Among the magicians, were domesticated
several animals of very singular kinds; for example, there was a huge horse whose bones were iron and whose blood was boiling water.
When I did not prefer to keep mine to myself there was always a stray tourist, disencumbered of his Baedeker, to discuss them with, or some domesticated
painter rejoicing in the return of the season of strong effects.
We fancy that we are strangers, and not so intimately domesticated
in the planet as the wild man and the wild beast and bird.
Perry argues that wild dogs were first domesticated
for hunting purposes; but I do not agree with him.
At the eastern end of the city he turned toward the south, continuing his way to the south side of the wall along which were the pens and corrals where the herbivorous flocks were fattened for the herds of domesticated
lions within the city.
For that matter I had never seen a domesticated
Wolves they were, domesticated
, it was true, but wolves in appearance and in all their characteristics.
These are essential traits of the wolf and the wild-dog when they have become domesticated
, and these traits White Fang possessed in unusual measure.
An animal of South Africa, which in its domesticated
And now, my dear companions," said Michel Ardan, "let us make ourselves at home; I am a domesticated
man and strong in housekeeping.
At the commencement of my observations it seemed to me probable that a careful study of domesticated
animals and of cultivated plants would offer the best chance of making out this obscure problem.
These animals are very easily domesticated
, and I have seen some thus kept in northern Patagonia near a house, though not under any restraint.
The note of this once wild Indian pheasant is certainly the most remarkable of any bird's, and if they could be naturalized without being domesticated
, it would soon become the most famous sound in our woods, surpassing the clangor of the goose and the hooting of the owl; and then imagine the cackling of the hens to fill the pauses when their lords' clarions rested
I don't know how long she would have gone on "conversing" and, incidentally, helping to supervise the beautifully stocked linen closets of that well-to-do German household, if the man of it had not developed in the intervals of his avocations (he was a merchant and a thoroughly domesticated
character) a psychological resemblance to the Bournemouth old lady.
I have no churlish objection to the circumnavigation of the globe for the purposes of art, of study, and benevolence, so that the man is first domesticated
, or does not go abroad with the hope of finding somewhat greater than he knows.