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Example sentences for "taming"

Lexicographically close words:
tamers; tames; tamest; tametsi; tami; tamis; tamned; tamo; tamp; tamped
  1. Next morning I found the onager after her night's rest as wild as ever, and as I looked at the handsome creature I almost despaired of ever taming her proud spirit.

  2. The Indians are fond of taming those birds, and frequently keep them the whole Summer; but as the Winter approaches they generally take flight, and provide for themselves.

  3. In the previous year was printed the old Taming of a Shrew, founded on a novel of G.

  4. Part of the plot of Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew may have been suggested by The Supposes.

  5. Religion was the ruling idea of that day, and the only civiliser capable of taming such wolves as then constituted the flock of the faithful.

  6. As a necessary consequence, society would have been reduced to its original elements, if the men of thought, as distinguished from the men of action, had not devised some means for taming the unruly passions of their fellows.

  7. The following ballad is upon the same subject as the Induction to Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew: whether it may be thought to have suggested the hint to the dramatic poet, or is not rather of later date, the reader must determine.

  8. Then someone told this version of the Taming of the Shrew.

  9. Marlowe and the old Taming of a Shrew, by S.

  10. Leaving the question in this position for the present, I shall be glad of such information from any of your readers as may tend to throw a light on the date of Shakspeare's Taming of the Shrew.

  11. Vide Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew, Act I.

  12. He refers to the production of Dekker's Medicine for a Curst Wife, which he thinks was a revival of the old Taming of a Shrew, brought out as a rival to Shakspeare's play.

  13. Notice Neptune, though, Taming a sea-horse, thought a rarity, Which Claus of Innsbruck cast in bronze for me!

  14. The last speech indicates that on the stairway is a window which affords an outlook into the courtyard, where he calls the attention of the envoy to a Neptune, taming a sea-horse, cast in bronze for him by Claus of Innsbruck.

  15. The herds were the new tools of production, and their taming and tending was his work.

  16. It appears that the taming and raising of animals and the formation of large herds gave rise to the separation of Aryans and Semites from the rest of the barbarians.

  17. In the East, the middle stage of barbarism began with the taming of milk and meat producing animals, while the cultivation of plants seems to have remained unknown far into this period.

  18. The salient features of this stage of barbarism is the taming and raising of animals and the cultivation of plants.

  19. Along the borders of such pasture lands, the taming of animals must have been accomplished first.

  20. And by this you may see how to understand the doctrine of mortification, and taming the body, and abstaining from the pleasures of the flesh: and you may now understand what personal mischief lust doth to the soul.

  21. The commands of taming and mortifying the flesh, and not living after it, nor making provision for it, to satisfy its lusts, belong as much to the rich as to the poor.

  22. The Merchant of Venice, and The Taming of the Shrew.

  23. In like manner he seems in his list of comedies to have omitted The Taming of the Shrew, which must be regarded as the least original of the comedies, and which the language and verse prove to belong to this period of his plays.

  24. Pedant=, an old fellow set up to personate Vincentio in Shakespeare’s comedy called The Taming of the Shrew (1695).

  25. Current prices and markets and commercial regulations are for the taming of gratitude and its reduction from a public nuisance to something which shall at least be tolerable.

  26. The first step towards taming the eyes is to teach them not to see too much.

  27. Justice, our law and our law courts are for the taming and regulating of revenge.

  28. A young English officer, who was stationed at a lone fortress in Canada, amused himself by taming a bear of this species.

  29. He unfolds his scheme for the Taming of the Shrew, on a principle of contradiction, thus: I'll woo her with some spirit when she comes.

  30. It is the immortal prototype of farce comedy, this play of the "Taming of the Shrew.

  31. It is a matter for regret that these distinguished artists have not included "The Taming of the Shrew" in their noble Shakespearean repertory at the Lyceum.

  32. Taming his astonishment to represent a smile, he remarked: "When?

  33. She acceded, quite aware of the honour intended, and sat at the piano, taming as much as possible her pantomime of one that would be audible.

  34. I should like you to see Cold Steel leading Tame Fire about, and imagining the taming to be her work!


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "taming" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.