Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being lithe or lithesome.
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Examples
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Hers was an extreme lithesomeness, and she moved with a certain indefinable airiness, approaching one as down might float or as a bird on noiseless wings.
Chapter 23 2010
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"Yes, so I heard," was the calm response of the fourth girl, who swung in with a certain vigor and lithesomeness as though she had just come from a game of tennis or basketball.
The Outdoor Girls at Ocean View Or, The Box That Was Found in the Sand Laura Lee Hope
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The girlish curves and lithesomeness had not departed; but they carried a suggestion of approaching maturity.
'Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands Eliot H. Robinson
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Hers was an extreme lithesomeness, and she moved with a certain indefinable airiness, approaching one as down might float or as a bird on noiseless wings.
Chapter 23 1904
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At the end of that time she came out through the folding-doors with the old smile upon her lips and the old lithesomeness in her movements.
A Prince of Sinners 1906
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Her hair, her eyes, the flowerlike lithesomeness of her beautiful body -- and something more, something that he could not see but which he could FEEL in her presence, told him that this was so.
God's Country—And the Woman James Oliver Curwood 1903
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Her hair, her eyes, the flowerlike lithesomeness of her beautiful body -- and something more, something that he could not see but which he could FEEL in her presence, told him that this was so.
God's Country—And the Woman James Oliver Curwood 1903
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Her hair, her eyes, the flowerlike lithesomeness of her beautiful body -- and something more, something that he could not see but which he could FEEL in her presence, told him that this was so.
God's Country—And the Woman James Oliver Curwood 1903
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But it is just this lithesomeness of hers that I admire -- like an up-leaping fountain of life, coming direct out of the depths of the Creator's heart.
The Home and the World Rabindranath Tagore 1901
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Hers was an extreme lithesomeness, and she moved with a certain indefinable airiness, approaching one as down might float or as a bird on noiseless wings.
The Sea Wolf Jack London 1896
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