What is "docility"

Usage examples of "docility".

Gavvmg held his temper and Horse took it with typical docility, but Alfin was still protesting as they broke through into sunlight.

Her docility did not detract from the piquancy of the pleasure, for she was voluptuously inclined.

He lirruped and chirruped to the girl in the way the equestrienne invokes docility in a shy horse and led her through the maze of hovels until they debouched abruptly upon a glittering street.

I clasped her in my arms, and made her feel the effect which her mere presence had produced on me, while at the same time I assured myself of her docility.

After I had given him an account of my visit to the superintendent, he asked me, with a smile, if I felt inclined to submit with docility to not seeing my mistress in freedom.

Raw nature has no use for docility -- except in the female, who must submit to be bred.

Admiring the docility of the horse, standing there like a faithful servant to whom his master has given orders to wait for him I got up to him, and without any purpose I get hold of the bridle, put my foot in the stirrup, and find myself in the saddle.

If he knocks it is usually only to make his presence known to the slave, and the knock is commonly authoritative and rude, often startling her, even though she expects it, signaling her in no unclear or ambiguous fashion that she is to prepare herself, and well, to greet him, her master, which she does then in a position of docility and submission, usually kneeling and head down.

I obeyed with a docility which has puzzled me ever since, but at the time I thought nothing of it.

There were elements among the colonists who used genetic knowledge and manipulatory skills to enslave and breed the natives like beasts, doing some genetic tinkering to produce subsets of the basic form, lowering intelligence and inducing a docility that tended to result in a reduced lifespan for the six-legs so treated.

From such laudable arts did the valor of the Imperial troops receive a degree of firmness and docility unattainable by the impetuous and irregular passions of barbarians.

It was a spectacle to stir the dullest soul when this gallant band marched out of the yard in full regimentals, with Captain Dove a solemn, big-headed boy of eleven issuing his orders with the gravity of a general, and his Falstaffian regiment obeying them with more docility than skill.

The little boy must have contended with fear in this awesome environment, the child of gentlest nurture, but he thought he was going to his mother, or perchance he could not have submitted with such docility, so uncomplainingly.

A sensation of considerable uneasiness crept over the Master as he pondered the huge strength and docility of these two executioners.

I obeyed with a docility which has puzzled me ever since, but at the time I thought nothing of it.