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)
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 Gosse, Edmund
The chambers are indocile for the same reason; encourage every body, and every body will be on your side.
From Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. II by Fleury de Chaboulon, Pierre Alexandre Édouard, baron
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 Stevenson, Burton Egbert
Under their instruction he proved as ready a scholar, as he had been indocile and restive to the pedant who held the office of his tutor.
From Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are by Godwin, William
