...Miller had nimble fingers, and on them sharp nails, and, with anenergetic pinch upon the bare arms of the poor girl, she would arousethe daughter of Africa from her pleasant dreams... 
William Wells Brown 「Clotelle: a Tale of the Southern States」
...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」
...To serve this need it was necessary to have asaddle animal of unusual strength, weighing about three-quarters of aton, easily controllable and at once fairly speedy and nimble...
Nathaniel Southgate Shaler 「Domesticated Animals」
...If in the course of his operations the bird happensto dislodge a nut, so nimble is he that before it reaches the groundhe will have caught it in his beak...
Rev. C. A. Johns 「British Birds in their Haunts」
...Itis an expert and nimble climber, andrarely, if ever, perches on the branchof a tree or shrub...
Various 「Birds Illustrated by Color Photography [June, 1897]」
...Only little Paul, of all the household, lent me the aidof his nimble hand to seize the fugitives...
Jean Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles」
...Whilesome of their deeds are questionable, their quick wits and nimble bodiesexcite our admiration...
Royal Dixon 「The Human Side of Animals」
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The nimble Gibbon, at the Zoological Gardens in London...
Samuel Griswold Goodrich 「Illustrative Anecdotes of the Animal Kingdom」
...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」
...Now he is no less fair than an angel and is more nimble and more spry than anything you ever saw...
Chretien DeTroyes 「Four Arthurian Romances」
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