True, they were not his old tweeds that he was allowed to don, nor was the collar soft; but still he felt more himself as he hastily descended one flight and then waited ten minutes, with all of a new husband's still untamed impatience, for his wife to be ready.
"Helena Brett's Career"
Desmond Coke
No dinner, however beautifully cooked and served, no fine raiment, however costly and becoming, can ever atone, in the memory of a man, for the wild and untamed morning which too often prevails in the American household.
"The Myrtle Reed Cook Book"
Myrtle Reed
They felt that they were face to face with the power of untamed nature-the desert and the savage inhabitants of it-and that even they were units in an army of progress which was conquering that nature and making it minister to the needs of civilized man.
"In the Musgrave Ranges"
Jim Bushman