All 9 Uses of

supple

in

Ulysses, by James Joyce

By the Nilebank the babemaries kneel, cradle of bulrushes: a man supple in combat: stonehorned, stonebearded, heart of stone.†
Chpt 7 *

Bertha Supple told that once to Edy Boardman, a deliberate lie, when she was black out at daggers drawn with Gerty (the girl chums had of course their little tiffs from time to time like the rest of mortals) and she told her not to let on whatever she did that it was her that told her or she'd never speak to her again.†
Chpt 13

Then they could talk about her till they went blue in the face, Bertha Supple too, and Edy, little spitfire, because she would be twenty-two in November.†
Chpt 13

She loved to read poetry and when she got a keepsake from Bertha Supple of that lovely confession album with the coralpink cover to write her thoughts in she laid it in the drawer of her toilettable which, though it did not err on the side of luxury, was scrupulously neat and clean.†
Chpt 13

so as not to fall back looking up and there was no-one to see only him and her when she revealed all her graceful beautifully shaped legs like that, supply soft and delicately rounded, and she seemed to hear the panting of his heart, his hoarse breathing, because she knew too about the passion of men like that, hotblooded, because Bertha Supple told her once in dead secret and made her swear she'd never about the gentleman lodger that was staying with them out of the Congested Districts Board that had pictures cut out of papers of those skirtdancers and highkickers and she said he used to do something not very nice that you could imagine sometimes in the bed.†
Chpt 13

Twilight phantoms are they, yet moulded in prophetic grace of structure, slim shapely haunches, a supple tendonous neck, the meek apprehensive skull.†
Chpt 14

Edy Boardman, sniffling, crouched with bertha supple, draws her shawl across her nostrils.†
Chpt 15

She puts the potato greedily into a pocket then links his arm, cuddling him with supple warmth†
Chpt 15

Definition:

moving and bending easily -- sometimes used figuratively to indicate mental flexibility when adapting to different conditions