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She made an impression upon him in her lightness and grace, her small proportions, her lissomness of outline, very like that of a Tanagra figure.

From Missing by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

She usually retained her appearance of soft lissomness, but periodically had a fit of iron rigidity, when her eyes blazed from under her pale tawny locks like those of a distrustful wild animal.

From The Fat and the Thin by Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred

He was stouter than Harry, although less broadly built, and had none of the lissomness which enabled the latter to wriggle through the bars.

From Friends, though divided A Tale of the Civil War by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

The girl's beauty, her grace and youth, and the slight lissomness of all her body lent to the dance a poetry, a refinement it would not have possessed with another exponent.

From Six Women by Cross, Victoria