Слово "pliant". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

Here the roots and stems of creepers were in such tangles that the boys had to thread through them like pliant needles.

She was tall and pliantly slender, without angularity anywhere. Her body was erect and high-breasted, her legs long, her hands and feet narrow.

It might be merely that they were too used to inflexible fact and far too unused to pliable people.

Their tempers, doubtless, are rendered pliant and malleable in the fiery furnace of domestic tribulation, and a curtain-lecture is worth all the sermons in the world for teaching the virtues of patience and long-suffering.

Bertuccio!" cried he, striking a light hammer with a pliant handle on a small gong. "Bertuccio!"

We must not imagine that there is nothing at the bottom of the sea but bare yellow sand. No, indeed, for on this sand grow the strangest flowers and plants, the leaves and stems of which are so pliant that the slightest agitation of the water causes them to stir as if they had life.