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"Intractability" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... one that has become estranged from the rest of his kind by reason of his fierce intractability. He is in fact what in the west is described, in speaking of a horse, as "loco" or crazy. Such animals—they are generally males—are extremely dangerous to hunt and are generally given a wide berth. They are mischievous in the extreme, ...
— The Boy Aviators in Africa • Captain Wilbur Lawton
... Nurse?" On the mend, it seems, being more refractory than ever; always a good sign with patients. But we must be kept in bed, till midday at any rate, for some days yet. Or weeks or months or years according to the degree of our intractability. The Earl accepts this as common form, and goes to the bedside saying sum-upwardly:—"No ...
— When Ghost Meets Ghost • William Frend De Morgan |
Words linked to "Intractability" : obstinance, wildness, obstinacy, recalcitrance, rebelliousness, intractableness, refractoriness, defiance, unruliness, recalcitrancy, balkiness, tractability, wilfulness, trait, mulishness, disobedience, unmanageableness, willfulness, fractiousness |
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