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Meanings of docile child in English

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Usage of docile child in English
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So far Prudence was proving to be an unexpectedly docile child.
Heartless
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And she is not a docile child any longer, I give you warning.
Melbourne House
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He set off like a docile child, while I worked at Scudder's notes.
The Thirty-Nine Steps
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The philosophic mystic assumes the role of a docile child.
The Mind in the Making: The Relation of Intelligence to Social R...
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She would not go off like some quiet, docile child.
Accidentally the sheikh's wife
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He answered as a docile child might have answered.
The Evil Genius: A Domestic Story
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I describe myself as a docile child, but I was full of temptations to be otherwise.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 / Sexual Inversion
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The docile child slid off the lounge and stood against it, piping directly one of her songs.
Old Caravan Days
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But Melanie seemed to have the indifference and passive manner of a docile child-andan absolutely incredible voice.
Amazing grace
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After he is well he permits his fiancee to direct all his activities - he becomes a docile child.
The new yorker
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She answered him with the simplicity of a docile child: "I will do anything you tell me."
Blind Love
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She was a wee girl, preserving on the threshold of sun-ripened womanhood the soft and pathetic graces of a docile child.
McClure's Magazine, Vol. 31, No. 1, May 1908
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For I am truly grateful for all you have done for me, and will try to be a docile child to you.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860 / A Magazin...
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Adam Warner laid his hand on the king's arm, and he drew the imperious despot away as easily as a nurse leads a docile child.
The Last of the Barons — Volume 08
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His behaviour was like a docile child's, and he never lapsed from his sunny temper, though I could see how his leg gave him hell.
Mr. Standfast
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Likewise, sweet and docile children become spastic hellions upon boarding a commercial airliner.
Reuters
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