indocile

Example Sentences

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How superior also the elevated brain of the poodle dog, when compared with that of the indocile, snarling cur!

From Buchanan's Journal of Man, February 1887 Volume 1, Number 1 by Buchanan, Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes)

Aldonza was by no means indocile or incapable. 

From The Armourer's Prentices by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

As instances of the first statement, the elephant is actually, and in his real circus life, an indocile and malicious beast, prone to blind rages, revenges, and sly malice.

From Belford's Magazine, Vol 2, December 1888 by Various

In your morbid hypercriticalness, you may wish this indocile, undisguisable, and most unsheltered feature had been made a little longer, or a little shorter, or a little wider, or not quite so wide.

From Such Is Life by Furphy, Joseph

Over this he had wasted two days, and from that moment I saw it was useless to waste any more of my time and patience in urging a scholar so indocile for the beaten path.

From Friends in Council — First Series by Helps, Arthur, Sir