Word: pliant
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...customer following another. Dapper wants a "familiar" to make him win at cards. Drugger comes to learn how to grow rich at his trade. Sir Epicure is trapped by the hope of obtaining the philosopher's stone, which turns metals to gold. Tribulation seeks to enrich his church. Dame Pliant is brought by her brother Kastril to get a titled husband. Each is rapidly and cleverly fleeced, and the dialogue is full of the jargon of alchemy. Finally Lovewit returns and learns from the neighbors the strange doings at his house. Jeremy denies everything till the swindled and angry customers...
...House, H. S. Deming '05 Sir Epicure Mammon, a Knight, W. G. Baer '04 Pertinax Surly, a Gamester, C. W. Randall '05 Tribulation Wholesome, a Pastor of Amsterdam, R. I. Underhill '06 Ananias, a Deacon there, C. Mitchell '06 Kastrill, the angry boy, T. P. Smith '05 Dame Pliant, his sister a Widow, H. H. Bennett...
...kind of exercise can supply that need so well as the old and well-tried art of boxing? What is so good to teach the eye attention and he hand agility, to push back the drooping shoulder and quicken the sluggish blood; to put the whole body into a pliant, healthy condition...