indocile

Example Sentences

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We were alone, and I think I was always less indocile, less unamiable, when there were few witnesses of my behaviour.

From Discipline by Brunton, Mary

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

Aldonza was by no means indocile or incapable.

From The Armourer's Prentices by Hennessy, W.J.

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)

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