To fight like a wild cat" is proverbial, and wild cats are described as some of the most ferocious and untamable of all animals.
How far this untamable character lends support to the view of the origin of our domesticated breeds has not yet been determined.
The red squirrel stands in no awe of man, but he is as untamable as anything in the woods, none the less.
It is of wild gardens solely, an untamed and untamable beauty.
Between this man and Pepe Conde there existed a jealousy, especially on the part of the latter, who, being a man of proud untamable spirit, could not well brook a superior amongst his own people.
These tribes are the mostuntamable and warlike of mankind, and at the same time the most suspicious, and those who entertain the greatest aversion to foreigners.
But the bearing of the meager boy and the level glance of the untamable blue eyes once more assure her that he has not been sent here from beyond Turntable to fail her at extremity.
And the father regarded his son with a fond pride, and let him take his own way with these haughty, untamable spirits, feeling perhaps that the tact of the royal boy would do more to conciliate and win hearts than any word or deed of his own.
For a moment Wendot hesitated, He knew well the untamable spirit of his brothers, and the small influence he was likely to have upon them, and for a moment his heart shrank from the task.
The colt of the wild ass is really the most untamable and intractable of animals.
It is a thing of beauty and a joy for ever--happy as the summer light, free and untamable as the breeze.
I only know, From noon till eve we fought with foe As wild and as untamable As the rude mountains where they dwell; On both sides store of blood is lost, Nor much success can either boast.
Although nominally subject to the King of Scotland, yet they were so untamable that the enforcement of justice was almost as difficult as the subjugation of a foreign people.
And the peoples that come to the front are not those of the Latin race, whom his wars have stunted, but those of the untamable Teutonic stock, the lords of the sea and the leaders of Central Europe.
The wild untamable spirit of daring which had raced so madly through the veins of countless generations of ancestors had lifted her from the weak and unavailing grief of womanhood.
But the hat had evidently seen better days, the coat was frayed at seam and elbow, and the boots lacked polish; yet these small blemishes were more than offset by his general dashing, knowing air, and the untamableferocity of his whiskers.
Surely, if one has such an untamable little animal in his mouth as the tongue, he needs to watch it with ceaseless care.
It is wild as a hawk, an untamable creature that slowly pines to death when brought into contact with civilization.
But he was, she said, a youth of anuntamable shyness.
And above the praise Jane heard Nina's voice proclaiming yet again that the law and the condition was virginity, untamed and untamable virginity.
Were not all those stories of the untamable ferocity of the male gorilla merely due to ignorance and superstition?
Stringer had joined us by now and expressed the opinion that all gorillas, especially male, were absolutely untamable and that it was a waste of time to appeal to their better nature, because they had none.
The forest is full of these surly, untamable guaribas, as the natives call them.
The banks of this noble stream are now held by the untamable Chunchos; but the steam-whistle will accomplish what the rifle can not.
In Russia it might have happened; but I am inclined to doubt if a Norwegian gentleman, even though he were descended from the untamable Kurts, would have been capable of so outrageous a breach of decency.
It is an attempt to embody the ethics of Norse warfare at its best, and to present in the most poetic light the rampant, untamable individualism of the ancient Germanic paganism.
The old Norse sagas abound in illustrations of this untamable vigor and ruthless self-assertion.
Thus the revolutionists were wont to paint him as an untamable savage, who had come to the surface in the turbulent broil of the uprisings of the times and had hewn and burned his way to the presidency.
Its wildness consisted of a body of armed troops drawn up in front of the rude building, a mob of untamable savages, as the spectator from a civilized country must have judged them.
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