What is "untractable"

Usage examples of "untractable".

Laws and systems are meant for the unhappy and the untractable, not for people like you, for whom Love makes its own laws.

In town they had captured brutish, garbage-eating dogs that they were beating into submission, or eating the untractable ones.

Success had not taught him a despotic and untractable temper, applause had not made him insolent and vain.

And I took occasion to descant, at some length, on the untractable nature of Mr Hickery, and how it would be proper before the next meeting to agree to say nothing when the matter was again brought on the carpet, but just to come to the vote at once.

York and Monina were familiar with the reports of the gypsy character--its savage honour and untractable constancy.

Lords Temple and Shelburne told the house in reply, for the purpose of removing the untractable chancellor, Camden, from his seat in the ministry.

But then she never continued any in her house, whom, after a due novitiate, she found untractable, or unwilling to comply with the rules of it.

We have secured a settlement of a number of hitherto untractable questions, e.

The parts of Mauritania which border on the Great Desert and the Atlantic Ocean, were filled with a fierce and untractable race of men, whose savage temper had been exasperated, rather than reclaimed, by their dread of the Roman arms.

But the plans of Belisarius were disconcerted by the untractable spirit of Arethas, who neither returned to the camp, nor sent any intelligence of his motions.

He was blooded, vomited, purged, and blistered, in the usual forms (for the physicians of Hungary are generally as well skilled in the arts of their occupation as any other leeches under the sun), and swallowed a whole dispensary of bolusses, draughts, and apozems, by which means he became fairly delirious in three days, and so untractable, that he could be no longer managed according to rule.