soople

She's a perfect meeracle, and as soople as a mawkin '.'

The Human Side of Animals Royal Dixon 1923

Of the two evils, I thought Prestongrange to be the least; and while I was always as stiff as buckram to the young bloods, I made rather a dissimulation of my hard feelings towards the Advocate, and was (in old Mr. Campbell's word) "soople to the laird."

David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped. 1893

Ye'll have to win over that, lad; ye'll have to soople your back-bone, and think a wee pickle less of your dainty self; and ye'll have to try to find out that women-folk are nae grenadiers.

David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped. 1893

Eh, but ye 'll hae to soople your backbone, Miss Hollyhock, and think a pickle less o' your dainty self.

Hollyhock A Spirit of Mischief L. T. Meade 1884

Ant Black he knowed was big enough to bite him unless he was mighty soople in wrappin 'the web around her.

Old Caravan Days Mary Hartwell Catherwood 1874

Ye'll have to win over that, lad; ye'll have to soople your back-bone, and think a wee pickle less of your dainty self; and ye'll have to try to find out that women-folk are nae grenadiers.

Catriona Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

Ye'll have to win over that, lad; ye'll have to soople your back-bone, and think a wee pickle less of your dainty self; and ye'll have to try to find out that women-folk are nae grenadiers.

David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

Of the two evils, I thought Prestongrange to be the least; and while I was always as stiff as buckram to the young bloods, I made rather a dissimulation of my hard feelings towards the Advocate, and was (in old Mr. Campbell's word) "soople to the laird."

Catriona Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

I seed the time this 'coon kud 'a run a bit, but these hyur jeints ain't as soople as they wur oncest.

The Scalp Hunters Mayne Reid 1850

Why, thin, I remember you, sir, when you were a gorsoon, passing to school wid your satchel on your back; but, I'll be bound you're by no means as soople now as you were thin.

The Station; The Party Fight And Funeral; The Lough Derg Pilgrim Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831