Sentence examples for tame of from inspiring English sources

In 1976 Harper's Magazine described Lyme as "a singular mixture of the wild and tame, of the austere and the cheerful".

It is this element of the tame, of nature moulded to the human will, that makes the lawn the perfect image of suburban contentment.

The epigraph from Juvenal is an apt one: And there's a Lust in Man no Charm can tame, Of loudly publishing our Neighbour's Shame; On Eagles Wingss immortal Scandals fly, While Virtuous Actions are but Born, and Dye.

Apoplectic is too tame of a word to describe the Castor reaction to this crushing defeat.

-- both hourly and weekly earnings are up about 2percentt over the past year, no great shakes, but ahead of inflation, which has been very tame of late, growing 1.5percentt Aug12-Aug133).

Call it the taming of the Shrek.

Some would say wheat; others, the taming of fire.

"This was the funeral of Hector, tamer of horses".

He called for a wholesale taming of cyberspace.

There are two theories about the taming of wild aurochs.

It is the story of the taming of a free-spirited and independent woman.