And hardy Thracians tame the savage horse; Then India, Persia, and all-conquering Greece."

You can reason with a bulldog, astonish a bull, fascinate a boa, frighten a tiger, tame a lion; but you have no resource against this monster, a loose cannon.

I am aware of the unpoetical cast of the last six lines of my last sonnet, and think myself unwarranted in smuggling so tame a thing into the book; only the sentiments of those six lines are thoroughly congenial to me in my state of mind, and I wish to accumulate perpetuating tokens of my affection to poor Mary.

When Nature wants to name a man And fame a man And tame a man; When Nature wants to shame a man To do his heavenly best.... When she tries the highest test That her reckoning may bring When she wants a god or king!

His accession to the peerage in 1798 did not tend to tame his haughty nature, and he grew up passionately imperious and combative.

"If David tamed the evil spirit of Saul, it may not be amiss to try the potency of music here.

He cannot yet drive a real horse and wagon, but his very soul delights in the three-inch horse and the gaily-painted wagon; he cannot tame real tigers and lions, but his eyes dance with pleasure as he places and replaces the animals of his toy menagerie.

I will requite you, taming my wild heart to your loving hand.

If we cannot tame the cunning animal that has assaulted humanity, at least we can and will tether him.

When masters bind a slave with cruel chain, And keep him hope-forlorn in bondage pent, Use tames his temper to imprisonment, And hardly would he fain be free again.

Because she was in such evil case she tamed her pride to sullen pleading.

They tamed the rugged and shaggy wilderness, they bid defiance to outside foes, and they successfully solved the difficult problem of self-government.

If he be blind, how hitteth he so right? How is he young, that tamed old Phoebus youth? But arrowes two, and tipt with gold or lead, Some hurt, accuse a third with horney head.

There were also several stablemen, all much interested in the idea of taming the fiery steeds of the desert.

The one tamed the lightning; the other makes it minister to human wants and human progress.

I had descended, then, not only into an inhabited worldnot only into a world of men, who, however they might differ in outward form, must resemble in their wants, ideas, and habits, in short, in mind if not in body, the lords of my own planetbut into a civilised world and among a race living under a settled order, cultivating the soil, and taming the brutes to their service.

"If a religion be false, only let it be supposed to be true, and it will tame mental ferocity, restrain lusts, and make loyal subjects.

He came again and again, and at last contrived to tame this wild dove, and even to get the entrée of the cottage.

They often boast of having invented some new mode of torture, by which they have "tamed the rascals," What is called a moderate flogging at the south is horribly cruel.

Sauce for a Rump of Beef Sauce for Neck of Veal for Turkey for boil'd Rabbits for Pike Sauce for boil'd Salmon or Turbot for Haddock or Cod for Salmon or Turbot for tame Ducks for green Goose another Way for Chickens for Turkey, another Way for Tongues for Cod's Head for a Cod's Head another Way for Flesh or Fish Soop Vermicelly Hare green Pease Onion do.

Never sure was there such a mad marriage; but Petruchio did but put this wildness on, the better to succeed in the plot he had formed to tame his shrewish wife.

He forgot that it needs more to tame a bird than merely putting it in a cage!

They tamed the sky.

R85705, 5Nov51, Edward Plunkett, Lord Dunsany (A) DURAND, HERBERT. Taming the wildings; with a foreword by Edgar T. Wherry.

Yea, but you infer again, facile consilium damus aliis, we can easily give counsel to others; every man, as the saying is, can tame a shrew but he that hath her; si hic esses, aliter sentires; if you were in our misery, you would find it otherwise, 'tis not so easily performed.