Dutiful bit done badly involves leader in embarrassment

Usage examples of obedient.

His resistless word split asunder the orb of the moon: the obedient planet stooped from her station in the sky, accomplished the seven revolutions round the Caaba, saluted Mahomet in the Arabian tongue, and, suddenly contracting her dimensions, entered at the collar, and issued forth through the sleeve, of his shirt.

I tried to satisfy my wishes, she opposed some resistance, but a double crown of six francs made her obedient, and finding that her only fault was a complete absence of cleanliness, I began to wash her with my own hands.

A small mental push sent Bevel veering off toward the galley, obedient to the planted suggestion to share a glass of doctored wine with his captain.

As prisoners, however, they quickly proved docile and obedient to their captors, even to the point of assisting in drafting surrender appeals to their erstwhile comrades.

Obedient to her wishes, but every day more deeply enamoured, I was in hope that nature at last would prove stronger than prejudice, and would cause a fortunate crisis.

She fought it hard, for what it represented-not strength and fem independence, but obedient dependence.

If he put his mark upon her and claimed her that would satisfy her obedient side, yes, but what about her fem side?

Could there be the DNA of an obedient mixed in with her freewheeling fem self?

The obedient Javotte had certainly not changed, but I was not the same.

Still, sitting at this hub of power, feeling the lines of command stretching throughout this magnificent space vessel, binding more than 400 people into an obedient whole, and converging in the raised chair on the bridge where he, Hander Mori, sat-this was a pleasure and an honor, too, even if he had not attained the position legitimately.

The next morning he was obedient to my orders, for when Lawrence asked him how he was, he replied without moving his head.

Eyvind opened his mouth to shout a warning, but the crewmen moved too fast, the whisker-pole swung across, shifting the great crackling sail, and the knarr juddered and swung after it, obedient to the wind.

It looked like it wanted to bark, but Boxey had ordered it not to, and Muffit was nothing if not obedient.

Pierpoint drew a pistol, and sent the bullet whizzing past his ear so truly, that fear made the man obedient to the counter-orders of Pierpoint for the moment.

It made no sense that the most obedient and orthodox species under the Praxis would suddenly turn rogue.