10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PLIANTNESS»
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pliantness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
pliantness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Francis Bacon: Discovery and the Art of Discourse
... transformation or modification of a substance is supposed to be equivalent to
altering the grouping of simple natures in the body. Gold is defined by the
concomitance in matter of greatness of weight, closeness of parts, fixation,
pliantness, ...
2
New Pronouncing and Explanatory English-Italian and ...
... ilessíbile Pliancy, Pliantness. s. piegbevolézza Pliant, adj. tlessibìle,
arrendévole, manévole Pliantness , s. пенным ‚ arrendevolézza Plicátion,
Plìcature, s. piéga, il piegare Pliers, s. (meglio) шут, tanagliétte, pincétte Plíght , s.
stato ...
3
Vollständiges Wörterbuch Der Englischen Sprache Für Die ...
Geschmeibidfelt des 1 Selnfilhs ' Flexibility, 'sractablenesn Submiffion,
Suppleuess, Pliantness, Gentlenes' of Temper and Humour; Subtlety.
Gtsmmtlolgieit der sunge, Volubility of the Tongue. Qbtsdinlrlfi ,- das, I) Gefflimeifi
von Fllegen ic. the ...
4
The Broadview Anthology of Seventeenth-Century Prose
As a sword is sooner broken upon a feather bed than upon a table, so his
pliantness broke the blow of a present mischief much better than a more
immediate resistance would perhaps have done. Ruin saw this, and therefore
removed him first ...
Alan Rudrum, Joseph Black, Holly Faith Nelson, 2001
5
A Dictionary of the English and German, and the German and ...
Weißwurz. Gelenkheitx. flexibility, suppleness, pliantness. V. Gelenkigeeit.
Gelctlkig, adj, and (wie. [having joints] jointctssi, 111 t-czilated. [in hot-any] Eine -
e Writ: zel. a knucklcd or articulated 10015 ein _er Stengel. ajuinted or articulated
slalk.
Joseph Leonhard Hilpert, Ernst Friedrich Kärcher, 1857
6
The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore,
... and very nimble, by reason of the pliantness of their muscles, this Island is in
many respects so happy, that Giraldus might very well say, ' Nature had regarded
with more favourable eyes than ordinary this Kingdom of Zephyr.” 1- The ...
7
The New American Cyclopaedia: A popular Dictionary of ...
He showed himself the same bustling, talkative, versatile individual ; but his age,
past experience, fluency of speech, and readiness for every thing, made him
sometimes a useful member, while, owing to his pliantness of character and ...
8
The works of Francis Bacon, lord chancellor of England
Upon the compound body, three things are chiefly to be observed : the colour ;
the fragility or pliantness ; the volatility or fixation, compared with the simple
bodies. For present use or profit, this is the rule : consider the price of the two
simple ...
Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu, 1841
9
God Speaks the Pastafarian Quatrains
Got hefty, grim pliantness. Split hefty, strong enigma. Hefty spits torn gleaming.
Shifty, gentle giant romps. Shifty angles torment pig. Shifty pig torments angle.
Pig not strangle shifty me. Name shifty, strong piglet. Shifty gnome splattering.
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An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language
151, from F. pliant, pres. part. of plier; pliant ly, pliantness or pliancy; pliers
orplyers, pincersfor bending wire. FromL. plicārewealso have apply, imply, reply;
accomplice, application, complicate, complex, explicate, explicit, implicate,
implicit, ...
