“As the sword of the best tempered metal is most flexible, so the truly generous are most pliant and courteous in their behavior to their inferiors”
Thomas Fuller
“They wish that you should be pliant so they (too) would be pliant.”
quran
“You see, my good friend, how much we are the creatures of situation and circumstance, and with what pliant servility the mind resigns itself to the impressions of the senses, or the illusions of the imagination”
Lady Morgan
“Who foremost now delight to cleave / With pliant arm thy glassy wave?”
Thomas Gray
“Our Defense Department has continued to pay, through pliant contractors, for a flock of Iraqi political exiles as our paid political agents in Iraq.”
Charles Tiefer
“When two magnificent swords clash they invariably leave an indelible impression on one another.”
Daniel Oke
“For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.”
Bible
