1749. G. West, Pindar’s Odes, Diss. Olympic Games i. (1753), II. 226. By softening their [Soldiers’] naked Bodies, and inuring them to Labour, we not only make them healthier and stronger, but lighter also, and more lithesome to themselves, though heavier at the same Time and more unwieldy to their Antagonists.
1768–74. Tucker, Lt. Nat. (1834), I. 177. Nature may have … made some of our organs more lithesome … than others.
1812. J. Henry, Camp. agst. Quebec, 64. Smith was lithsome and quick afoot.
1863. Kinglake, Crimea, II. 428. The warlike carriage of the men, and their strong, lithesome, resolute step.
1882. Serjt. Ballantine, Exper., v. (ed. 5), 248. My attention was attracted by an active lithesome old man.
