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Lissom   Listen
adjective
Lissome, Lissom  adj.  
1.
Limber; supple; flexible; lithe; lithesome. "Straight, but as lissome as a hazel wand."
2.
Light; nimble; active.





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"Lissom" Quotes from Famous Books



... so limber, lissom, lithe of sway, * Brunettes tall, slender straight like Samhar's nut-brown lance;[FN380] Languid of eyelids and with silky down on either cheek, * Who fixed in lover's heart work ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 4 • Richard F. Burton
... in a great effulgence that emanated from herself as if she were grown luminous. Her robe was of cloth of silver and of a dazzling sheen, and it hung closely to her lissom, virginal form, defining every line and curve of it; and by the chaste beauty of her I was moved to purest ecstasy of ...
— The Strolling Saint • Raphael Sabatini
... slightly. We have not met half a dozen times. It was only tonight, you see, that I began to know her well. We talked together, and I got a glimpse of her real self—of her slender little body, of her earthly tenement, of course, I had an idea before. She is a lissom thing, with eyes like wells, and with a way to her which conveys the idea of wisdom without wickedness, and which makes a man wish he were not what he is, and were more ...
— A Man and a Woman • Stanley Waterloo


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