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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Pliant
 
  Pliant as a glove.
            —Honoré de Balzac		  1
  Pliant as a reed.
            —Charlotte Brontë		  2
  Pliant as the torrent flows.
            —John Gilbert Cooper		  3
  Pliant as a wand of willow.
            —Henry W. Longfellow		  4
  Pliable as wax.
            —James Shirley		  5
  Pliant as the air.
            —Bayard Taylor		  6
 
 
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