He listened more docilelyto her suggestions about bettering the style of his editorials--adding snap to them--than he had done when Paulding had tried to help him.
He was as helpless as a baby at first, and submitted docilely to her loving tyranny.
Yetta followed her docilely up two flights of dirty stairs into a long work-room, which had been made by knocking the partitions out of a tenement-house flat.
The child did not reply, but docilely allowed herself to be led to her seat.
Whatever you wish," he conceded, docilely as Iria could have spoken.
Captain Wass had docilely announced that he was going full speed astern, his whistle-blasts had declared that he had stepped off the sidewalk of the ocean lane--as usual!
Then the two captains turned in, for the Ethel and May lay to docilely with a single helmsman at the wheel.
I pretended to be alarmed by the feverish glow in her cheek; I entreated her to take a composing draught; I poured out the medicine, which she took docilely from me.
She looked dejected, as docilely yielding to a commanding power; she submissively entered, and was lost in the dark recess.
And since his lightest wish was a command, little Polly docilely withdrew her arm and returned to her dishwashing.
She docilely said "home" with the rest, and kept her family ties intact; but she had never expected to go back, except on a flying visit.
Both of the women now docilely obeyed and aided him, in his heroic self-abnegation.
I had been docilely obeying orders, but my real self had been standing aside and watching my doings with a certain aloofness.
I couldn't have met his arguments if I had wanted to, so I sat docilely at his feet.
Apparently resigned to their fate, the creatures docilely drained the cups.
He allowed himself to be docilely herded on to the edge of the pit.
Docilely received, it is steadily retained, or held with a firm grip, whoever and whatever may seek to pluck it from mind or heart.
The Kid made no reply, but he rode alongdocilely beside H.
Then he rode thankfully home with the Kid in his arms and Silver following docilely after.
Whereupon, Jess trotted docilely up to the humpy, and laid her stolen prize at Bill's feet.
She did so, and with a good grace, returning docilely enough to her master.
Jurgen, and he docilely crowned himself with a rose garland, and drank his wine, and kissed his Anaïtis.
Then Christophe was ashamed: and docilely he would listen to Georges's story, and try to win his forgiveness by redoubled attention.
In doing this, she had accidentally pushed the catch the right way; so that, as she jumped down from the running-board, the door came docilely open under her hand.
She was of an expansive and confiding nature, easily satisfied, and tried to fall in with the mournfulness of her home, and docilely used to repeat the pessimistic ideas which she heard.
She gave way suddenly: and during the last rehearsal she submitteddocilely to all Christophe's wishes.
Clayton, without feeling the absurdity of the comedy, rose docilely and followed her down the path for some distance.
Usually she would have obeyed docilely enough, but this deviltry of merriment she resented.
He stood docilely against the cabin wall of the superstructure.
He docilely put himself in position for me to hook my forearm under his crossed, bound wrists and carry him.
The big kite came docilely enough, as though it were tired of the game it had been playing and was sorry for the damage it had done.
He did what he was told to do docilely and quietly, but he remembered nothing that had gone before.
She did not know what he meant, but she listened to his pure and exquisite pronunciation, and did her uttermost docilely to acquire it, as to obey and execute all his teachings.
The elders docilelytook their cue, and moved away with him.
Fortune had stationed herself at his shoulder, at last; and the young man did well docilely to obey her whispered directions.
Docilely he followed Nicholas off the stage--away from this climactic fiasco of all his wretched series of failures.
In the midst of them he was summoned to another meal; and he followed Piotr docilely to the table, this time trying to force a little food between his lips.
Annie called gently to the little dog, and came striding down through the snow to fall in docilely three paces behind her adored "brother," Wagalexa Conka after the submissive manner of squaws toward the human male in authority over them.
With surprisingly few exceptions, Marxians of all countries have docilelyfollowed their master in rejecting, with bitterness and vindictiveness that is difficult to explain, the principles and teachings of Birth Control.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "docilely" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
