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She imagined that a purity had existed which was now gone; that a piety had adorned our pastors and a simple docility our people, for which it may be feared history gave her but little true warrant.
To re-enter boyhood, go with meek docility through its disciplined routine how hard had I found that return, amidst the cloistered monotony of college!
Rowdy chuckled to himself, and hoped the horse saw through the subterfuge. Perhaps the horse chuckled also; at any rate, he stood quite still, equally prepared to bounce away on the instant or to don the mask of docility. Bandy-legs drew nearer and nearer, shaking the basin briskly, like an old woman sifting meal.
No Englishman or Japanese or American will ever understand us when we tell him that this military discipline of ours, this war-lust, did not represent a passion for dominion and aggression, but was merely the docility of a childish people which wants nothing, and can imagine nothing, but that things should go on as they happen, at the moment, to be.
This was the language of that renowned Admiral, when his officers reported to him certain seamen of the fleet as wholly ungovernable. "Send them to Collingwood." And who was Collingwood, that, after these navy rebels had been imprisoned and scourged without being brought to order, Collingwood could convert them to docility?
It was not her habit to caress any one or any thing, not even her little brother, and this unusual demonstrativeness puzzled and surprised the old lady who said, fondly, "I presume Ulpian is brave enough to encounter all the risks of standing security for your obedience and docility."
He was well aware, however, that Neuburg by his marriage and his conversion was inevitably to become the instrument of the League and to be made use of in the duchies at its pleasure, and that he especially would be the first to submit with docility to the decree of the Emperor. The right to issue such decree the States under guidance of Barneveld were resolved to resist at all hazards.
He had spoken before in this light of a plain man's vision, but he must be something more than a plain man now. "Hasn't she then, Charlotte, always her husband ?" "To complain to? She'd rather die." "Oh!" and Bob Assingham's face, at the vision of such extremities, lengthened for very docility. "Hasn't she the Prince then?" "For such matters? Oh, he doesn't count."
I was amazed at the docility of this terrific monster; yet, after all, I thought that it was no more astonishing than the docility of the elephant, which in like manner allows itself to be guided by the slightest pressure. A child may lead a vast elephant with ease, and here with equal ease the Epet led the athaleb.
M. Ravenga declares that the effect has been a degree of docility on the part of the blacks, and a degree of security on the part of the whites, unknown in any preceding period of the history of Colombia." "Dr. He says they are, generally speaking, 'well conducted and industrious persons, who compose indiscriminately different orders of the community.
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