But Laurella turned away from these suggestions with the hopeless, pliable obstinacy of the weak.

Flexible, pliable, pliant, supple, limber, lithe, lissom.

His feet are thrust into a pair of botas de potro, or colt's-foot boots, manufactured from the hide of a colt's fore-leg, which he strips off whole, chafes in his hand until it becomes pliable and soft, sews up at the lower extremity,and puts on, the best riding-boot that the habitable world can show.

When the fibres possess these properties so far as to admit of their being spun and woven into a texture sufficiently pliable to be used as an article of dress, they are called wool.

This is explained by the fact of the bones in infancy being comparatively soft and pliable, and if prematurely subjected by these contrivances to carry the weight of the body, they yield just like an elastic stick bending under a weight, and as a natural consequence become curved and distorted.

While ligaments are pliable and flexible, permitting free movement, they are also wonderfully strong and inextensible.

In the same way, by being polite and friendly, you can make people pliable and obliging, even though they are apt to be crabbed and malevolent.

Also, that the part of the harness that the heaviest strain comes on is kept as smooth and pliable as it is possible for it to be.

Betsy Thoughtless is not even the innocent, lovely, and pliable girl typified in Fielding's Sophia Western.

Should this be impracticable, then the following is suggested: The soldier stands in his new shoes in about 2-1/2 inches of water for about five minutes until the leather is thoroughly pliable and moist; he should then walk for about an hour on a level surface, letting the shoes dry on his feet, to the irregularities of which the leather is thus molded in the same way as it was previously molded over the shoe last.

He shut 'em up in the very barrack where they did their talking, and those who didn't jump out of the windows he enrolled in his suite, where they soon became mute as fish and pliable as a tobacco-pouch.

His mind was less pliable.

"When in foreign countries," says an old author, "I fall in with a man too helpless for a Frenchman, too ceremonious for an Englishman, too pliable for a Spaniard, too lively for a Dutchman, too cordial for an Italian, too modest for a Russiana man pressing towards me with oblique bows, and doing homage with ineffable self-denial to all that seems of rank; then my heart, and the blood in my face, says, 'that is thy countryman.'" How true!

He gives the preference to the latter, as more pliable, and behold him a tailor, cutting with the point of his knife; as for thread, it is furnished by the fragment of the sail; and two days afterwards, he finds himself flaming in a new suit.

These little volumes are meant for artists' notebooks, and are made of tough, soft, pliable paper which takes the pencil well.

But his nature was not pliable enough for the drama, and he acknowledged that, in writing for the stage, he "forced his genius.

Paterson has worked successfully a patent for rendering belt leather more pliable, and lessening the tendency to stretch.

They are by this process rendered pliable, and can be used in this state for stitching the leather ends of larger belts, or can be stiffened by plunging them into a bath of isinglass and white wine vinegar.

In non-essentials he was pliable; but on the underlying principles of truth and justice, his will was as firm as steel."

The smaller the area over which legislation extends, the more pliable are the laws.

And, in truth, I ought never to have married, for under the soft, loving, pliable girl there lay hidden, as much unknown to herself as to her surroundings, a woman of strong dominant will, strength that panted for expression and rebelled against restraint, fiery and passionate emotions that were seething under compressiona most undesirable partner to sit in the lady's arm-chair on the domestic rug before the fire.

The English archers, who carried the far more useful long-bow, kept their bows in their cases until the rain ceased, and then took them out dry, and in perfect condition; besides which, even if the strings of the long-bows had been wetted, they could not have been materially injured, as they were thin and pliable, while those of the cross-bows were so thick and unpliable that they could not be tightened or slackened at pleasure.

Shenstone seems to have been more pliable.

The men were busy fashioning spears and carving on ivory, while the women scraped the fat from the hides of the hair seal and made them pliable or sewed muclucs with threads of sinew.

She struggled bravely in the Slough of Despond for awhile, and then turned back with Pliable.