As they are as tame as chickens, this is done without difficulty.

Having to go to college now seemed quite tame in comparison.

"Life would be rather tame for us around home here, if we didn't have Percy to think about.

" "And have your people," I asked, "many more such wonderfully intelligent and useful creatures tamed to your service, besides the ambau, the tyree, and these letter-carriers?"

The animal, however, becomes larger and fatter in the tame than in the wild state; but it is not desirable to have it so fat as it can be made.

Clothes and what else a human hand should give to one so suppliant, and so tamed with calamity, you shall not want.

Even the chivalric tales of the feudal times of Germany grow tame beside these earlier and darker histories.

A strong-minded man, like Sir James Macdonald, may be improved by an English education; but in general, they will be tamed into insignificance.

Doubtless an improper question would be to ask him if he weren't born tame on our own soil, of reputable New England parents; but I don't know.

" I will now cite a passage from Burke, which will seem tame after the pictorial animation of the passages from Macaulay and Ruskin; but which, because it is simply an exposition of opinions addressed to the understanding, will excellently illustrate the principle I am enforcing.

"I believe I'll catch it, and have it tamed at my place," he said to himself.

His heroines, with two or three exceptions, would be called rather tame by the modern reader, although they win respect for their domestic virtues and sterling elements of character.

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

"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.

Proceeding down Walmer-lane, otherwise Lancaster-street, you pass by a small portion of Aston park wall, keeping it on your right hand, and some time after cross the river Tame over Perry-bridge, when there is a road to the left which conducts you to Perry hall, an old moated mansion, within a small park; the property and residence of John Gough, Esq. who is an eccentric character.

If these protective laws were enforced, sheep would increase, and once more become delightful objects of the landscape, as they have in portions of Colorado and in the National Park, where, as already stated, they are so tame during certain seasons of the year that they will hardly get out of the way.

Previously you may have been interested in all kinds of peaceable, unexciting things, far more good for you, but enter love, and all the rest is suddenly fallen tame beyond endurance.

Life would seem very tame without that schemer around to try and liven things up for me.