We collected a lot of tame buffaloes, and tried to drive them through the jungle, but the coolies had lost heart, and would not exert themselves; so we had to content ourselves with the cub, who measured six feet three inches (a very handsome skin it was), and very reluctantly had to leave the savage mother alone.

In Italy, therefore, we find the first tame canaries, and here they are still reared in great numbers.

I first proposed to cut down my inclosures; and turn my tame cattle wild into the woods that the enemy might not find them, and frequent the island in hopes of killing the same.

I then walked the length of that room and picked up one of the heavy wooden chairs, selected for my purpose while the doctor and his tame charges were at church.

2. A trick of a tame crow.

Ohthere was a very rich man in those things which are considered as valuable in his country, and possessed, at the time when he came to the king, six hundred tame deer, none of which he had bought; besides which, he had six decoy deer, which are much in request among the Fins, as by means of them, they are enabled to catch wild deer.

His religion is a poor tame dilution of the blasphemies of the Encyclopaediehis patriotism a crude, vague, ineffectual, and sour Jacobinism.

With this exception, the censure originated in a fanciless way of thinking, to which everything appears unnatural that does not consort with its own tame insipidity.

Before the king tame leopards led the way, And troops of lions innocently play.

I did so, and while the concierge copied out the address for me, I chased his tame magpie that hopped about one of the angles of the great building.

The county of Derby was jealous of its neighbour in other things besides sport, and considered itself to have scored when its own tame minstrel retorted with a parody ending: "Is there a county to compare with Notts? Lots!"

It is not a tame panegyric or a fancy picture.

A number of tame parrots and parakeets, of several different species, scrambled over the roofs and entered the houses.

After that Berkeley and his tame planters got the upper hand, and there were some pretty homings and hangings.

And how I came to get into talk with him on that particular night was here: Tom Dunlop, Maisie's young brother, was for keeping tame rabbits just then, and I was helping him to build hutches for the beasts in his father's back-yard, and we were wanting some bits of stuff, iron and wire and the like, and knowing I would pick it up for a few pence at Crone's shop, I went round there alone.

So, after having shaken almost to death, she decided upon getting well; all the effervescence was gone; she chose to remain with her beads in that family, a mysterious tame servant, faithful, jealous, indefatigable.

They saw also fishes of fine colours, but no land animals except large tame snakes, the before-mentioned alligators, and small rabbits, almost like rats, called Unias; they had also some small dogs which did not bark.

Livingstone alludes to an extreme fondness for small tame singing-birds (pp. 324 and 453).

Teals, wigeons, snipes, barn-door fowl, ducks, geeseyour tame villatic thingsWelsh mutton, collars of brawn, sturgeon, fresh or pickled, your potted char, Swiss cheeses, French pies, early grapes, muscadines, I impart as freely unto my friends as to myself.