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Where Mme Soloviev was taming animals last week the Labor Department did not know.

From Time Magazine Archive

During the time that I was taming the birds, I made another skirt.

From "Island of the Blue Dolphins" by Scott O'Dell

Adversity was taming him down, and to his surprise he found himself talking in a very different tone to his men, who yielded a readier obedience than of old.

From Middy and Ensign by Rowlandson, G. D.

Just, however, as he was taming to enter the house, Mr Jarman came up.

From Tom, Dick and Harry by Reed, Talbot Baines

She married Mulock after nursing him through a long illness, and she has tamed him, though it was taming a wolf.'

From The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various