half-tame

At a spot about three miles from the town this turns into a little hill, the top of which is held sacred by the natives, shaded by some fine trees, and inhabited by a colony of squirrels which have become half-tame.

The Malay Archipelago 2004

There was, in fact, one of the bird feeders that the bird watchers maintained in this little bit of half-tame wilderness, and when they finished their food, Eric watched some sort of tiny birds flitting to and from it.

Spirits White As Lightning Lackey, Mercedes 2001

Lan heeled her, a half-tame wolf, the cloak hanging down his back all disturbing ripples of color and nothingness.

The Fires of Heaven Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1993

Half-wild, half-tame sheep hybrids have existed on a ranch in southern Utah for the past decade.

1 Microcattle 1991

Although he was the talk of the town for a few months in 1800, he had been forgotten by the time he died, half-tame and mute, in 1828.

Hunting for Humanity Darnton, Robert 1980

Wales, where there are no railroads, merely for the purpose of standing in a ride and knocking over a certain quantity of half-tame fowls.

Kate Coventry An Autobiography G. J. Whyte-Melville

They consider it a good deed to scatter grain to pigeons and other birds, and often have a large number of half-tame birds about their villages.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell

Lolos, "half-tame wild men," employed by merchants and others to guard this rather dangerous place where the trail approached somewhat closely the territory of the independent Lolos.

A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia Elizabeth Kimball Kendall

They visualised days of sunshine on the water, chugging to and from tiny islands inhabited by half-tame birds, picnicking hungrily in the breeze, sitting on rocks with their feet dangling in the clear water.

The Sea of Adventure Blyton, Enid 1948

And in the massive corral beyond town forty half-tame unicorns trampled the ground and hated the world, wanting to kill something.

Space Prison Tom Godwin 1947