Now, our country lads, … are so much better made, so much more athletic, and yet so much lissomer—to use a Hampshire phrase, which deserves at least to be good English.

A brig you see, sir, is much more laboursome in a gale of wind. A Schooner is much lissomer built.

[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.

[Y]onder sly old trout has seen too much of us; there, taking advantage of an escort of the smaller fry, he's off while we speak; and one flap of his lissom tail has carried him ten yards away: …

We do not pretend to say the number of arms the character Siva] properly demands; but this matters the less, that the lissomest of human beings could not compass the proper pose even for a moment.

We have the hot women and the passionate men. We have lissome forms clinging. We have hot kisses showered. We have hero and heroine, by the merest accident of course, placed in exciting situations.

The joy in life of these animals—indeed, of almost all animals and birds in freedom—is very great. You may see it in every motion: in the lissom bound of the hare, the playful leap of the rabbit, the song that the lark and the finch must sing; …

There she was at last—taller, lissomer than ever, her green bag swinging in her hand and a gay lilt of a tune on her lips.

At last, with the approach of dusk, the lissom figure of young William hastened past my window-pane, followed by the less lissom figure of big Jock, …

What's estimable anyways in human kind? / The lissomest somatics and electest mind / Would perish undistinguished, dealt the selfsame hands / In undernourished epochs or unlettered lands, …

In his head, language flows, lithe and lissom, eloquent, all that he would say, all that he would like to tell her of what he has been feeling, what he has been thinking.

By then I would be living in a city somewhere, writing and drinking and living the life. I would have a beautiful slim lissom girlfriend with dark eyes and big breasts.

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