Her lissome figure moved gracefully across the dance floor.
Source: tatoeba (12900485)
Lissome
Synonyms for "lissome" (59 found)
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He carries his head high and walks with a lissome stride.
Source: tatoeba (12900489)
[T]he most striking object was the long array of shoes and boots of all lengths, breadths, and thicknesses; high-lows, low-highs, lace-ups, mud-boots, waders, and snow-boots. If they were not waterproof, as they professed to be, the only question was, as it appeared to me, how they ever got dry and lissome again, when they were once wet.
Source: wiktionary
Straight, but as lissome as a hazel wand; / Her eyes a bashful azure, and her hair / In gloss and hue the chestnut, when the shell / Divides threefold to show th'fruit within.
Source: wiktionary
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