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Cromwell, also, is described as having been of a wayward and violent temper in his youth cross, untractable, and masterless with a vast quantity of youthful energy, which exploded in a variety of youthful mischiefs.
Caesar's Catilinarian adherents were indignant that murder and pillage remained in abeyance; these audacious and desperate personages, some of whom were men of talent, might be expected to prove cross and untractable. The republicans of all shades, on the other hand, were neither converted nor propitiated by the leniency of the conqueror.
"Son," replied queen Gulnare, "if only the Princess Jehaun-ara can make you happy, it is not my design to oppose you. The king your uncle need only have the king of Samandal brought, and we shall see whether he be still of the same untractable temper." Strictly as the king of Samandal had been kept during his captivity by King Saleh's orders, yet he always had great respect shewn him.
By repeated experiments I was gradually convinced that laws are essentially necessary to maintain and regulate a well constituted state, and that the fierce untractable humour of the Goths was incapable of bearing the salutary yoke of laws and civil government.
Perhaps the barbarous practice of hunting the African elephants for the sake of their teeth, has rendered them more untractable and savage, than they were found to be in former times. The greater part of the ivory which is sold on the Gambia and Senegal rivers is brought from the interior country.
An Untractable Train. A Quick Run. Trains that Start from Nowhere. Trains that Arrive at Nowhere. Trains that Don't Do Anything. B. Goes Mad. Railway Travelling in Germany. B. is Taken Prisoner. His Fortitude. Advantages of Ignorance. First Impressions of Germany and of the Germans. We are at Ostend. Our pilgrimage has ended. We sail for Dover in three hours' time.
And now they had another broil with the three Englishmen, one of which, a most turbulent fellow, being in a rage at one of the three slaves which I mentioned they had taken, because the fellow had not done something right which he bid him do, and seemed a little untractable in his shewing him, drew a hatchet out of a frog-belt, in which he bore it by his side, and fell upon him, the poor savage, not to correct him but to kill him.
As a matter of fact, Hester presented a funny sight. She was a plain child, and her shock of red hair was straight and untractable. Her scowling face was flushed with anger, and the gold paper crown was pushed down over one ear in ridiculous fashion. Marjorie couldn't help laughing, which, naturally, only irritated Hester the more. "Yes, giggle!" she cried; "old Smarty-Cat! old Proudy!"
Impose some public penance on them; and beware, of all things, that they may not observe in you the least remissness, which they will be sure to interpret fear; for nothing more encourages the untractable and haughty to rebellion, than the softness and fearful spirit of a governor.
For the present, he was wholly untractable, being at the mercy of the most uncontrolled passions and of one of those intermittent phases of blind fatalism to which the Semitic races are peculiarly subject. There were two reasons which determined the Wanderer to turn to Keyork Arabian for assistance, besides his wish to see the bad business end quickly and without publicity.
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