indocile

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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

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

He wished to reveal by one great example all that heresy can do, how indocile and independent it naturally is, how fatal to royalty and to any legitimate authority.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright

Aldonza was by no means indocile or incapable. 

From The Armourer's Prentices by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

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