So we see among wild beasts, the intractable and least tamable are the most timorous and most easily startled; the nobler creatures, whose courage makes them trustful, are ready to respond to the advances of men. ❋ Plutarch (2003)
He had wondered whether the Teramind itself had conceived this means, the Habitat, of drawing them together here where they could expend themselves in ways that were containable, controllable-in the course of lifetimes, tamable. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 (1994)
Other rodents might also be suited to domestication; for instance, the potentially tamable, clean-living species of South American fields and woodlands - agouti, capybara, hutia, mare, coypu, pace, and vizcacha. ❋ Unknown (1991)
Crows are especially tamable and may be allowed full liberty around the dooryard. ❋ Claude H. Miller (N/A)
The Black Goby is familiar, tamable, but voracious; the Gray Mullet is very hardy, but also rather savage; the Wrasses are some of the most showy fish, -- called in some parts of the country Cunners, -- and of these, the Ancient Wrasse, ❋ Various (N/A)
And among fishes, the family of the _Cyprinidae_ are the best adapted to our purpose; for we must select those which are both hardy and tamable. ❋ Various (N/A)
I like to tame circumstances to my own ends (hear, hear), but if they aren't tamable I let them alone. ❋ Ernest Raymond (1931)
And those wine-dark eyes, now cryptic black, now suffused with red glows like a night-sky above a prairie-fire, said to him, "Better come over and see if I'm tamable." ❋ Will Levington Comfort (1905)
French did both, and took all of this part of the world they could find unseized by Europe, and tamable, at not too great a shedding of French blood. ❋ Frederick O'Brien (1900)
"Remember that, unlike the zebra, they are tamable in captivity, you'll be soaring with me yet." ❋ Clara Louise Burnham (1890)
But it is incredible that any one who knows a bear from a Berkshire hog could for an instant mistake Monarch for any variety of tamable bear or imagine that any man ever had the hardihood to give him dancing lessons. ❋ Allen Kelly (1885)
Europe is probably in nowise due to the peculiarly tamable nature of the bird, but rather to the fact that certain superstitious fancies on the part of the featherless biped led him to protect the feathered visitor of his roofs and chimneys. ❋ Nathaniel Southgate Shaler (1873)
It is more tamable and docile than the Himalayan Sun Bear, and is even more eccentric in its ways. ❋ Robert Armitage Sterndale (1870)
And, says the divine voice, just as you war against the beasts of prey, just as you subdue to your purposes and yoke to your implements the tamable animals over which you have dominion, so rule over _this_ wild beast that is threatening you. ❋ Alexander Maclaren (1868)
It has the same destructive propensities, assembles also in vast numbers, and is equally carnivorous; but with all these, it is a more tamable and lovable animal. ❋ R. Lee (1865)
Take, for example, the common English name of this low-flying falcon, the most tamable and affectionate of his tribe, and therefore, I suppose, fastest vanishing from field and wood, the buzzard. ❋ John Ruskin (1859)
Declaration of Independence affirms as a self-evident truth that all men are born equal, it is precisely the same as if the affirmation had been that all men are born with immortal souls; for, take away from man his soul, the immortal spirit that is within him, and he would be a mere tamable beast of the field, and, like others of his kind, would become the property of his tamer. ❋ Josiah Quincy (1818)
Cats Galore is a no-kill facility that mainly deals with taking in strays and tamable feral kittens, many of which need long-term socialization before they can be good companion animals. ❋ Unknown (2009)
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