Thanks to French intrigues, the Knights of Malta offered the tamest defence of their capital.
One of the tamest shirts you might see bears the legend "Born to hunt…forced to work."
If your tastes run far from the tamest styles, you won't likely find a wide selection of highly seductive lingerie at your local department stores.
There is, it is true, a smoothness and finish about them not often seen elsewhere; but, as though to avoid the exaggerations of Audubon, Gould usually adopted the tamest of attitudes in which to represent his subjects, whereby expression as well as vivacity is wanting.