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The barefooted lads, with their nimble, gazellelike legs, were all well looking, and might have been cast all in one mold. [10]
Yes, your nimble wit has helped you out of many a tight corner. [9]
Those around me who were sufficiently nimble began to run towards the noise, and I ran after them. [9]
Eight nimble hands, which were often aided by Iras's skilful fingers, toiled busily, and soon the latter could hold up the mirror before Cleopatra, exclaiming from the very depths of her heart, "Like the foam-born Aphrodite and the golden Hathor! [10]
While Frau Lerch was working with wonderful dexterity, she also permitted her nimble tongue no rest. [10]
The landlady of The Pike had arranged them daintily upon fresh vine leaves an hour before with her own plump but nimble hands. [10]
He had passed the months in a various life; first as a crier to a wandering quack, and afterwards, inasmuch as he was a nimble and likely lad, he had waited on the guests at one of the best frequented inns at Wurzberg. [10]
At this moment the gladiator Tarautas, as nimble as a cat and as bloodthirsty as a hungry wolf, sprang on to one of the enemy's piled-up wagons, and a tall swordsman, with a bear-skin over his shoulder, and long, reddish-gold hair, flew to meet him. [10]
The reproof of the displeased tone is evidently felt, for she settles at once to her work, showing perhaps a little impatience, jerking her head up and down, and protesting by her nimble movements against the more deliberate trot of her companion. [4]
The rest of the comical ornaments and the thought of the nimble adventurer, who must have climbed up to fasten them, formed a glaring and offensive contrast to the caricature of the gallows. [10]
A better decoy than he cannot be imagined, and besides he is nimble and an excellent horseman. [10]
And Maria, our singing bird, our nimble little squirrel, with those grave, world-weary Sisters! [10]
With nimble fingers she loosened the bridle and removed the bit. [13]
The wife of Pyrrhus--"mother," as they all called her--had proved to be a skilful nurse, and her daughters-in-law and young Dione were faithful and nimble assistants. [10]
Jason stood directly opposite, and, while thus measuring each other with their eyes, Semestre looked like a cautious cat awaiting the attack of the less nimble but stronger shepherd's dog. [10]
Herdegen was healed of his bruises and his light limbs had never been more nimble than now; still he bore his left arm in a sling, for there it was, said he, that the horse's hoof had hit him. [10]
He was a nimble fellow, for he had risked the leap from the window, and then swung himself over the fence into the road. [10]
Whence had the nimble fellow come so quickly? [10]
For instance, one must be daring, and discreet, and nimble, and ready to give the law a presentable answer, and lacking that, a piastre. [9]
Of Mr. Cyrus Meeker, whose mustaches, at the age of five and sixty, are waxed as tight as ever, and whose little legs to-day are as nimble as of yore. [9]
It was a leaf-joiner who sat opposite to her at the works, a poor, deformed creature, who, nevertheless, plied her nimble fingers contentedly and silently, and who at first had taught Selene and Arsinoe many useful tricks of working. [10]
But when it is necessary to be nimble, the knight has his dancing dress also. [10]
She saw herself in imagination travelling along the highway with nimble jugglers merry musicians, and other care-free vagrant folk, instead of plying the needle. [10]
I assure you, I am really stronger than he is, for I can lift greater weights, but he is as nimble as an eel, and has wonderful tricks by which he gets hold of his adversary. [10]
Take care, your Highness, he is following, as my nimble cousin Frangipani did a short time ago, in the footsteps of the Saint of Assisi. [10]
One of the hemispheres hangs fire, they suppose, and the small interval between the perceptions of the nimble and the sluggish half seems an indefinitely long period, and therefore the second perception appears to be the copy of another, ever so old. [6]
So, feigning that he had noticed nothing, he pretended to be much amused by Biberli's nimble flight. [10]
The nimble maid had shown her skill that day. [10]
Gilded wooden benches had been placed round in a large circle, and nimble cup-bearers handed wine in costly vessels to the company assembled for the shooting-match. [10]
The people murmured, for the astrologer was old, and always before had been halting of movement and at times even lame, but he was nimble enough now and went on with his antics in the liveliest manner. [5]
Your nimble tongue finds no reply. [10]
You have nimble feet, Raphu;--I undertook to warn the strangers to prepare for a speedy departure. [10]
Most of the epigramatists were silenced forever, and the nimble wit of the survivors was quelled for many a month by bitter curses or tears of sorrow. [10]
When he emerged at the quarry he felt secure, and so he picked up his nimble heels and flew. [5]
He's as nimble as a cat, and as strong as a bear. [10]
These little paths are full of pitfalls among the roots and stones; and, nimble as the deer is, he sometimes breaks one of his slender legs in them. [4]
The barber's nimble apprentice hung the towel and basin at the door, while his master, wearied by the wine-bibbing and talk at the tavern or his labour at the fire, was still asleep. [10]
One of these, a nimble little man, was wearing a blue coat tied round the waist with a rope. [2]
By this time a nimble groom had appeared from out o a shrubbery path and seized Pepper's head. [9]

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