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1. And this new back of his– it was flexible, pliant, which meant that he could walk properly and was no longer forced to scurry about like a crab because of his bent and twisted frame
2. Neither does it consider Humankind‘s obstinate, however pliant nature that pursues its (own) calling and seeks its (own) rewards in its (own) self-appointed manner
3. “Well, I can assure you that the influential who hoped for a pliant leader to be no more than a power battery for their own pet projects were soon to reconsider, when faced with the somewhat indomitable nature of my beloved’s will
4. The black warrior dangled above the deck, supported by what seemed a dark pliant tree trunk arching over the rail
5. They seemed to beckon him, to arch their pliant stems toward him
6. The lashes consisted of seven round silk cords, harder yet more pliant than leather thongs
7. Constantius, whom men called Falcon, was tall, broad-shouldered, slim-waisted, lithe and strong as pliant steel
8. The blossoms bent toward her like sentient things, nodding serpent-like on pliant stems
9. Its rigid outline became pliant, melting in his grasp
10. 'Nay!' The slender arms, strong as pliant steel, were around his corded neck
11. The pliant cords made no great sound as they encountered the quivering body of the captive; only a sharp crackling snap, but each cord left a red streak across Yasala's dark flesh
12. Its clinging, pliant branches wound about the man's naked body and limbs, seeming to caress his shrinking flesh with lustful avid kisses
13. It was wonderfully soft and pliant
14. pliant military bureaucracy, produced the horror of the death camps
15. When theSirlandians discover that Dani-Sar is not a pliant tool,
16. globe but at times, he would be puzzled whether the owner was actually as submissive and pliant
17. Similarly, there are impurities of the mind impaired by which the mind is not pliant and wieldy, lacks radiant lucidity and firmness, and cannot concentrate well upon the eradication of the taints
18. If the mind is freed of these impurities, it will be pliant and wieldy, will have radiant lucidity and firmness, and will concentrate well upon the eradication of the taints
19. Do you think 70 years of subconscious subliminal messages repeated endlessly ad nauseum, wishing you to become a senile, pliant mindless baby… by senile, weak, pliant, evil, cunning, undead filth: does not have an affect on you while you are alive? Do you think 70 years of your subconscious aura being violated and destroyed and ripped to shreds all your life, does not result in you developing a weak ineffectual aura? So when you die and meet them in their realm, you are no threat to them? Why do you think the older people get the more senile they become? Why do you think the older they get, the less they sleep? Because they stop dreaming
20. Vince loved her tousled curls, the pink color in her cheeks from waking warm and pliant under his kisses
21. pliant, and to all appearances incapable of the mischiefs and cruelty it
22. Suddenly darting on each other, they closed, and came to the earth, twisted together like twining serpents, in pliant and subtle folds
23. At instants of momentary wakefulness he mistook a bush for his associate sentinel; his head next sank upon his shoulder, which, in its turn, sought the support of the ground; and, finally, his whole person became relaxed and pliant, and the young man sank into a deep sleep, dreaming that he was a knight of ancient chivalry, holding his midnight vigils before the tent of a recaptured princess, whose favor he did not despair of gaining, by such a proof of devotion and watchfulness
24. Bertuccio!" cried he, striking a light hammer with a pliant handle on a small gong
25. Then he put a forkful into his mouth, chewing with discernment the toothsome pliant meat
26. Meanwhile Monte Cristo had rapidly taken off his great-coat, waistcoat, and shirt, and one might distinguish by the glimmering through the open panel that he wore a pliant tunic of steel mail, of which the last in France, where daggers are no longer dreaded, was worn by King Louis XVI
27. The punt cord had been drenched through with rain, pliant, slippery and fibrous
28. When had it stopped being whitish-blond? And when had his pliant body, which once would have done almost anything to be close to his dad, grown so stiff, as though there was something unmanly about their hands meeting on a lacrosse stick? “Okay, okay, I’ve got it,” Will said, and backpedaled away
29. It was as clear as possible that she was ready to be attached to Will and to be pliant to his suggestions: they had never had a tete-a-tete without her bringing away from it some new troublesome impression, and the last interview that Mr
30. Casaubon kept his hands behind him and allowed her pliant arm
31. I knew I needed a pliant friend for my plan, someone I could load up with awful stories about Nick, someone who would become overly attached to me, someone who’d be easy to manipulate, who wouldn’t think too hard about anything I said because she felt privileged to hear it
32. But she dried her hands the best she could on her apron, arranged her appearance the best she could, called on all the haughtiness she had been born with to calm her maddened heart, and went to meet the man with her sweet doe’s gait, her head high, her eyes shining, her nose ready for battle, and grateful to her fate for the immense relief of going home, but not as pliant as he thought, of course, because she would be happy to leave with him, of course, but she was also determined to make him pay with her silence for the bitter suffering that had ended her life
33. Thus the indictment, which was the foundation of the barbarous treatment I received, carried on its front its own condemnation; but this defect was remedied by the ingenuity of the party judge, who dexterously mingled his assertions that the crime was cognizable under the common law, with his admonitions to a pliant jury not to be deterred from finding a verdict where the man who wrote was a member of Congress, and knew the sedition law was about to be passed, and probably hurried his letter to evade the law
34. Through it all, she had confidently counted on me, a discreet background, a pliant puppet