Do you fancy that this St. John in thewilderness is canonized in his family?
The immediate result of this restricted limit had been to confine the range of cattle to the meadows nearer the house, and at a safe distance from the fringe of wilderness now invaded by the prowling tread of predatory animals.
But the Wilderness spelled out two words, temptation and victory; temptation such as had never yet been brought, and met, and fought; victory beyond what the race had known.
Our Lord Jesus' only plan for the Wildernessbattle was to stand, having done all to stand, to resist every effort to move Him a hair's breadth from His position.
And for forty days He goes through the great experience of the Wilderness Temptation.
He had a tuning-fork that gave Him the true pitch for the rarest music, while His feet travelled cautiously the deep wilderness ravines, and boldly climbed through the thorny undergrowth of that steep hill just outside the city wall.
There were experiences of suffering and sacrifice, theWilderness Temptation, the Gethsemane Agony, the Calvary Death, and the Joseph's Tomb of Burial.
The Wilderness and Waterloo, those two terrific matchings of strength, the one of the spirit, the other of the physical, both were fought out on the same lines.
The Wilderness spells only defeat for the man who goes alone.
That Wilderness had stood for sin's worst scar on the earth's surface.
So from the Wilderness clear up to the last Olivet command to the disciples, everything was done at the bidding, the direction of this Spirit.
I have said that the Wilderness spelled two words for our Lord Jesus, temptation and victory.
The train started and passed through the arid wilderness of backyards that lies between each one of the London termini and the clean green country.
The Pagoda was deserted at that hour, a barren wilderness of little bamboo tables and chairs, tea-less and cake-less.
Swiftly it grew lighter until suddenly an immense red sun leaped full-grown above the ragged horizon ahead, just as we sighted an isolated station building in the wilderness that now surrounded us on all sides.
Not only have these people of the wilderness next to nothing to eat, but they are too indolent to learn to cook what they have.
It seemed uncanny that one could talk with ease to these unlettered dwellers in the wilderness in the same tongue learned in a peaceful class-room of the far North.
The New Hampshire regiment had taken a short cut for Crown Point across the wilderness of Vermont; but had been recalled in time to save them from probable destruction.
The cannon thundered all day, and from a hundred peaks and crags the astonishedwilderness roared back the sound.
Cumberland Head was passed, and from the opening of the great channel between Grande Isle and the main, he could look forth on the wilderness sea.
They were only in part successful; but they fired the sloop and some buildings near it, and stood far out on the ice watching the flaming vessel, a superb bonfire amid the wilderness of snow.
Picture to yourself the long trail, the occasional pause in the wilderness to stalk and kill a cariboo or moose for food to replenish the larder of the voyageurs and their faithful dogs.
They sow not, neither do they reap, but their heavenly Father feeds them; and so the wilderness and the desolate place is glad in them, and they are glad in the wilderness and desolate place.
It was Miss Pendleton, the woman who from small beginnings had built here in the wilderness such an achievement, and as she came to the stairs she held out her hand.
In the great corral behind the windbreak, the cattle, all headed east, were jammed together for warmth, a conglomerate mass of brown heads and bodies from which projected a wilderness of horns.
Incidentally the reader is given details of the frontier life of those hardy pioneers who broke the wilderness for the planting of this great nation.
By these drastic means the government kept the Eastern Townships a wilderness until after 1791, when the townships were granted out in free and common socage, and American settlers began to flock in.
The reason for this is that many of them were illiterate, and those who were literate were so occupied with carving a home for themselves out of the wilderness that they had neither time nor inclination for literary labours.
Even while her bodily eyes were upon it, her mind's eye was filled with a vision of the green slopes of the wilderness garden at Brook, and the beeches laving their shadows in the sweet running water.
But there she was in the wilderness of a house, with only a dejected English teacher suffering from chronic face-ache, and another scholar, younger than herself, for company.
What a pleasant wilderness that old garden was, even in its neglected beauty!
He told how he had set up his outfit in the center of a howling wilderness and had received all the latest news of the world in his shack, not to mention music of every kind.
Something of all this passed through the boys' minds as they sat in ruminative silence, thinking of the lonely man in the wilderness with his precious wireless.
He was a great observer of character, and could give the natural history of every odd animal that presented itself in this great wilderness of men.
It extended along the foot of a rocky ridge, but was little better than a wilderness of weeds, with here and there a matted rose-bush, or a peach or plum tree grown wild and ragged, and covered with moss.
In either case, he has not simply converted a wilderness into a garden, but has unquestionably produced extensive climatic change.
Then straightway was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil, and he was with the wild beasts, and did eat nothing in those days.
And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness even so must the Son of man be lifted up; that whosoever believeth may in him have eternal life.
And when the messengers of John were departed, he began to say unto the multitudes concerning John, "What went ye out into the wilderness to behold?
And what come ye out into the wilderness for to see?
Babylon stands in a wilderness and a desert by its side.
She therefore selected the wilderness of Mount Lebanon, whose extreme ramifications lose themselves in the sands.
But pray, could not one spend some weeks or years in the solitude of this vast wilderness with other employments than these--employments perfectly sweet, innocent, and ennobling?
Two days we struggled fiercely against our stubborn foes-- Two days from out the Wilderness the din of conflict rose.
In a distantwilderness a bird stands alone and looks about him, sadly, and sings a beautiful song.
There were men like Matthew Arnold who no longer believed in the revelations of the past, yet who clung to the beauty of religious forms, in despair at the thought of the wilderness life would be without them.
This was the secret of guidance in the trackless desert of old, and this is the secret of guidance in the vast moral wilderness through which God's redeemed are passing now.
It required the protracted period of forty years in the wilderness to teach the children of Israel "what was in their hearts" (Deut.
When Israel of old emerged from the Red Sea, and stood upon the margin of that great and terrible wildernesswhich lay between them and the land of promise, how were they to know their way?
St. Clair on a perilous mission through the wilderness to the British commandant at Detroit.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wilderness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
