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In the animal kingdom, besides the elephants, I was much struck by the number and tameness of the ravens of Ceylon.

Sir Orlando had been a little carried away by his own eloquence and the Duke's tameness, and had interrupted the Duke.

Correct tameness is the usual character of classical allusion in authors well versed in classical studies.

Lengthening the pause without increasing the touch suggests tameness, sluggishness, or dullness of thought.

Long may he endure to enliven the drear tameness of civilization with a memory of the world's old wildness.

I found their tameness as shocking as did Alexander Selkirk that of the brute subjects of his else solitary kingdom.

Loyd wrote almost by every mail, and with a tameness that shadowed forth the uniform tenor of his own life.

A RENT IN A CLOUDCHARLES JAMES LEVER

This has given us in recent drama some dialogue unnatural in its tameness.

DRAMATIC TECHNIQUEGEORGE PIERCE BAKER

Your account of the tameness of the birds which apparently have wandered from the interior, is very curious.

As they went forward the next day they were all amazed at the remarkable tameness of the herds which passed on every side.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985