The hirsute and grisly sound of Orson expresses only his entire affinity with the untamed and the natural, an uncouth but gentle passion for the freedom and wildness of the forest.
And yet, if this was his last journey, it seemed not an inappropriate ending for the old woodsman to lie down and give up the ghost in the midst of the untamed forest and the solemn silences he felt most at home in.
There have been such nearly ideal places, and how strong nature, always working against man and in the interest of untamed wildness, likes to riot in them and reduce them to picturesque destruction!
Its untamed spirit flaunts continual challenge in the face of all men.
Those vivid young feminine perceptions and untamedimaginations are desperate things to encounter.
His was a wild, uncivilized kind of handsomeness, she thought, like that of a noble, untamed creature of the forest, changed by enchantment into a man and thrust into modern clothes.
There was Vernal Fall, gentle in majesty; and Nevada, a wild and untamed water spirit; and retrospect glimpses of the Yosemite Falls.
I need not tell any one who is acquainted with either the strength of the disposition of an untamed ox, that this order{163} was about as unreasonable as a command to shoulder a mad bull!
His untamed vivacity smacked strongly of the prairie; and, in spite of the manifest anachronism, I was once or twice on the point of asking him if he were not the Antoine or Pierre of whom I had read in Astorian story.
In the mean time our days passed pleasantly in reading the books I had brought from San Francisco, and in roaming at will through those fresh and untamed solitudes.
We stood on a building, and in the midst of a city belonging to the civilization of the old world, while all around lay the untamed barbarism of the new.
So entirely do they appear to belong to an unknown, untamed past, that I was astonished when one of them, a splendid girl in tawny orange and crimson, addressed me in fluent Italian outside the Podgoritza inn.
Fred, suddenly as self-possessed as if the world never held such a thing as an untamed woman.
She was the loveliest thing to look at --unaffected, unexpected, and as untamed as the dawn, with parted lips as red as the branch of budding leaves with which she beat her horse.
Already she calls me a hoyden, and an untamed Irish girl--which I am, the last I mean, and proud of it.
He caught his breath as a sense of the strange, untamed beauty, marvellous and utterly lonely, struck upon him.
He dreaded most to see the beautiful light of aspiration die out of her eyes, and her spirit grow sordid in the life to which this untamed savage would inevitably bring her.
Swiftly go, thou bounding bark, As with an arrow's flight; The untamed winds thy coursers wild, The waves thy chariot bright.
Swiftly go, thou bounding bark, As with an arrow's flight, The untamed winds thy coursers wild, The waves thy chariot bright!
Here still exist some of the most untamed races of the East, feeding their flocks on lofty table-lands, or cultivating patches of valleys, through which flow icy streams to form the Amu Daria.
Across this sparsely settled land and farther westward into the southeastern part of Persia, untamed tribes of Beluches and Brahoes wander with their sheep, goats, and large numbers of camels.
But that we are already late, and this horse is like an untamed tiger, I would impale him on the spot.
Needless to say, when two tribes met in conflict, the fighting bore a character of savagery that was in keeping with the untamed nature of the participants.
It’s plumb solemn an’ reverent the way he makes them untamed cuss-words sit up an’ beg.
This lapse was the last stand of his old, untamed instincts.
She comes to ask me to score my flesh with lashes, and she calls me soul of a pitcher, and great untamed brute, and a string of foul names that the devil is welcome to.
Lay on to that hide of thine, thou greatuntamed brute, rouse up thy lusty vigour that only urges thee to eat and eat, and set free the softness of my flesh, the gentleness of my nature, and the fairness of my face.
He is thrilling with the untamed spirit of his ancestors, and every word he utters carries a ready conviction to the untutored souls to whom it is addressed.
The laws were strong, but this wild savage's nature was as untamed and fearless as any beast of the field.
His eyes were the eyes of the untamed savage, but of a man capable of great thought as well as great reckless courage.
LIV THE FOX Among the few survivals of the old untamed world there are left us two that retain all the raciness of their ancestral wildness.
You may not see him, but it is good to know that anything so untamedhas been so recently where your plodding footsteps go.
Those untamed profundities in himself that walked alone, companionless among modern men, suffering an eternal nostalgia, at last knew the approach to satisfaction.
The savage, untamed soul in him leaped as he saw; the blood ran faster.
Some portion of his hidden self, uncaught, unharnessed by anything in modern life, rose with a passionate rush of joy and made after them--something in him untamed as wind.
That mind, as we have seen, was neither wholly Christian or Pagan--though the untamed Pagan element in it was destined slowly to get the better of the more refined Christian side.
In the little peach orchard where there were a few half-ripe peaches, the very first fruits of the orchards in this untamed land, the hard peach stones, from which the meat was eaten away, hung on their stems among the leafless branches.
It was untamed stuff, too, whereon one man's marking was like to the track of foam in the wake of one ship in mid-ocean.
She stood with her hands clasped looking with far-seeing dark eyes down the long trail by the dry river bed, like a goddess of Conquest on a vast untamed prairie.
A human jungle, untamedand waiting, to whose wilderness the soldier became a light-bearer, albeit he brought the gospel of gunpowder to aid him.
She but returns to that grim wilderness Where she was born, and, like a restive colt From whom the galling yoke is just removed, Will rush to freedom, and become once more Untamed and stubborn.
