Crows are especially tamable and may be allowed full liberty around the dooryard. From Wordnik.com. [Outdoor Sports and Games] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 3] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Stars Are Also Fire]
"Remember that, unlike the zebra, they are tamable in captivity, you'll be soaring with me yet.". From Wordnik.com. [In Apple-Blossom Time A Fairy-Tale to Date] Reference
It is more tamable and docile than the Himalayan Sun Bear, and is even more eccentric in its ways. From Wordnik.com. [Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon] Reference
I like to tame circumstances to my own ends (hear, hear), but if they aren't tamable I let them alone. From Wordnik.com. [Tell England A Study in a Generation] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Mystic Isles of the South Seas.] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals] Reference
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.". From Wordnik.com. [Fate Knocks at the Door A Novel] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Local News from union-bulletin.com] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Bears I Have Met—and Others] Reference
But only partially tamable, still. From Wordnik.com. [a little passion among them] Reference
'You are too tamable, mademotselle. From Wordnik.com. [Hercule Poirot's Casebook]
'It is capricious,' he said, 'but it's tamable.'. From Wordnik.com. [A Do-Over, Anyone?] Reference
Haggards: the least tamable hawks. From Wordnik.com. [Notes: Book First. Palgrave, Francis T] Reference
Quite easily tamable, though naturally shy. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds] Reference
"They're tamable when young, though. From Wordnik.com. [The Opened Shutters] Reference
All four-pawed creatures tamable -- he knew. From Wordnik.com. [A Child-World] Reference
"It is capricious," he said, "but it's tamable.". From Wordnik.com. [He Coulda Been a Contender] Reference
Horses, fleet, strong, tamable, had been just the right size. From Wordnik.com. [Decider]
As for the fantastical notion against conceding fame or renown to an eminent individual, because, forsooth, bestowal of honours insures contest in the pursuit of them, stimulates angry passions, and mars the felicity of peace -- it is opposed to the very elements, not only of the human, but of the brute creation, which are all, if tamable, participators in the sentiment of praise and emulation. From Wordnik.com. [The Coming Race] Reference
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