Example Sentences

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They are clumsy to place, burdensome to carry, and stiff and unpliable to the chafing point.

From Camp and Trail by White, Stewart Edward

All her life, as it seemed, she had been accustomed to mediate between these two unpliable and stubborn temperaments.

From The Market-Place by Frederic, Harold

For she was, to use a lumbering expression, all in front of her spine, with neither backward curve to her head, nor her shoulders nor hips, which gave her a peculiarly unpliable appearance.

From Nancy Stair A Novel by Lane, Elinor Macartney

There was something fixed in it, and Archie's nebulous easy-going temperament had an invincible repugnance to anything unpliable.

From Diana Tempest, Volume II (of 3) by Cholmondeley, Mary

The basenet, or steel-cap, had no visor, and left exposed a broad countenance, with heavy and unpliable features, which announced the character of his temper and understanding.

From The Betrothed by Scott, Walter, Sir