Taming

Examples

• Marriage is a taming thing. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• At once powerful and elusive, it remained for Professor Morse to capture this wild steed, and, taming it, place it in the permanent service of man. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Only a rough sketch of Laurie taming a horse. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• I reply, that depends on the original wildness of the beast, and the amount of taming. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.

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