tamable

So we see among wild beasts, the intractable and least tamable are the most timorous and most easily startled; the nobler creatures, whose courage makes them trustful, are ready to respond to the advances of men.

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

He had wondered whether the Teramind itself had conceived this means, the Habitat, of drawing them together here where they could expend themselves in ways that were containable, controllable-in the course of lifetimes, tamable.

The Stars Are Also Fire Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1994

He had wondered whether the Teramind itself had conceived this means, the Habitat, of drawing them together here where they could expend themselves in ways that were containable, controllable-in the course of lifetimes, tamable.

The Stars Are Also Fire Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1994

Other rodents might also be suited to domestication; for instance, the potentially tamable, clean-living species of South American fields and woodlands - agouti, capybara, hutia, mare, coypu, pace, and vizcacha.

Chapter 3 1991

Crows are especially tamable and may be allowed full liberty around the dooryard.

Outdoor Sports and Games Claude H. Miller

The Black Goby is familiar, tamable, but voracious; the Gray Mullet is very hardy, but also rather savage; the Wrasses are some of the most showy fish, -- called in some parts of the country Cunners, -- and of these, the Ancient Wrasse,

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 Various

And among fishes, the family of the _Cyprinidae_ are the best adapted to our purpose; for we must select those which are both hardy and tamable.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 Various

I like to tame circumstances to my own ends (hear, hear), but if they aren't tamable I let them alone.

Tell England A Study in a Generation Ernest Raymond 1931

And those wine-dark eyes, now cryptic black, now suffused with red glows like a night-sky above a prairie-fire, said to him, "Better come over and see if I'm tamable."

Fate Knocks at the Door A Novel Will Levington Comfort 1905

French did both, and took all of this part of the world they could find unseized by Europe, and tamable, at not too great a shedding of French blood.

Mystic Isles of the South Seas. Frederick O'Brien 1900