agile
Definition: Able to move or act quickly, physically, or mentally
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Author's Digest - By Rossiter Johnson
...Conspicuous among them was one brave, agile fellow, with long, curling hair ....
Seed of the Sun - By Wallace Irwin
...She wished a lot of things for Zudie then; wished that her agile mind would learn to settle down to something; wished that she could be kinder to poor Sid Foot-ridge, who adored her ....
Treasure Island - By Robert Louis Stevenson, Louis Rhead
...Silver, agile as a monkey, even without leg or crutch, was on the top of him next moment, and had twice buried his knife up to the hilt in that defenseless body ....
The count of Monte-Cristo - By Alexandre Dumas
...Then Dantes rose more agile and light than the kid amongst the myrtles and shrubs of these wild rocks, took his gun in one hand, his pickaxe in the other, and hastened towards the rock on which the marks he had noted terminated . "...
The Hound of the Baskervilles - By Arthur Conan Doyle
...He had long, quivering fingers as agile and restless 36 the antennae of an insect ....
Silas Marner - By George Eliot, Edward Leeds Gulick
...But Doctor Kimble -LRB- country apothecaries in old days enjoyed the title without authority of diploma -RRB-, being a thin and agile man, was flitting about the room with his hands in his pockets ....
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - By James Joyce
...----Ay--Stephen said somewhat bitterly--bright agile, impassible and, above all, subtle ....
Don Quixote - By Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
...It was a sight to see the figure Don Quixote made, long, lank, lean, and yellow, his garments clinging tight to him, ungainly, and above all anything but agile ....
The Portrait of a Lady - By Henry James
...The Countess 's mind, when her interests were concerned, was agile; she already foresaw the extinction of any further brightness in her visit to Rome ....
Tarzan of the Apes - By Edgar Rice Burroughs, A.C. McClurg & Company, W.F. Hall Printing Company
...From one lofty branch the agile creature swung with Clayton through a dizzy arc to a neighboring tree; then for a hundred yards maybe the sure feet threaded a maze of interwoven limbs, balancing like a tightrope walker high above the black depths of verdure beneath ....
Ben-Hur - By Lew Wallace
...The parting of the company uncovered the camel, which might have been more agile than his kind generally; yet the hoofs were almost upon him, and he resting with closed eyes, chewing the endless cud with such sense of security as long favoritism may be supposed to have bred in him ....
Riders of the Purple Sage - By Zane Grey
...Like a mountain goat, he was agile, sure-footed, and he mounted the first bench without bending to use his hands ....
Sons and Lovers - By David Herbert Lawrence, John Albert Macy
...He was more agile than strong, but it served ....
Washington Square - By Henry James
...It was perhaps on this account that in defending them she was majestic rather than agile . "...