How To Use tractableness In A Sentence
- From the untractableness and prodigious strength of the buffaloes, it was both a tedious and difficult operation to get them on board. Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook
- She did not foresee the severe disappointment with which an exclusive purpose of this sort is pregnant; she was inexperienced enough to lay a stress upon the consequent gratitude of those she benefited; and she did not sufficiently consider that, in proportion as we involve ourselves in the interests and society of others, we acquire a more exquisite sense of their defects, and are tormented with their untractableness and folly. Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman
- But the untractableness, the avarice, and indiscretion of the parties concerned, broke through all his measures; and to prevent the entire disconcerting of them, he hastened his departure for Mexico, where he arrived May 14, 1717. History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing
- Its other side, the paean of sorrow for a self-destructive exploit, the dirge on lives wantonly thrown away, the deep blame attaching to the untractableness which sent them to their doom, was the task of the historian, and that too has been faithfully and lastingly accomplished. Biographical Study of A W Kinglake
- Henry was too thankful for being permitted to enjoy her presence to forfeit the boon by any untractableness, and, for one of his excitable temperament, he was exceedingly docile. Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue
- Whatever shortcomings are appointed (for they are more than permitted, they are in such cases appointed, and meritorious) on account of the untractableness of the material, come under the head of "conventionalism by cause of means. Lectures on Architecture and Painting Delivered at Edinburgh in November 1853
- He divided the responsibility for them between the untractableness of the agent, and the absenteeism of the owner. Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (2 of 2) (1888)
- Its other side, the paean of sorrow for a self - destructive exploit, the dirge on lives wantonly thrown away, the deep blame attaching to the untractableness which sent them to their doom, was the task of the historian, and that too has been faithfully and lastingly accomplished. Biographical Study of A.W. Kinglake
- -- And might not an early care, of instilling good principles into them when young, have prevented much of that stubbornness and untractableness you complain of in country-born negroes? The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861 A History of the Education of the Colored People of the United States from the Beginning of Slavery to the Civil War
