See lithe in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter III (Accessory After the Fact), page 382, column 2:",
"text": "She was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had expected to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe, polished, pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven, burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp.",
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{
"ref": "1997, David Foster Wallace, “Getting Away From Already Pretty Much Being Away From It All”, in A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, Kindle edition, Little, Brown Book Group:",
"text": "The coaches are grim, tan, lithe-looking women, clearly twirlers once, on the far side of their glory now and very serious-looking, each with a clipboard and whistle.",
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"text": "the elephant’s lithe trunk.",
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"ref": "1861, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Elsie Venner, page 125",
"text": "… she danced with a kind of passionate fierceness, her lithe body undulating with flexuous grace …"
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"ref": "1900, Grant Allen, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter VIII, in Hilda Wade:",
"text": "Doolittle and myself waited. Colebrook kept on cautiously, squirming his long body in sinuous waves like a lizard's through the grass, and was soon lost to us. No snake could have been lither.",
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"ref": "2018 March 8, Eric Asimov, “Bubbles, With Joy: Pétillant Naturel’s Triumphant Return”, in The New York Times:",
"text": "Yet the 2016 Éxilé rosé from Lise et Bertrand Jousset in the Loire Valley, made mostly of gamay, was yeasty let^([sic – meaning yet]) light and lithe, while the 2016 Indigeno from Ancarani in Emilia-Romagna, made of trebbiano, was taut and earthy.",
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"ref": "1642, Daniel Rogers, Naaman the Syrian: His Disease and Cure:",
"text": "Give me also faith, Lord,.. to lithe, to form, and to accommodate my spirit and members.",
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