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Definition of Nimblest
1. nimble [adj] - See also: nimble
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nimblest
Literary usage of Nimblest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Recollections of Samuel Breck: With Passages from His Notebooks (1771-1862) by Samuel Breck, Horace Elisha Scudder (1877)
"... artless association ; on the contrary, every little boon in the governor's
gift was bestowed upon him who could work the wires with nimblest fingers. ..."
2. Feathered Favourites: Twelve Coloured Pictures of British Birds by Joseph Wolf (1854)
"EAST, nimblest, merriest bird of Albion's isle, I cannot look on thee without a
smile. —I envy thee the sight, for all my glee Could never yet extort a ..."
3. The Writings of "Colonel William Byrd, of Westover in Virginia, Esqr" by William Byrd, John Spencer Bassett (1901)
"We had now the Opportunity of trying the speed of these lumpish Animals by a fair
Course it had with the nimblest of our Surveyors. ..."
4. Familiar Letters: Or Epistolae Ho-Elianae by James Howell (1903)
"... but when it is once absolutely resolved upon, then we should observe the motion
of Mercury, the nimblest of all the planets, " Ubi desinit Saturnus, ..."
5. Epistolae Ho-Elianae: The Familiar Letters of James Howell, Historiographer by James Howell, Joseph Jacobs (1890)
"... long, and heavy; but when it is once absolutely resolv'd upon, then we should
observe the motion of Mercury, the nimblest of all the Planets ..."
6. The Westover Manuscripts: Containing the History of the Dividing Line by William Byrd, Edmund Ruffin (1841)
"We had now the opportunity of trying the speed of this lumpish animal by a fair
course it had with the nimblest of our surveyors. ..."
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