The scrub is mostly dry, while the larger forests are comparatively damp, and often beautiful with flowering trees, small tree-ferns, and flexile climbers.
"Impressions of South Africa"
James Bryce
Ardenti violae rosa proxima fundat odores; Serpyllumque placens, et acerbo flexile vultu Verbascum, ac tristem si quid sibi legit amictum.
"Verses and Translations"
C. S. C.
As the flexile youth progressed, amazement gave place to indignation and then to disgust.
"The Husbands of Edith"
George Barr McCutcheon