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ductile
1. Like a ductile thread that can never be seen,
2. tough or ductile alloy with a % E as much as 50 %
3. He never ceased to marvel at how ductile iron became when heated red hot and he worked the metal with tongs and hammer as easily as a sculptor manipulates clay
4. offered itself, led the ductile youth, by that master tool of his, as she
5. It falls upon the banks and the grass, separating one long blade from another; turning a drift of brown, frosted leaves from a single heap to innumerable flashing fragments; or glimmering lengthways along wet twigs as though light itself were ductile
6. Louisa then, taking and holding the fine handle that so invitingly offered itself, led the ductile youth, by that mastertool of his, as she stept backward towards the bed; which he joyfully gave way to, under the incitations of instinct, and palpably delivered up to the goad of desire
7. Ductility: Gold is a very ductile metal
8. In one well-marked instance, I put the comb back into the hive, and allowed the bees to go on working for a short time, and again examined the cell, and I found that the rhombic plate had been completed, and had become PERFECTLY FLAT: it was absolutely impossible, from the extreme thinness of the little plate, that they could have effected this by gnawing away the convex side; and I suspect that the bees in such cases stand in the opposed cells and push and bend the ductile and warm wax (which as I have tried is easily done) into its proper intermediate plane, and thus flatten it