Both Uses of
docile
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- Thr... BLOOM: (Docile, gurgles) I rererepugnosed in rerererepugnant BELLO: (Imperiously) O, get out, you skunk!†
Chpt 15 *
- fjords and minches and tidal estuaries and arms of sea: its solidity in glaciers, icebergs, icefloes: its docility in working hydraulic millwheels, turbines, dynamos, electric power stations, bleachworks, tanneries, scutchmills: its utility in canals, rivers, if navigable, floating and graving docks: its potentiality derivable from harnessed tides or watercourses falling from level to level: its submarine fauna and flora (anacoustic, photophobe), numerically, if not literally, the inhabitants of the globe: its ubiquity as constituting 90 percent of the human body: the noxiousness of its effluvia in lacustrine marshes, pestilential fens, faded flowerwater, stagnant pools in the waning moon.†
Chpt 17
Definition:
easily led or managed -- perhaps submissive or well-behaved