indocile

Example Sentences

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He is a very bold and powerful creature, and becomes more fierce and indocile with age.

From The American Reformed Cattle Doctor by Dadd, George

The Empire which made him Senator gained, however, but an indocile recruit. 

From The Ways of Men by Gregory, Eliot

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

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)

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