lithe

• “I suppose they wanted to remind buyers of the term lithe, but I thought "stone" when I saw it.”

  Sightings: Ice, Missed Connections, and UFO-Seeking Freak Bikes

• “A small but far from minor miracle ... a story that is both tragic and full of light and grace ... full of suspense and written in lithe, resilient prose that by itself delights.”

  The Lovely Bones: Summary and book reviews of The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold.

• “In the morning we awoke in lithe, though fluttered spirits; and after breakfast, in their pleasant kitchen, with "Michael," and "Blue-eye," and "White Lady," and half-a-dozen more purring about us, we took leave of a house where we have enjoyed many pleasant hours, and once more assembled at our own as the final rendezvous.”

  Autobiography and Other Memorials of Mrs. Gilbert, Formerly Ann Taylor

• “What a pretty word lithe is - so pretty that in modern English it is probably most used of young women.”

  Litha (June): the early English calendar

• “Traveling conditions must have deteriorated in the course of the Middle Ages, since 'lithe' in this sense got replaced by the French word for 'labor!”

  Litha (June): the early English calendar

• “Lange is, if anything, a big, beautiful woman — she radiates a feline, almost leonine tawniness and self-confidence, and has been admired by some crit-ics for her "lithe" presence.”

  Victims on Broadway

• “I did manage to pronounce "lithe" without incident.”

  FUGville Weblogs

• “The 14 dancers in the final team are young, lithe and preternaturally flexible.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Cunningham's Legacy Touches the West Coast

• “I guess had to give up on the idea of ever being lithe or willowy.”

  Simon & Schuster: Raziel

• “Once her body had almost equaled his, lithe and young and beautiful.”

  Simon & Schuster: Raziel

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