| 单词 | supple-sliding |
| 释义 | > as lemmassupple-sliding C3. Chiefly literary. Adverbially with present participial adjectives, as supple-moving, supple-sliding, etc. ΚΠ 1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer iii. f. cccliiii The euen draught of the wyre drawer, maketh the wyre to ben euen and supple werchynge. 1838 H. W. Torrens tr. Bk. Thousand Nights & One Night I. 163 By his supple moving hips, his taper waist, and silky skin. 1860 Ld. Tennyson Sea Dreams 164 My eyes..Read rascal in the motions of his back, And scoundrel in the supple-sliding knee. a1903 T. Brooksbank tr. H. Heine Wks. (1904) IX. 77 Of course I know that the stout oak must fall, While supple-bending river reeds stand fast After, just as before the tempest-blast. 1906 W. E. Smyser Tennyson iv. 145 The poet has drawn a vivid portrait of unctuous and supple-sliding hypocrisy. 1922 Cosmopolitan Feb. 31/2 She recognized the man at once; the man who climbed out of a roadster drawn up before the hotel opposite, that man tall, lithe and supple-moving. 1963 Life 19 Apr. 88/3 Shebani, the young, smart, supple-moving chauffeur and gun bearer, is also of the Nyamwezi tribe. < as lemmas |
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