compliable
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Why, Miss, I fancy, if you were to shew a compliable temper, your friends would shew a compliable one too.
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 2 by Samuel Richardson
Mr. Wheler was taken off,—despair perhaps rendering the man, who had been in opposition futilely before, compliable.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
You must send me no more letters: but a compliable one you may send.
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1 by Samuel Richardson
Why, my dear, it is possible, that you may be more compliable than you have been.
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 2 by Samuel Richardson
The Quartermaster's department and the Adjutant's department are seldom compliable, Lundie; but I'm ready.
From Pathfinder; or, the inland sea by James Fenimore Cooper
