"Tamer" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... lion tamer. Also performed the difficult feat of remaining in a fiery furnace without his family ...
— Who Was Who: 5000 B. C. to Date - Biographical Dictionary of the Famous and Those Who Wanted to Be • Anonymous
... having under his command the Dolphin and Tamer, sailed from the Downs on the 21st of June the same year; and having visited the Falkland Islands, passed through the Straits of Magalhaens into the Pacific Ocean, where he discovered the islands of Disappointment, George's, Prince ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 14 • Robert Kerr
... Prethee be tamer, good Mardonius, Thou know'st I love thee, nay I honour thee, Believe it good old Souldier, I am thine; But I am rack'd clean from my self, bear with me, Woot thou ...
— A King, and No King • Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
... the forest, that he heard The sound of female voices raised in cry Of supplication. Then he turned and said, Leaving the deer to fly unheeded: "Stop! Who art thou, full of tyranny and hate, That darest thus oppress the earth; while I, The tamer of all evil, live and rule?" Then, too, the fierce GaneÅ¡a,—he who blinds The eyes, and foils the wills of men,—he heard The cry, and thus within himself he thought: "This surely is the great ascetic's work, The mighty ViÅ¡vâmitra; he whose acts Display the fruits of penance hard ...
— Mârkandeya Purâna, Books VII., VIII. • Rev. B. Hale Wortham
... the King.] Some of the tamer sort of these men are in a kind of Subjection to the King. For if they can be found, tho it must be with a great search in the Woods, they will acknowledg his Officers, and will bring to them Elephants-Teeth, and Honey, and Wax, and ...
— An Historical Relation Of The Island Ceylon In The East Indies • Robert Knox
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