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Pliʹable

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One of Christian’s neighbours, who went with him as far as the Slough of Despond, and then turned back again. (Bunyan: Pilgrim’s Progress, pt. i.)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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