She sprang back with a sharp cry of alarm, and Porportuk would have caught her had it not been for Tommy. Tommy's leg went out, Porportuk tripped and pitched forward on the ground. El-Soo got her start. "Then catch me," she laughed over her shoulder, as she fled away. She ran lightly and easily, but Porportuk ran swiftly and savagely. He outran her. In his youth he had been swiftest of all the young men. But El-Soo dodged in a willowy, elusive way.英文原著 · 《Lost Face》
When they were growing to middle age, their life told on them and made them weather-beaten, and not infrequently hard-visaged; but when they were young there were often among them straight, supple young fellows with clear-cut features, and lithe, willowy-looking girls, with pink faces and blue, or brown, or hazel eyes, and a mien which one might have expected to find in a hall rather than in a cabin.英文原著 · 《The Burial of the Guns》
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The shadows silently lengthened on the lawn. The home-coming rooks circled and cawed around the tall elm trees. The sun-dial pointed to six o'clock. Myra Ingleby rose and stood with the slanting rays of the sun full in her eyes, her arms stretched over her head. The artist noted every graceful line of her willowy figure. "Ah, bah!" she yawned. "It is so perfect out here, and I must go in to my maid. Jane, be advised in time.英文原著 · 《The Rosary》
In a recess of my heart Is a poor street hung with lanterns. These lanterns are my thoughts, And they are lighted at the last hours of the evenings, When through this street Walks the willowy maiden from the tea-shop across the road.英文原著 · 《The Song Book of Quong Lee of Limehouse》