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Obedient

adjective

Dutifully complying with the commands or instructions of those in authority. "Obedient children" , "A little man obedient to his wife" , "The obedient colonies...are heavily taxed; the refractory remain unburdened"

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"Obedient" Quotes from Famous Books

... rise higher and higher in his command and authority over Nature's forces. Three several times the earth has been cursed, which curse is gradually removed as man returns unto his God in loving and obedient service. "And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand. When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength" (Gen. iv. 11). The secret of a world's wealth ...

— The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882 • Joseph Wild

... son. I was only just recovering from a severe illness, and this fearful affliction has caused a relapse, so that I am unable at present to go to identify the remains of the loved and lost. My darling son would have been sixteen on Christmas-day next. He was a most amiable and obedient child, early taught the way of salvation. We fondly hoped that as a British seaman he might be an ornament to his profession, but, 'it is well;' I feel assured my dear boy is now with the redeemed. Oh, he did not wish to go this last voyage! On the fifteenth of October, ...

— The Uncommercial Traveller • Charles Dickens

... same in politics and religion. To be loyal to a party or obedient to a Church was to stand self-confessed a fool or a hypocrite. Self-realization, that was in our eyes the whole ...

— A Student in Arms - Second Series • Donald Hankey

... was washing the barber's shop. Another, bearded up to his eyes, was kissing a crying child and lulling him on his knees to quiet it; fat peasant women, whose husbands were "in the fighting army," were showing by the language of signs to their obedient conquerors the work they had to do: chop wood, prepare soup, grind coffee; one of them was even washing for his hostess, ...

— Mademoiselle Fifi • Guy de Maupassant

... of Oeconomy, or Management of the Houshold, is most humbly presented, by His Most humble and most obedient Servant, ...

— The Country Housewife and Lady's Director - In the Management of a House, and the Delights and Profits of a Farm • Richard Bradley

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