...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...
Miguel de Cervantes 「The History of Don Quixote, Volume II., Complete」
...The man was tall and built on lines of agile strength, with a swarthy, aquiline face that was brutally handsome...
Rafael Sabatini 「Captain Blood」
...As the agile ape-man clambered over the vessel's rail there came to hissensitive ears the sound of a struggle at the opposite side of the deck...
Edgar Rice Burroughs 「The Beasts of Tarzan」
...Surprised and enraged, the bull clutched madly for support as hetoppled sidewise, and then with an agile movement succeeded inprojecting himself toward another limb a few feet below...
Edgar Rice Burroughs 「Jungle Tales of Tarzan」
... With a gasping shriek the king apecollapsed, clutching futilely for the agile, naked creature nimblysidestepping from his grasp...
Edgar Rice Burroughs 「The Son of Tarzan」
...It might be a huge eland, or an agile pig, or a herd of beautiful zebra...
Lady Sarah Wilson 「South African Memories」
...Thayer in "Warblers of North America" says that theNashville is one of the most agile and restless of thegleaning Warblers...
Frank M. Chapman 「What Bird is That?」
...Its motion was not so agile as other cats,nor did it apparently care for warmth, as it liked being outdoors in thecoldest weather...
Harrison Weir 「Our Cats and All About Them」
...So far as we can judge from the classicmonuments, the olden varieties were mere varieties of the pony—thesmall, compact, agile creature which had not departed far from theparent wild form...
Nathaniel Southgate Shaler 「Domesticated Animals」
...The laws of the course, however, would not permit of this, so he stripped and stood forth, the beau-ideal of a well-formed, agile man...
R.M. Ballantyne 「The Dog Crusoe and his Master」
...The peafowl issmaller, slenderer, and more graceful than the turkey, and is a littlemore agile in motion...
John H. Robinson 「Our Domestic Birds」
...In the Danubian Provinces and inHungary, the practise of hunting Quails with Sparrow-hawks is stillin vogue; but with us, the agile bird is left to pursue his prey on hisown account...
Rev. C. A. Johns 「British Birds in their Haunts」
...The stronger, more agile, will seize its adversary beneath the cuirass, and, raising it aloft, will maintain it for hours in its mandibles until the victim expire...
Maurice Maeterlinck 「The Life of the Bee」
...The ease with which the elephant is taught to perform the most agile anddifficult feats, forms a remarkable contrast to its huge unwieldiness ofsize...
Percy J. Billinghurst 「A Hundred Anecdotes of Animals」
...He is an agile climber and a terror to goats, sheep, monkeysand all lesser animals, but shows no special hostility to manunless attacked or cornered...
Various 「Natural History in Anecdote」
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