He then began to catechise the children and the young; the aged, too, were there, all answering with the docility of children.
On the whole, Miss Wych did not feel as if she were developing any hidden stores of docility at present!
It only shews what unexpected docility exists in some natures,' said Miss Kennedy with an unreadable face.
I am very much pleased, my dear children [of class Yellow], to find in you as much docility and the same simplicity that there is in the younger classes; and for this I give you great praise.
The docility of these animals is an old story, but it loses so much in the telling, that their gentleness, obedience, and sagacity seemed as strange to me as if I had never heard or read of these attributes.
This daily contact leads to that docilitywhich is so much admired in Arab horses.
For the first few days the bit is covered with undressed wool, partly with a view not to hurt his bars, and partly to allure him to docility by the saltish flavour of which he is so fond.
They say that sustained work at an early age strengthens the chest, muscles, and joints of the colt, at the same time imparting a docility that will remain with him until death.
Avoid both indulgence and opposition, and a habit of docility will be formed by the time the child becomes capable of deliberate self-control.
The little Duc de Berry, spirited and resolute, did not approve of the docility of his brother, and declared that he would have remained in bed.
Could I rely upon the permanence of her equanimity and her docility to my instructions?
This measure, however, had no greater success than the other; and Anastasia, who had always until that time found so much docility in Catherine, was extremely surprised at the little deference she paid to her counsels.
The great temporal power and wealth to which, owing to the obedience and docility of the rank and file, the leaders had fallen practically sole heirs, had gone to their heads.
With almost disciplined docility the crowd arose and filed out, joining the other crowd waiting patiently in the street.
Madame Montessori believes that repressing children physically while they are in school and teaching them habits of mental passivity and docility is mistaking the function of the school and doing the children real harm.
Dogmatic methods which prescribe and make for docility and passivity not only become ineffective in modern society but they actually hinder the development of the largest possibilities of society.
The conventional type of education which trains children to docility and obedience, to the careful performance of imposed tasks because they are imposed, regardless of where they lead, is suited to an autocratic society.
His docility of nature, patient endurance, and hopeful disposition enabled him to endure long marches, severe hardships, and painful wounds.
The supposed docility of the American Negro was counted among the reasons why it was thought he could never gain his freedom on this continent.
His extreme docility with children I attribute to his being for many years strictly a family horse, exclusively fed, harnessed, and driven by ourselves.
As for the Catholic remnant in the Reichstag, its docility surpasses even that of the Socialists.
We are waiting for the German newspapers to publish a schedule of penalties as affected by the docility of the victims and the season.
These few examples are enough to show that the Socialists lend themselves to militarist domestication with the same docility as the "bourgeois" parties.
Another thing that surprised the girl more than a little was the docility with which her associates submitted to his dictation and even invited it.
With a docility and total absence of distrust that later surprised her to remember, Joan sank back, eyes eloquent with the question unuttered by her parted lips.
In Sicily, the religion and language of the Greeks were eradicated; and such was the docility of the rising generation, that fifteen thousand boys were circumcised and clothed on the same day with the son of the Fatimite caliph.
In a period when Europe was plunged in the deepest barbarism, the light and splendor of Asia may be ascribed to the docility rather than the knowledge of the Turkish conquerors.
But I do say that speed may be, and often has been, sought at too dear a rate, and that bottom, courage, docility and action are equally elements of money value and equally worthy of being sought for in progeny.
Yes, John," with a docility that was altogether captivating to the new commander-in-chief.
The half-indignant tone of the man made his guest feel as if she had insulted him; and she obeyed with a docility which appeased his anger at once.
Doctor Eben rarely saw her; but when he did her manner had the same child-like docility and affectionate gratitude that had characterized it when she was seventeen.
I--why, it seems to me that her docility might prove it, might it not?
But is not docilityon a maid's part a sign of love?
