Wilds

Examples

• You propose, replied I, to fly from the habitations of man, to dwell in those wilds where the beasts of the field will be your only companions. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Two resolute men, well acquainted with these northern wilds, and skilful in tracking the tread of man and horse. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• You two might go forth homeless hunters to the loneliest western wilds; all would be well with you. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• In the still uncultivated wilds of America, what wonder that among its other giant destroyers, Plague should be numbered! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• In its rude beginnings, the unimproved wilds, which then occupy the far greater part of the country, are all abandoned to cattle. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• My dear Rector, I am not a child, interposed Maurice, rather nettled; nor are we going to the wilds of Africa. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Amidst the wilds of Tartary and Russia, although he still evaded me, I have ever followed in his track. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Later on Edison sent out an expedition to explore the wilds of Cuba and Jamaica. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• THE NARRATIVE OF WALTER HARTRIGHT Early in the summer of 1850 I and my surviving companions left the wilds and forests of Central America for home. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• When I left that place, I went down Cape Town way, and explored the southern wilds of Africa, which were even more savage than they are now. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• By the extension, besides, of cultivation, the unimproved wilds become insufficient to supply the demand for butcher's meat. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• He who has prairie fever once always gets it again, and it sends him off on his travels into the wilds as if he were stung by the gadfly of Io. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• The animal is about the size of a horse and quite gentle, but in color and shape an exact replica of his huge and fierce cousin of the wilds. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• They looked curiously at the costumes we had brought from the wilds of America. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• It is by your instructions alone that man or woman can ever find a safe track through life's wilds; without it, how they stumble, how they stray! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.

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