1 His arms became stiff, his legs lost their flexibility, and he was almost breathless.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasGet Context In Chapter 21. The Island of Tiboulen. 2 He was in flexible mail, and under the rim of his planished morion were amorous curls.
Main Street By Sinclair LewisGet Context In CHAPTER XVII 3 Because at some more flexible period he had advanced from oranges to grape-fruit he considered himself an epicure.
Main Street By Sinclair LewisGet Context In CHAPTER XXIV 4 So that tormented to madness, he was now churning through the water, violently flailing with his flexible tail, and tossing the keen spade about him, wounding and murdering his own comrades.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleGet Context In CHAPTER 87. The Grand Armada. 5 The travelers anxiously regarded the upright, flexible figure of the young Mohican, graceful and unrestrained in the attitudes and movements of nature.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperGet Context In CHAPTER 6 6 The natural taste and true ear of David governed and modified the sounds to suit the confined cavern, every crevice and cranny of which was filled with the thrilling notes of their flexible voices.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperGet Context In CHAPTER 6 7 Augustine, with his blue eyes and golden hair, his ethereally flexible form and vivacious features; and Alfred, dark-eyed, with haughty Roman profile, firmly-knit limbs, and decided bearing.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher StoweGet Context In CHAPTER XXIII 8 His head, supported by a long and flexible neck, issued from his large black robe, balancing itself with a motion very much like that of the tortoise thrusting his head out of his shell.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasGet Context In 13 MONSIEUR BONACIEUX 9 The blade was round, and of flexible silver.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasGet Context In 52 CAPTIVITY: THE FIRST DAY 10 Chateau-Renaud contented himself with tapping his boot with his flexible cane.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasGet Context In Chapter 91. Mother and Son. 11 Mobile and flexible, it was never intended to be compressed in the eternal silence of solitude: it is a mouth which should speak much and smile often, and have human affection for its interlocutor.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte BronteGet Context In CHAPTER XIX 12 The sight of such a flexible bend as that on grim Egdon was quite an apparition.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyGet Context In BOOK 1: 7 Queen of Night 13 She went up to him and with a swift, flexible, youthful movement dropped on her knees.
War and Peace(V4) By Leo TolstoyGet Context In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXXI 14 They hollow out head-gear to guard them, and plait wickerwork round shield-bosses; others forge breastplates of brass or smooth greaves of flexible silver.