half-tamed

They say that terror is a disease, and anyhow I can witness that for several years now a restless fear has dwelt in my mind, — such a restless fear as a half-tamed lion cub may feel.

The Island of Doctor Moreau Herbert George 2006

Frontier living, even on a half-tamed frontier, was rough on a body, and the gentler gravity only mostly compensated.

Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2005

He is almost a complete savage; his movements are impulsive and uncontrolled, and his handsome face looks as if it belonged to a half-tamed creature out of the woods.

The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004

He went to the roof, where the half-tamed siamang was supporting him hour after hour as gently as a mother would support a sick child.

The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004

The head of the valley had that half-tamed, ancient aspect that reminded me of the Romans.

Twilight in Italy 2003

The action, I remember, struck me as strangely rash; exciting the feeling one might experience on seeing an animal dangerous by nature, and but half-tamed by art, too heedlessly fondled.

Villette 2003

His hair was longer than was fashionable; no one would ever have even thought of him with other than that half-tamed, gray-and-fawn mane around his face.

The Serpent's Shadow Lackey, Mercedes 2001

DEMONS No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human breast, and seeks to wrestle with them, can expect to come through the struggle unscathed.

Beowulf's Children Niven, Larry 1995

He had an overall impression of fine bones and white linen, topped with a wealth of curly brown hair in a sort of half-tamed chignon.

Dragonfly in Amber Gabaldon, Diana 1992

Her mother has always been a mad gardener, the creator of a half-tamed world of color and perfume and light and shade.

ME MYSELF I PIP KARMEL 1971