United States or Greece ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Just open it and see if you don't like it." Roy's little face became illumined with smiles a moment after, when he saw two beautiful little white mice amongst the straw looking up at him with calm curiosity out of their bright beady eyes. "They're tame," said Dudley, delightedly; "old Principle has had them, taming them for over a month. Their names are Nibble and Dibble. Look!
It brought together a number of humors, that is, oddities and affectations of various sorts, and played them off on one another, as Ben Jonson afterward did in his comedies of humor. Shakspere never returned to this type of play, unless, perhaps, in the Taming of the Shrew.
Some of them have possessed certain harshly masculine traits which we can admire; some of them have showed broad and virile intelligence, the qualities of a general, a diplomatist, or even of a statesman. There have been, and are, so-called tame Indians; but such were not worth taming. As a whole, the red tribes have resisted all attempts to lift them to the civilized level and keep them there.
"One that before the judgement carries poor souls to hell." Comedy of Errors. Act iv. Sc. 2. "Well, Time is the old Justice that examines all such offenders, and let Time try." As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 1. "And that old common arbitrator, Time." Troilus and Cressida. Act iv. Sc. 5. "No cock of mine; you crow too like a craven." Taming of the Shrew. Act ii. Sc. 1.
"Coptic", more especially as we both traversed much the same ground, and during the same interesting early time, in Western Victoria. "Old fashions please me best; I am not so nice To change true rules for odd inventions." Taming of the Shrew.
"He employs his spare time in taming birds and making cages for them, and in cutting models of vessels and boats, and manufacturing other articles; indeed, I believe he is never idle, and seems as contented and happy as if he had been prosperous all his life, and never met with a misfortune.
After that the field-cornet looked well to his maize, until it was ready for gathering; when it was all brought home, and deposited in safety out of the reach of either birds, reptiles, quadrupeds or quadrumuna. Since the taming of the quaggas the hunting had been attended with tolerable success.
Hampered by orders from the War Department, which, in turn, was molested by the sentimental friends of the Indians, soldiers never succeeded in taming the Apache Crook cut off communications and thrashed them so thoroughly in these same Lava Beds that they never recovered. In Slim's absence, Buck McKee and his gang had taken possession of Pinal County.
All these birds, of which great numbers were brought to us, were so tame, that they would sit quietly on the hand of their master, and receive their food from his mouth; the inclination for taming them, and the method of treatment, is favourable evidence of the mildness which characterises this people.
George thundering along on his war-horse, with flying hair, clad in beautiful armour, the most perfect picture of a chivalrous knight. Then comes the dragon breathing out flames and smoke, the most awesome dragon that ever was seen; and there too is the picture of St. Tryphonius taming the terrible basilisk.
Word Of The Day