Like docile children they did so, then went into Lazarus' penthouse and took transport down.

But she was certainly no docile child, and that made her the very last thing he could use.

The pointillist's great canvas was peopled with respectable-looking men in top hats, docile children, and women in bustles carrying parasols.

However, a psychologist might be worried about an unusually subdued or docile child.

THERE are times when even the most docile children appear to have the aggressive tendencies of a professional wrestler.

All we had to do now was let ourselves be tied up like docile children, and hope that Muir's slow sanity would continue to control Naomi's homicidal impulses.

He envisioned the parent as the "friendly boss," vigilantly and solicitously manipulating a naturally docile child.

When our three children began defying the stereotype of the docile Asian child, getting bigger and more aggressive, we moved to a spacious raised-ranch house.

He answered as a docile child might have answered.

Peredur went like a docile child, startled and comforted, and wherever he hid himself, he did it effectively, for Cadfael saw no more of him that evening.