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...of life in two gold mining camps on the Feather River in the 1850s. She described these camps in Northern California with vividness in portraying the wildness of Gold Rush life. The letters give detailed accounts of the vast and beautiful landscape that was the background to the hustle and bustle of mining life. Louise’s perspective as a woman provided a contrast to the ty...

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...white and purple columbines, and the butt-end of the old Hampshire cottage that crouched near the earth amid flowers, blossoming in the bit of shaggy wildness round about....

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...that crouched near the earth amid flowers, blossoming in the bit of shaggy wildness round about. There was a sound of children’s voices calling and ta...

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...got a college football scholarship to Notre Dame. They not only knocked the wildness out of him, a wildness that had so often led us astray as youth...

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... has continued for days on end, the sun hazy, the surf magnificent in its wildness, all craft beached, no gulls anywhere, a sense of abandonment thr...

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... has continued for days on end, the sun hazy, the surf magnificent in its wildness, all craft beached, no gulls anywhere, a sense of abandonment thr... ...play, my plans, secrets of the stage, boyhood delights... I’ll reveal the wildness of the world, and beyond this, the tranquility of poetry itself. ...

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...agny seems like a perfect, levelheaded foil to your staidness and Jordan's wildness. But I don't think she's as reserved as you are. Perfect trio for ...

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...the foot in his lap, she tried to look through his plum-colored fur and the wildness of his tied-back hair, wanting to see through to his skin. Gho...

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...computing environments are naturally aligned with technologies that tame the wildness of the Internet and PC, at the expense of valuable activities th...

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... leading to the garage. She’d thought of yank- ing them out, but liked their wildness. Besides, this was still technically Regan’s home. Inside the g...

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...ed White-feathered Birds with Red, and Blue heads and necks: breeding all the wildness out of them; which is exactly what has been done to the Ameri... ...all of their spirit. You must make that creature meek… you must destroy its wildness. You must destroy its ability to live independently. You mus... ...ptom of how they had been totally domesticated by undead things: how all the wildness and courage and honesty and truth of their true beings had be...

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...t Songs to see, past pitch of sweet. Fearful swiftness they outrun, Shaggy wildness, grey or dun, Challenge, charge of tusks elude: Theirs the dance t... ...rks: Amid the press of men, what virtue lurks Where bubble sacred wells of wildness lone. XXIX. Our conquest these: if haply we retain The reverence ...

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... The breath no sooner left his father’s body, 5 Act I, scene i But that his wildness, mortified in him, Seem’d to die too; yea, at that very moment C... ...aser quality: And so the prince obscured his contemplation Under the veil of wildness; which, no doubt, Grew like the summer grass, fastest by night, ... ...ur vineyards, fallows, meads and hedges, Defective in their natures, grow to wildness, Even so our houses and ourselves and children Have lost, or do ...

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...nd left him to the exclusive care of the talkative lady, who, not noting the wildness of his eye, firmly believed she had se cured a listener. He bro... ... other: as jealousy, with a good stamp of the right foot, becomes anger; or wildness, with the hands clasped before the throat, instead of tearing th...

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...s past the child had been declin ing, and that was the great cause of his wildness. He had been over and over again shrieking out to me to give her a...

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... lying! This same starved justice hath done nothing but prate to me of the wildness of his youth, and the feats he hath done about Turnbull Street: an... ...jesty, How cold it struck my heart! If I do feign, O, let me in my present wildness die And never live to show the incredulous world The noble change ...

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...into one beautiful whole, would only destroy that glowing tone, that dash of wildness, and rich vein of picturesque interest, which pervade them throu... ...people are still quietly pursuing their ordinary occupations; but there is a wildness in their eyes, and an unwonted rigidity in the muscles of their ...

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... saw a more inter esting creature: his eyes have generally an expression of wildness, and even madness, but there are moments when, if anyone perform... ...ts to joy on his arrival, but when he observed me more attentively, he saw a wildness in my eyes for which he could not account, and my loud, unrestra... ... it was only to be distinguished from land Frankenstein 158 by its superior wildness and ruggedness. The Greeks wept for joy when they beheld the Med...

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...aide would have obeyed; but the other two had been worked up to a state of wildness, such as befalls little girls who have let themselves out of the c... ...e rushed on, but her aunt detained her to say, “Recollect, Katharine, that wildness and impetuosity, at all times unbe- coming, are particularly so wh... ...ew up round Colonel and Mrs. Umfraville, and their niece lost her childish wildness, and loved them more and more, they felt their grievous loss less ...

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...deacons and ladies, and those wild Indian ancestors of hers; and where the wildness of the forest was so grim and de lightful, and so unlike the comm... ...brought out in his character by their rigid training; at least, his savage wildness was broken. He built a house among them, with a good deal of the w... ...e spent his life, with some few instances of temporary relapse into savage wildness, when he fished in the river Musquehannah, or in Walden, or straye...

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...The rate at which the piano, cornet and violins were going, seemed to impart wildness to the half drunken crowd. Beer glasses were emptied at a gulp a...