The garden is a wild thing, but tameable, sort of. From Wordnik.com. [Reposting of New Design-Part One-Why? « Fairegarden] Reference
I did not find the American chipmunks, before alluded to, at all tameable. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Nature Won By Kindness] Reference
It's beautiful, good-natured, very tameable, and can grow up to 40cms from head to tail. From Wordnik.com. [speak-out Diary Entry] Reference
Are there any animals, wild or domestic, tameable or untameable, in America, which are of a species known to exist at this day in Tartary?. From Wordnik.com. [Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 1 (of 3)] Reference
How does the presence of few tameable animals in the New World help to account for its tardier development as compared with the Old World?. From Wordnik.com. [Early European History] Reference
She, like Moyo, describes the Bank as the center of a barely tameable "aid industry" in which half a million employees rely on aid for their salaries. From Wordnik.com. [Jake Whitney: Betraying the Tribe: Michela Wrong and the Foundations of African Corruption] Reference
Moving characters into nature from the controlled conditions of urban life often means that they are more wild, less tameable, and outside the usual order of things. From Wordnik.com. [A Complete And Utter Spoiler Of Terrence Malick's 1973 "Badlands"] Reference
Perhaps if she wore her hair in a different style, but it was so curly and un tameable that there was little she could do with it other than to have it go its own wayward way. From Wordnik.com. [A Forbidden Loving]
That, and the colonization of the globe, meant that from an ever-present environment that was unpredictable and dangerous, nature began to be understandable and even tameable. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference
Some present results; a tree, a quail, a rock, a hawk rousing one's mind from safety and tameable illness to beautiful comprehension in the form of a hunch as patience directs the finishing line is a trail of feathers to brush. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-05-01] Reference
Brother Michael's hortatory letters from his deathbed, a gold locket containing a spray of Aunt Imelda's un tameable mop of white hair, a folder of personal correspondence including Lord Brinkley's letter to me and his Christmas cards, and the sturdy cloth shoulder-bag that had carried home the ingredients for my coq au vin. From Wordnik.com. [The mission song]
To these I added my father's life-stained missal, Brother Michael's hortatory letters from his deathbed, a gold locket containing a spray of Aunt Imelda's un tameable mop of white hair, a folder of personal correspondence including Lord Brinkley's letter to me and his Christmas cards, and the sturdy cloth shoulder-bag that had carried home the ingredients for my coq au vin. From Wordnik.com. [the mission song]
Bohemian exuberance of thought and speech been tameable. From Wordnik.com. [The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.)] Reference
Thei are a people not tameable with any toile, bittre warriours, and of great strength of bodie. From Wordnik.com. [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 06 Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc.] Reference
Both are equally brave, and equally faithful to their salt -- that is, to the person who employs them; but the Oudh Râjpût is a much more tameable animal than the. From Wordnik.com. [Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official] Reference
But perhaps the most important difference for you animal-lovers out there is that Fennecs are the one species of fox that are easily tameable, and act friendly to humans and other pets. From Wordnik.com. [Home | Mail Online] Reference
As AIDS treatment and care matures, critics want to shift money and medicine toward other problem diseases, such as malaria, pneumonia and childhood diarrhea, that are lethal and tameable. From Wordnik.com. [SFGate: Top News Stories] Reference
In the "Republic," Socrates makes the point by developing an image of the soul as being inhabited by three creatures: a multiheaded hydra of desires, a ferocious but tameable lion and a rational little man. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
Bad as this is, it might be worse; for if the evils of alcohol were made to extend equally to animals lower than man, we should soon have, none that were tameable, none that were workable, and none that were eatable. ". From Wordnik.com. [The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand] Reference
The tiger is tameable, the panther not so. From Wordnik.com. [Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon] Reference
2 minutes ago, -0/+1Is he tameable?. From Wordnik.com. [Original Signal - Transmitting Digg] Reference
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