tameable

• “That, and the colonization of the globe, meant that from an ever-present environment that was unpredictable and dangerous, nature began to be understandable and even tameable.”

  Archive 2008-01-01

• “She, like Moyo, describes the Bank as the center of a barely tameable "aid industry" in which half a million employees rely on aid for their salaries.”

  Jake Whitney: Betraying the Tribe: Michela Wrong and the Foundations of African Corruption

• “Moving characters into nature from the controlled conditions of urban life often means that they are more wild, less tameable, and outside the usual order of things.”

  A Complete And Utter Spoiler Of Terrence Malick's 1973 "Badlands"

• “The garden is a wild thing, but tameable, sort of.”

  Reposting of New Design-Part One-Why? « Fairegarden

• “Some present results; a tree, a quail, a rock, a hawk rousing one's mind from safety and tameable illness to beautiful comprehension in the form of a hunch as patience directs the finishing line is a trail of feathers to brush.”

  Archive 2006-05-01

• “Brother Michael's hortatory letters from his deathbed, a gold locket containing a spray of Aunt Imelda's un tameable mop of white hair, a folder of personal correspondence including Lord Brinkley's letter to me and his Christmas cards, and the sturdy cloth shoulder-bag that had carried home the ingredients for my coq au vin.”

  The mission song

• “To these I added my father's life-stained missal, Brother Michael's hortatory letters from his deathbed, a gold locket containing a spray of Aunt Imelda's un tameable mop of white hair, a folder of personal correspondence including Lord Brinkley's letter to me and his Christmas cards, and the sturdy cloth shoulder-bag that had carried home the ingredients for my coq au vin.”

  the mission song

• “Thei are a people not tameable with any toile, bittre warriours, and of great strength of bodie.”

  The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie

• “It's beautiful, good-natured, very tameable, and can grow up to 40cms from head to tail.”

  speak-out Diary Entry

• “Perhaps if she wore her hair in a different style, but it was so curly and un tameable that there was little she could do with it other than to have it go its own wayward way.”

  A Forbidden Loving

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