Tame Sentence Examples

I guess they're not as tame as they look.

They were so tame, they stood perfectly still when I handled them.

I have two tame pigeons and a tiny canary bird.

Charles in vain strove to reduce her to tame submission.

It is little wonder that men who could tame and handle the reptiles gained esteem and influence.

Parkman had become an adept in woodcraft and a dead shot with the rifle, and could do such things with horses, tame or wild, as civilized people never see done except in a circus.

As to the introduction of domesticated cats into Europe, the opinion is very generally held that tame cats from Egypt were imported at a relatively early date into Etruria by Phoenician traders; and there is decisive evidence that these animals were established in Italy long before the Christian era.

In China his mention of Canton by the name of Censcolam or Censcolam (Chin-Kalan), and his descriptions of the custom of fishing with tame cormorants, of the habit of letting the finger-nails grow extravagantly, and of the compression of women's feet, are peculiar to him among the travellers of that age; Marco Polo omits them all.

Wild animals and tame, carnivorous and graminivorous, insects, birds, fishes and man are adapted to each other."

In the spring the great herds of tame reindeer are driven out to swim Strommen and graze in the summer pastures of Seiland; towards winter they are called home again.

Athena was said to have invented the plough, and to have taught men to tame horses and yoke oxen.

Several instances have occurred of pumas becoming tame in captivity.

Whatever is in your blood can tame evil.

Many of them were so tame that they would eat from my hand and let me feel them.

The godwits belong to the group Limicolae, and are about as big as a tame pigeon, but possess long legs, and a long bill with a slight upward turn.

Tradition says that one of the Gnostic sects known as the Ophites caused a tame serpent to coil round the sacramental bread and worshipped it as the representative of the Saviour.

Neither attachment nor even habit impresses him; never tame, though not wide-awake enough to be exactly wild."

It is true that many tame goats show spirally twisted horns recalling those of the under-mentioned Asiatic markhor; but in nearly all such instances it will be found that the spiral twists in the opposite direction.

On the following day, along with a number of fellow martyrs, he was exposed to the fury of wild beasts, which, however, laid themselves down in tame submission at his feet.

Fortunately the birds soon become tame in confinement, and a little patience will enable an attentive observer to satisfy himself as to the process, the result of which at first seems almost as unaccountable as that of a clever conjuring trick.

Little is positively known of the wild stock to which we owe our tame birds, nor can the period of its reintroduction (for there is apparently no evidence of its domestication being continuous from the time of the Romans) be assigned more than roughly to that of the African discoveries of the Portuguese.

But that makes it sound somehow too benign, too tame.

In that year, when Lithuania and Poland were permanently united, it fell under Polish rule, and the Polish government considered it necessary to tame the wild inhabitants and bring them under regular administration.

It lies in the valley of the Tame, close to the junction of the boundaries of Lancashire, Cheshire and Yorkshire, and is surrounded by sharply-rising high ground, especially eastward.

Some lizards possess a considerable amount of intelligence; they play with each other, become very tame, and act deliberately according to circumstances.

Her mother educated her in strict seclusion, but seclusion altogether failed to tame her imperious and ambitious temper.

It occupies a hilly site at the junction of the rivers Tame and Mersey; the larger part of the town lying on the south (left) bank, while the suburb of Heaton Norris is on the Lancashire bank.

When captured by them shortly after being hatched, and reared by the hand, it soon becomes tame and familiar; all the specimens which have reached Europe alive have been thus domesticated by the natives.

The chigah (Cercocebus cynomoigus) is the only ape found in central Sumatra in a tame state.

The ocelot is essentially a forest cat, and a ready climber; its disposition is said to be fierce and bloodthirsty but in confinement it becomes tame and playful.

Complaints are often raised about the cruelty of what is called tame stag hunting, and it became a special subject of criticism that a pack should still be kept at the Royal kennels at Ascot (it was abolished in 1901) and hunted by the Master of the Buckhounds; but it is the constant endeavour of all masters and hunt servants to prevent the infliction of any injury on the deer.

Compared with that book they are tame.

Paley, though an excellent expositor and full of common sense, had the usual defect of common-sense people in philosophy - that of tame acquiescence in the prejudices of his age.

To these injurious microbes Metchnikoff has given the name of "wild," and he proposes to restore health by giving "tame" microbes, such as lactic acid bacilli.

It may be added that the long tails of most tame breeds are, like wool, in all probability the results of domestication.

His policy seemed tame and cautious, but was entirely justifiable, for within a few months of Roberts departure the inevitable feudal rebellion broke out.

Even this did not tame the impostors mercurial temperament.

For some time afterwards there was so little legislation of the kind called "enterprising" that even some friends of the government began to think it too tame; but at the end of the second year an announcement was made which put that fear to rest.

This is clearly expressed in the cult of Artemis Laphria (possibly connected with X a4wpa, "spoils"), at whose festivals all kinds of animals, both wild and tame, as well as fruits, were thrown together on a huge wood fire.

Crimes of violence are almost unknown, and the only common breach of law is the killing of tame reindeer belonging to other owners.

To his contempt for men he added that of all ideas which might put a bridle on his ambition; and to guard against them, he inaugurated the Golden Age of the police that he might tame every moral force to his hand.

Stamford Park, presented by Lord Stamford, is shared by the towns of Ashton and Stalybridge, which extends across the Tame into Cheshire.

Just don't try to tame any of those black kitties with the white stripes down their backs.

Xander suddenly was tame, compared to an Oracle who read her past and future in two seconds.

But he was unimpressed, finding it too artful, too tame.

Lucius longs for a woman to match his animalistic needs, one who could tame the beast he has become over the centuries.

Hitler was generally distrustful of the Army which he viewed as socially conservative and ideologically too tame.

Compared to saving the rainforests, or helping pandas to breed, linguistic ecology can seem a bit tame.

Sounds tame, but the game soon becomes a boisterous free-for-all as players race to identify ' sets ' of cards... .

Not seen yet by anyone except our tame madman Garth, we blow the gaff!

The wild hawk is accustomed to prey on tame birds; the domestic hawk on wild.

Is it not said in all the old stories that He is not a tame lion.

The ruling politicians were convinced that thy did not need the intellectuals as anything else but a tame, quiet backround decoration.

The gates are open round the clock and you stand a good chance of seeing tame possums after dark.

There was also something wonderfully refreshing in having characters swear when they're in trouble, rather than using pathetically tame, mild profanity.

The lady put a tame robin redbreast under a dish on the table.

Not far away are pleasant riverside walks along the Tame valley.

Some semi tame deer and wild pigs roam around the vicinity of the park headquarters.

My sister had 3 tame robins in her garden.

Lots of gardens and forest to explore, including some extremely tame red squirrels which are rather a novelty for us islanders.

A tame reading on consumer prices tomorrow may reinforce speculation the central bank will keep borrowing costs steady through the start of next year.

It is often also possible to compute the derived subgroup of a tame rcwa group.

It all seems a bit tame by today's standards.

These were ridiculously tame, allowing us to approach within 2-3 feet.

This is why island animals, as Darwin noted on the Galapagos, are often remarkably tame.

For such a little bird, they have very interesting personalities and can become surprisingly tame and attached to you.

They were at almost all the theme parks in good numbers, and were incredibly tame.

Anyway, you can probably see the irony here for somebody who thought that the hardware would stay fairly tame.

Compared to films like Scream, The Evil Dead now looked rather tame.

The river tame to the south is fast flowing with steep sides.

Some of the news items made the story line to HEAT seem tame.

Animals that appear unusually tame may be dying of rabies.

Guinea pigs can become quite tame with gentle handling.

Victorian taxidermy was the font of the idea that we can explore, understand and tame the species that we share the world with.

Instead, try some fried tempeh or tofu or very spicy beans with salsa to tame these cravings, with bread on occasion.

A tame lion, from whose paw he is said to have removed a thorn, is often present.. .

The twin towpaths on the Tame Valley were very good.

It is an age-old political truism that you tame your enemies by giving them a seat at the table.

A large tame snake with a false human head, wound round Alexander's body as he sat in a shrine in the temple, gave " autophones " or oracles unasked, but the usual methods practised were those of the numerous oracle-mongers of the time, of which Lucian gives a detailed account, the opening of sealed inquiries by heated needles, a neat plan of forging broken seals, and the giving of vague or meaningless replies to difficult questions, coupled with a lucrative blackmailing of those whose inquiries were compromising.

In connexion with this point it should be noticed that, unlike what occurs in the yak, the wild animal is not larger than the tame one, although it is incorrect to say that the former is decidedly the inferior of the latter in point of stature.

Notwithstanding the proverbial ferocity of the wolf in a wild state, many instances are recorded of animals taken when quite young becoming tame and attached to the person who has brought them up, when they exhibit many of the ways of a dog.

Zenaku wo saiban suru tame no The unique standard which Virtue vice-judging sake of is used for judging virtue or mochiitaru yitsu no hyojun Wa vice is benevolent conduct used unique standard solely.

At Bauli, Pompey and Hortensius possessed villas, the former on the hills, while that of the latter, on the shores of the Lacus Lucrinus, was remarkable for its tame lampreys and as the scene of the dialogue in the second book of Cicero's Academica Priora; it afterwards became imperial property and was the scene of Agrippina's murder by Nero.

The sacred beasts in the various temples, tame as far as possible, were of almost every conceivable variety, from the vulture to the swallow or the goose, from the lion to the shrew-mouse, from the hippopotamus to the sheep and the monkey, from the crocodile to the tortoise and the cobra, from the carp to the eel; the scorpion and the scarab beetle were perhaps the strangest in this strange company of deities.

For over 20 years he has maintained control by rigging elections and referendums, savagely repressing all opposition and running a tame national media.

There may he a Siamese or white Persian kitten in the party or tame red squirrels scampering about.

Mount Olympus might seem a bit tame after Santorini.

In many respects, the sleaze associated with the John Major years looks a bit tame compared to life under Blair.

Now and then there also small herons here, once more ridiculously tame, and only concerned about their chances of stalking prey.

It all seems a bit tame by today 's standards.

Barry Robson followed this up with a tame shot wide from the right angle of the penalty area.

The tame ducks were tethered at the entrance of the traps and the more ' calling ' the ducks did the better.

Rangers were totally dominant and Stoke only had a couple of tame headers by Hall which failed to trouble the Boro defense.

The river Tame to the south is fast flowing with steep sides.

The tournament got tame in comparison through the celebrity of champions is.

I mean, I was quite tame by comparison with some of the people I toured with.

A tame lion, from whose paw he is said to have removed a thorn, is often present...

To tame residual undesirable energy, the stabilizer is placed at the most effective tonearm position, on the pickup itself.

The word "diamond" comes from the Greek adamas translated as "impossible to tame."

It will take some persistence and patience to properly hand tame a guinea pig.

In many of the larger stores, you may find that the animals do not receive as much human interaction, and as such, will be more difficult to hand tame when you take them home.

Kittens tend to be easier to tame, because they are younger and grow used to humans quicker.

An adult cat that is wild can be a real challenge to tame, but it is still possible.

It can take months and sometimes a full year to tame a feral cat, so be patient and remind yourself often of the end goal you have in mind.

Should you find yourself entertaining the idea of trying to tame a feral kitten, the decision is yours.

Their vibrant colors, rich fruit flavorsandfrosty textures cantame the searing heat of a summer’s day.

This tea contains herbs that tame tension naturally.

My first surprise was that although it looks fairly tame in the package, the color was definitely much bolder than I expected.

Here are some suggestions on how you can tame the craziness of the holiday season.

One person's daring might seem tame to another.

For cutting edge trends, opt for an "I tame wild things" or an "I was born wild" slogan to go along with your graphics.

Hats and headbands look darling on tiny heads, and hair clips and bows are just the thing to tame a wayward curl or two.

This line is enriched with plant proteins that nourish and repair hair scales to invigorate the hair and tame its volume, leaving it resilient and manageable.

Learning to tame occasionally erratic emotions, fight frequent fluctuations in weight and endure premenstrual complications is a natural part of womanhood.

Wear them for sports or as a personal statement, and go as tame or crazy as you'd like.

However, Vibrant Views colored contact lenses are different; they are tame enough for daily use but vibrant enough for everyone to notice.

If you normally sport a really tame look, it may not take much for you to decide a pair of contact lenses is "wild and crazy."

The coaster's excessively rough ride prompted many rider complaints, however, and after Cedar Fair purchased King's Island, renovations began to smooth out the ride and tame the beast.

Its $25 million price tag was well worth it, however, and ever since riders have flocked to challenge the Kingda Ka roller coaster and to tame its impressive statistics.

Rides at Pleasure Beach are tame compared to Alton Towers, but the ten roller coasters and four water rides on site are still good for a laughs and chills.

Journey through the land and discover new creatures --Pokémon -- and tame them as your friends.

The world of Pokémon, is filled with wild creatures and those who try and tame them.

Lucy is the youngest, but has the ability to heal the group and tame wild beasts.

Tuesday, November 15 was actually a tame day with the standard questions, "Are you selling them at midnight", "How many are you getting?", and "Is there a limit to how many we can buy?"

There are some apps that are just as "tame" as the Sports Illustrated one, containing images of women in bikinis and posing in provocative ways, but they have been purged from the App Store as well.

Similarly, it is hard to tame thick hair for a skimpy hair style.

Take a small trial or travel size bottle of hair spray with you to tame any strands that come loose, and be sure to tuck an extra bobby pin or barrette into your purse if your style uses them.

The Millers desired to tame the needs of a wide variety of hair types and conditions, and over the years they have developed dozens of different products suitable for a wide range of styles.

Use a leave-in conditioner or smoothing serum to tame flyaways.

Matrix Tuftrix hair gel can help tame the wildest curly hair, or aid in the taming of fly away hair to keep your style looking sharp all day long.

Although Ouidad is famous for her curl savvy, It's not just her techniques that help tame manes throughout the country.

Cleansing hair with a moisture rich shampoo prior to drying helps tame frizz.

If your hair is wide and full of body, a few strategically placed layers will help tame your mane while adding a stylish edge.

Brushing your hair, however, can help to stimulate your scalp and distribute natural oils, but don't view brushing as a way to straighten or tame unruly hair.

Whether you are fighting the elements of a harsh winter or struggling to keep your tendrils tame during the scorching and humid summer months, the right products will help keep your locks shiny and manageable.

Finish with a styling cream and a light hold hairspray to tame unruly ends and create a smooth, shiny look.

A few drops of this rich and emollient oil helps to tame flyaways without weighing down tresses.

Think again because the side fishtail braid is anything but tame.

Tame your curls while fighting frizz with a medium cut that incorporates a few well placed layers.

Flat irons can help tame frizz while curling irons can pick up the slack from lazy waves.

Ask questions about your hair type and ask for product recommendations to help tame and control your cut.

A vent or boars hair brush will help tame flyaways while distributing scalp oil for natural texture and separation.

Don't bother looking for a tame tankini at Dangerous Curves because you won't find one.

The one piece may seem pretty tame by today's Brazilian and thong standards, but it was all but scandalous when it was first introduced.

If you're looking for something a little more tame, but every bit as sexy, then try the Terry Dress.

Some people may find the one piece a bit tame especially when compared to the tankini, a bathing suit that's a cross between a bikini and a one piece.

A lot of sites claim to offer the peekaboo bikini look, but their products are just plain tame compared to the authentic look of The Bikini.com.

The neckline is almost tame when compared to other sexy monokini swimsuits, but the knotted sides connecting the front and back are anything but modest.

What was once considered risque in the past is rather tame by today's standards.

The print flame on the bodice of this bikini is tame compared to the suggestive placement of the flames on the bottom of the bikini!

As daring as they might have been to many, bikinis were still a bit too tame for others.

The Tanga is pretty tame by thong bikini standards.

This style is relatively tame, covering almost the full backside.

She was wearing a bathing suit that might be considered tame today, but at the time was definitely an ultra-sexy one-piece swimsuit that she filled to perfection.

Being from Rio de Janeiro, Paula is at ground zero of the South American swimwear revolution that brought us the ultra sexy Brazilian bikini that managed to make the standard string bikini look tame in comparison.

Tame, moderate, and wild labels show what kind of encounters a couple is interested in.

These games range from tame to quite graphic, and while some games have real participants engaged in the activities, other versions are merely computer generated responses.

For many people, the traditional on bended knee proposal is tame and predictable, and they prefer more creative marriage proposals.

Many people make a mistake and attempt to tame the wild beast.

Although some parents are concerned about their children watching shows about paranormal activity, Most Haunted is fairly tame.

Jimmy Choo Only slighly more tame than Manolo, Jimmy Choo is another exquisite luxury designer.

In addition, storylines have run the gamut from tame to tantalizing, and in recent decades the program's most newsworthy plots have enjoyed immense media attention.

But she is beautiful; it's that sort of thing that he wants to tame the wild one in a way - to break through the hard shell to the woman underneath.

Have plenty of good, healthy snacks in the house and at the office to tame your weak moments.

As noted previously, men's lingerie can be relatively tame, or downright shocking (to some!).

That might raise a few eyebrows, unless you get your significant other a tame set of soft flannel pajamas from Victoria's Secret.

You can get as tame or as wild as you like here.

Don't let the name fool you, there are plenty of "spicy" pieces but there are also many tame pieces as well.

If the bras at Bare Necessities and Fig Leaves are simply too tame for your tastes, then visit Intimate Wholesalers, as there you'll find a wide array of eyebrow raising styles!

Sure, there's the skimpy thong, but the chemise seems a bit tame on the grand scale of naughty little underthings.

Whether you're looking for something super racy or more on the tame side, there are plenty of sexy lingerie stores to fit any type of lingerie style and budget.

The lingerie they offer ranges from tame to highly exotic.

One person's raunchy may be another person's tame.

Roll up a disposable How to Tame Your Dragon table covering after the party is over for easy clean up.

Some of the featured careers are fairly tame, while others have to be heavily edited in order to keep the audience watching instead of changing the channel in disgust.

He didn't doubt that once she reached her new home and his sisters reminded her how to act, she would be both exquisite and tame.

The two ends of the loch are wholly dissimilar in character, the scenery of the upper extremity being majestic, while that of the lower half is pastoral and tame.

Many important differences are also recorded between the skulls of the two animals, and it is especially noteworthy that the last lower molar is smaller in the wild than in the tame race.

Dr Leche also institutes a comparison between the skeletons of the wild and the tame Bactrian camel with the remains of certain fossil Asiatic camels, namely, Camelus knoblochi from Sarepta, Russia, and C. alutensis from the Aluta valley, Rumania.

Sea-birds are abundant, and, probably from the islands having been comparatively lately peopled, they are singularly tame.

The vegetation is rich and beautiful, but the scenery tame, the land seldom rising above 60 ft.; Eua (Tasman's Middelburg), 9 m.

This tame acquiescence of the House of Habsburg in the reorganization of Germany seemed to set the seal on Napoleon's work.

Tame bantin are bred in Bali, near Java, and exported to Singapore.

In confinement the Indian ratel becomes tame and even playful, displaying a habit of tumbling head over heels.

They have become comparatively tame and familiar.

It grows to a length of 5 ft., climbs extremely well, feeds chiefly on mice, and becomes very tame.

It seems written to expose the corruption of domestic life in Florence, and especially to satirize the friars in their familar part of gobetweens, tame cats, confessors and adulterers.

They attack tame poultry and also young fawns.

The wild mouse, rat and rabbit are self-coloured, but the domesticated forms include various piebald patterns, such as spotted forms among mice, and the familiar black and white hooded and dorsal-striped pattern of some tame rats.

It lies on the river Tame, in a hilly district, 6 m.

In confinement, it becomes comparatively tame, and yields civet in considerable quantity.

It is frequently kept in captivity in the East, and becomes tame.

It has been suggested, but with very scant measure of probability, that the existence of elephants in Borneo, whose confinement to a single district is remarkable and unexplained, is due to importation; and the fact is on record that when Magellan's ships visited Brunei in 1522 tame elephants were in use at the court of the sultan of Brunei.

According to Blyth, it is a favourite amusement among the natives to let loose a couple of tame caracals among a flock of pigeons feeding on the ground, when each will strike down a number of birds before the flock can escape.

Dingos, which are found both wild and tame, interbreed freely with European dogs introduced into the country, and it may be that the large amount of black on the back of many specimens may be the result of crossing of this nature.

Their narrative is unmethodical and inartificial; their style is tame and plebeian; their conception of biography is that of a collection of anecdotes; they have II.

A riot at Edinburgh in 1637 quickly led to national resistance, and when in November 1638 the general assembly at Glasgow set Charless orders at defiance, he was compelled to choose between tame submission and immediate war.

Position a Water Feature in this location to tame the bad chi.

Even the tame tribunals which have been established have exposed widespread systematic corruption.

Or was it a collective neurosis at work, a modernist world trying to capture and tame the past?

They were so tame that they sat on the shoulders of St. Francis and ate from his hand.

They now had a huge and immensely tame rabbit.

The websites vary from tame to wildly exotic.

However most people would rather tame the issue at hand than worry too much about the future, which is where cleansers for oily skin come into play.

On the other hand, maybe he was simply surprised that Alondra would want such a tame life.

My husband and father forbid it, locked me away until I had Talia, and believed a child would tame that part of me they couldn't.

Even tame buffaloes seem to have an inveterate dislike to Europeans.

The ichneumon (Pharaohs rat) is common and often tame; the coney and jerboa are found in the eastern mountains.

Eventually her attempts to tame him paid off, and he allowed her to touch him - provided she was careful not to move too quickly.

The character of Constantine in many respects resembles that of Alexius Comnenus; the slaying of a tame lion by one of the gigantic followers of Rother is founded on an incident which actually took place at the court of Alexius during the crusade of i ioi under duke Well of Bavaria, when King Rother was composed about 1160 by a Rhenish minstrel.

Little Tim was so tame that he would hop on my finger and eat candied cherries out of my hand.

Farther south, through Oregon and northern California, many members of the coast ranges resemble the Cascades and the Sierra in offering well-attested examples of the uplift of masses of disordered structure, that had been reduced to a tame surface by the erosion of an earlier cycle, and that are now again more or less dissected.

No wonder that man added this bird to his tame stock--to say nothing of the eggs and drumsticks.