Adjective : a tame bear. ,That lion acts as tame as a house cat. ,a very tame party. ,They kept a tame scientist around. From Dictionary.com.
But it's well worth it to experience the "tameness" of these animals. From Wordnik.com. [Todd Palmer and Rob Pringle: Where Animals Don't Run Away] Reference
The property bred for was "tameness," i.e., a tolerance of, or better a desire for, human contact. From Wordnik.com. [Building a Better Llama, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
That would necessitate great sameness, if not great tameness. From Wordnik.com. [With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back] Reference
Notes that are weak for tameness, that are for sharpness shrill. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
If in his rural designs there is sameness and tameness; if often. From Wordnik.com. [International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 7, August 12, 1850] Reference
English tameness; Norse emphasis and false wit (the Scaldic poetry) 137. From Wordnik.com. [Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature] Reference
When we returned from Buxton, I was so confident of the bird's tameness. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Nature Won By Kindness] Reference
In comparison with the seething Deeside hamlet, Liverpool was tameness itself. From Wordnik.com. [The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore] Reference
To a still greater extent man has favoured tameness unconsciously and indirectly. From Wordnik.com. [Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin] Reference
It transmits tameness most powerfully in an animal which usually cannot acquire it. From Wordnik.com. [Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin] Reference
Would such tameness and submission have freighted the May-Flower for Plymouth Rock?. From Wordnik.com. [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus] Reference
I ascribe her unusual tameness to the loving care bestowed upon her in her long illness. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Nature Won By Kindness] Reference
And of all the curious things about them, what seems most inexplicable is their tameness. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880] Reference
The tameness of that pleasant little capital makes its belles ardent for tales of wild adventure. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862] Reference
I have remarked before on the extreme tameness of, and the confidence shown by, wild creatures out here. From Wordnik.com. [A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil] Reference
(To achieve this degree of tameness it is necessary to remove the animal from its mother at an early age.). From Wordnik.com. [15 Agouti] Reference
I then thought it right to assume an air of resolution, having found my tameness so greatly triumphed over. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
Their tameness arises from the fact that poisoned arrows have no effect on either elephant or hippopotamus. From Wordnik.com. [A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries] Reference
I wondered at their tameness, but thought it must be because no man had ever come within their sight before. From Wordnik.com. [Anting-Anting Stories And other Strange Tales of the Filipinos] Reference
"Thanks for the neat compliment," said Georgy, "but neither Miss Floyd nor myself suffer from the tameness.". From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference
The reader is disappointed at the tameness of the culmination, compared with the vigor of the approach thereto. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859] Reference
The tameness of birds in severe weather is a touching sign of their distress, and a mute appeal to us to help them. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Nature Won By Kindness] Reference
'His tameness,' said Cadfael, and checked himself at finding his imagination, rather than his tongue, so unguarded. From Wordnik.com. [The Devil's Novice]
I do not wonder that people are wonderfully surprised at our tameness and forbearance, with regard to France and Spain. From Wordnik.com. [Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman] Reference
Frank, which I endured with a tameness he would not have experienced, had the usual current of blood flowed in my veins. From Wordnik.com. [Saint Ronan's Well] Reference
Sancho will not, as yet, take anything from my hand, but I hope to bring him to that state of tameness in course of time. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Nature Won By Kindness] Reference
As they went forward the next day they were all amazed at the remarkable tameness of the herds which passed on every side. From Wordnik.com. [The Rogue Elephant The Boys' Big Game Series] Reference
All are relentlessly hunted for food and sport - their tameness and inability to fly far or fast making them easy targets. From Wordnik.com. [5 Chicken] Reference
To these men, the tameness with which the United States had submitted to insults and plundering was growing to be unendurable. From Wordnik.com. [The Wars Between England and America] Reference
Their tameness in the hands of their masters is quite remarkable; they suffer themselves to be turned and held in any direction. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859] Reference
"Surely," said Mary, "it is a large mouse;" and it did not seem to be afraid, so they thought from its tameness, it must be hungry. From Wordnik.com. [The Pearl Box Containing One Hundred Beautiful Stories for Young People, by a Pastor] Reference
I begin with distinguishing true gentleness from passive tameness of spirit, and from unlimited compliance with the manners of others. From Wordnik.com. [The Illustrated London Reading Book] Reference
During these years his lectures were always well attended, for they were a striking innovation on the tameness of conventional routine. From Wordnik.com. [Fathers of Biology] Reference
If you do, it would be a tameness in him to bear it, which would make a man more contemptible than Mr. Hickman can ever deserve to be made. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
As always happens, the invention grew wilder and wilder through the very tameness of the bourgeois conventions from which it had to create. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Father Brown] Reference
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