Water-glass soaps do not dissolve readily in water, they make but little suds, and render the skin hard and unpliable. |
How grotesque her features were, so hard and unpliable seemed her flesh. |
They are clumsy to place, burdensome to carry, and stiff and unpliable to the chafing point. |
All her life, as it seemed, she had been accustomed to mediate between these two unpliable and stubborn temperaments. |
Her very lips were stiff and unpliable with the force of the blood which rushed to her head. |