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The reason of this pliability on his part was, that Phelim being every person's friend, by his good nature, was nobody's foe, except for the day. He fought for fun and for whiskey. When he happened to drub some companion or acquaintance on the opposite side, he was ever ready to express his regret at the circumstance, and abused, them heartily for not having treated him first.
The mountaineers, rousing themselves from their couch under the canopy of heaven with the hum and bustle of a confused and irregular multitude, like bees alarmed and arming in their hives, seemed to possess all the pliability of movement fitted to execute military manoeuvres.
"I can never resist a charming penitent.... I assure you I am pliability itself in delicate fingers although iron and steel to a threatening hand.... If you should woo me very sweetly, little one " She could not overcome and she could not hide from his mocking eyes the sick shrinking that drew her back from his least touch.
Sweet pliability of man's spirit, that can at once surrender itself to illusions, which cheat expectation and sorrow of their weary moments! Long, long since had ye number'd out my days, had I not trod so great a part of them upon this enchanted ground.
On such grounds as these Ferguson, almost immediately after the landing, had earnestly pressed the Duke to proclaim himself King; and Grey had seconded Ferguson. Monmouth had been very willing to take this advice; but Wade and other republicans had been refractory; and their chief, with his usual pliability, had yielded to their arguments. At Taunton the subject was revived.
He did not understand what would 'go down, and what was of 'such a character that people would drive a coach and six through precedents and everything else in order to get rid of it. He was irritated by an appeal to practical consequences from what he considered to be established principles. Then, too, his massive intellect made him wanting in pliability.
The fish, being hooked, had made off with the rush of a shark for the bottom of the pool. A thicket of saplings below the alder tree had stopped the judicious hooker from all possibility of following; and when he strove to turn him by elastic pliance, his rod broke at the breach of pliability. "I have learned a sad lesson," said John Pike, looking sadly.
Semitic origin of the Phoenicians Characteristics of the Semites Place of the Phoenicians within the Semitic group Connected linguistically with the Israelites and the Assyro- Babylonians Original seat of the nation, Lower Babylonia Special characteristics of the Phoenician people Industry and perseverance Audacity in enterprise Pliability and adaptability Acuteness of intellect Business capacity Charge made against them of bad faith Physical characteristics.
The leather machinery is deserving of a careful description, but it would be too technical perhaps, and there is no romance in the handling of wet hides, the scraping, currying, stretching and pommelling which even the thickness, prepare the surface and develop the pliability of the leather. Near this is the boot- and shoe-making, sewing and cable-screw wire machines, but none for pegging.
"It is not her beauty merely that drew me to her, though she is the most beautiful human being I ever saw: it is the exquisite feminine softness and delicacy of her character, that sympathetic pliability by which she adapts herself to every varying feeling of the heart.
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