...So pleased and relieved was he, that he skipped about like a young and nimble goat...
Stewart Edward White 「African Camp Fires」
...Miller had nimble fingers, and on them sharp nails, and, with an energetic pinch upon the bare arms of the poor girl, she would arouse the daughter of Africa from her pleasant dreams...
William Wells Brown 「Clotelle」
..." I was young and nimble, so I danced a few of the old southern clog dances, and sang one or two songs, like this: ...
Louis Hughes 「Thirty Years a Slave」
...These little creatures are so nimble, that it is almostimpossible to lay hold of them, as they scramble to the edge, andplunge into the sea on the slightest attempt to molest them...
J. Emerson Tennent 「Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon」
...In this respectit resembles the nimble wagtails...
Douglas Dewar 「Birds of the Indian Hills」
...Itis a bird of elegant form and beautiful parti-coloured plumage,active in its habits, a nimble runner, and an indefatigable hunterafter food...
Rev. C. A. Johns 「British Birds in their Haunts」
...Van Slyck's nimble wits were calculating the valueto him of this new weakness of the controlleur...
John Charles Beecham 「The Argus Pheasant」
...She is nimble and attractive, the variety most common in France being elegantly marked with white on a black background...
Maurice Maeterlinck 「The Life of the Bee」
... It would need more than that and, above all, a slender figure and a nimble carriage; and the Volucella is thickset and corpulent and sedate in her movements...
J. Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Life of the Fly」
...Only little Paul, ofall the household, lent me the aid of his nimble hand to seize thefugitives...
J. H. Fabre 「The Wonders of Instinct」
...They were not deer, but creatures quite as nimble...
Mayne Reid 「The Hunters' Feast」
...Quick asthought, the were-wolf turned himself into a leaf, but the man wasas nimble, for he caught up the leaf, thrust it into the joint ofbamboo, in which he kept his tobacco, and bunged it up tight...
Sir James George Frazer 「Balder The Beautiful, Vol. I.」
...Among them I saw one sailor so nimble that scarce could anyman be compared with him...
Hartley Withers 「The Cathedral Church of Canterbury [2nd ed.].」
...On their part the nimble youths leap, and all strive to show their delight...
Chretien DeTroyes 「Four Arthurian Romances」
...So nimble is thehuman mind that mingled with myrhapsodies of love was my need for informationof George Prince...
Various 「Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930」
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