lissomeness

First of all, it describes his face and frame: quite the exception in a profession so devoted to lissomeness in its anchorpersons.

In Memoriam: VF Daily Brenner, Marie 2009

First of all, it describes his face and frame: quite the exception in a profession so devoted to lissomeness in its anchorpersons.

Politics and Power: VF Daily Fair, Vanity 2008

First of all, it describes his face and frame: quite the exception in a profession so devoted to lissomeness in its anchorpersons.

Christopher Hitchens Remembers Tim Russert: Vanity Fair Fair, Vanity 2008

First of all, it describes his face and frame: quite the exception in a profession so devoted to lissomeness in its anchorpersons.

Culture: VF Daily Peretz, Evgenia 2008

The lissomeness with which he moved hither and thither was most impressive, as was his homicidal ardor when doing what I believe is called tackling.

I can't go on, I'll go on 2004

The waist line, rather high but clearly defined -- a precursor of the later more accentuated fashion -- gave grace to her long slender limbs, and emphasised the lissomeness of her figure.

I Will Repay Emmuska Orczy Orczy 1906

And from its base the column, after a gentle inward curve -- enough to give it a look of lissomeness and elastic strength -- sprang upright straight and firm to the lantern, ringed with a gallery and capped with a cupola of copper not yet greened by the weather; in outline as simple as a flower, in structure to the understanding eye almost as subtly organised, adapted and pieced into growth.

The Ship of Stars Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

No one looking at her limpid, shining blue eyes but would have set her down for twenty-three or twenty-four, for not a line showed on her smooth face; she was exquisite of limb and feature, and had the lissomeness of a girl of fifteen.

The Weavers: a tale of England and Egypt of fifty years ago - Complete Gilbert Parker 1897

No one looking at her limpid, shining blue eyes but would have set her down for twenty-three or twenty-four, for not a line showed on her smooth face; she was exquisite of limb and feature, and had the lissomeness of a girl of fifteen.

The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

No one looking at her limpid, shining blue eyes but would have set her down for twenty-three or twenty-four, for not a line showed on her smooth face; she was exquisite of limb and feature, and had the lissomeness of a girl of fifteen.

The Weavers: a tale of England and Egypt of fifty years ago - Volume 2 Gilbert Parker 1897