obedient

• The eyes of the obedient are anointed with the eye-salve of grace, and wondrous panoramas break upon the sight. —  My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year
• "He is too easy and obedient, and I'm afraid he hates me. —  Syd Belton The Boy who would not go to Sea
• Be obedient, and your lives are safe He bowed and left them, and as soon as he was out of hearing, Mr Braine told Murray what had passed Then our lives are safe If we are obedient I shall be obedient till I see an opportunity to strike, sir. —  The Rajah of Dah
• At home it had always been taken as a matter of course that she would be quiet, obedient, and useful, and learn her lessons properly; it had never been considered anything remarkable. —  Susan A Story for Children
• There was nothing to complain of in one so perfectly gentle and obedient, and withal, modest and devout; but the good woman, after having for some time given her the benefit of the supposition that she was grieving for her father, began to wonder at such want of activity and animation, and to think that on the whole Jack was the more talkative companion Aldonza had certainly not taught him the phrases he was so fond of repeating. —  The Armourer's Prentices

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