indocile
Example Sentences
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Aldonza was by no means indocile or incapable.
From The Armourer's Prentices by Charlotte Mary Yonge
And again, for it was all the affair of the veriest moment, the slaves rushed once more on their indocile victim.
From A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. by William Stearns Davis
I was indocile at an age When better boys were taught, But thou at length hast made me sage, If I am sage in aught.
From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 1 by Burton Egbert Stevenson
When Bossuet tried to educate his indocile pupil the Dauphin, he taught him how God is above man, as man is above the brute.
From A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. by Edmund Gosse
We were alone, and I think I was always less indocile, less unamiable, when there were few witnesses of my behaviour.
From Discipline by Mary Brunton
