| 1. | You lithe matador in the arena at Sevill. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 2. | How at once with lithe limbs unwaiting a moment she sprang. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 3. | To make lithe that erst was hard. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 4. | The lithe sheer of their waists plays even with their massive arms. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 5. | He may well survey, ponder, arm, fortify, harden, make lithe himself. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 6. | Yes, it was for the long palette-knife, with its thin blade of lithe steel. - from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde |
| 7. | Dorian watched them as they plunged into the alder-clump, brushing the lithe swinging branches aside. - from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde |
| 8. | In vain I searched among the groups of travellers and leave-takers for the lithe figure of my friend. - from Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 9. | As I approached I found Dejah Thoris lying prone upon her silks and furs, her lithe form wracked with sobs. - from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs |