Could you, without an aberration of mind, expect truth from men who, in order to secure all the good things the world affords, make you their victims by forcing false notions upon your weak and pliant understandings in childhood?
Those I have seen in the Museum are quite similar, built of twigs and pliant stems, and lined with fine rootlets.
My pliant russet tail Beats like a frantic flail, Up and down.
This yarn had all the pliant qualities necessary for embroidery, and was in fact uncolored crewel.
The events which had made Marshall and Pinckney more resolute in demanding respectful treatment had made Gerry more pliant to French influence.
They are rather an attempt to construct a brief creed which a pliant Lutheran and a pliant Romanist might agree upon--a singularly successful attempt, and one which does great credit to the theological attainments of the English King.
He was a man whom most people liked and nobody feared--a harmless, pliant tool in the hands of a diplomatist like Cervini.
He sent orders to the Legates to endeavour to persuade the members at Trent to vote for a transfer to Bologna, where the papal influence would be stronger, and where it would be easier to pack the Synod with a pliant Italian majority.
Pliant earth And plastic flame--what balks the mage his birth --Jacinth in balls or lodestone by the block?
From these grates they lighted the kellian, which they held in their hands, presenting their masters with the end of a long pliant tube, through which the latter smoked, while the Paish-Khidmets rode a few paces in the rear.
These he arranged in groups as though to verify the composition on the canvas before him, and this work and the pliant material which he employed had for her a particular and never-flagging interest.
Her lowered face was still smiling, as herpliant fingers drifted into Grieg's "Spring Song.
These were as pliant as rubber in the water, but, when long out, as hard as stone.
If common soap be employed, these valuable fabrics will be injured, and rendered less pliant and velvety than before.
Good corks are highly necessary, and if soaked before used in scalding water, they will be more the pliant and serviceable; and by laying the bottles so that the liquor may always keep the cork wet and swelled, will much preserve it.
He said to me: "If you had more patience, and a sweeter and more pliant temper, I would employ you to go and have a little talk with Mademoiselle, in order to induce her to explain what intentions she may have relative to my son.
Hence that pliant and submissive disposition, for which the French, until the eighteenth century, were always remarkable.
Far above a wind moved among the pliant branches that whipped and whirled their elastic lengths into strange, curled forms.
To know how to speak to a king is perhaps the sole art of a prudent and pliant courtier.
An intelligent man, who is naturally proud, abates nothing of his pride and haughtiness because he is poor; on the contrary, if anything will mollify him and make him more pliant and sociable, it is a little prosperity.
The gazing multitudes admire around: Two active tumblers in the centre bound; Now high, now low, their pliant limbs they bend: And general songs the sprightly revel end.
This girl possessed, with an Italian exterior, the pliant cunning and plausible fluency of the Greek.
His face was pale and flabby, his eye dim, though sparkling at intervals with some little remnant of the ready wit and pliant humour that had made him the favourite of three emperors ere he himself attained the purple.
His character has already been compared to the tiger's, and his movements had all the pliant ease and stealthy freedom of that graceful animal.
The women of Rome admired not only his pliant mind and his taste, which gained for him the title Arbiter elegantiæ, but also his body.
Those that to rustic uses thou wouldst mould, As calves encourage and take steps to tame, While pliant wills and plastic youth allow.
Now let the pliant basket plaited be Of bramble-twigs; now set your corn to parch Before the fire; now bruise it with the stone.
A rowan tree was intertwined with a maple, and a widely spreading clump of hazel stretched its pliant branches with rough furred leaves over the grave.
I saw how across their dull pallor the fire, bursting into flame, threw a red reflection, and how her whole pliant body involuntarily bent towards me.
Bouquet, with a pliant tact rarely seen in the born Briton, took great pains to please these troublesome allies, and went so far as to adopt one of them as his son.
It was this yielding, pliant attitude that struck Stillman as he came upon her almost unawares on that early December afternoon, a yielding, pliant attitude which gave a curious sense of tenacity under the surface.
But probably the worst effect of this conduct as regards King Henry was the encouragement of his fatal delusion that, as archbishop, Becket would be as submissive to his wishes in the affairs of the Church as had been the pliant Chancellor.
Yet thy moist clay is pliantto command, Unwrought, and easy to the potter's hand: Now take the mould; now bend thy mind to feel The first sharp motions of the forming wheel.
Beneath the sallows and the shady vine, My loves had mixed their pliant limbs with mine: Phyllis with myrtle wreaths had crowned my hair, And soft Amyntas sung away my care.
Graceful on high the god o'er Cynthio glides, His wanton locks with pliant gold divides, With tender foliage crowns his radiant hair; 190 Wide sounds the dart bu spreading shoulders bear.
To you his heart was open, none but you, The soft access, the pliant moment knew.
A sward of short pliant grass carpeted a romantic little plain, skirted on one side by a portion of a forest, through which the sun cast short and interrupted glances of his parting splendour.
The champions wore fine Spanish shirts of mail, with a polished breast-plate inlaid with gold, and their pliant barbs of raven black, seemed to have been chosen to contrast with those of the challengers.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pliant" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
