"Flexile" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... in snow, and fanned by Arctic air Shines, gentle Barometz, thy golden hair; Rooted in earth each cloven hoof descends, And found and round her flexile neck she bends: Crops the green coral moss, and hoary thyme, Or laps with rosy tongue the melting rime; Eyes with mute tenderness her distant dam, Or seems to ...
— Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure • William Thomas Fernie
... neck their gold he twined, Kissed the soft violet on her temples warm, And eye brow—just so dark might well define Its flexile arch;—throne of ...
— Zophiel - A Poem • Maria Gowen Brooks
... it was so clear, so perfect, so imploring. A far more correct musician than Mary might have paused with equal admiration of the really scientific knowledge with which the poor depressed-looking young needlewoman used her superb and flexile voice. Deborah Travis herself (once an Oldham factory girl, and afterwards the darling of fashionable crowds as Mrs. Knyvett) might have owned a sister in ...
— Mary Barton • Elizabeth Gaskell |
