Such was the character of the men called to guide and instruct the young, ignorant, catholicizing, and tractable Amsterdam community.
A papal legate arrived in October, who proved a tractableservant of the king; "with the right hand and the left he took gifts, which he planted together in his coffers".
Their chiefest Game is a sort of Arithmetick, which is managed by a Parcel of small split Reeds, the Thickness of a small Bent; these are made very nicely, so that they part, and are tractable in their Hands.
At first they seemed to agree, and were tractable until a patriotic but unlucky impulse induced me to give them the names of a few prominent Generals in the late war.
The planter for the reason that he could not supplant him by more efficient and tractable labor; the politician for fear of reducing Congressional representation, each regardless of the conditions creating his discontent.
Such is the usual progress of the disease: subsequent to vaccination, it is a mild and tractable disorder.
I always travel without company; for then I take my own hours and my own humours, which I don't think the most tractable to shut up in a coach with any body else.
He feels pleasure also in the chace, and in tournaments; in the course he is all fire; but equally tractable as courageous, he does not give way to his impetuosity, and knows how to check his natural and fiery temper.
To have gained over a tractable and courageous species like the dog, was acquiring new senses and faculties.
There experience is with the calm, settled, unfatigued, attentive, obedient soldier, with an intelligent and tractable man instrument in short.
The cause of its fright having by this time disappeared, the colt became tractable and stood quivering and snorting, as David took the bridle from the girl's hand.
In all other respects, my dear mother, I'll be as tractableand obedient as you can wish; on this one alone, I stand out.
The quality or state of being tractable or docile; docility; tractableness.
Well, I took him in hand, and in one fortnight I had him tamed down as submissive and tractable as heart could desire.
Tom Loker we left groaning and touzling in a most immaculately clean Quaker bed, under the motherly supervision of Aunt Dorcas, who found him to the full as tractable a patient as a sick bison.
The camels, fortunately tractable and docile, were made to lie in the trench, while, to be perfectly sure that they would not stampede and leave the fugitives in the lurch, Hugh fastened their halters together.
But he seemed a gentle creature, tractable and harmless.
In the meanwhile, I willingly confess that we are not to despair, but the age following will peradventure yield more tractable spirits, more mild hearts than our times have.
You might have made a tractable beast of such a one; he would have been young enough for training.
Who can forbear to sigh, look pale, and languish, where beauty and wit unite both their forces to enslave a heart so tractableas mine is?
It is, among familiar plants, the most submissive, the most docile, the most tractable and the most attentive plant of all that we meet on life's long way.
It is perhaps tractable and docile, even as light and electricity; it is perhaps wholly spiritual and depends upon a very simple cause which the displacing of an object may reveal to us.
You may read it yourself," returned Jaime, who, notwithstanding the intelligible hint to be tractable which he had already received, found it a hard matter to restrain his sulkiness.
The captain and Frank pretended to listen with attention; and the reverend minister, finding them in such a tractable humour, as he supposed, did not choose to mar the harmony of the interview by declining a second bottle of stout.
No coercion is necessary with him: he is very tractableand by no means dangerous.
Fremstad's voice is not altogether a tractable organ, but she has forced it to do her bidding.
In the circumstances it is an extremely tractable organ, at least always capable of doing his bidding, dramatically speaking.
Then he contrives to make some wild horses so tractable that he can use them for riding, which is a great help to him in his expeditions and excursions.
There were in that island wild horses and asses, out of which he chose some that seemed fittest for the purpose, and by dint of exercise he made them so tractable that he became complete master of his wishes.
