"Biddable" Quotes from Famous Books
... had been rightly named. At last he realised that I was master, and after that I hardly remember one occasion on which he gave any trouble; for the three years that I afterwards possessed him, we were the best of friends, and he the most gentle and biddable of beasts. Alas! that I should have had to end his days with a bullet, and leave his bones to be picked by the dingoes of ... — Spinifex and Sand - Five Years' Pioneering and Exploration in Western Australia • David W Carnegie
... a good lad and biddable and constant at thy book and thy manly exercises, to give thee, so soon as thou should'st have learned ... — Harding's luck • E. [Edith] Nesbit |