How To Use Lithe In A Sentence

  • His first thought was that of every young man, who blithely thinks to pit the bravado he miscalls courage against every obstacle.
  • You aren't the blithering idiot the past few have been, and I have this feeling that you're not racist.
  • As the endlessly sweet but slightly pinheaded stewardess-to-be Donna, She is yum-yum-yummy in a procession of miniskirts, bikinis, halter tops and other wardrobe choices that make the most of her lithe legginess.
  • Such a contrast to the generation that came before, with their big ideas, their insatiable appetites and their blithe disregard for the rest of the world. Times, Sunday Times
  • Shortly after leaving the outskirts of Adonis the car slithered down a sloping piece of ground, teetered over a low bank, and splashed logily into water. The Past Through Tomorrow
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  • For two 50-minute sets the crowd shrugged and shimmied to the rhythm of a more blithe and brilliant era.
  • A formidable presence, not just because of her voice; but because of her lithe, sensual chassis; presented as it was with a faux ditziness. Martha Wainwright, Rufus, Marilyn and Kate.
  • First, they were creeping molds that slithered forth from the ocean onto land...and then they stood upright, supporting their globby substance by means of calciferous scaffolding, and finally they built machines. Stanislaw Lem (1921-2006)
  • Unpleasant weather conditions prevailed and the players slithering on the greasy surface was a common occurrence.
  • It was pitch black inside the dumpster with only a slither of light entering through the crack of the lid.
  • Not a mile off, and you'd blithen my day if you'd take shelter and dinner at my camp. Cold Mountain
  • All I could hear in the hush was the birds tweeting until, suddenly ahead of me, a lithe lad in Lycra darted over a crossroads like a rabbit scuttling for cover.
  • This morning somebody shouted out 'caiman' and alligators along the banks slithered into the water. Peeg and Brie (opening of a teen novel)
  • Generally, he remained blithely unconcerned about his screen roles. Times, Sunday Times
  • The grinning, slithering jackanapes is reportedly going to concentrate his sales pitch on the U.S., suspecting that we Brits would sooner chew our tongues than buy his book when it is published on Sept. 13. Boycott Blair's Book!
  • The burning hot summer arrived, this is the demonstration stature good season,the retreat wi nter sincere appearance, lets lithe, the individua lity, the fashion, the sex appeal, mature you sta rt from here! Msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines
  • From somewhere behind me, I heard a slight plop, a slither and then a sudden weight on my bed.
  • Or the slithers of beef sirloin marinated in chilli and lime, stir-fried with vegetables and noodles.
  • Still more profound a touch is that where Ottima, daring her lover to the "one thing that must be done; you know what thing: Come in and help to carry," says, with affected lightsomeness, "This dusty pane might serve for looking-glass," and simultaneously exclaims, as she throws them rejectingly from her nervous fingers, "Three, four -- four grey hairs!" then with an almost sublime coquetry of horror turns abruptly to Sebald, saying with a voice striving vainly to be blithe -- Life of Robert Browning
  • Why does a conductor so fastidious and precise with an orchestra always seem so blithely undisturbed by such unidiomatic, out-of-tune singing?
  • She could feel the strength his lithe body possessed, even wounded and laying on a table.
  • I'm finally alerted by a creepy slithery, slippy step nearby on soppy, dew-saturated fallen leaves.
  • Because there was this myth in my time you didn't want to do weights or build bulk because you wouldn't be as lithe and as supple. Times, Sunday Times
  • (Not to mention the fact that only a monster with a heart of steel or stone could not have missed the fact that Michelle looks better than anyone has a right to in a white, quilted down jacket, when even the most lithe and anorectic supermodels look like fullbacks in the same winter wear.) Erica Heller: The Audacity of Hopelessness
  • A tightish slither down at the far end of Four Ways Chamber would have bought you to the same place.
  • At that moment, his was a saint's blithesome face, loose and half a-smile with the generosity of his gift and with a becoming neutrality toward his own abilities, as if he had long since cheerfully submitted to knowing that however well he rendered a piece, he could always imagine doing better. Cold Mountain
  • For the many children participating it was a good opportunity to get close to mitten crabs, shrimp, fresh water mussels and even eels, as well as to a lot of deliciously slithery mud!
  • A snake slithered across the grass.
  • A lean, lithe, grizzly looking fellow, supple, agile with a leathery skin and sinewy.
  • She watched for Mrs. Higgins 'return, and knew that the litheness and grace had not been imagined. CHAPTER III
  • A heavy slithering came from somewhere close and I wished they weren't so quiet, I wished they'd scream in their fright or bang into something, to take my mind away from their oily leglessness. The Mandarin Cypher
  • They crept and crawled, oozed and slithered from the clay, prickly spiders and sneaky snakes and pesky lizards darting from th ... read more crafts A Michoacan tradition: the needlework artistry of Hermelinda Reyes
  • The challenge now is the marathon of a 14-mile nonstop stretch of waves and holes that slithers through the curvilinear canyon like a snake on crack.
  • A president affronting the leadership of the church, and blithely threatening its great institutions? A Battle the President Can't Win
  • This is not going to help if you want to move forward and climb the ladders - all you'll do is slither down the snakes! Why Am I Afraid to be Assertive?
  • He became quicker of movement than the other dogs, swifter of foot, craftier, deadlier, more lithe, more lean with ironlike muscle and sinew, more enduring, more cruel, more ferocious, and more intelligent. The Outcast
  • However, equally I don't think one can credibly take a blithely post-modern approach and mutter vaguely about ‘multiple truths’, if basic historical factual assertions have been misstated.
  • But no titbits of food - well, maybe just a couple of slithers of sliced chicken.
  • Viro heard a slither, and a hiss, and looked above; from the rafters, a furred snake hung, its tail coiled upon a rotten wooded sign, the whitish paint flecked and gone.
  • In Britain there seemed a blithe lack of concern. Times, Sunday Times
  • I crouched down without making a sound and started slithering like a snake through the bushy tomato plants that Mr. Russo had tied up on stakes.
  • Guests nibbled delicate pastries and sipped coffee in the sitting area outside the restaurant while watching the parade of lithesome models.
  • Yet his blithe rejection of free speech is a formula for tyranny.
  • When a deadly snake, a black krait, slithered into my nursery and my ayah [Indian nanny] ran screaming from the room, her ankle bracelets chattering in panic, it was Yah Mohammed who calmly killed the krait.
  • The cook is as blithely eccentric as a good neighbor.
  • The horses slithered down the shallow bank and onto the glassy surface at a rapid trot, but the black was mistrustful of the insecure footing and jibbed skittishly.
  • There, it has come to seem ridiculously blithe, ignoring the block that the political crisis puts on all but rudimentary commercial life. Times, Sunday Times
  • The pair play natives of that country - sweet, carefree adolescents whose blithe athleticism and pert demeanor are just a little cloying.
  • But in the recent mild, rainy weather they have been able to slither and slide all over the ground in broad daylight. Times, Sunday Times
  • I'm coming," she called blithely to the scarlet flowers. Mrs. Red Pepper
  • Out of towering brown churches came the blithe music of anthems from the choirs.
  • But Maud said, “Tut, tut,” in gentle reproval, and then asked why I was a blithering idiot. Chapter 29
  • You watch as the waters begin to protrude, becoming a mass of hysterically delocalized pillars slithering upwards, outwards, onwards towards the shore. Faraday's Wave Garden
  • “Mony a dainty ane,” said Madge; “and blithely can I sing them, for lightsome sangs make merry gate.” The Heart of Mid-Lothian
  • Back tire slurping and bouncing wildly, I kept going, finally slithering to a halt when I saw Jeff and Joe crouched under a rock outcropping.
  • Esai is immediately attracted to the lithesome young lady, but Abigail rebuffs his attempts to initiate a simple conquest. Drink One to Me, Christian Bennett by Vicki Allen
  • A week or so later, the snake slithers back into the wild - broadcasting a signal to researchers about where and how it lives.
  • Now he's back to his lithe self, his bones jutting out. Times, Sunday Times
  • Kawa Kendi, a man in early middle age, powerful and lithe-limbed, sat as motionless as the King, his father, staring, as did all, with the fixed stare of the anagogic. Witch-Doctors
  • A snake slithered across our path.
  • Or put a researcher in the car and have him slither about until I'm ready to come back? Times, Sunday Times
  • Alas! sir, said the lady, mine arm is out of lithe, wherethrough I must needs rest me. Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
  • There is hardly a trace of social realism in this concerto, which seems blithely unconcerned about the world around it.
  • Although lean and lithe, he was sweating profusely and the effort was beginning to show. Times, Sunday Times
  • Now he's back to his lithe self, his bones jutting out. Times, Sunday Times
  • RESEARCHERS have found a new species of taipan snake slithering in the outback. Archive 2007-03-01
  • His lithe body was hunched over the bike, eyes sparkling, face determined. Times, Sunday Times
  • The slightly built dancer was described as ‘a professional dare devil, machine gun chatterer and blithe defier of the laws of physics’.
  • Blithe references are made to jet setting from one US city to the next, and accessing a stash of lucre in a secret Swiss bank account.
  • Thumbing a button, she raised the disc to her head and began to speak, intoning the routine blither in a stiflingly mind-numbing voice.
  • In the face of this, official Ottawa dithers and slithers, hoping questions about Arar will go away.
  • If there were too much light she would naturally see the reptile slithering up and down the bell-pull, and make too correct an identification.
  • Rhea's movements were noiseless and careful as she slithered down the ventilation duct.
  • A small green snake slithered across the wet road.
  • The icy blast of polar weather that swept in from Canada saw planes grounded, ferries hit and cars slithering off roads. The Sun
  • Far below, the forest rose on either side of the river gorge, but to reach that we would have to descend a winding path alongside a steep-sided valley cut by a stream that slithered under fallen trunks. Country diary: Allen Banks, Northumberland
  • One of the bayadères rose with a lithe and supple movement of the body not comparable to anything save the slow separating of a white scud from the main cloud which one sees on a summer's day high up in the cirrus regions.
  • They crept and crawled, oozed and slithered from the clay, prickly spiders and sneaky snakes and pesky lizards darting from the dark wet dough, turtles swimming to its surface, bug-eyed devils rising from the mud, all brought to life by the magic touch of Antonia Cruz Rafael. Antonia Cruz Rafael: the ceramics of Ocumicho, Michoacan
  • Then, above our heads soared three eagles, and not long after, an adder slithered calmly between our feet.
  • ‘I realised immediately that this was going to be a profound anecdote, and I've been dining out on it since,’ he purrs, with typical blitheness.
  • I could already see that look in his eyes, something slithery and pink that hints of alcoholic tendencies.
  • A tall, lithe, rather rakishly clad coatimundi stood nearest the wagon, gesturing animatedly in the merchant's direction with a thin rapier. The Lives of Felix Gunderson
  • He was a gay, mad young dog, grandly careless of his largess, fearless as a lion's whelp, lithe and beautiful as a leopard, and mad, a trifle mad of the deviltries and whimsies that tickled in that fine brain of his. CHAPTER XIII
  • Here is the hardest question: How could the Administration have thought that it was safe to proceed in blithe indifference to the warnings of nearly everyone with operational experience in modern military occupations? Blind Into Baghdad
  • Although he hit his shot straight at the goalkeeper it slithered and stotted off limbs and the sodden turf before trundling over the line.
  • In a moment, the forest was quiet again, and the flying and creeping things slithered and crawled to view the carnage.
  • A variety of snakes twisted and slithered across his shoulders down to his fingertips as if they had a life of their own.
  • Lithe and graceful, she was tall with chestnut skin and long black hair that swirled in the backwind of the rotors. Ayelet Zurer Cast as Vittoria Vetra in Angels and Demons - Updated! « FirstShowing.net
  • Unpleasant weather conditions prevailed and the players slithering on the greasy surface was a common occurrence.
  • Says Brynhild, “Let not such matters sadden thee: abide with thy friends who wish thee blithesome, all of them!” The Story of the Volsungs
  • But no titbits of food - well, maybe just a couple of slithers of sliced chicken.
  • A small green snake slithered across the wet road.
  • The last independent cinema in Clitheroe will say g'day to Australian film fans when it hosts its first film festival - just before it closes down.
  • So when the rain came down and the tracks got all muddy and slithery, it was a good time to put the X Trail through its paces.
  • And media, in light of a recent AARP poll saying practically everyone is 'fer it, why don't you attempt a nosecount this time before blithely passing on such a pronouncement? FreedomWorks, Tea Party Patriots head for the Hill
  • Fang “became quicker of movement than the other dogs, swifter of foot, craftier, deadlier, more lithe, more lean with ironlike muscle and sinew, more enduring, more cruel, more ferocious, and more intelligent.” Le Milieu, Le Moment, La Race: Literary Naturalism in Jack London's White Fang
  • The little animals though fat were lithe; they were heavy, their coats shone, opulent and dense.
  • With what blithe unconcern, too, it has disregarded the one-pointers.
  • The snake slithered away.
  • Moisture and temperature cannot be explicitly divided out from convolved data, therefore, You seem to suppose that because there is no evidence bearing on the question at all, one can therefore blithely go an and assume there is no conflation of responses so as to produce some proxy series. Treydte, Moberg, Soon and Baliunas « Climate Audit
  • Recorded "at various concert halls around the globe between 2007-10" as his latest label blithely puts it, he's as inventive and unfailingly swinging here on his 62nd trio album as when he left Miami long ago. Evening Standard - Home
  • His spirits exhilarated by the unexpected good cheer, the Comedian gave way to his naturally blithe humour; and between every mouthful he rattled or rather drolled on, now infant-like, now sage-like. What Will He Do with It? — Volume 03
  • As part of her pastoral work with St James, she also carried out communion at three Clitheroe nursing homes, Castleford, Pendle Court and Clitheroe Nursing Home.
  • An 'rin in noisy blithesomeness to thee, my Bess, wi' them, The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century
  • Harvard Sociologist David Riesman suspects that a majority of Americans have blithely taken to committing supposedly minor derelictions as a matter of course.
  • I can understand the reasons why Andy is being spoken about because he is different," he revealed, adding "Apart from his size he is also a left-footed player" lest we might conclude that this difference involved living in a fridge, communicating only via the lyrics of The Carpenters and slithering around on his belly after dark like a blindworm. Will Andy Carroll prove the difference that destroys the planet?
  • Her lithe body set up warm ripples, a kind of vibration he felt deep inside like the ham - mering of his heart. Second Skin
  • In the boat we were compelled to loll about between heaven and the cool coral groves, and compare enforced inactivity with the blithesome freedom of the weakest butterfly. The Confessions of a Beachcomber
  • These creatures can't run away, they slither on the ice. The Sun
  • Clean-skinned, copper-colored, lithe and wiry as a tiger cat, with the long, lank, oily black hair of his race, Norton bore himself with all the airs of a European princelet and dressed himself in the beaded buckskins of a savage. Pathfinders of the West Being the Thrilling Story of the Adventures of the Men Who Discovered the Great Northwest: Radisson, La Vérendrye, Lewis and Clark
  • The mainland has diminished to a thin line of green and purple trees, and, closer by, neighbouring islands are underscored by slithers of sand and backed by dense jungle.
  • The mighty chief, atheling excellent, unblithe sat, labored in woe for the loss of his thanes, when once had been traced the trail of the fiend, spirit accurst: too cruel that sorrow, too long, too loathsome. Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere
  • Where is the fun of slithering into layers of lacy surprises for your partner if he already sees the make, colour and size of your smalls?
  • Highways chiefs say there is no evidence to justify action being taken in Lily Road, Litherland.
  • The snake had dislodged its fangs, slithering after her with sureness of the ground it moved upon, then climbed up a tree.
  • Microfossil assemblages from rare black and grey clays in this succession contain only a variety of seeds, Microcarpolithes hexagonalis and megaspores, and there are neither foraminifera nor other marine microfossils.
  • But the blitheness with which he tossed it off indicates an ignorance—perhaps willful—of a deep confusion in the American character on the subject of using drugs simply to make life easier. MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION
  • He looked down to see the reptile slithering away between his knees. Times, Sunday Times
  • The crawl soon gives way to a small collapse chamber where a slither through a narrow slot leads to cave of slightly more civilised proportions.
  • They would sooner have the bulk than the litheness and agility.
  • So this is what Annie Hall matured into: a blithering buttinsky. Smothers Mothers: James Wolcott
  • Plenty of modern film-makers have attempted to emulate the blithe barbarity that lent Ealing comedies their sharp aftertaste.
  • He was thin, lithe and athletic and was dressed in dark blue trousers and tunic with embroidered trim, and a gold coloured lanyard hung from one shoulder.
  • It is nibbled cheerfully by slugs and snails, which slither away in great content. Times, Sunday Times
  • Episcopalians and Methodists, and fools and fiddlers, and Papists and pie-bakers, and doctors and drugsters; by the shop-folk, that sell trash and trumpery at three prices — and so up got the bonny new Well, and down fell the honest auld town of Saint Ronan’s, where blithe decent folk had been heartsome eneugh for mony a day before ony o’ them were born, or ony sic vapouring fancies kittled in their cracked brains.” Saint Ronan's Well
  • There were a few days of rain and wet snow that made the county road a slithery mass of greasy mud. Bird Cloud
  • She bade them adieu blithely; but the thoughts engendered by the invitation stood before her as sorrowful and rayless ghosts which could not be laid. The Hand of Ethelberta
  • The financial firm belongs to a class of companies that promises, for its shareholders, a big dollop of jam tomorrow but only a slither of dry toast today.
  • He approached the girl, his movement so sinuous, so lithe; Cora wondered that no one else stared.
  • He fails to grasp the structural teleology of a composition, blithely ignoring any real legato.
  • He crossbred visual panache and hedonistic flair, notably in "Sign of the Cross" (1932), with a lesbian dance sequence, a lithe Claudette Colbert bathing in milk, and Charles Laughton playing an extravagantly gay Nero. Review of "Empire of Dreams," Scott Eyman's biography of Cecil B. DeMille
  • So traumatized by what he saw in China, and so ashamed of being a human, the man returns to his village thinking he is a snake, slithering on the ground, hissing at former friends and family.
  • He's the lithe and supple hunter no more and, like me, he's settling happily into retired status.
  • At any rate René, over his busy work in the lantern, whistled and hummed snatches of song with unwonted blithesomeness, and, after lighting the steady watch-light and securing all his paraphernalia with extra care, dallied some time longer than usual on the outer platform, striving to snatch through the driven wraith a glance of the distant lights of Pulwick. The Light of Scarthey
  • There, it has come to seem ridiculously blithe, ignoring the block that the political crisis puts on all but rudimentary commercial life. Times, Sunday Times
  • He looked me slowly up and down as if I was some kind of blithering idiot.
  • Twisted her other behind her back, all while avoiding the wriggling kicks and thwarting the clever maneuvers designed to slither out of even the tightest holds. Earl of Durkness
  • It seems to me we are far too blithe about young women's anxieties. Times, Sunday Times
  • A small green snake slithered across the wet road.
  • His family is blithely unaware of his nature.
  • With one hand on the hilt of her short sword, the lithe figure began running.
  • Blithe and boldfaced, Xena: Warrior Princess's quest is to entertain despite the slings and arrows of scathing, sardonic criticism.
  • Both are blithely unconcerned with ethnicity. Times, Sunday Times
  • Not trusting herself to necessarily remain on top of the cliff standing, she dropped to her stomach and slithered toward the edge of the cliff.
  • The End Of Summer is warm and slithery, borne on slurred drums and elastic pings (perhaps the sound of tent pegs pounded by rubber mallets?)
  • The expensive item slithered off his back like a shed snakeskin.
  • The shadows coalesced in front of her, forming a thin, lithe form taller than she was.
  • He stood up painfully and slithered across the slimy floor, slipping on the fish that had scattered from the broken boxes.
  • This slithery reptile can be found in the less developed parts of the estate, but face to face encounters such as that provided in the tour are rare.
  • Rolling clouds of black smoke blotted out the sky while brilliant sheaths of flame slithered out of every window.
  • Yet he seemed blithely unaware of this. Paul VI - The First Modern Pope
  • The 'squatty' eyed the gesticulating Manarkan and spoke, in a beautifully modulated deep bass voice, to a supple, lithe, pantherish girl with vertically-slitted yellow eyes, pointed ears, and a long and sinuous, meticulously-groomed tail. Masters Of The Vortex
  • Annadoah called blithely and coquettishly after him. The Eternal Maiden
  • It is nibbled cheerfully by slugs and snails, which slither away in great content. Times, Sunday Times
  • With this revival came a concomitant revival of the corporeal values associated with gymnastics: upper body strength, musculature, elasticity, litheness, flexibility, poise, and equilibrium.
  • Boucher's cupidons bear the family traits of their elder sisters, Boucher's nymphs and shepherdesses: a plump litheness; long-lashed wide ingenuous eyes; small light-tipped noses.
  • For the inaugural event, the dancers' lithe bodies were swathed in white.
  • How does she continue to live with her father and go along with undisturbed blitheness in the face of her older sister's accusations?
  • These is feigned blitheness about crises that will predictably attract immediate attention.
  • However, handling errors among the backs saw a couple of early and valiant moves end in loss of possession, as the ball slithered and slipped through fingers.
  • When a deadly snake, a black krait, slithered into my nursery and my Indian nanny ran screaming from the room, her ankle bracelets chattering in panic, it was Yah Mohammed who calmly killed the krait,’ she explains.
  • They all regard us with blithe indifference. Times, Sunday Times
  • These creatures can't run away, they slither on the ice. The Sun
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  • Murphy moved forward with a one-two with Black, the slither proceeded to McAvoy.
  • Most of the inhabitants could afford to buy extra water rations and keep plants, which they proudly displayed sprawling out of the windows and slithering up the pale, smooth walls of their homes.
  • Her foot slithered almost frictionlessly back and forth. Rendezvous With Rama
  • Why can't they slither back under it and let the rest of us enjoy the great day in peace? The Sun
  • That is largely because in number after number, a dream ensemble led by a lithe and charismatic Aaron Tveit as Frank, Tom Wopat as his con man, boozy dad, and Norbert Leo Butz as Carl Hanratty, the shleppy cop who takes him in, dazzles. Regina Weinreich: Con Me If You Can: The Broadway Musical
  • So the next time your cookies threaten to slide off the sheet without a spatula, or your cake doesn't rise with the aplomb you've come to expect, don't rush to blame the homely beet or praise the lithesome cane.
  • The family's younger son blithely tools around rural Shropshire in his natty two-seater.
  • Miss Drexel, seized by inspiration or desperation, with a quick movement stripped off her short, corduroy tramping-skirt, and, looking very lithe and boyish in slender-cut pongee bloomers, ran along the sand and dropped the skirt for a foothold for the slowly revolving wheels. WHOSE BUSINESS IS TO LIVE
  • Adverse possession isn't only about slithers of land centimetres wide, occasionally it can be about bigger parcels of land.
  • I look down and see a long snake slithering past us.
  • ‘It's a place of peace for me,’ Carlos says as a black snake slithers by.
  • If the remake, with Nicolas Cage as a rogue cop named Terence McDonagh, commits the sin of entertainment, it's redeemed by a sense of life's contradictions and distinguished by surreal flourishes that include a pair of iguanas, slithery witnesses to Terence's mania. 'Five': A Series Wakes Up at the Wheel
  • A couple of hours later we saw the culprit by our pond - a 4 ft dugite slithering across the lawn.
  • His acrimonious split from his wife has contributed to his blithely acknowledged misogyny, hence there are no women working in his restaurant.
  • I guess had to give up on the idea of ever being lithe or willowy. Raziel
  • The snake slithered toward Jessica, bearing its fangs with a hiss.
  • In its blithe disregard for niceties the film ends up being a rather clever satire on the whole idea of normality.
  • With his lithe figure, blond hair and imperious demeanour, he also looked special. Times, Sunday Times
  • The clerks, as usual, were full of rude health, chatting with blithe disregard.
  • Appearance Sylphs resemble tall, lithe humans - with one exception.
  • We slithered over a lip with the aid of ropes into a huge cavernous hollow, where the water was caught in a rockpool.
  • He highlights the absurdities of his new hobby without blithely mocking. Times, Sunday Times
  • I can't answer your question Bill, but I can say without the slightest reservation that "steve/sue/betty" is a complete blithering idiot! Sound Politics: Follow-up on Lieberman, Lamont, & Schlesinger
  • Chip Litherland for The Wall Street Journal Bank of America Home Loans says the title agent never sent it the money required to pay off Mr. Ford's mortgage. Reverse-Mortgage Meltdown?
  • There was never a hint of the 7-0 drubbing that Clitheroe handed out to their opponents in April, as the visitors found themselves 3-0 in front with less than an hour played.
  • I do, however, recognise my own utterly antidoxic nature as so unquestionably Libran that I have to be skeptical about that rationalist dogma, and try and explain this evidence rather than blithely ignore it. Critique From HereNow
  • I flex my legs and jump for the door, clinging to the grooves and gaps in the ceiling and twist the knob, jamming it open and slithering through.
  • A plain white chemise slithered over her form, draping to her ankles, with the multiple petticoats and the flexibly hooped farthingale over it.
  • These lithe, slim beasts bear the weight of an astonishing amount of history, belief and superstition. Times, Sunday Times
  • And once he heard the troll's slithering sound dimmish down toward the end of the tunnel, he began to try again to feel out the knots, using what slight movement he had in his fingers, in the case that the troll might have redone its work and left him a knot in reach ... The Goblin Mirror
  • They were unable to slither and waved from side to side without going anywhere. Times, Sunday Times
  • The tea menu is a tiny piece of delight, with descriptions that blithely use words like "velutinous" and "viridescent" and "vegetal" to describe their oolongs and whites and blacks. Archive 2008-10-01
  • She goes to the gym three times a week to build up strength and stamina, and to keep her already lithe frame toned.
  • I bet this wazzock, who blithely writes "the more the merrier", is also a fervent devotee of AGW and sees nothing ironic in the inconsistency of his very odd and loathesome views. Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
  • It's Mrs. McMurdle's pest of a monkey, sirs" blithered the maid. Further Adventures of Lad
  • They walk off the road in various directions and continue blithely on their way.

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