"Suppleness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... still felt the cramping of the cords that had bound him. He needed a few hours yet to work them into suppleness and perfect strength. But respite there ...
— Darkness and Dawn • George Allan England
... like as Spirit of Wine united with Spirit of Salt, makes a soft Liquor of a violent Corrosive. This same sulphurous Unctuosity at the same time spreads itself in the solid Parts, and gives them, in some sense, their natural Suppleness; it bestows on the Membranes, the Tendons, the Ligaments, and the Cartilages, a kind of Oil which renders them smooth and flexible. Thus the Equilibrium between the Fluids and the Solids is in some measure re-establish'd, ...
— The Natural History of Chocolate • D. de Quelus
... powers work more briskly to prepare the needed nourishment, and the blood circulates more rapidly to carry the material for repair to the parts that need it, so that by moderate physical exercise, judiciously distributed, the whole body is built up and strengthened, and the result is a suppleness of frame and a clearness of head that makes ...
— The Royal Road to Health • Chas. A. Tyrrell
... we have a sense of proportion—the mental suppleness that is capable of the ironic view; an eye that can look right as well ...
— The Convert • Elizabeth Robins
... philosophic induction, but at first hand, because he is a Jew by birth and breeding. He, unlike Heine, has never tried to conceal the fact that he is a Jew. In Israel Zangwill all the tenderness and sympathy, all the tenacity, the suppleness and adaptability, and it may be added, the baffling inconsistencies of ...
— The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915 • Various
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