1 Brent liked India but he thought her mighty plain and tame, and he simply could not fall in love with her himself to keep Stuart company.
2 A staid, steadfast man, whose life for the most part was a telling pantomime of action, and not a tame chapter of sounds.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 26. Knights and Squires. 3 Keeping at the centre of the lake, we were occasionally visited by small tame cows and calves; the women and children of this routed host.
4 Skies the most effulgent but basket the deadliest thunders: gorgeous Cuba knows tornadoes that never swept tame northern lands.
5 I know not that their delivery is at hand," returned the doubting David; "the leader of these savages is possessed of an evil spirit that no power short of Omnipotence can tame.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 22 6 I now proceeded with my team to the place where I had, the day before, been chopping wood, and loaded my cart pretty heavily, thinking in this way to tame my oxen.
7 Mas'r will find out that I'm one that whipping won't tame.
8 The little one was shy, for all her busy interest in everything going on, and it was not easy to tame her.
9 The fox and the crow were with him again and this time he had brought two tame squirrels.
10 "You may believe every word I say," said the Raven; "for I have a tame sweetheart that hops about in the palace quite free, and it was she who told me all this."
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContext Highlight In THE SNOW QUEEN 11 It is said he spoke as well as I speak when I talk Raven language; this I learned from my tame sweetheart.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContext Highlight In THE SNOW QUEEN 12 A single lamp was burning there; and on the floor stood the tame Raven, turning her head on every side and looking at Gerda, who bowed as her grandmother had taught her to do.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContext Highlight In THE SNOW QUEEN 13 "My intended has told me so much good of you, my dear young lady," said the tame Raven.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContext Highlight In THE SNOW QUEEN 14 He laid a wager he would tame Medeah in the space of six months.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 62. Ghosts. 15 All the animals were now present except Moses, the tame raven, who slept on a perch behind the back door.