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But this difference there is: you can domesticate mountains, but the sea is feræ naturæ.
THE AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST-TABLEOLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
A bushel of letters awaits attention, besides a pair of lizards that I have undertaken to domesticate.
THE LETTERS OF AMBROSE BIERCEAMBROSE BIERCE
Watts-Dunton, finding the poor creature moulted and "off its feed," carried it down to Putney, resolved to domesticate it.
OLD AND NEW MASTERSROBERT LYND
I know a pretty woman from a plain one, I hope, even though I dont personally want to domesticate the recording angel.
THE ROMANCE OF HIS LIFEMARY CHOLMONDELEY
They also domesticate plant-lice, which have on that account been nicknamed "Ant-Cows."
GREAT HIKEALAN DOUGLAS
Perhaps someone will find a way to domesticate this creature and make it live upon the house flies around the house.
BOOK OF MONSTERSDAVID FAIRCHILD AND MARIAN HUBBARD (BELL) FAIRCHILD
The young ones we put in the boat, for Gonzalez wished to take them back to La Sofa to see if he could domesticate them.
THE PUTUMAYO, THE DEVIL'S PARADISEWALTER HARDENBURG
We often tried to domesticate it in our garden, but the plants invariably died.
HOME LIFE ON AN OSTRICH FARMANNIE MARTIN
It took him but a few days to domesticate himself in both the Rawdon houses.
THE MAN BETWEENAMELIA E. BARR
Until men began to domesticate the forms of the wilderness, it was impossible for them to rise above the grade of savages.
DOMESTICATED ANIMALSNATHANIEL SOUTHGATE SHALER
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