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To hear some men talk, we should think that no boy could do so without losing all humility and all teachableness; without forthwith supposing that he was able to be his own instructor.

From The Christian Life Its Course, Its Hindrances, And Its Helps by Arnold, Thomas

In them He found companionship, teachableness, signs of a heart awakening towards God—men to whom life was in some degree what it was to Him.

From The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians by Findlay, G. G.

These really valuable qualities of physical strength and teachableness, unbalanced by any sense of what is due to themselves, let alone their fellow-workers, prove their industrial ruin.

From The Trade Union Woman by Henry, Alice

Perhaps they realise that the Roman has learnt with an admirable patience and teachableness the new lessons that have been put before him.

From Rome by Malleson, Hope

He laughed with the frankness of self-derision that augurs so well for a man's teachableness.

From The Second Generation by Phillips, David Graham