It is not that I am insubordinate father, but, as I see it, into each generation something enters, different from the preceding one.
"The Eye of Dread"
Payne Erskine
I don't know how it is, I'm sure, but I always get the most insubordinate and useless officers on my ship.
"Command"
William McFee
If wicked and designing persons tell them otherwise, and they become impatient and discontented, and are guilty of insubordinate conduct and black-hearted ingratitude-which is undoubtedly the case-I am their Friend and Father still.
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes