Have broad six inch long corn husks soaked until pliable in warm water.
Cut into thin slices of uniform size, remove all crust and then cut into the desired shape either with the sharp, pliable knife or a sharp cookie cutter.
Have the reed well soaked, that it may be very pliableand in no danger of breaking.
This treatment will make them so pliable that they may be handled as easily as though freshly gathered.
The equilibrium of the whole body is perfect, its lightness complete, when the head and neck remain of themselves easy, pliable and graceful.
The repetition of these flexions will soon render the legs supple, pliable and independent of the thighs.
For as language is ever soft and yielding, and so amazingly pliable that you may bend and form it at your pleasure; so different natures and dispositions have given rise to different kinds of Elocution.
Nothing could be so easy as the turn and compass of his periods; nothing so ductile; nothing morepliable and obsequious to his will, so that he had a greater command of it than any Orator whatever.
One of the long, pliabletwigs of this plant, or of other somilar plants.
A climbing shrub (Berchemia volubilus) of the Southern United States, having a tough and pliable stem.
A wad, or the materials for wads; any pliable substance of which wads may be made.
A bag for holding and carrying goods of any kind; a receptacle made of some kind of pliable material, as cloth, leather, and the like; a large pouch.
Of course," said the pliable Ingeborg, trained in acquiescence.
An ape with a pliable thumb and big brain, When the gift of the gab he had managed to gain, As a lord of creation established his reign, Which nobody can deny.
A close-fitting cap of red velvet covered his head, with a knot of purple silk triply divided on the top; while a pliable circlet of golden scales, clearing the brows, held the cap securely in place.
A shirt of linked mail, pliable as wool, defended the body and the arms to the elbows; overalls of like material, save that the parts next the saddle were leather, clothed the thighs and legs.
Now, I saw in my dream, that when Obstinate was gone back, Christian and Pliable went talking over the plain; and thus they began their discourse.
At this Pliable began to be offended, and angrily said to his fellow, Is this the happiness you have told me all this while of?
Yes, both Obstinate and Pliable; but when they saw that they could not prevail, Obstinate went railing back, but Pliablecame with me a little way.
As virtue scorns to be the tool of vice, and as sycophants are the most pliable instruments of despotism, he adopted the policy of investing the most unscrupulous with official authority.
Pliable and revengeful, presumptuous and ambitious, he sought to make tools of princes, and slaves of subjects.
The jaguar, with his pliable paws and sharp subtle claws, is to them a more dreaded assailant than the crocodile or caïman.
At this Pliable began to be offended, and angrily said to his fellow, "Is this the happiness you have told me all this while of?
Still later, when to the vast excitement of the countryside "case" weather began, they would be fine and pliable as thin brown leather.
Tobacco leaves which had been as brittle as spun glass five hours before were now as pliable as brown satin.
But the most pliable of baby's features is the nose.
Dip out a little of the mixture, put on a cold plate, and if it is done it will form a softpliable paste.
Holes can be punctured in the bucket and the wire tray fastened on with a heavy cord or a pliable wire, 230.
It should be as pliable as possible, and the tip should be narrow and rounded off and not pointed.
To soften stoppers which have already become hardened, they should be brought together in a jar with sulphuret of carbon until they are pliable and afterward kept as recommended above.
The back was not pliable or bending; it was hard, braced with sinews tough as hawsers, and supported a pair of shoulders that could sustain the weight of an ox.
Pithoeus, 1585, in which P was first used for the text.
Under the Kalhora princes, the khan of Kalat obtained a grant of the town, but in 1795 it was captured by the Talpur Mirs, who built the fort at Manora, at the entrance to the harbour.
I hope you may find Parchment as pliable as I am--I wish you well through it.
The nobility were not slow to resume their ancient superiority owing to the influence of the king of Navarre, who was not as pliable as the prince of Condé, particularly after the Huguenot alliance with the Politiques.
They favored the regency of the pliable Antoine of Bourbon, or a combination of the king of Navarre and the queen mother.
Keep your shoes well oiled so they will be soft and pliable and keep out water.
You may, at first, feel constrained or cramped in the different positions but by continued practice the muscles and joints will become so supple and pliable that you can easily assume the correct position.
How often have we ourselves heard these very words of challenge and reproof from the pliable frequenters of emotional meetings, and from the emotional members of an emotional but rootless ministry.
Our Lord's short preliminary description of Pliable goes, like all His descriptions, to the very bottom of the whole matter.
And John Bunyan, with all his genius, could never have given us such speaking likenesses as that of Pliable and Temporary and Talkative, unless he had had scores of them in his own congregation.
But Pliable had not knowledge enough of himself to make him ever despond.
My heart really inclines to go with my neighbour,' said Pliable next.
Had Pliable only had a genuine and original slough of his own to so sink and be bedaubed in, he would have got out of it at the right side of it, and been a tender- stepping pilgrim all his days.
And then John Bunyan takes up that so expressive profile, and puts flesh and blood into it, till it becomes the well-known Pliable of The Pilgrim's Progress.
Pliable is hurt with Obstinate's coarse abuse of the Christian life, till he is downright ashamed to be seen in his company.
Pliable to his companion, as they both went over head and ears into the Slough of Despond.
But Christian had enough of both for any ten men, and it was Christian's overflowing despondency and doubt at this point of the road that suddenly filled his own slough, and, I suppose, overflowed into a slough for Pliable also.
Whether it was that the discharge from the city was deeper and fouler, or that the day was darker, or what, we are not told, but both Christian and Pliable were in a moment out of sight in the slough.
So full of love was the gatekeeper's heart, that it ran out upon Obstinate and Pliable also.
The women don't have to spend their time chewing on the sealskins to make them pliable for shoes and garments.
It was a big sacrifice for him to part with his wife and son, for it is the teeth of the women that must chew the sealskins to make them pliable for shoes and clothes: it is the fingers of women that do all the sewing.
Of/ all the members which have pliable joints, the knee is the only one that lessens in the bending, and becomes larger by extension.
Remember, the clay must always be kept moist and pliable and never allowed to dry.
Through one of the top holes pass a piece of pliable wire, place one of the broomsticks against the rim of the lid, pass the wire back through the other upper hole (Fig.
When in proper condition, cut off the necks and portion of the ends, then soak them in warm water, and they will become very pliable and light in color.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pliable" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
