Gentle and pliable as oil, he seemed to penetrate every joint of the ménage by a subtile and seductive sympathy.

Cheeses may be preserved in a perfect state for years, by covering them with parchment made pliable by soaking in water, or by rubbing them over with a coating of melted fat.

It was probably no small task to command such men as Evasio Monand the other four seemed no less pliable behind their gentle smile.

"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!

This trunk is composed of a very thick cartilage, and is pliable in every direction.

No phase of Art that ever existed gives us a line so very human and simple in itself as this Greek type, and so pliable to all the uses of monumental language.