Billy got down from the tree, and all hands laughed again, but Jack said thoughtfully: That was not a wild calf, and the question naturally arises, what is a domesticated calf doing on a supposedly uninhabited island?
"The Hilltop Boys on Lost Island"
Cyril Burleigh
Davey brooded over the tragedy of Deirdre's having to become domesticated, and of her love for her father that made it unendurable for her to be away from him even for a night.
"The Pioneers"
Katharine Susannah Prichard
Undoubtedly amongst both plants and animals the offspring are not mere slavish reproductions of their parents, as if cast in the same mould, but exhibit individual differences, working upon which in domesticated instances, man can by selection produce wonderful varieties, as has already been admitted.
"The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer"
John Gerard