Tameness Exercise Sovenliness Exercises Wordiness Exercises Verbal Discords Exercise 1.

Tameness> Correct diction is too often insipid.

EXERCISE - Tameness 1.

It has no special audacities of phrase, but escapes tameness in various wayslargely through its simple earnestness.

Yet it never sags into tameness.

<Wordiness> As a precaution against tameness you should cultivate spontaneity and daring.

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."

As their training and their extreme tameness indicate, domestic creatures, even those destined only to serve as food or to furnish clothing, are treated not indeed with tenderness, but with gentleness, and without either the neglect or the cruelty which so revolt humane men in witnessing the treatment of Terrestrial animals by those who have personal charge of them.

But Addison's tameness is wonderfully lovely beside the fervours of a man of honoured name,Dr. Isaac Watts, born in 1674.

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.

In the Yellowstone Park, on the other hand, they have reverted to their old time tameness, and no longer regard man with fear.

The turgidity and luxuriance of art gradually passed into tameness and poverty.

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.

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.

And the power to conceive the leading qualities that make up an average representative and to keep them always clearly in view, so as to swerve neither toward tameness nor exaggeration, is by no means common.

The German philologers are not remarkable for mildness when speaking of each other; and many a one, as Haupt in Berlin, will enrich his vocabulary with ever-varying, new-coined epithets to characterize the ridiculousness, tameness, and stupidity of emendations proposed, and that, too, when speaking of such men as Orelli and Kirchner, his own colleagues in the profession.

The tameness of that pleasant little capital makes its belles ardent for tales of wild adventure.

The reader is disappointed at the tameness of the culmination, compared with the vigor of the approach thereto.

His new-born tameness nought avail'd My limbs were bound; my force had fail'd, Perchance, had they been free.

It is, however, more than this; for the regular commerce of peace is tameness itself compared with the gambling spirit which war, through the rapid shiftings and high prices which it brings, always introduces into trade.

"Would such tameness and submission have freighted the May-Flower for Plymouth Rock?

In short, they became quite friendly, the lion suffering himself to be caressed by the Jew with the utmost tameness.

All this time there was hopping near them a jay, with the tameness of a bird accustomed to these solitudes.

I thought that I could live always, as other men do, in the tameness of Town and Law; but I could not, unless you refused to go with me into the Nature that my spirit demands as a part of its own life.

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.