unpliant
- a word derived from pliant.
Example Sentences
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Ours are the same in their general character, and rendered still more unpliant, by our having thirteen parliaments to relax, instead of one.
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson
She had come to him extending, as it were, an olive branch—living, lustrous, full-foliaged; and in return he seemed able to offer nothing beyond a mere splinter-like twig—dry, sapless, unpliant.
From With the Procession by Fuller, Henry Blake
Thou wast not born to bend The unpliant bow, or to direct the shaft, But here are nobler who shall soon prevail.
From The Odyssey of Homer by Cowper, William
Red leaves trailing, Fall unfailing, Dropping, sailing, From the wood, That, unpliant, Stands defiant, Like a giant Dropping blood.
From Sanders' Union Fourth Reader by Sanders, Charles W.
A strenuous time's pedestrian muse Shouts p�ans to the earth-born giant, Whose brows Apollo's wreath refuse, Whose strength to Charis is unpliant.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, April 11, 1891 by Various
