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Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Tame

Tame as a kitchen cat on a houseboat.
—Anonymous

Tame as tepid milk.
—Arlo Bates

Tame and humble, like a child that’s whipp’d.
—Robert Blair

She lies in my hand as tame
As a pear late basking over a wall.
—Robert Browning

Tame, as an lilye whyt.
—Geoffrey Chaucer

Tame as a sheep.
—Thomas Frost

Tame as a cat.
—William King

Tamer than sleep.
—William Shakespeare