"That is your child who is wanting in docility," remarked Mr. Randolph. From Wordnik.com. [Melbourne House] Reference
They still have so much need to learn from others and for many docility is a difficult virtue. From Wordnik.com. [Montessori Questions] Reference
Their rebellion in MP turns out to be pointless, since they are the last group who could hope to rebel — docility is in their bones. From Wordnik.com. [Ballardian » 'Perverse Technology': Dan Mitchell & Simon Ford interview J.G. Ballard] Reference
Peoples who heretofore were content to stand aside in docility, from now on will start demanding participation in business and government. From Wordnik.com. [A United States Policy for the Pacific] Reference
It's much more threatening to the status quo here, because there's a kind of docility that's expected of the American populace. From Wordnik.com. [Questions &Amp; Answers: Battlelines] Reference
Mother Teresa, who are prepared to sacrifice their own interests for those of other people, is to be explained in terms of "docility" and. From Wordnik.com. [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference
His docility is perfect. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither] Reference
The Judge was actually merry, and Ruth, in spite of her supposed "docility," had quite reversed the situation. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Between, an International Romance] Reference
( "docility"), and in ability to try new kinds of behavior ( "initiative"). From Wordnik.com. [The Dancing Mouse A Study in Animal Behavior] Reference
But is not docility on a maid's part a sign of love?. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905] Reference
It was easy to see, however, that her docility arose from indifference. From Wordnik.com. [Ideala] Reference
Ayudah and its neighborhood are distinguished for their humble manners and docility. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
I must go into the school of the Lord, and in docility of spirit I must sit at His feet. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
The two farm horses that drew the cart, chosen for their docility, also wore red surcoats. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference
They are married young, through arranged or forced marriages, and are groomed for docility. From Wordnik.com. [Counterpoint: Setting Themselves Apart] Reference
The team was purely American -- that is to say, almost human in its intelligence and docility. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7] Reference
Mary received the statement with an apparent docility that brought welcome relief to Marjorie. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean High School Sophomore] Reference
"All right," said Ives, with such docility that Paresi shot him a startled, suspicious glance. From Wordnik.com. [Breaking Point] Reference
He obeys his captors with the same docility with which he had previously obeyed his own officers. From Wordnik.com. [Life in a Tank] Reference
"Do you think I have posed well, faithfully, and with docility all these weeks?" she asked at last. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
They had been married nearly three years by this time, and Beth's habitual docility had deceived him. From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
It was not for nothing she had studied a hundred trials, with a woman's observation and patient docility. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866] Reference
The natives seemed far from hostile, however, and Lieutenant Lewis remarked upon their docility to Sergeant Greer. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old] Reference
Her brother, all kindness, docility, and goodness, locked up in a place like this with thieves and hardened convicts!. From Wordnik.com. [Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York A Series of Stories and Sketches Portraying Many Singular Phases of Metropolitan Life] Reference
The fiery enthusiasm of the Sclaves was in them blended with the steadfast energy and patient docility of the Germans. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
The elder girl's defection thus became, to the mother, a sort of investment, bearing interest of docility in the younger. From Wordnik.com. [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference
But this is the result of numerous favorable causes combined, and proves nothing, from which to infer the Indian's docility. From Wordnik.com. [Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States] Reference
Morvi, and does not bear the best of stable reputations, but when mounted he is docility itself, and a very faithful worker. From Wordnik.com. [The Idler Magazine, Volume III, April 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference
But at seventeen we look less for these characteristics than for the sweetness and docility which Margaret certainly possessed. From Wordnik.com. [A True Friend A Novel] Reference
We sometimes think of the teacher as a lawgiver, and of the learner as one who with docility receives what is graciously given. From Wordnik.com. [By the Christmas Fire] Reference
As working oxen, the Devons perhaps excel all other races in quickness, docility, beauty, and the ease with which they are matched. From Wordnik.com. [Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure] Reference
In Manila he was drilled past docility -- in six months he became even fawning, cringing, and servile, until goaded into open rebellion. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
But youth has some fantastic as well as some noble dreams, so that docility is a better quality than independence in a very young person. From Wordnik.com. [Girls and Women] Reference
Beulah's academic spirit recognized and rejoiced in the fact that with all her docility, Eleanor held firmly to her preconceived notions. From Wordnik.com. [Turn About Eleanor] Reference
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