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Quotes About Lithe

She really is a huge fan." Ulf closed his eyes. He saw the professor being pursued by a group of his fans, the huge ones struggling to keep up with the thinner, more lithe fans, dropping exhausted and disappointed.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
His nickname through all the wards was ' Little Friend of all the World'; and very often, being lithe and inconspicuous, he executed commissions by night on the crowded housetops for sleek and shiny young men of fashion. It was intrigue, of course.
~ Rudyard Kipling
I used to think of my body as an instrument, of pleasure, or a means of transportation, or an implement for the accomplishment of my will. I could make it run, push buttons, of one sort or another, make things happen. There were limits but my body was nevertheless lithe, single, solid, one with me. Now the flesh arranges it self differently.
~ Margaret Atwood
He's lithe and tanned and taut. But to my eye he's lost something. He has a synthetic quality, like orange soda instead of freshly squeezed juice. It's orangey and bubbly and it quenches your thirst, but it leaves a bitter aftertaste. And it's not good for you.
~ Sophie Kinsella
Then a beautiful silver-pelted she-cat took his place. A lithe tabby tom followed. His touch set the flame-pelted tom's fur rippling as though he were running through wind.
~ Erin Hunter
The cool, lithe, cynical, and unconquered lord of the housetops.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
His movements could be called catlike, except that he did not stop to spray urine up against things.
~ Terry Pratchett
I am very flexible and can kick over my head.
~ Paul Walter Hauser
Murder isn't like other squads. When it's working right, it would take your breath away: it's precision-cut and savage, lithe and momentous, it's a big cat leaping full-stretch or a beauty of a rifle so smooth it practically fires itself.
~ Tana French
The breeze of Spring is not so blithe, The sea-gull not so free, No silver fish so light and lithe To wind in the green sea. Nor e'er did subtle alchemist Compound such wondrous dyes Of sapphire sky and emerald mist As the hue of Barbara's eyes.
~ HENRY CHARLES BEECHING
But Jewish history is far more than the static tale of antisemitism. It is also a story of constant motion that kept Jews lithe
~ David N. Myers
She swayed with Bony, loose and lithe as the river, while the bandit knight bore down on like a red tide.
~ Nicola Griffith
She looked alert and lithe, a dancer with briefcase in the wrong building.
~ Nicola Griffith