| 单词 | tameness |
| 例句 | While I was focused on Public Allies, Barack had settled into what was—by his standard, anyway—a period of relative tameness and predictability. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Perhaps that accounts for the disconnect between the political drama of Ms. Ross’s descriptions and the tameness of the works performed. Review: Sexy Soviet Ballet Steps, Once Delivered as Protest 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z Juxtaposed against all this flamboyance, the tameness of contemporary sins can be a little disheartening. Cultural Studies: On ?Mad Men,? The Allure of Messy Lives 2010-07-30T21:05:00Z The tameness of its endless lab scenes and academic shoptalk is more than offset by Maya cruelty that both the ancient codex and the story’s latter-day Indiana Jones-ing reveal. Books of The Times: ‘12.21,’ a Novel by Dustin Thomason 2012-08-23T22:20:36Z There is an overall tameness that can sometimes happen when opera takes on Broadway. 'Show Boat' keeps rollin' along fine style in San Francisco 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z But this relative tameness is also a matter of Mr. Butler and Mr. Hall’s interpretation. Review: Michael C. Hall Probes the Despair of ‘Thom Pain’ 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z The authors don’t dispute the essence of Dr. Belyaev’s work: the selection for tameness, which is regarded as profoundly important in exploring the genetics and evolution of behavior. Why Are These Foxes Tame? Maybe They Weren’t So Wild to Begin With 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z That means the adorable, dog-like tails seen in the Russian experiment’s foxes may not be linked to genetic changes that enabled their tameness at all. Tame foxes taught us about animal domestication. But did we get the story wrong? 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z Why these physical traits often accompany tameness is not yet clear. The TSA is getting more floppy-eared sniffer dogs. You still can’t pet them. 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z She also picked one gene that seemed to be a good candidate in selecting for tameness, called SorCS1. Friendly Foxes’ Genes Offer Hints to How Dogs Became Domesticated 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z In a famous experiment, Russian geneticist Dmitry Belyaev and colleagues selected for tameness among captured Siberian silver foxes starting in the 1950s. Can these birds explain how language first evolved? 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z The tameness of Angel Stadium represented something else. Angels appear little better than last year 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z But when those individual animals die, their tameness dies with them. How bacon became bacon: The real story about how humans tamed the pig 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z Its decision not to do so would be inexplicable were it not of a piece with its tameness in tackling supermarkets a few years ago. Petrol prices: all pumped up 2013-01-30T22:13:49Z The tameness of the birds gave us many opportunities of studying their habits. Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 2012-04-12T02:00:28.417Z His new-born tameness naught availed, My limbs were bound; my force had failed, Perchance, had they been free. In the Saddle A Collection of Poems on Horseback-Riding 2012-03-26T02:00:41.847Z The insolence of the aggressor is usually proportioned to the tameness of the sufferer. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z The soil consists chiefly of black basaltic alluvium, often more than 20 ft. deep; but along the banks of the Nerbudda the fertility of the land compensates for the tameness of the scenery. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z It is not restrained, held in, and checked into tameness by any fear lest it should too early show its syren power. Paris and the Parisians in 1835 (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-02-29T03:00:23.930Z It is this natural tameness, together with the majesty and quaint grace of its antique form, which makes the destruction of the Rhea so painful to think of. Argentine Ornithology, Volume II (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. 2012-02-26T03:00:16.210Z Their tameness, as Cowper says, "was shocking to me." The Cruise of the 'Alerte' The narrative of a search for treasure on the desert island of Trinidad 2012-02-17T03:00:29.247Z The very tameness of all these creatures seemed proof, that they had never before been disturbed in their haunts by the presence of man. The Cruise of the Snowbird A Story of Arctic Adventure 2011-12-13T03:00:23.197Z Thanks to him, she insists, American novels are pale and colourless productions, and are known the world over for their tameness and insipidity. Essays on Modern Novelists 2011-11-22T03:00:10.817Z Wildness is wholly absent, but so is tameness too. Atlantic Classics 2011-10-16T02:00:18.497Z De Lessart having incurred its anger by the tameness of his replies to Austrian dictation, the Assembly voted his impeachment. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z Secure in his parliamentary majorities and the favours of his queen, he imagined the people at large mere nonentities, and set them at defiance, while he must have laughed at their tameness and stupidity! Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume I (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte 2011-10-01T02:00:31.450Z Essingham Rectory, which the Erskine Hollands had taken for the month of August, was a little old building with some picturesque points to console one for the tameness of the view from its windows. Tiny Luttrell 2011-09-07T02:00:16.757Z Porter was much weakened by his illness, and though he pleaded daily to be allowed to go to the bank, he submitted to Evelyn's refusal with a tameness that was new in him. The Main Chance 2011-08-26T02:00:27.127Z But will men put out their own eyes, that they may be taken with the more tameness to grind in their mill, and make them merry at our madness? A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods 2011-08-21T02:00:31.760Z Their tameness and familiarity are astonishing; they act much more like hogs than beasts of prey. Hunting in Many Lands The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club 2011-08-20T02:00:11.973Z For instance, in the Malay Peninsula the natives have a great fancy for a concoction which they term blachang, as an appetiser to flavour the dull monotonous tameness of the ever-present boiled rice. George Alfred Henty The Story of an Active Life 2011-07-31T02:00:08.463Z This has given us in recent drama some dialogue unnatural in its tameness. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z And instinct prompts all wild creatures when away from man’s control to return to their former shyness, but hawks certainly retain their tameness for a long time, and their memory is remarkably retentive. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z Beauty and tameness—The travelling hill—Ross—The silver tankard—The Man of Ross—The sympathetic trees—Penyard Castle—Vicissitudes of the river—Wilton Castle—A voyage to sea in a basket—Pencraig Hill. The Wye and Its Associations a picturesque ramble 2011-06-12T02:00:06.820Z George flung his whole impulse into his music, and banged a chord at her in indignation at her tameness. Old Kensington 2011-05-29T02:00:09.797Z Edwin Green had his own opinion about the reason for that seeming tameness, but he held 166 his peace. Molly Brown's Post-Graduate Days 2011-05-27T02:00:15.860Z At this very moment I recall a white-throated sparrow, overtaken some years ago in an unfrequented road, whose tameness was entirely unusual, and, indeed, little short of ridiculous. A Rambler's lease 2011-05-22T02:00:11.507Z The French biographers maintain that the tameness of her description of the scene shows a deficiency of appreciation of the wonderful and sublime. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 2011-05-18T02:00:14.897Z Comparatively speaking, there is little worthy of remark between Hereford and Ross; and yet Gilpin’s charge of tameness is unjust. The Wye and Its Associations a picturesque ramble 2011-06-12T02:00:06.820Z "Their tameness is shocking to me," as Alexander Selkirk, the original Robinson Crusoe, complained of the beasts on his island. St. Nicholas Vol. XIII, September, 1886, No. 11 An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks 2011-05-07T02:00:31.650Z Lengthening the pause without increasing the touch suggests tameness, sluggishness, or dullness of thought. Browning and the Dramatic Monologue 2011-04-30T02:00:14.330Z Its members were young men who had come back from the war, poor, exhausted, discouraged, and bored with the tameness of a country town. Ku Klux Klan Secrets Exposed Attitude toward Jews, Catholics, Foreigners and Masons. Fraudulent Methods Used. Atrocities Committed in Name of Order. 2011-04-28T02:00:15.077Z This tameness, which is shocking to us, is very different from the trusting innocence of Alexander Selkirk’s happy family, who were “So unaccustomed to man.” With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 2011-03-21T02:00:11.920Z Correct tameness is the usual character of classical allusion in authors well versed in classical studies. A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z Although exhibiting considerable tameness, it seems incapable of attachment, and when not properly fed, or when irritated, is apt to give painful evidence of its ferocity. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" 2011-03-14T03:01:00.580Z The site is eminently beautiful, and, compared with the general tameness of the scenery in this region, romantic. The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 1 2011-02-02T03:00:22.253Z No worse than the tameness of this cursed fort for the last year or two. Collection of Nebraska Pioneer Reminiscences 2011-01-05T03:00:58.503Z Their tameness, their affection, their entertaining habits, and their remarkable powers of speech, all help to render Parrots the favorites amongst birds. An Australian Bird Book A Pocket Book for Field Use 2010-12-31T03:00:10.497Z Ms. Gaylor leaned back and sipped from a cup of tea, unfazed and even a bit surprised at the relative tameness of the attacks. Legal Victory Raises Profile of an Atheist Group 2010-04-23T23:47:00Z Tags: Charles Darwin, Galápagos, giant tortoises, iguanas, islands, skittishness, tameness Ruth Fremson/The New York Times Marine iguanas huddled together for warmth on volcanic rock on Tintoreras island in the Galápagos in 2009. 2010-02-02T23:33:00Z This is the main cause of the comparative tameness of the Aeneid in point of human interest. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil Of course it would be possible to find fault with these things, but they have nothing of the vice of tameness—they deliver their message effectually. 'Phiz' (Hablot Knight Browne), a Memoir. It needs a good deal to take all the manliness out of one's self, so that one can fit himself to all the miserable complications, the twisted deformities and tameness of our modern civilization. In Paradise A Novel. Vol. I. A specimen of this animal was a few years since in the Tower of London, where it was brought to a degree of tameness seldom reached by the other variety. Illustrative Anecdotes of the Animal Kingdom But he would still be struck by the tameness of the animals. 2010-02-02T23:33:00Z And this great narrative begins the story of a nation’s emancipation with a human demand, boldly made, but defeated by the pride and vigour of a startled tyrant and the tameness of a downtrodden people. The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus Perhaps their comparative tameness near Phari may be accounted for by the fact that the old trade route crosses the plateau, and they have never been molested by the itinerant merchants and carriers. The Unveiling of Lhasa Where will you find such a green square of civic center with people sitting quietly about, enjoying the sunshine, the splashing of the fountain, the tameness of the starlings? Across the Continent by the Lincoln Highway As a rule, however, her style is easy, finished, flexible, and at times racy, and while seldom rising to eloquence, never sinking to tameness. Maria Edgeworth Among the changes superinduced by man, none appear, at first sight, more remarkable than the perfect tameness of certain domestic races. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology Moderate.—Rather lacks efficiency; yields to difficulties; wants fortitude and determination; fails to assert and maintain rights; and with large moral organs, is good-hearted, moral, etc.; yet borders on tameness. The Illustrated Self-Instructor in Phrenology and Physiology Still to adhere to a neutral position would argue tameness—cowardice! The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools There are buffalo too, but there is no tameness about them. Harley Greenoak's Charge One time or other I shall publish those indignities in my Memoires, together with the weakness, and tameness wherewith they were content to suffer them. Letter from Monsieur de Cros,... being an answer to Sir Wm Temple's memoirs... [1693] “I wonder if you’ll ever long for the good old wild surroundings among all this tameness, darling,” one of them was saying. Forging the Blades A Tale of the Zulu Rebellion In spite of all Aldred's coaching and practical illustrations, Lorna could not rise to the required pitch, and continued to give the thrilling scene with the utmost tameness. A Fourth Form Friendship A School Story They were sheltered by a cave; and a doe, whose tameness was regarded as a miraculous providence, supplied them with milk. Women of Early Christianity True dramatic relations were sacrificed to relative salaries, and, as a result, a scene which naturally receives half a dozen curtain calls, went off with comparative tameness. How to See a Play Elagabalus lavished away the treasures of the people in the wildest extravagance, his own voice and that of his flatterers applauded a spirit and magnificence unknown to the tameness of his predecessors. Roman Women Taking into account their extreme tameness, she decided it would be best to carry them. Loyal to the School Loyd wrote almost by every mail, and with a tameness that shadowed forth the uniform tenor of his own life. A Rent In A Cloud I have been angry for centuries at the tameness of Christendom while Greece is in chains. The Wine-ghosts of Bremen If, however, Crivelli could not be tame he could be insipid, escaping tameness by what might be called the violence of his affectation. Artists Past and Present Random Studies But though the subject of our sketch is truly silver-tongued, the solemnity, at times, almost the severity, of his manner preserves him from anything like tameness. The London Pulpit Its sensibleness is effectually explained, and its tameness as much as possible disguised. English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century The former muttered pretty strong expressions of disgust for the previous tameness and present boldness of the latter, and once or twice when jostled, plied their bayonets. History of Morgan's Cavalry Through the exceptional tameness of the jack-rabbits along the road, we were sometimes enabled to procure with a revolver the luxury of a meat supper. Across Asia on a Bicycle Moreover, there are the slowness of movement and the seemingly increasing tameness of the multitude. Violence and the Labor Movement It will be taken to be stupidity or tameness in you. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors But such is human nature that it finds a little tameness in mere morality. English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century Moonlight gives to even leafless groves the charms of full foliage, and conceals tameness of outline in a landscape. My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. He is like a fox for cunning; a dove for tameness; a lamb for innocence; a lion for boldness; a bee for industry; and a sheep for usefulness. Notes and Queries, Number 232, April 8, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc Yet thus far the uneventful tameness had depressed him as a shameful waste of environment. The Missourian "The tameness and poorness of the serious style of Addison and Swift,"—Romantic again, quite Romantic. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 Their tameness and their constrained rhythm are not Shakespearian work, particularly at this period of his life, and in the writing of such a scene. The Galaxy Vol. 23, No. 1 Tommy was extremely surprised and pleased to remark its tameness and docility, and asked by what means it had been made so gentle. The History of Sandford and Merton Some have objected to the meekness, to the tameness, as they will have it to be, of the character of Mr. Hickman. Clarissa: Preface, Hints of Prefaces, and Postscript She would have no truck with the tame cats, nice or not, because she believed that they were all only untamed cats with a nasty, untrustworthy habit of tameness. The Rainbow He softens asperities, brings amenity into the wilderness, or animates the tameness of an expanse, by accompanying it with the majesty of a forest. Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a Subsequent Journey through the Country from Pekin to Canton To my mind, tameness is something more than merely coming to be fed, and, in fact, many tame animals are least tame when they are feeding. Introduction to the Science of Sociology But there was no doubt about its tameness. In Brief Authority In this he was himself reverting to the associations of childhood, when the beauty, variety, and tameness of The Mount pigeons at Shrewsbury were well known. Life of Charles Darwin The two authors have sacrificed their individualities in a mistaken effort to follow the fashion's lead, resulting in a most ineffective compound of tameness and sensationalism. Famous Women: George Sand They saw no signs of animals of any kind; but the forest seemed to be alive with birds, the extraordinary tameness—or rather fearlessness—of which seemed to argue an unfamiliarity with man. Dick Leslie's Luck A Story of Shipwreck and Adventure On the other hand, we must not take our idea of tameness merely from the domesticated animals. Introduction to the Science of Sociology At first the guests were alarmed; but, seeing the extra ordinary tameness of the beasts, struck with amazement, they seemed to have been pleased with this extraordinary sight. Scientific American magazine, Vol. 2 Issue 1 The advocate of Industry and Journal of Scientific, Mechanical and Other Improvements The first impression is of something enormous and rather unnatural, an impression that is gradually tempered by experience of the kindliness and even the tameness of so much of that social order. What I Saw in America The natives regarded the proximity of these animals as dangerous, for their apparent tameness was merely in order to get quite near the unwary traveller, and then, with a sudden dash, inflict a horrible bite. An Explorer's Adventures in Tibet Certainly the growth of lodging-houses has not added to its charm, as these houses have all the tameness, though doubtless also the convenience, of modern street-architecture. The Cornwall Coast Dogs are always taken as the supreme example of tameness, and sentimentalists have almost exhausted the resources of language in praising them. Introduction to the Science of Sociology Bird life is now reduced to its simplest terms in numbers and species, and the absence of concealing foliage, together with the usual tameness of winter birds, makes identification an easy matter. The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year It is typical of the real tameness of machinery, that even when we talk of a man turning mechanically we only talk metaphorically; for it is something that a mechanism cannot do. What I Saw in America The tameness of that shadowy meeting on Marston Moor evidently caused Cromwell much vexation. The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 To a still greater extent man has favoured tameness unconsciously and indirectly. Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin Why with unnatural tameness comest thou thus, Offering in fealty thy sweet simple songs To the abode of man? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. Something in her blood revolted against such tameness, though she would not for all the world have had Reanda take Gloria back. Casa Braccio, Volumes 1 and 2 He will think it a less fault than the tameness and abstractness, which are the besetting sins of deliberate composition. Hints on Extemporaneous Preaching Could anything change the leopard West into the tameness and serenity of the ox? Cavanaugh: Forest Ranger A Romance of the Mountain West Yet the animal which acquires least tameness—or apparently, indeed, none at all—inherits most! Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin The same is true in even greater degree of the southern face, all photographs agreeing with all travellers as to its tameness. The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley) A Narrative of the First Complete Ascent of the Highest Peak in North America After the invariable flatness and tameness of the shores above, the sudden cleft in the world impressed the beholder stunningly. The Woman from Outside [on Swan River] And he ‘won’t be thinking’ the worse of its helplessness and tameness. The Branding Iron As they went forward the next day they were all amazed at the remarkable tameness of the herds which passed on every side. The Rogue Elephant The Boys' Big Game Series The excessive tameness, too, of the young rabbit, while easily explicable as a result of unconscious selection, is not easily explained as a result of acquired habit. Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin There were occasional precipices and dancing waterfalls, but in general the same tameness and monotony we had found on the Sogne Fjord. Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland That would necessitate great sameness, if not great tameness. With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back The laboratory psychologist studies, for instance, the laws according to which qualities like savageness and tameness are distributed in the succeeding generations. Psychology and Social Sanity I wondered at their tameness, but thought it must be because no man had ever come within their sight before. Anting-Anting Stories And other Strange Tales of the Filipinos It transmits tameness most powerfully in an animal which usually cannot acquire it. Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin In the same letter he said:— I cannot but feel deeply grieved at not only the tameness but the profound silence of the Guardian on this bill. The Story of My Life Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada During these years his lectures were always well attended, for they were a striking innovation on the tameness of conventional routine. Fathers of Biology The general was still bent on teaching the Irish to know their masters and making good his boast of reducing them to the tameness of "gelt cats." The Northern Iron The goodness that arises from fear is like the tameness of a terrified tiger, or the willingness of a wolf to leave the deer unharmed when both are flying from before a prairie-fire. Mushrooms on the Moor There was no doubt so far in the tameness of the two ponies, which fed quietly enough from the boys’ hands and submitted to being handled, patted and held by their thick forelocks or manes. Dead Man's Land Being the Voyage to Zimbambangwe of certain and uncertain blacks and whites Now, the appearance of the carcass indicated that this very bird had just finished its breakfast, and that would account for its tameness. Ran Away to Sea Since the accession of James Scotland had bent with a seeming tameness before aggression after aggression. History of the English People, Volume V Puritan England, 1603-1660 The very tameness of the birds wheeling round my head was evidence of this. The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire There is great stiffness and tameness in the matter in many places. Notes and Queries, Number 71, March 8, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. These prophecies have not for their vision the fettering of the world and reducing it to tameness by means of a close-linked power forged in the factory of a political steel trust. Creative Unity A tamed Marjorie was something new in his experience; and tameness at this juncture was particularly surprising. I've Married Marjorie At Athens the action of the Allies was less open to the criticism of tameness. Greece and the Allies 1914-1922 Everything," said he—"audacity and insolence on one side, and tameness on ours. Memoirs of the Court of George IV. 1820-1830 (Vol 1) From the Original Family Documents They scrambled aboard, hung out of the window, from the platform and from roof, encouraged the engine, offered to push the train, and made slighting remarks on the tameness of the scenery. The Long Roll The tameness of this kind of fish is very remarkable. Personal Reminiscences in Book Making and Some Short Stories I did not attribute their tameness to music, and in surprise turned to see if there were others about. The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals Their tameness, as Cowper says, “was shocking to me.” Frank Mildmay Or, the Naval Officer Burnett could scarcely believe his senses, till the secret of her apparent sudden tameness was disclosed. The Young Rajah O’Driscoll said nothing till we had once more taken our seats in the boat, and then he expressed his disappointment at what he called the tameness of the result of our expedition. Hurricane Hurry On passing amidst them the animals showed their tameness by standing beneath the trees, fanning themselves with their large ears. Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley There was no mistaking what the animal was now, and wondering at its comparative tameness, Ned’s attention was now diverted to what was the finest and most active monkey he had ever seen. The Rajah of Dah To these men, the tameness with which the United States had submitted to insults and plundering was growing to be unendurable. The Wars Between England and America And no less harmoniously than in report of the extreme tameness, grace, and affectionateness of this bird do sportsmen agree also in the treatment and appreciation of these qualities. Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds 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. p. Wild Nature Won By Kindness But this tameness, however contemptible, cannot be censured; for the first drop of blood shed in civil and unnatural war will make a wound that years, perhaps ages, may not heal.... The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 1 of 2. From 1620-1816 This tameness is not in keeping with the rest of his character. The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology Nor are the details spoiled by any tameness. Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature But, useless all to me, His new-born tameness nought availed— My limbs were bound; my force had failed, Perchance, had they been free. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4 The tameness of these butterflies I ascribed in great measure to the fact of their having been hatched from chrysalides, and having therefore never known the sweets of liberty. Wild Nature Won By Kindness His pages are crowded with their names; unutterable names; names which reduce "arms! and George! and Brunswick!" into tameness and insignificance. Five Pebbles from the Brook Nearly all the houses are built on the same design, which gives to it an air of sameness and tameness that is not pleasing. Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City Being called before the council to answer for this liberty, he showed a courage which might cover all the nobles with shame, on account of their tameness and servility. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I. This is literally true: the dogs seem to partake of the tameness of their masters. The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America The tameness of birds in severe weather is a touching sign of their distress, and a mute appeal to us to help them. Wild Nature Won By Kindness The relations of conscious affection among those of near kindred are but too apt, from the blunting influence of custom, to have a character of tameness, lukewarm routine. The Friendships of Women Gerald tried to mend the tameness of the effect that he was making. Franklin Kane The chief exaction of the part is simplicity—which yet must not be allowed to degenerate into tameness. Shadows of the Stage But this is not what constitutes his interest for us, which is moreover obscured by the tameness of his Miltonic-Thomsonian versification. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters I ascribe her unusual tameness to the loving care bestowed upon her in her long illness. Wild Nature Won By Kindness Morris would have been disgusted not with the wildness, but the tameness of our tidy Fabians. The Victorian Age in Literature Althea felt next day a certain tameness in the public reception of her news. Franklin Kane No taint of tameness marred her acting in those kindred characters, and no air of effort made it artificial. Shadows of the Stage When despair had chilled Dorothy to tameness he would go oftener. The President A novel Borrow had broken through the tameness of the regulation literary memoir, and had shown the naked footprint on the sand. Isopel Berners The History of certain doings in a Staffordshire Dingle, July, 1825 The great shoulders, the huge arms, all the compressed strength of the body, made the effect of some strong animal fettered and compelled to tameness. The Second Class Passenger Fifteen Stories The front is very long and lofty; but it has a sort of architectural tameness about it, which gives it rather the air of the residence of the Lord Chamberlains than of their regal master. A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three But the marble bust of Voltaire, by Houdon, throws every thing about it into tameness. A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Two They deem it timidity, and despise without fearing the tameness from which it flows. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 But when you kept me cooped within your womb, You palled his generous blood with the dull mixture Of your Italian food, and milked slow arts Of womanish tameness in my infant mouth. The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 As for the seamen, they were so much disgusted at the tameness of the enemy's resistance that they were eager for anything that promised activity and adventure. In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India It had ended with a tameness that gave it an almost commonplace aspect. The Odds And Other Stories But so marked a personage could never be permitted to remain in the tameness of domestic life; the epic poem called the Telegonia ascribed to him a subsequent series of adventures. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01 We had not disgorged one particle of the nauseous doses with which we were so liberally crammed by the mountebanks of Paris in order to drug and diet us into perfect tameness. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12) That country has but too much life in it, when everything around is so disposed to tameness and languor. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12) The wary crow,—the pheasant from the woods— Lull'd by the still and everlasting sameness, Close to the mansion, like domestic broods, Fed with a "shocking tameness." The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood Like the pariah dogs the peacocks seem to disarm the people by confiding in them—their tameness is at once the cause and the effect of their security. Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official And of all the curious things about them, what seems most inexplicable is their tameness. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 The sparrows came at once, alighting near his hand with a tameness that spoke of pleasing association with the providence above them. Lewis Rand The blatant bore,—the faddist, and the fool, Were listened to with an indifferent tameness. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, May 21, 1892 Yet certain traits in his character, especially his avoidance of bloodshed and the tameness of his temper after Camillo has been murdered, seem to have been studied from the historical Sixtus. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series We coveted them as pets for Billy, but soon discovered that their apparent tameness was grounded on good, solid common sense. African Camp Fires Whether from lack of power or an inconquerable reserve, the author's touches have often an effect of tameness. The Tale of Terror A Study of the Gothic Romance For him tameness was the great disillusionizer; his undefined ideal was a woman who must be won anew every day. V. V.'s Eyes Pigeons are very abundant in all Russian cities, and their tameness is a matter of remark among foreign visitors. Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life Ah, sir! the country has been sinking gradually into tameness and commonplace. Tales of a Traveller At Palm Beach the tameness of the wild ducks when within their protected area, and their wildness outside of it, has been witnessed by thousands of visitors. Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation At Tahoe Tavern, however, I found several of them that were shamed into friendliness of behavior, and astonishing tameness, by the chipmunks. The Lake of the Sky Lake Tahoe in the High Sierras of California and Nevada, its History, Indians, Discovery by Frémont, Legendary Lore, Various Namings, Physical Characteristics, Glacial Phenomena, Geology, Single Outlet, Automobile Routes, Historic Towns, Early Mining Excitements, Steamer Ride, Mineral Springs, Mountain and Lake Resorts, Trail and Camping Out Trips, Summer Residences, Fishing, Hunting, Flowers, Birds, Animals, Trees, and Chaparral, with a Full Account of the Tahoe National Forest, the Public Use of the Water of Lake Tahoe and Much Other Interesting Matter It was somewhat galling to recall the tameness with which she had allowed a Shouting Methodist such a last word as that, entirely unreproved. V. V.'s Eyes Their tameness, as Cooper says, "was shocking to me." Frank Mildmay Or, The Naval Officer Dear ——, We had sought refuge on the Rhine, from the tameness and monotony of Wurtemberg! A Residence in France With an Excursion Up the Rhine, and a Second Visit to Switzerland They say, moreover, that the tameness and docility of the bird, while he was looking after it, have been greatly exaggerated, and they deny that it was entirely bald of its old gay feathers. Old and New Masters It is a pleasant thing to behold the tameness of animals. The Man Who Laughs The views from Ditchling, though fine, are not nearly the best, for there is a tameness in the immediate country to the north. Seaward Sussex The South Downs from End to End Many of the inquiries are sympathetic, tender, penetrating, but most of them incline toward timidity and tameness. Contemporary American Novelists (1900-1920) Some have objected to the meekness, to the tameness, as they will have it to be, of Mr. Hickman's character. Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 9 The Somerset sea-coast, though destitute of ruggedness and grandeur, possesses undeniable charm, at least at its W. and E. extremities; but it lapses into unquestioned tameness where the sea washes the central flats. Somerset Do not presume, because you see me young, Or cast despights on my profession For the civility and tameness of it. Beggars Bush From the Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher (Volume 2 of 10) As poor Selkirk might have been parodied,— It was so unacquainted with man, Its tameness was charming to us. Wau-bun The Early Day in the Northwest There is a tameness about the whole design very unusual in the buildings of this epoch. A Handbook to Agra and the Taj Sikandra, Fatehpur-Sikri and the Neighbourhood I begin with distinguishing true gentleness from passive tameness of spirit, and from unlimited compliance with the manners of others. The Illustrated London Reading Book I have often thought myself that an increase of accomplishment goes hand-in-hand with an increased tameness of spirit. The Silent Isle I have remarked before on the extreme tameness of, and the confidence shown by, wild creatures out here. A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil All this time there was hopping near them a jay, with the tameness of a bird accustomed to these solitudes. J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 3 Two small caymans, of the common species, with prominent eyes, were at the bank where we moored, and betrayed an astonishing and stupid tameness. Through the Brazilian Wilderness That passive tameness which submits, without opposition, to every encroachment of the violent and assuming, forms no part of Christian duty; but, on the contrary, is destructive of general happiness and order. The Illustrated London Reading Book Clouds of yellow mud boiled up from the bottom of the oozy harbor as the Hatteras dropped her hook; and the sharks moved about, all the more shuddery in their tameness. Fate Knocks at the Door A Novel Poets turned from the tameness of modern existence to savage nature and the heroic simplicity of life among primitive tribes. From Chaucer to Tennyson Christopher is troublesome as ever at the start; I fear that signs of tameness will only indicate absence of strength. Scott's Last Expedition Volume I Much of the tameness or wildness of an animal's character is probably due to the placidity or to the frequent starts of alarm of the mother while she was rearing it. Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development This is the contradiction remarked by Dr. Sarolea, in his brilliant book, between the wildness of German theory and the tameness of German practice. The Crimes of England If left at liberty in a state of tameness, it will pursue poultry, and destroy every living thing that it has strength to conquer. The Solitary of Juan Fernandez, or the Real Robinson Crusoe I desired them to leave us, all but Dorcas, who was down as soon as I. I then thought it right to assume an air of resolution, having found my tameness so greatly triumphed over. Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 6 In short, they became quite friendly, the lion suffering himself to be caressed by the Jew with the utmost tameness. Travels through the Empire of Morocco The reader is disappointed at the tameness of the culmination, compared with the vigor of the approach thereto. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859 The tameness of that pleasant little capital makes its belles ardent for tales of wild adventure. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 He was calm, deliberate, and distinct in his enunciation, not often rising into any high exhibition of passion, and never sinking into tameness. Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers In the animal kingdom, besides the elephants, I was much struck by the number and tameness of the ravens of Ceylon. A Woman's Journey Round the World The beasts, that roam over the plain, My form with indifference see, They are so unacquainted with man, Their tameness is shocking to me. Gems of Poetry, for Girls and Boys These wolves are well known from Byron's account of their tameness and curiosity, which the sailors, who ran into the water to avoid them, mistook for fierceness. The Voyage of the Beagle The choice of his ministers was in many instances justly censured, and the dissatisfied people, with their usual candor, accused at once his indolent tameness and his excessive severity. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 It is not in tameness of spirit that I submit. Our Mutual Friend It is so little profaned by man that if one were compelled to live here in solitude one might truly say of the bears, deer, and elk which abound, "Their tameness is shocking to me." A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains We got up to them without difficulty, the great animals contenting themselves with sinking down into the water and rising again a few yards farther on; indeed, their excessive tameness struck me as being peculiar. Allan Quatermain This tameness of the birds, especially of the water-fowl, is strongly contrasted with the habits of the same species in Tierra del Fuego, where for ages past they have been persecuted by the wild inhabitants. The Voyage of the Beagle Pen is drawing our owl—a bird that is the light of our house, for his tameness and engaging ways. Life and Letters of Robert Browning I feel inclined to say, with Alexander Selkirk, 'Their tameness is shocking to me'! Sylvie and Bruno You will doubtless deem it too warm and fiery, but tameness and gentleness are of little avail when surrounded by the vassal slaves of bloody Rome. Letters of George Borrow to the British and Foreign Bible Society In this problem of the mildness and tameness of the Harmsworth mind there is mirrored the outlines of a much larger problem which is akin to it. Heretics I will conclude my description of the natural history of these islands, by giving an account of the extreme tameness of the birds. The Voyage of the Beagle In the social world we are even more inconsistent, accepting with tameness the most astonishing theories and opinions. Worldly Ways and Byways Plain, however, as all this appears, the quantity question rises again and again in all its commonplace tameness. Steep Trails California, Utah, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, the Grand Canyon Its tameness seemed a fitting symbol of the masterful strength of this new ruler of Atlantis. The Lost Continent At times the unexpected tameness of the rabbits all at once vanished. The Octopus : A story of California As the birds are so tame there, where foxes, hawks, and owls occur, we may infer that the absence of all rapacious animals at the Galapagos, is not the cause of their tameness here. The Voyage of the Beagle As always happens, the invention grew wilder and wilder through the very tameness of the bourgeois conventions from which it had to create. The Innocence of Father Brown All sign of the Indians had passed away, but animal life was more frequent, and the tameness of the creatures showed that they knew nothing of the hunter. The Lost World Blood flowed from the mammoth's neck where the spikes of the collar tore it, and with each drop, so did the tameness seem to ooze out from it also. The Lost Continent 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. Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 3 This tameness may probably be accounted for, by the Jaguar having been banished for some years, and by the Gaucho not thinking it worth his while to hunt them. The Voyage of the Beagle Imagine such fantasticalities of expense with such a tameness and staleness of design. Alarms and Discursions On the aforementioned visit to Frankfurt he met Sophie Albrecht, a melancholy poetess who had sought relief from the tameness of her married life by going upon the stage. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller "Why did you not let us know then?" cried the father in a voice which ill suited the tameness of the question. Weighed and Wanting I have encouraged virulence by my tameness.—Yet tame I will still be. Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 3 The number, tameness, and disgusting habits of the carrion-feeding hawks of South America make them pre-eminently striking to any one accustomed only to the birds of Northern Europe. The Voyage of the Beagle As the doctor himself delighted in surprises of a terrifying or horrifying nature, it was unlikely that his inventions in that direction would be characterized by tameness. A Strange Discovery The boys said she was a live wire and she preferred that high specialization to the tameness of mere beauty. The Sisters-In-Law "It cannot be—rise up, ye Mighty Dead,— "If we, the living, are too weak to crush "These tyrant priests that o'er your empire tread, "Till all but Romans at Rome's tameness blush! The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes Whether from lack of power, or an uncontrollable reserve, the author's touches have often an effect of tameness…. The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century Crevecoeur," he said, "thy tameness hath made a lordly dame of thy Countess; but that is no affair of mine. Quentin Durward Their excessive tameness, slow flight, and indolent motions serve to show that they are not accustomed to be interfered with. The Naturalist in La Plata I was also a little surprised at his tameness. Birds in Town and Village Need we be surprised then, to find in Red Jacket's published speeches, a tameness unworthy of his fame? An Account of Sa-Go-Ye-Wat-Ha, or Red Jacket, and His People, 1750-1830 The tameness was almost shocking of those who, in the afternoon, would inevitably resume their natural characters of tiger cats and wolves. Autobiographical Sketches The New Comedy may, in certain respects, be described as the Old, tamed down; but in productions of genius, tameness is not generally considered a merit. Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature I felt painfully conscious of the tameness of my reply: "It's a friend: incitement to murder." A Girl Among the Anarchists The beasts that roam over the plain My form with indifference bee; They're so unaccustomed to man, Their tameness is shocking to me.' The World of Waters A Peaceful Progress o'er the Unpathed Sea On Friday, the good protestants met in St. George's fields, at the summons of lord George Gordon, and marching to Westminster, insulted the lords and commons, who all bore it with great tameness. Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., in Nine Volumes It is always your heaviest bore who is astonished at the tameness of modern celebrities: naturally; for a little of his company has reduced them to a state of flaccid fatigue. Impressions of Theophrastus Such To me, who had hitherto seen the green heron in the wildest of places, this tameness was an astonishing sight. A Florida Sketch-Book In curious contrast to the natural tameness of the Kinkajou was the natural untameness of a beautiful little Night-Monkey, belonging to the purser. At Last In the Yellowstone Park, on the other hand, they have reverted to their old time tameness, and no longer regard man with fear. American Big Game in Its Haunts In our anxiety lest we err on the side of grandiloquence we may perhaps fall into the opposite error of tameness. The Principles of Success in Literature His appointment as adjutant to the Northamptonshire Militia caused them to take up their residence at Daventry, a neighbourhood by its tameness strangely contrasting with her "own mountain-land." Excellent Women The boat-tails abounded along the river banks, and, with their tameness and their ridiculous outcries, kept us amused whenever there was nothing else to absorb our attention. A Florida Sketch-Book It has no special audacities of phrase, but escapes tameness in various ways—largely through its simple earnestness. The Century Vocabulary Builder In fact, sheep in those old times shared with all the other animals of the prairie that tameness to which I have often adverted in writing on this subject, and which now seems so remarkable. American Big Game in Its Haunts Charmed by the tameness of the beast, Europa climbed on its back, whereupon Jupiter rushed into the sea and swam with her to Crete. The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 In comparison with the seething Deeside hamlet, Liverpool was tameness itself. The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore In them we see shirt-sleeves opposed to evening dress; naturalness, sturdiness, sun-tan, and open sky, opposed to the artificial, to tameness, constriction, and characterless conformity to prescribed customs. Our Friend John Burroughs When this bird comes, it is so unacquainted with man that its tameness is delightful to behold. Locusts and Wild Honey Rain and dry weather change the susceptibility of the surface to vibrate, and may sometimes in part account for the wildness or apparent tameness of birds and animals. The Life of the Fields I accused myself of tameness—the dishonorable tameness of submitting to indignity—the last of all indignities—and of conferring calmly, even good-humoredly, with the wrong-doer. Confession, or, the Blind Heart; a Domestic Story The most astonishing cases, however, have been of the tameness of free wild birds, in the Catskills, and also near the city of Schenectady. The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations Its tameness must have tamed even him, and I doubt not he never acquitted himself so ill. The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 2 I don’t know how I escaped the rats which swarm here, running about among the huts and the inhabitants in the evening, with a tameness shocking to see. Travels in West Africa It is due to his tameness and also to his brick-red breast that he bears the name of "Robin." Friends and Helpers He has a mortal dread of tameness and flatness, and would make the very water we drink bite the tongue. Birds and Poets : with Other Papers It will be taken To be stupidity or tameness in you. The Poetaster Be not surprised at their tameness, all my family had long been taught to respect them as well as myself. Letters from an American Farmer Through her eyes he was able to see the tameness of Welsley, a dear tameness, safe, cozy, full of a very English charm and touched with ancient beauty, but still——! In the Wilderness This it is which lures so many from the tameness of ordinary life to the ranks of the army. David Crockett His Life and Adventures I often smiled at the tameness and simplicity of the amusements, but my sense of fitness, or proportion, or decency was never once outraged. Winter Sunshine So there's an end of them, and all their tameness!' Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 1 As for Patrick's bird, he bought him for his tameness, and is grown the wildest I ever saw. The Journal to Stella It was not for their tameness, but for this passionate sincerity, that he chose incidents and situations from common life, "related in a selection of language really used by men." Appreciations, with an Essay on Style It was not for their tameness, but for their impassioned sincerity, that he chose incidents and situations from common life, "related in a selection of language really used by men." Essays from 'The Guardian' "Could I stand the orderly tameness of your green England, think you, after this?" he exclaimed, with a comprehensive gesture of his hand. Thelma The tameness, the half-heartedness of Western prayer and Western praise had no place here. The Garden of Allah If a bird, native of your skies, had flown into my bosom from very tameness and sport, I would have crushed it dead at my feet! Antonina Suppose, thou fortune couldst to tameness bring, And clip or pinion her wine; Suppose thou couldst on fate so far prevail As not to cut off thy entail. Cowley's Essays And always the woods creatures, in startling abundance and tameness. The Blazed Trail Yet all his civilization is founded on his cowardice, on his abject tameness, which he calls his respectability. Man and Superman Encouraged by the tameness of the animal, Europa ventured to mount his back, whereupon Jupiter advanced into the sea, and swam with her to Crete. Bulfinch's Mythology: the Age of Fable The keepers rushed in to withdraw them from so dangerous a place: all but one obeyed with sudden tameness: that one struggled and yelled like a demon. Hard Cash Your account of the tameness of the birds which apparently have wandered from the interior, is very curious. More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 The evidence seems good about the tameness of the alpine butterflies, and the fact seems to me very surprising, for each butterfly can hardly have acquired its experience during its own short life. More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 More wonders for Malcolm Stewart, who had learnt to believe it mere dishonour and tameness to forgive the son for his father’s deeds. The Caged Lion By this method they do not frighten the rest away, and this accounts for the birds’ extreme tameness. Wanderings among South Sea Savages and in Borneo and the Philippines Their tameness arises from the fact that poisoned arrows have no effect on either elephant or hippopotamus. A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries And of the Discovery of Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864 But what struck me most in Joshua's domain was the quantity and the tameness of the game. Redgauntlet We were amused at the excessive and almost absurd tameness of a fine Mutum or Curassow turkey, that ran about the house. The Naturalist on the River Amazons But he was egregiously mistaken in giving his own wit credit for that tameness of Eastgate, which had been entirely owing to prudential considerations. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker Sir Orlando had been a little carried away by his own eloquence and the Duke's tameness, and had interrupted the Duke. The Prime Minister It is a discourse against all those who confound virtue with tameness and smug ease, and who regard as virtuous only that which promotes security and tends to deepen sleep. Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none I observed to Miss Geddes the extreme tameness of these timid and shy animals, and she informed me that their confidence arose from protection in the summer, and relief during the winter. Redgauntlet "Oh," I said, "I acquit you of tameness." The Club of Queer Trades He showed no alarm at their approach, but suffered himself quietly to be taken, evincing a perfect state of tameness. The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West “You know I am a scoundrel, Jane?” ere long he inquired wistfully—wondering, I suppose, at my continued silence and tameness, the result rather of weakness than of will. Jane Eyre |
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