He was toonimble for the assailant and easily escaped his grasp.
1656,Robert Sanderson,Twenty Sermons[1], London: Henry Seile,Sermon 13, p. 267:
[…] ifthe men should not agree what to play, but one would have a gravePavane, another animblerGalliard, a third some friskingtoy orIigg, and then all of them should be wilful, none yield to his fellow, but every one scrape onhis own tune as loud as he could: what a hideous hateful noise may you imagine would such amess of Musick be?
Attempts to introduce versions of "market communism" — in China, Hungary or Yugoslavia — have shown how hard it is to make mainly state-owned economies asnimble as mainly private ones.
2017, Danna Staaf,Squid Empire, ForeEdge,→ISBN, page87:
The quickest andnimblest were probably the oxycones, throwing themselves through the water like discuses.
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2012, Caspar Henderson,The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page72:
Their teeth are regularly and assiduously cleaned by shrimp thatnimble in and out of the moray's mouth like ballet dancers in the jaws of a mechanical stage dragon.
