1789 examples of taming in sentences

THE TAMING OF THE SHREW (By Mary Lamb) Katherine, the shrew, was the eldest daughter of Baptista, a rich gentleman of Padua.

It happened however that a gentleman, named Petruchio, came to Padua, purposely to look out for a wife, who, nothing discouraged by these reports of Katherine's temper, and hearing she was rich and handsome, resolved upon marrying this famous termagant, and taming her into a meek and manageable wife.

There was still a week; he remained with Spalding at the Gaynor mountain home and devoted hour after hour to taming the cub.

Nay, we'll go Together down, Sir. Notice Neptune, though, Taming a sea-horse, thought a rarity, Which Claus of Innsbruck cast in bronze for me!

Had we been at the side of Dick Varley on the night after his taming of the wild horse, we would have strongly urged that advice upon him.

The education of the former was naturally very much the easier, but they succeeded in taming both classes, and even the most rebellious were at last subdued by depriving them of sleep, by keeping away the light from them, by coaxing them with the voice, by patting them, by giving them choice food, &

As for Berg, he had found his God again, the taming touch of a small human hand.

16-25) alludes to this custom, as well as to the culture and taming of fish in the piscina.

Human nature is generally akin: savages may be brutal, but they are not on that account devoid of our taste for taming and caressing young animals; nay, it is not improbable that some races may possess it in a more marked degree than ourselves, because it is a childish taste with us; and the motives of an adult barbarian are very similar to those of a civilised child.

I proceed to give anecdotes of animals being tamed in various parts of the world, at dates when they were severally beyond the reach of civilised influences, and where, therefore, the pleasure taken by the natives in taming them must be ascribed to their unassisted mother-wit.

Taming of the Shrew, Act IV, Sc 3.

309-i. 129, n. 3; ii. 300; iv. 191; v. 20; Romeo and Juliet, ii. 2. 115-ii. 85; v. i. 40-ii. 148; Taming of the Shrew, i. 1. 39-i. 428, n. 1; Tempest, i. 2. 355-iv. 5, n. 3; iv.

The taming of Sydney Marsham.

The taming of Sydney Marsham. R119414.

The taming of the shrew.

Pete. SEE Robinsone, Thomas P. The taming of the shrew.

Pete. SEE Robinson, Thomas P. The taming of the shrew.

The taming of the shrew.

The taming of the shrew.

The taming of the shrew.

The taming of Sydney Marsham.

The taming of Sydney Marsham. R119414.

Notwithstanding the fatal effects of the bite of these serpents, the Indian jugglers are not deterred from capturing and taming them for exhibition, which they do with singular adroitness, and with fearful interest to the unpractised observer.

Christianity was the means of controlling and taming those raw, wild hordes who were washed in by the flood of migration.

They delighted in extracts from Shakespeare, especially from "The Taming of the Shrew," an admirable satire in itself on the old common law of England.

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