His heroines, with two or three exceptions, would be called rather tame by the modern reader, although they win respect for their domestic virtues and sterling elements of character.
Other persons carried for sale canary-birds, linnets, and two or three other sorts of small birds, perched on their fingers; these birds had been rendered so tame that they did not attempt to fly away.
He wore a curious mixture of Eastern and Western costume, and had a tame chameleon crawling about his pipe, with which he was almost as much occupied as M.
Blest as he was with that peculiar faculty of genius for overcoming difficulties, he might have found life tame without them.
I should like now to meet that youth where my hands were not tied: I would tame his pride, or he should tame mine.
Disease would also be brought on by the dirt which always finds a lodgment in tame wool, and by the draggled and water-soaked condition into which it falls during stormy weather.
If every wild sheep inhabiting the Sierra were to put on tame wool, probably only a few would survive the dangers of a single season.
Were it not for the exercise of individualizing cares on the part of Nature, the universe would be felted together like a fleece of tame wool.
For the credit of my imagination, I am almost ashamed to say how tame and prosaic my dreams are grown.
I am led to this conclusion partly by the fact that Thomas Tame was not appointed Deputy-Accountant until four or five years after Lamb had left.
If, however, Crivelli could not be tamehe could be insipid, escaping tameness by what might be called the violence of his affectation.
It is impossible to believe that either of them ever painted a tame picture.
But I am the greatest of all enchanters; and I will teach you how to tame the bulls--if you will promise me one thing.
Then she gave him a magic herb, and said:-- "This will tame the bulls.
Before you can obtain the fleece, you must first tame these bulls.
Jason quietly driving a plough drawn by the bulls, who were now as tame as common oxen.
And the stag no longer struggled for freedom, but followed Hercules to Mycenae as gently and lovingly as a tame fawn.
Jack Morgan is his name--the fearless and the lucky; No dastard foe can tame the son of old Kentucky.
The dungeon dark and cold could not his body prison, Nor tame a spirit bold that o'er reverse had risen.
Illustration] XCVI A FALSE ALARM Some years ago, a soldier, who was doing duty at the castle of Cape Town, kept a tame baboon for his amusement.
The bird remained there for several years, and being kindly treated, became so tameas to come at call to be fed at the kitchen door.
Food was soon supplied in abundance, and Willie with his usual frankness ate of it heartily and was as tame as any barn-yard fowl about the house.
The boy was not ungrateful for such great kindness, and used every day to bring a good store of food for Simo, which the animal would take from his hand in the most tame and kindly manner imaginable.
Illustration] LXVII TAME HARES The hare is scarcely a domestic animal; yet we have an account of one that was so tame as to feed from the hand, lie under a chair in the sitting-room, and appear in every way as easy and comfortable as a lapdog.
Illustration] LXII THE TAME SEA GULL Many years ago a gentleman accidentally caught a sea-gull.
They were," he says, "so tamethat two little blacks mounted both together on the back of the largest.
He was not even tethered, and after giving himself the luxury of a roll in the grass, he ate his dinner of oats, and browsed about the tent, as tame as a kitten.
This was tame sport, however, for no one dared to vary the humdrum diversion by a brisk little quarrel, which is the usual accompaniment of that game.
The territories are settled by people who live an intense, exaggerated sort of existence, and nothing tameattracts them.
This pleased us much, and we wished that such a lair for tame animals could have been seen in our times.
The renewed race of man went forth hence a second time: it found occasion to sustain and employ itself in all sorts of ways, but chiefly to gather around it large herds of tame animals, and to wander with them in every direction.
It was a tame affair, but not altogether uninteresting.
Everything went off well, but the thing was tame compared with the Patna meeting, for the fact of our being at Government House has raised, in spite of us, a barrier between us and the people.
The alcalde was a worthless blanco, who spent most of his time swinging in a hammock slung between the posts of his veranda, and playing with a tame parrot when not drunk or asleep.
One of the party had a tame tiger-cat in his arms.
We have tried to tame them; but Karl cannot control his; they are only pent in to burst forth with greater violence.
Beyond the lake a long ascent leads first through luxuriant orchards to Padernione, then through tame scenery to Vezzano, a large country town lying in an upland plain.
The landscape is, it is true, tame to the eye; but on a sunny August morning, when the vast hayfield is alive with mowers and the air fragrant with the smell of ripe grasses, it contains much to tickle other senses than sight.
Beyond the valley rose the comparatively tame forms of the granite range.
But these tame and pedantic versifiers could have given no precedent for the wild inspiration of this strange poem, which clothes in the music of finished art bursts of savage emotion.
The literature of the Silver Age is throughout conscious of its powerlessness; and this consciousness deadens it into tame acquiescence or galls it into hysterical effort, according to the time and temperament of the author.
Tame as he generally is, a resigned instrument in the divine hands, there are moments when Aeneas is truly attractive.
The man that istame in times of peace is a skulking woman in times of war.
And as she now towered before him, a beautiful embodiment of wrath, he knew not whether he loved her more than he feared her, yet the desire to possess her and to tame her was strong within him.
Are you so tameand so poor-spirited that a threat is to vanquish you?
A wild horse is to the tame what the adventurous traveller is to the quiet man who builds a home, and from the grey mare and Alcatraz the six were learning many things.
A tame horse is like a tame man, and I don't give a damn for a fellow who won't fight!
A tame hoss is like a tame man and I don't give a damn for a gent who won't fight.
Her ears are trained to a marvelous sense of acuteness, and her intuition and perception make the shrewdest mind-reader appear as tame as a fortune-telling horse.
Pallavika, distribute to the tame haritala pigeons some topmost leaves of the pepper-tree.
She was being honoured by a sunwise turn in departing by a tame goose wandering like the moon in a fixed circle, with wide eyes raised to her sirisha earrings in its longing for vallisneria.
Kadalika, take the tame peacocks to the shower-bath.
She questioned Kashaqua about "Nooski," the tame bear which had followed them on their journey to Ticonderoga.
I hope we shan't see any bears to-day, not even a tame one.
The papooses catch birds and feed them," she continued, "tame birds so they know their name, and come right to wigwam.
Faith told them of "Nooski's" appearance, greatly to the delight of her boy cousins, who asked if the Indian woman had told Faith the best way to catch bear cubs and tame them.
