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Updated: September 3, 2025
"Nature is always useful, as well as grand and beautiful," remarked Fil's father, who, dressed in a white silk suit and abacá hat, had just then come up the path. "Where did you get that hat?" I laughingly asked Fil's father. "I'll tell you some other time. It is made from reeds, woven under water to keep them damp and pliant. The hat, therefore, is light, durable, and cool," he replied.
Besides this, he can always influence the individual members by holding out prospects of advancement and decorations, and if this device fails, he can make refractory members retire, and fill up their places with men of more pliant disposition.
The four or five words which had escaped Mademoiselle de Montpensier had remained in the King's recollection. 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."
Through the air, on wings of skin or feathers or tissue membrane; crawling or leaping by night; burrowing underground; gnawing up through the great supporting posts; swarming up the bamboos and along the pliant curving stems to drop quietly on the shingled roof; thus had the jungle-life come past Hope's unseeing eyes and found the bungalow worthy residence.
Immediately after his death his face, which was not handsome during his life, became extraordinarily beautiful, white and brilliant, and pleasing to behold; his limbs, which the contraction of the muscles, caused by his great sufferings, had stiffened like to those of a corpse, became pliant and flexible as those of a child: they could be handled and placed in any position which might be wished."
We who are defending her must think first of the Church!" "Naturally," said Stephen. His father looked at him in silence for a moment, at the mild pliant figure, the downcast eyes. "There is, however, one thing for which I have cause we all have cause to be grateful to Meynell," he said, with emphasis. Stephen looked up. "I understand he refused to sanction your engagement to Hester Fox-Wilton."
For these women have never been to school their faces bear that shut-in look of the illiterate, a look impossible to define, but just as impossible to mistake when once it has been recognized. With the mothers are a group of girls of ten or twelve, who are learning sewing at an earlier age, when fingers are more pliant and less like to thumbs.
These jewels studded the drinking cups from which the Vikings drank "Skoal to the Northland!" The starfish were magnificent, of many colors, and one with fifteen arms covered with sharp, gray spines, and underneath pale yellow, fleshy feelers with suckers like a sea-anemone. These were as pliant as rubber in the water, but, when long out, as hard as stone.
Weak cider is more apt to burst the bottles, than that of a better quality. Good corks, soaked in hot water, will be more safe and pliant; and by laying the bottles so that the liquor may always keep the corks wet and swelled, will tend much to its preservation.
He felt an odd surprise at her apparent soft and pliant strength, as at a discovery. His mind thrilled with delight at her laughter. "Look where the sun is!" she exclaimed, all at once. "Straight over our heads noon. Your David will be wondering where you are, while Imogene will imagine I'm lost. Let me pick a flower to stick in the ribbon of your hat and then I'll go."
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