tameness

• “O'Driscoll said nothing till we had once more taken our seats in the boat, and then he expressed his disappointment at what he called the tameness of the result of our expedition.”

  Hurricane Hurry

• “The ladies excite the author's pen into absolute rapture; their sparkling eyes and glossy hair, are, in themselves, sufficient to negative the idea of tameness or insipidity, while their sylph-like figures exhibit fresh graces at every step.”

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847

• “It was somewhat galling to recall the tameness with which she had allowed a Shouting Methodist such a last word as that, entirely unreproved.”

  V. V.'s Eyes

• “Pigeons are very abundant in all Russian cities, and their tameness is a matter of remark among foreign visitors.”

  Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life

• “But it's well worth it to experience the "tameness" of these animals.”

  Todd Palmer and Rob Pringle: Where Animals Don't Run Away

• “The property bred for was "tameness," i.e., a tolerance of, or better a desire for, human contact.”

  Building a Better Llama, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

• “One of the reasons that this method performs so well is the very "tameness" of the underlying network – the noise is white, also the proportion of noise is constant, about 50% in the erik167 example, yielding very high 0.7 correlations to gridcell temperature.”

  Benchmarking from VZ Pseudoproxies « Climate Audit

• “Unlike their wild ancestors, house pets and other domesticated animals share the trait of tameness, meaning they tolerate or even seek out human presence.”

  Home

• “The relative tameness of the recent downturn in stocks is evidence that many investors expect the rally to resume in coming months.”

  The Wall Street Journal: What's News: Business & Finance

• “Your tameness, gentleness shining in my hands, bringing light, giving light.”

  Fictionaut: I heard you singing in the bedrooms

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