Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Pliant

Pliant as a glove.
—Honoré de Balzac

Pliant as a reed.
—Charlotte Brontë

Pliant as the torrent flows.
—John Gilbert Cooper

Pliant as a wand of willow.
—Henry W. Longfellow

Pliable as wax.
—James Shirley

Pliant as the air.
—Bayard Taylor