sketch of her, all pure colour and lissomeness, with dots and scratches of intense black.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marriage à la mode] Reference

"Not just now, sir; he has hauled off to repair damages, and he wants all his strength and lissomeness to tackle a great worm like that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rob Harlow's Adventures A Story of the Grand Chaco] Reference