light-limbed

He even had time to load and fire again, when the light-limbed Olotoraca bounded forward, ran up the glacis, leaped the unfinished ditch, and drove his pike through the Spaniard from breast to back.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 Various

A light-limbed youth, with sloping shoulders, had thrown a loaf away when coming up to the trenches.

The Red Horizon Patrick MacGill 1926

Here, however, it was MacIan's turn to have the advantage; for, though less light-limbed and feline, he was longer and stronger in the arms.

The Ball and the Cross 1905

This "weak society" was the new company recruited by William Collier for Drury Lane Theatre, and wherein could be found, in addition to the light-limbed Hester, such players as her adoring swain, Barton Booth,

The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield Edward Robins 1902

Some masters desired work horses, and kept the heavy, muscular, stout-limbed animals; others desired riding and driving horses, so they saved for their use the light-limbed, angular horses that had endurance and mettle.

Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition Frank Lincoln Stevens 1902

Another developed along a line parallel to that of the horse, and herds of these light-limbed and swift-footed running rhinoceroses ranged the

The Elements of Geology William Harmon Norton 1900

It is not given to all men to be light-brained, light-limbed, light-fingered.

A Book of Scoundrels 1896

I recognized the man as Godfrey Cradlebow, the handsome fiddler's father, and the boy was none other than the imp whose eyes, scorching and defiant now, had first sent mocking glances back at me while their light-limbed owner kicked out a jaunty rigadoon from under the encircling folds of his sacerdotal vestments.

Cape Cod Folks Sarah P. McLean Greene 1895

Irene flitted in front, light-limbed and agile, humming gaily a verse of some song, but breaking off in the midst to ask Captain Stump not to be very angry if she brought a party of invaders to his tiny domain.

The Wheel O' Fortune Louis Tracy 1895

It is not given to all men to be light-brained, light-limbed, light-fingered.

A Book of Scoundrels Charles Whibley 1894