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Updated: June 28, 2025
It was to semi-wild Sâkai such as these that Chêp and her people belonged. There are tribes of other and more savage jungle-dwellers living in the forests of the broad Sâkai country, men who fly to the jungles even when approached by the tamer tribesmen.
On other sides marched attendants in special uniforms, and on the elephant's back stood the lion tamer, all glorious in scarlet and gold, so that he was almost hurtful to the eye. In the cage three lions paced ceaselessly up and down. The band blared. The people clapped. The clown bowed his forehead into the dust and said feelingly, "Wow!"
'Well, aunt, you are a tamer of savage beasts if you venture on such a subject, said Philip. 'Do you dare me? she asked, smiling. 'Why, I don't suppose he would do more than give you one of his lightning glances: but that, I think, is more than you desire. 'Considerably, said Mrs. Edmonstone; 'for his sake as much as my own.
Whence it was that, men say, Simonides called Sparta "the tamer of men," because by early strictness of education, they, more than any nation, trained the citizens to obedience to the laws, and made them tractable and patient of subjection, as horses that are broken in while colts. The law did not impose this harsh rule on the heirs apparent of the kingdom.
You are to-day on duty, as eldest, and such an important thing as telling a secret like that you talk of belongs of right to the elder sister. Come, I am listening to you," added the soldier, as he forced a smile, the better to conceal from the maidens how much he still felt the unpunished affronts of the brute tamer.
The loud-mouthed, self-asserting fly-catcher in the cottonwood tree learned to know my whistle, and whenever I attempted to mimic him he would send back a ringing answer. The charming little lazulii buntings were tamer than the irritating dirty English sparrows at home.
You tied up your horse badly, and the brute tamer left his door open. He says: 'I am wounded in the hand. You answer: 'My horse has been killed and, for a thousand reasons, the loss of my horse is irreparable." "You make me speak better than I could ever speak on my own account, Mr.
In the long avenues the bear showmen accompanied their four-footed dancers, menageries resounded with the hoarse cries of animals under the influence of the stinging whip or red-hot irons of the tamer; and, besides all these numberless performers, in the middle of the central square, surrounded by a circle four deep of enthusiastic amateurs, was a band of "mariners of the Volga," sitting on the ground, as on the deck of their vessel, imitating the action of rowing, guided by the stick of the master of the orchestra, the veritable helmsman of this imaginary vessel!
But come now, go straight to Nestor, tamer of horses: let us learn what counsel he hath in the secret of his heart. And beseech him thyself that he may give unerring answer; and he will not lie to thee, for he is very wise. The wise Telemachus answered, saying: 'Mentor, and how shall I go, how shall I greet him, I, who am untried in words of wisdom?
"I have never heard your story, my San Reve; go on, I beseech you!" "I will tell you one thing," said the San Reve, "from which you may wring a warning. My father was a showman a tamer of lions and leopards. When I was twelve, I went into the den with him to hold a hoop while he lashed those big cats through it.
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