| 1. | Buck's marvellous quickness and agility stood him in good stead. - from The Call of the Wild by Jack London |
| 2. | He darted from one object to the other with the agility of a grasshopper. - from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie |
| 3. | Had any special agility been his in earlier yout. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 4. | --What I meant about tennis, for example, is the agility and training the eye. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 5. | In a twinkling, and with the agility of his age, he had reached the hole in the partition. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 6. | The Jew stepped back in this emergency, with more agility than could have been anticipated in a man of his apparent decrepitude and, seizing up the pot, prepared to hurl it at his assailant's head. - from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens |
| 7. | Strength and agility of body were of the highest consequence, and commonly determined the fate of battles. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |
| 8. | During the day I was pitted against first men and then beasts, but as I was armed with a long-sword and always outclassed my adversary in agility and generally in strength as well, it proved but child's play to me. - from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs |
| 9. | I must admit that he was a magnificent swordsman, and had it not been for my greater endurance and the remarkable agility the lesser gravitation of Mars lent me I might not have been able to put up the creditable fight I did against him. - from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs |