Tamed

Examples

• Yes; but not only that, said Wemmick, she went into his service immediately after her acquittal, tamed as she is now. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• I have tamed that savage stenographic mystery. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• But even if they tamed the horse, it is still more doubtful whether they rode it or had much use for it when it was tamed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• She has since been taught one thing and another in the way of her duties, but she was tamed from the beginning. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Wild terror of the sky above, Glide tamed and dumb below! Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• If they tamed the horse at last, it was the only animal they seem to have tamed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Well, I took him in hand, and in one fortnight I had him tamed down as submissive and tractable as heart could desire. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• If he had married a tigress, instead of a woman, he would have tamed the tigress. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• They have been tamed--but at a price, the price of throwing the burthen of taxation upon the voiceless mass of the common people. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• A wild beast tamed, you called her. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Whether they tamed and domesticated the horse is still an open question. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• We were a failing remnant, tamed to mere submission to the coming blow. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• But I will not be quite tamed, and made submissive. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Well, said Wemmick, you'll see a wild beast tamed. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• They could find no praise warm enough for the man who had organized the echoes and tamed the lightning, and whose career was so picturesque with eventful and romantic development. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• But her husband had tamed her in the interval, and she now spoke to me with the same civility as usual. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I begin to understand it all now, she said, her tamed and disciplined anger only expressing itself in the elaborate mockery of her tone and manner. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• At such a time sorrow has no voice; affliction, tamed by it is very vehemence, is mute. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I thought I had tamed her, but she's as bad as ever. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• The exceptions consisted of a few high-born females, who, panic-struck, and tamed by sorrow, had joined him. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Bulgaria, it is true, had been tamed, but there was heavy and uncertain warfare going on with the Petschenegs. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He fed them when they starved, and so slowly he tamed them. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• We have tamed and bred the beasts, but we have still to tame and breed ourselves. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

Edited by Hattie