265 examples of domesticate in sentences

Major von Wissmann further suggests that the station authorities should endeavor to domesticate zebras (especially when crossed with muscat and other asses and horses), ostriches, and hyaena dogs crossed with European breeds.

Take them home and domesticate them, and you will see surprising things.

But this difference there is: you can domesticate mountains, but the sea is ferae naturae.

V. tame, domesticate, acclimatize, breed, tend, break in, train; cage, bridle, &c (restrain) 751.

I have some friends coming at that hour The panoply which covered your material pig shall be forthcoming The pig pictorial, with its trappings, domesticate with me.

Not at all; they simply domesticate it.

We are no great admirers of the sonnet at its bestconcurring in Dr. Johnson's opinion that it does not suit the genius of our language, and that the great examples of Shakespeare and Milton have failed to domesticate it with us.

Cheaper to breed white men than domesticate a nation of red ones.

" Why do not the Americans domesticate this noble bird?

It is certain that some animals have naturally a greater fondness for man than others; and as a proof of this, I will again quote Hearne about the moose, who are considered by him to be the easiest to tame and domesticate of any of the deer tribe.

He says: "In the chase the hunters are assisted by dogs, which they take when young and domesticate; but they take little pains to train them to any particular mode of hunting.

It was reserved for a later generation and for Thomas Carlyle to domesticate the diction of German prose.

The beloved essayist from whom that last phrase is, of course, adapted, declared, as we all know, that to marry is "to domesticate the recording angel."

They drew the table near the fire; they ensconced themselves behind an old screen; and, producing their books and work notwithstanding the tempest, they contrived to domesticate themselves at Rovigo.

I have been trying, a great part of this summer, to domesticate a common snake, and make it familiar with me and my children; but all to no purpose, notwithstanding I favoured it with my most particular attention.

I had got all the knowledge I wanted to get; I had learned that it was of no use for a human being, who requires food three times a day, to domesticate an animal which can live weeks and months without food: for, as the saying is, 'Hunger will tame any thing;' and without hunger you can tame nothing.

Her Game was to Domesticate him in Advance, and let him have a Foretaste of what it is to be Boss of your own House, except as to the Bills.

Governor Spottswood brought with him, when he came, a number of these larks, and made strenuous efforts to domesticate them in the neighborhood of Fredericksburg, Virginia.

It is a sad symbol of that nobler being who tried to domesticate himself in Virginia, the fine old English gentleman.

Kate was again urged to domesticate herself with Jane Addams's corps of workers, but she had an aversion to being shut between walls.

The normalcy on which Spengler based his assumption was disrupted around 1750 when a series of new dynamic factors entered the stream of modern social history: I. Mankind gained access to immense stores of energy which supplemented human energy, the energies of domesticated animals and a miniscule use of water power and air power.

They may even be said to have made dogs for themselves in the first place, since the present Siberian animal is nothing more than a half-domesticated arctic wolf, and still retains all his wolfish instincts and peculiarities.

It is a singular fact, however, that the Siberian nativesthe only people, so far as I know, who have ever domesticated the reindeer, except the Lapsdo not use in any way the animal's milk.

The barrenness of the soil in north-eastern Siberia, and the severity of the long winter, led man to domesticate the reindeer as the only means of obtaining a subsistence; the domestication of the reindeer necessitated a wandering life; a wandering life made sickness and infirmity unusually burdensome to both sufferers and supporters; and this finally led to the murder of the old and sick, as a measure both of policy and mercy.

There are no trees or shrubs around them to shut out a part of the sky, limit the horizon, or afford the least semblance of shelter to the lonely settlement, and there is no wall or palisade to fence in and domesticate for finite purposes a little corner of the infinite.

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