| 1. | This tractable obedience is a slav. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 2. | If thou dost find him tractable to us. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 3. | find me tractable to any honest reason. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 4. | I never heard any harm of her and I dare say she is one of the most tractable creatures in the world. - from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
| 5. | The Muscular does not mold so easily, is less suggestible, is less tractable than the Alimentive or Thoracic but is less likely to revert afterwards. - from How to Analyze People on Sight by Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict |
| 6. | He was tractable enough, though his son was a perfect demon, ready to blow out his own or anybody else's brains if he could have got to his revolver. - from Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 7. | These creatures, which are known as thoats, are as dangerous and vicious as their masters, but when once subdued are sufficiently tractable for the purposes of the green Martians. - from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs |
| 8. | That moment marked the beginning of a new existence for the poor thoats, and before I left the community of Lorquas Ptomel I had the satisfaction of observing a regiment of as tractable and docile mounts as one might care to see. - from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs |
| 9. | "Come," he said to himself, "let me try if he will be more tractable than the other" and he tapped gently at the door. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |