1807 examples of tamer in sentences

HYMN TO ADVERSITY Daughter of Jove, relentless power, Thou tamer of the human breast,

"Never human lips have kissed Flower-bird tamed 'twixt mist and mist; Bird so tamed from tamer's heart Night of death shall hardly part.

Among themselves they would make insinuations about the Bear Tamer or the Animal Trainer, as Gloria knew that they would variously and mirthfully designate him.

Yet for once I feared it, feared that great crowd of people out there, as a lion tamer must at some time or other fear one of his lions.

Being, altogether, a creature of impulses, he certainly could not be ever employed in doxologies, or engaged in the logomachy of churchmen; but he had the sentiment which at a tamer age might have made him more ecclesiastical.

It is said that in Colorado, where sheep have long been protected, they are noticeably increasing, and growing tamer.

"I have found," he said, "another and tamer little golden bird.

Who ever heard a fever tamer grown In cloaths embroider'd o'er, and beds of down.

Come, take this charmer of steeds, and show it to thy father the tamer of horses, with the sacrifice of a white bull.'

And before the lowly Savior, e'en the rider of the sea, Sigurd, tamer of the billow, he hath bent the stubborn knee.

Many of the glowing sentences belong rather to passionate poetry than to tamer prose.

Fish and fowl are certainly much tamer on the seventh day of the week than on any other.

When the young girl laid her hand on the little gentleman's arm,which so greatly shocked the Model, you may remember,I saw that she had learned the lion-tamer's secret.

For his austere and melancholy nature, Eros was no tender or light-winged youngling, but a masculine tyrant, the tamer of male spirits.

Obeying their esteemed instructions to the letter he had made inquiries among the men as to what practical everyday trades they were wishful to learn, and, finding one stout fellow who was very anxious to enter public life as a lion-tamer, he had indented for a lion for the chap to practise on.

Not infrequently did the crackling brush denote the near approach of the sulky bear, or some other wild beast that had heretofore roamed the woods at large, undisturbed, save by the swift-winged arrow of the Indian, as he pursued his prey over the dense forest, but little tamer than the hunted beast.

"I think you would be eligible to the position of wild beast tamer in a menagerie as the result of your tussle with Jack; for his strong wolf strain and his enormous strength certainly made him a formidable opponent.

The gun tamer, by George Owen Baxter, pseud. of Frederick Faust.

The Nazi tamer of lions.

Bugs Bunny, lion tamer.

It was some time before they would feed; but throwing them sweet corn it so much tempted them, that they began to be tamer.

He had built up a prosperous trade with the Indians; he had learned their language and studied their ways; and he had gained such an ascendancy over them that he came to be known as 'the Indian-tamer,' and was appointed the British superintendent-general for Indian Affairs.

The other kind of pigeons is tamer and are wont to seek their food at the very threshold of a house.

Prethee be tamer, good Mardonius, Thou know'st

Here it is tamer than I have elsewhere seen itby sitting down in a shady place, and remaining quiet, I have sometimes had three or four within a few yards of me playing about, chasing each other, or turning over the dead leaves.

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