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Sun-tanned and weather-beaten, they are models of English sailors: frank, self-reliant, unassuming, obedient, nimble, vigorous, and resolute.
Madge, kneeling beside her, helped with nimble fingers; and Philip, hands clasped behind him, stood looking on admiringly.
He abandoned his pursuit of philology almost entirely for the cherishing and adoration of this busy, nimble little creature.
Stories of the after-dinner type, audacious occasionally, but never coarse, and always redeemed by a pretty and nimble art.
Over fallen logs, gullies, and streams we galloped, finding it no easy matter to keep up with our nimble four-footed companions.
We encourage the enterprising doctor in his giddy chase after the nimble dollar, as he produces anti-toxin serums to order.
With nimble accustomed fingers Lady Mary undid Nora's dress, while the doctor applied the remedies usual in hysterical fainting.
Nimble fingers roll the fragrant cigarette, and dissonant voices rise above the white spiral smoke into the clear bright air.
He hauled many an old-time statesman safely in his nimble coach, and afterward dined him sumptuously in his bountiful tavern.
Animals awaken from their winter sleep, and flies having become torpid from cold become nimble again when they are warmed.
The rabbit is nimble, lives keenly, is prevented from degenerating into a diseased crawling eater of herbs by the incessant ferret.
The stallion, on the other hand, soon realized the futility of his present method of attack against so nimble an adversary.
He caught sight of something feminine behind the hedgerow; the next instant a remarkably nimble girl came over a half-made gap.
A handsome youth was brought into her presence, a quick-witted, intelligent, crafty lad, with nimble tongue and unusually taking manners.
They are astonishingly athletic and powerful; and the most nimble, active, graceful, cheerful, and even merry people in the world.
He is tall, he is shapely, he is active; his leaps and nimble movements display to advantage his virile elegance and grace.
Recollecting himself however, he trod the mead with nimble feet, and approached, trembling and with hesitation, to the eastern avenue.
Her nimble, white fingers made short work of the task that she had set herself; Larry's remonstrances availed him nothing.
Thibaut too, groping for his nimble antagonist and beginning to despair of crushing the man, heard and understood the summons.
He had that sure and nimble judgment which enables some men to inspire their lieutenants rather than categorically to instruct them.
They are as nimble as deer, and descend from their mountains into the plains of Greece, committing robberies and making booty.
Her dorsal fin opens out and is cautiously raised, while her eyes greedily watch the movements of the nimble little fish.
His ears had grown acute, his legs nimble in that dreadful, faraway life, and listening while he slept became second nature.
There were ladies, too, modest enough, but certainly unconventional, nimble free-footed beings, with feathers and ribbons streaming airily as they flitted.
It now became a trifling feat for these nimble adventurers to swing themselves across to Florine's room, but twelve feet or so away.
It would have been impossible for me to make her understand that I was not nimble in violent readjustments; so I held my peace.
This done, the nimble fingers calmly replaced the lungs and other items, quite as though they were reassembling a piece of machinery.
Music and the murmur of nimble feet and happy laughter swept out the wide-open doors past which white figures flitted swiftly.
The fact that in so doing he discredited the first miracle of his Savior was a difficulty easily surmounted by a nimble theologian.
They chased with great daring, and before the long galleys could turn on their nimble tormentors they had been well peppered.
Even with the dignity of nineteen years, the nimble wits of Carol and Lark still struggled with the irreproachable gravity of Connie.
He asked Rob, as he watched the latter's nimble fingers, with considerable dexterity into the bargain, draw the bandage tightly into place.
Day after day the air had the same indescribable liveliness and sweetness, soft and nimble, and cool as the cheek of health.
"You are lucky that you did not sustain a fracture," decided the surgeon, as, with nimble fingers, he sewed the flesh together.
And, without recoiling a step, the nimble little one made a graceful bound, which landed her several feet beyond the other margin.
Each brown toe clasped the boughs like a finger, nimble and independent of its fellows through long use in grasping limbs and rocks.
Now, as she sat with some gay sewing beneath her nimble fingers, she glanced once and again at the shadowed face opposite her.
In many homes nimble fingers had been busy for days fashioning certain garments that were to make the wearers quite fascinating to beholders.
Jumble sat in the middle catching with nimble, snapping jaws dainties flung to him from time to time by his circle of admirers.
Nimble always thumped down the ponderous Taylor upon any objection of the learned Judge, and crushed it as though it were a butterfly.
A nimble rogue: a kind of licensed pest, with a droll face resembling those rubber toys that wink and grimace between your fingers.
Frantically he snapped his big jaws at his elusive assailants, but got only a few mouthfuls of soft fur, so nimble were they.
The strength and agility of this most nimble creature are astonishing; they are more difficult of approach than the chamois of the Alps.
He opened his eyes and instantly started up, collecting his wits with the nimble dexterity of one used to instant and urgent calls.
They had knowledge of herbs which had been handed down to them by their ancestors, and their fingers were skillful and nimble.
Yet he was nimble withal, a man capable of swift and sure movement within a limited area, therein resembling a bull, or a hippopotamus.
As soon as she reached the river bank, she quickened her pace, and hurried with a nimble step towards the distant thicket.
And the nimble figure scrambled noiselessly down to the ground and darted away to find Nelly who was anxiously waiting for him.
With every fiber strung but under control, he closes in on the badger, with nimble, springy movement learned in the wrestling ring.
Now nimble squirrels frisked up the gray trunks of the oaks and watched the travelers inquisitively with bushy ears and tails uplifted.
And the nimble cowards were on their feet and scampering like scared rabbits to the orchard, or into the basement of the great house.
He kept things lively there with his nimble wit, and in particular subjected his host to a perpetual and merciless fire of "chaff."
Indeed, the appearance of the yeoman was well calculated to stir tongues less nimble than those of the pert salesmen of Fleet Street.
Moses had probably to take a nimble jump away from the rock after that venerable lawgiver had knocked the water out of it.
His nimble fancy was recalcitrant to mental discipline, and he excused his inattention with the plea that he had no head for business.
Nimble Dick was amazed at himself and ashamed of himself; he did not know how to account for his sudden change of intention.
The Municipality does not exist that would be nimble enough to overtake the Roman growth of green in the high places of the city.
My readers must be informed that King Don Pedro, though nimble and muscular, suffered from one strange fault in his physical conformation.
His first care is to provide himself with a stalwart and nimble horse, perfectly broken and capable of enduring fatigue in a southern climate.
One of the youngest was lady hostess, and presided at the head of the table, aided in her duties by several nimble waiting maids.
Wit is the plaything of the intellectual, or the weapon of nimble minds; humor is the possession of all sorts and conditions of men.
Legend informs us that these rings are magic circles within which elves and other nimble fairy folk hold their revels at midnight.
Involuntarily exclaimed a thousand persons in unison, as the line of nimble runners was seen to leap into action, and shoot away with amazing speed.
It was evident that something had disturbed these nimble inhabitants of the forest, for they were yelling and chattering at a great rate.
This time the ball went to quarter and that nimble youth romped ahead for the needed distance and was downed on the twenty-five.
Their only thought is to perish on the outraged threshold, and, lean, shrunk, nimble, unrestrained, they defend it with unheard-of heroism and desperation.
As soon as Miranda was asleep, Prospero summoned his dainty and nimble little sprite, Ariel, and asked whether he had performed his bidding.
The next instant his watch dropped forgotten from his fingers and his nimble little legs scurried for territory beyond the log.
Her nimble fingers sharpened the poles that were to spear the gleaming herring, or fashioned the weirs of rushes to catch the fish.
And furtively Time looked him in the face and edged towards him fingering with his dripping fingers the hilt of his nimble sword.
Friend could interpose, the girl's nimble fingers had tied the narrow velvet carrying a round locket which was her chaperon's only ornament.
Now the locust is an article of diet, though it has not yet attained the dignity of the position enjoyed by the nimble prawn.
The transformation of a stiff military officer into a nimble Puck, a runner of errands and a sprightly attendant, could not pass without notice.
Her fresh young eyesight and diligent, nimble hand were invaluable to him, and he wondered how he had got on so long without them.
Formerly more chattering than the locusts, he became mute; he was now dull and listless, whereas he had been more nimble than the goats.
They were occupied by a class of active men, who bought of importers and sold to country dealers on the principle of the nimble sixpence.
She meekly allowed herself to be tied into a coarse white apron, and set to work on the big basket of berries with nimble fingers.
Nimble, he ran over the boat and grasped the branches of the tree just as the jaguar flopped paws and head over the stern gunwale.
An educated man will make a nimble workman, just as an educated man learns his drill from the military instructor more quickly than a clown.
This sport, therefore, requires a nimble hand, a quick eye, a swift foot, and skill in wrestling; as well as strength, good wind, and lungs.
Mercury was nimble in bringing them hatchets; to each offering that which he had lost, as also another of gold, and a third of silver.
Ellen was delighted with the curious bird he had brought her, and Maria undertook to tame it, as she had the parrot and Nimble.
The Spaniards were unused to Indian warfare, and were no match for the quick, nimble savages, who glided through the forests silently and swiftly.
Old Margery's fumbling hands were not nimble either, and it was long since she had acted as attendant upon one of her own sex.
Instantly there was a hurried scurrying, as a number of small but nimble half-grown rabbits darted this way and that, as if greatly frightened.
It is an active and nimble species, an expert catcher of flies, fond of hanging to the extremities of branches, like several others of the tribe.
Legs that had entered slow and stately upon the interminable maze, became, without the knowledge or consent of their owners, nimble and gymnastics.
The players run in single file and jump with both feet at once over the candlestick, while all recite: Jack be nimble, Jack be quick.
Phil raised her hands and with brown nimble fingers found and readjusted the pin that affixed a shabby felt hat to her hair.
You can imagine no prettier spectacle than that of a skillful potter causing the clay, under his nimble fingers, to assume the most varied forms.
The squared elbows, nimble knife, bent head grossly caricatured himself in the first days of his marriage, and vividly recalled Helen's gentle tutelage.
They push the roots of the young shoots deep down into the soft mud, with their nimble hands and feet, with amazing rapidity.
Her nimble little feet, which were bare, were evidently familiar with the ground they trod, with the stones, the puddles and the thistles.
We will hunt the nimble deer with you, and show you where the mighty eagle roosts, and where the fish with shining scales abides.
To his fierce disappointment, however, the nimble little beast was so inconsiderate as to take refuge in a dense bramble thicket which he could not penetrate.
For nearly half an hour his aged but nimble fingers had followed the singer's most extravagant flights, and he now began obviously to falter.
The girls met at one another's homes after school, and, busy as their tongues were, those nimble organs failed to outstrip the industrious fingers.
He looked at his bony little hoofs and wished they were claws; at his short stiff legs, and remembered the nimble little barn-yard kitties.
How many mothers are there whose tongues are nimble with scandal and bitter with scolding, and whose brains are busy with vanities and jealousies!
George turned from the window he saw that the door leading into the hall, urged by some nimble gust, imaginative or prying, had swung ajar.