amenable

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Keith and his son joined them, coming from the car, the Amenable Nicholson hovering behind ingratiatingly.

From Rimrock Trail by Dunn, J. Allan, (Joseph Allan)

To me, then, these men have no private life, Nor claim to ties they have cut off from others; As Senators for arbitrary acts Amenable, I look on them—as such Let them be dealt upon.

From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4 by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley

But they are not all——" "Amenable to my orders?

From The Sins of Séverac Bablon by Rohmer, Sax

The Amenable Nicholson clambered into the flivver beside Miranda Bailey.

From Rimrock Trail by Dunn, J. Allan, (Joseph Allan)

Amenable, a-mēn′a-bl, adj. easy to be led or governed: liable or subject to.—ns.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various