Example Sentences

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Wouldst thou have the innocent grow up to the grossness and indocility which too often accompany maturer swinehood? 

From Crying for the Light, Vol. 3 [of 3] or Fifty Years Ago by Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)

But the extreme illiterateness and indocility of this maid are surprising, considering that she wants not inquisitiveness, appears willing to learn, and, in other respects, has quick parts.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 4 by Richardson, Samuel

I am not supposing any indocility, or unwillingness to listen.

From The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 by Japp, Alexander H. (Alexander Hay)

If I still persevere in my old opinions, it is no small comfort to me that it is not with regard to doctrines properly yours that I discover my indocility.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund

Quetzalcoatl next appears as a religious reformer, but is not listened to by men, whose indocility is punished by the appalling hurricane during which such as escaped became monkeys.

From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 by Various