Thou shalt find me tractable to any honest reason. From LearnThat.org. [Shakespeare]
tractable young minds. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : a tractable child; a tractable disposition. From Dictionary.com.
I was what they call a tractable child, being, in fact, too little interested in the world as it was to resent any duties cast upon me. From Wordnik.com. [Lore of Proserpine] Reference
Eleanor had in the past proved anything but tractable. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Senior Year at High School] Reference
The cooking utensils, too, had become tractable objects in. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the Hills] Reference
The children were extraordinarily tractable, perhaps because. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa] Reference
Paul grows more tractable, showing signs of returning reason. From Wordnik.com. [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference
Apt to learn; promising; docile; tractable; propitious; seasonable. From Wordnik.com. [The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference] Reference
Under the eye of his master he is the most tractable of all beings. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
He then commenced the task of making his animals tame and tractable. From Wordnik.com. [Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 (of 3)] Reference
"They're a lot more tractable than that woman of yours," said Placer. From Wordnik.com. [Rebels of the Red Planet] Reference
And a disease that, in many forms, has proven to be a tractable enemy. From Wordnik.com. [Breaking The Silence] Reference
He found the mare more tractable than a wife with obstinate relations. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922] Reference
"Do you mean that her schoolmistress does not find her tractable?" said. From Wordnik.com. [A True Friend A Novel] Reference
This was followed by more pacific moods, and he became quite tractable. From Wordnik.com. [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference
His successors on the pontifical throne proved somewhat more tractable. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)] Reference
Like other islanders, too, they are tractable and easily governed by the. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
Paraffin wax does in some situations, but is not a very tractable medium. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference
By and by, when we are better acquainted, she will grow more tractable. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866] Reference
She has a peculiar temperament, but is tractable enough if one understands her. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of Hill House] Reference
My oxen were most tractable and the country through which I passed very beautiful. From Wordnik.com. [Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History] Reference
They were skilful in the use of arms, brave, but mild and tractable in disposition. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8] Reference
The matter itself, of which the universe doth consist, is of itself very tractable and pliable. From Wordnik.com. [Meditations] Reference
The inhabitants of Java are, generally speaking, a quiet, tractable race, but rather lazy withal. From Wordnik.com. [Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China.] Reference
At last Okoj came near him, and the moment she laid her hand upon him, he became quite tractable. From Wordnik.com. [Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 3 (of 3)] Reference
He is tractable and gentle, and knows too well the duty of a gentleman to try to oppose authority. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
No one has ridden or driven him for two years but myself, and he has been tractable and lovable always. From Wordnik.com. [Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888] Reference
He found the animal tractable, and soon taught her what he wished by this mode of reward and punishment. From Wordnik.com. [A Hundred Anecdotes of Animals] Reference
But the promised "teaching" found her a less tractable pupil than he had hoped and led the father to hope. From Wordnik.com. [Elizabeth: the Disinherited Daughter By E. Ben Ez-er] Reference
"It is well, Giovanni," said the Count, evidently much relieved to find his ardent protégé so tractable. From Wordnik.com. [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference
I have never been a fan of tractable women, having mostly experienced self-loathing when I tried to masquerade as one. From Wordnik.com. [TO HELL WITH WELL BEHAVED] Reference
"Your conscience is too tractable, I suppose, to trouble you over setting a young girl like Diantha against her parents.". From Wordnik.com. [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference
Moving forward to the present, pop culture provides a more blithe but no less arresting example of Islam's tractable nature. From Wordnik.com. [Heather Ferguson: Why Islamic History Offers New Reasons to Support Democracy in Egypt, the Middle East] Reference
We doing the like, the people came aboard our ships, men of good stature, unbearded, small-eyed, and of tractable conditions. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
"The kitchen eend seems ter be the most 'tractable ter the fellers, in spite of hot cider," remarked the landlord, with a laugh. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885] Reference
On the whole, the Turks were the most honest of the nations there (I except the English and the Sardinians), and the most tractable. From Wordnik.com. [Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands] Reference
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