It is not to be wondered at, therefore, that a young woman endowed with so fiery and ambitious a nature did not become in the hands of Augustus as docile a political instrument as Livia. "The Women of the Caesars" by Guglielmo Ferrero

Each transport, when filled to the bursting- point with as- yet- docile cargo, darted away; swinging around to approach Clamer from some previously- assigned direction. "The Galaxy Primes" by Edward Elmer Smith