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His lissomely beautiful wife Anne-Aymone was a movable feast of French high fashion, showing off no fewer than 14 Diors, Chanels, Courr�ges and the like during their brief stay.

From Time Magazine Archive

Kho rippled his tentacles and moved lissomely to the doorway, assuming a grotesquely furtive posture as he peered out.

From Flamedown by Fyfe, Horace Brown

A whiff of warm wind might have blown her, so swiftly, lissomely she ran toward the other door, laughing back at him across her shoulder and leaving a trail of aromatic scent.

From The Winds of the World by Mundy, Talbot

The General's bulky and commanding figure would bend lissomely at a point where you would have regarded its ability to do so with incredulity.

From Roads of Destiny by Henry, O.

While uttering these words, he snatched the glass, and, as all eyes were fixed upon him, he moved away lissomely, as if swayed by the wind.

From Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books by Joly, H. Bencraft