The emperor had tamelydeclined to fight the battles of Jehovah, and his supineness added wormwood to Pole's bitter cup.
She would not stand tamely by, she said, and see her cousin murdered; and if remonstrances proved ineffectual, she would send an army to chastise and reduce them to obedience.
Let us remember, that "if we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom.
Lest by tamelysubmitting to be plundered, they encourage their Plunderers to grasp at all they have.
Are these things consistent with the Freedom of the House; or, could the General Courts tamely submiting to such Usage, be thought to promote his Majestys Service!
But all this is trifling compared with what these noble animals, who tamely bow to the yoke of man, suffer in the charge of the battle; the horse rushes into the combat not knowing that torture and death are before him.
The minnesingers sing tamely of the beauty of virtuous love, but Tannhaeuser, suddenly remembering the seductive and magical beauties of the Venusberg, cannot control himself, and bursts out into a reckless hymn in praise of Venus.
I know your kind, easy nature, and I cannot tamely see you imposed upon by that wretched girl, who is the most ungrateful and hard-hearted creature you could imagine, and only fit to herd with the low and vulgar.
But you will see whether Ivy will tamely endure desertion and disgrace.
You forfeited all claim on my respect in that hour when you stood tamely by and suffered my enemies to insult and revile me, while you, my husband, uttered no word to defend me from their wicked abuse.
Did you think I could tamely bear the slight that was put upon me?
But Matilda was not the woman to submit tamely to exclusion under such circumstances; and a war of succession between her and Stephen was the consequence.
And am I to sittamely down under this degradation?
We are all agreed about the middling and indifferent parts of knowledge and morality; even the most soaring spirits too often take them tamely upon trust.
Yet they did not tamely submit to the assaults of the enemy, and they sallied forth from time to time to repel them.
Calling his men about him, he resolved not to abide the assault tamely in the works, but to sally out, and meet the enemy on their own ground.
Do you think that I willtamely submit to be cut in a manner so disgraceful?
Do you think that I will tamely wear the horns which you and your paramour have planted upon my brow?
I had always tamely submitted to the good man's amiable treatment of me, and he found it impossible to imagine that I was capable of resisting him.
Vida, a man of considerable skill in the politicks of literature, directs his pupil wholly to abandon his defence, and even when he can irrefragably refute all objections, to suffer tamely the exultations of his antagonist.
We were all rather amused, and could not help bursting into laughter, as, inflated with a sense of his own importance, he began abusing one of the native drivers of the Nepaulee chief; this man did not submit tamely to his insolence.
They declared that they owed it to themselves and those who were to come after them not to submit tamely to injustice of such a nature.
The House could not be expected to tamely brook such a manifestation, and an order was given to clear the gallery.
We cannot tamely surrender our dearest rights as Protestants, without a struggle.
Will the friends of the "White Basis" Governor of Tennessee tamely surrender their dearest rights to these Cincinnati crusaders, without a single struggle?
And yet such seemed to be his behaviour to my sister,* when he provoked her to refuse him, and so tamely submitted, as he did, to her refusal.
The King would have been quiet if they had not been sotamely subservient to his wishes.
The coronation of the King of England was the undoubted prerogative of the Archbishops of Canterbury, which had never been invaded without sufficient cause, and Becket was the last man tamely to surrender so important a right of his see.
The wealthy and worldly churchmen of the day were not likely to listen tamely to his lectures.
But one of them, not willing to be preached so tamely out of his beloved liquor, made reply that the Vice-Chancellor's men drank ale at the Split Crow and why should they not too?
But you, Vesta, with the Baltimore blood in you, do not expect to play the Sabine bride tamely like that--to defend your spoiler and reconcile him to your brethren?
A crow cawed with a sound of awe in the pine tops, and squirrels were running tamely all round about as she hesitated.
Born in such times, should I sit tamely down, Suppress my rage, and saunter through the town 660 As one who knew not, or who shared these crimes?
How can you so tamelybear the censures I pronounce against your country?
Instead of protecting our commerce, it tamely resigned it to England, and either left our exports to perish or reduced their value sixty per cent.
The Federal party, however, although in a weak minority, did not tamely submit to the unhappy policy of Southern statesmen; and individuals even of the dominant party opposed it.
Brother Cristóbal was, perhaps, not sorry to make an unexpected flight to Biarritz, with news of Dick and me as an excuse, instead of spending his leave tamely at home.
While the young herdsman and Dick stood by passive and admiring, this toro bravo of famous fighting breed reduced his run to a canter, and trotted up to Pilar as tamely as if he had been a belled cabestro.
With threats and abuse such as none but an Egyptian could tamely hear, Ali kicked his quondam friend out of the vehicle.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tamely" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: gently; meekly; mildly; quietly
