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But that still use of grief makes wild grief tame,
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But before I start, please another drink, for one is kind of tame,
lethalpickle Diary Entry lethalpickle 2001
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You impart, with supreme skillful means, whatever will tame,
An Offering Ceremony to the Spiritual Masters Pan-chen Blo-bzang chos-kyi rgyal-mtshan 2001
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The bear will be gentle and the wolf will be tame,
Peace in the Valley 1998
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Now I became a burglar once as it was rather tame,
Bally Bottom Button 1997
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Like a slave in orbit, he's beaten 'til he's tame,
DIRGE Dylan, Bob, 1941- 1973
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You may call the cowboy horned and think him hard to tame,
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That though this ramping Dragon _you_ may wish to tie and tame,
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 17, 1891 Various
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But know that no cut-throats our spirits can tame,
The Yankee Tea-party Or, Boston in 1773 Henry C. Watson
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But that still use of grief makes wild grief tame,
Act IV. Scene IV. The Tragedy of King Richard the Third 1914
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