supple-kneed

Updated: June 19, 2025

Thus the contest raged for years, until the South, growing strong on her ill-gotten gains, and arrogant from her success with the supple-kneed politicians of the North, put the Church in the North upon the defensive by demanding toleration, if not actual adoption. The issue was made in trying to foist upon the whole Church a slave holding Episcopacy.

Wesson Gage Miller - Thirty Years in the Itinerancy

Benevolent father, supple-kneed son, convenient lady. Here is agreement. And thus it ends. Again he laughed outright at the steel-blue face of the sky, then jumped in a flash from his seat to the throat of Bertran. Bertran tumbled backwards with a strangled cry, and Richard pegged him to the ground.

Maurice Henry Hewlett - The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay