1 Remember, thou hast made me more powerful than thyself; my height is superior to thine, my joints more supple.
2 My organs were indeed harsh, but supple; and although my voice was very unlike the soft music of their tones, yet I pronounced such words as I understood with tolerable ease.
3 Varenka, who had just crouched down to pick a mushroom, rose with a supple movement and looked round.
4 Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.
5 He did not say good night until she had become supple to his gentle, seductive entreaties.
6 Without ceremony, and with a rough hand, he twirled the supple Gamut around on his heel, and more than once affirmed that the Hurons had done themselves great credit in the fashion of his costume.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 22 7 I feel a foil as quick and supple as my own.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 5. Three Broken Threads 8 I felt, as I looked upon that supple figure, alive with nervous energy, that it was indeed a strenuous day that awaited us.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL 9 Natasha rose slowly and carefully, crossed herself, and stepped cautiously on the cold and dirty floor with her slim, supple, bare feet.
10 She started, glanced round at him, and screening the candle with her hand stooped carefully with a supple and exact movement, picked up the ball, and regained her former position.
11 In his hand he held a switch which was as supple as a vine-shoot and as heavy as iron.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—FORMS ASSUMED BY SUFFERING DURING SLEEP 12 This pale child of the Parisian faubourgs lives and develops, makes connections, "grows supple" in suffering, in the presence of social realities and of human things, a thoughtful witness.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—HE MAY BE OF USE 13 I kept all my limbs very supple.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland By Lewis CarrollContext Highlight In CHAPTER V. Advice from a Caterpillar 14 The sentiment of the opening bars, their languor and supple movement, evoked the incommunicable emotion which had been the cause of all his day's unrest and of his impatient movement of a moment before.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 2 15 , because this woman at the window, this lush, supple, warm body in its sombre clothes of rough, heavy material belonged to him, totally to him and to him alone.
The Trial By Franz KafkaContext Highlight In Chapter Three In the empty Courtroom - The Student - The ...