gracile

1 With what gracile loveliness did her neck bend as she spoke to Mrs. Lessingham!

2 We know this because you and I, being extreme versions of gracile apes, are the living, breathing proof.

3 gracile as any pair of classically trained dancers, the bride and groom made their way around the dance floor

4 He studied Persis; how beautiful she was, how soft and gracile, how apt to endearments!

5 In the glow of the open doorway stood a young girl,—gracile, tall,—with singularly splendid eyes,—brown eyes peeping at him from beneath a golden riot of loose hair.

6 Now, tanned and wiry, if gracile, with his physician comfortingly nearby in the stalls, he wastes no energy on extravagant gesture.

7 Flowers, including the stamens, about 15 mm. long Gooseberry, Ribes gracile. 7b.

8 The gracile humans bested their more-robust cousins thanks to greater intelligence, social cooperation and adaptability to a changing environment.

9 In person, he was tall, fair, gracile, and of limbs distinguished for their elegant proportions.

10 Lucky for us, the forces of evolution worked out an exceedingly clever solution: gracile humans began to bring their children into the world early.

11 Early modern humans – more gracile, and perhaps quicker to adapt and take advantage of their environment – then migrated north from Africa to outpace and outlive the first Europeans.

12 Robichaud studied Martha – a beautiful, enigmatic, shy saola – with a scientist’s eye but also fell under the gracile animal’s spell as she ate out of his hand and allowed herself to be stroked.

13 But in the meantime, there he sits, not with his feet in the window or on a chair—he is a gentleman, I said, a Boston gentleman—the flower of a gracile ancestry.

14 Homotherium was not the only carnivore on the Pleistocene landscape, and the gracile cats might have faced competition from Ice Age hyenas, bears and other cats.

15 Gracile hominid of southern africa; from about3-million years ago; formerly plesianthropus_transvaalensis.

非洲南部体形纤弱的原始人；大约三百万年前；以前的迩人。

16 While before this, dinosaurs were depicted in the media as being more similar to crocodiles—scaly, lumbering tail-draggers—around this time it steadily became more commonplace to illustrate dinosaurs as faster, more gracile, feathered creatures.

17 At one side of her was a pail full of steaming brown water, and in her red coarse little hands, which did not seem to belong to those gracile arms, she held a dripping clout.

18 Palmiform you might hastily term them,—but no palm was ever so gracile; no palm ever bore so dainty a head of green plumes light as lace!

19 Despite the many advantages that upright walking delivered, it creates problems when one is simultaneously evolving bigger brains and larger heads, which was precisely what our gracile ancestors were up to.

20 Gracile skulls due to the Mongoloid’s very recent evolutionary development.

1 纤弱的

slender pindling soft slight tender feminine fragile pastel wispy spindly gossamer reedy slimsy

2 苗条的

light slight slim slender willowy svelte Trim clean-limbed slim as a reed slinky withy waspish jimp

3 纤弱

slender pindling gracility soft slight tender feminine fragile pastel wispy spindly gossamer reedy slimsy sl. slightly delicacy

4 轻微

light soft weak slight mild tender bare petty high-grade venial lightly

5 细长的

flagelliform slight linear slender capillary elongate lanky spindly reedy lank spidery svelte rattail spindling slab-sided slimjim threadlike long slim slit elongated slimline jimp lathy slim-jim

6 细小

small thin attenuate meagre fine gracility minute evanescent piddling scrannel

7 细长

flagelliform slight linear slender capillary elongate lanky spindly reedy lank spidery svelte rattail spindling slab-sided slimjim slightly slenderize threadlike long slim slit elongated slimline jimp lathy slim-jim

8 优美的

grazioso light lovely elegant delicate fairy polite gracious graceful ethereal rosy gent tasteful dainty flowery dulcet lightsome lovesome clean-limbed featly gainly

9 轻微的

light soft weak slight mild tender bare petty high-grade venial

10 苗条

slim slender slinky svelte gracility willowy withy waspish jimp

11 细小的

small thin attenuate meagre minute evanescent piddling scrannel