Both Uses of
pliant
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- Bertuccio!" cried he, striking a light hammer with a pliant handle on a small gong.†
Chpt 41-42 *
- Meanwhile Monte Cristo had rapidly taken off his great-coat, waistcoat, and shirt, and one might distinguish by the glimmering through the open panel that he wore a pliant tunic of steel mail, of which the last in France, where daggers are no longer dreaded, was worn by King Louis XVI.†
Chpt 81-82
Definition:
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(pliant as in: a pliant individual) able to adjust readily to different conditions
or less commonly:
susceptible to being led or directed