We had penetrated about half a mile through one of the latter, my attention occupied with the romantic wildness of the scene, when we were alarmed by the howling of a wolf.
The one we took through the forest of Bellegarde more than doubles the distance; but the Abbey is seen as in the centre of a lake beneath, and the continual beauty and wildness of the landscape render it far preferable.
The wildness within her which found its scope and its voice in Canada was here like an imprisoned stream, chafing in caverns underground.
It is strongly characterized by the savage wildness of its cliffs, at whose foot the ocean rages with uncommon fury.
Probably of the 10th or 11th century, and highly remarkable for the wildness of its grotesque or monstrous sculpture, which has been most carefully rendered by the draughts-man, Mr. Bunney.
He was the incarnation of that spirit which fighting Texas had developed to oppose wildness and disorder and crime.
The wildness of the boy that had persisted in me was gone.
The effect is a mingled wildness and beauty in these mountain landscapes, which often reminded us of Switzerland and the Tyrol.
The wildness of the road and the gloomy aspect of the valley had doubtless some effect on their minds; which a thunderstorm that shortly afterwards overtook us and drenched us to the skin did not tend to lighten.
She had her charm; the charm of wildness to which a certain wildness in himself responded; and there were times when his fancy contrived a common future for them, which would have a prosperity forced from the old fellow's love of the girl.
Some were tempted on board, "the wildness of their looks expressing their astonishment.
Then ensued a scene of rampant wildness and hideous ferocity of action beyond description.
Observe the strong tendency in men, even of culture, to court the wildness and rude energy of savage life.
It is the sign of a gentle civilization grafted on to the wildness of nature.
We selected Anderson Valley, on the headwaters of the Novarro River, not so much for its wildness as because it was the most accessible spot unfrequented by the tourist.
And Shefford realized more than ever the loneliness and isolation and wildness of so many years for them.
When he dismounted, however, he had a chance to look around, and more and more he was amazed at the increasing proportions and wildness of the Sagi.
When she leaped she uttered a strange, low, sweet cry of wildness and exultation.
The scene lacked the wildness characteristic of Kayenta or Red Lake.
This educated Navajo, who had reverted to the life of his ancestors, found in the wildnessand loneliness of his environment a strength no white teaching could ever have given him.
Fay Larkin waved her arms as if they were wings to carry her swiftly downward, and her plaintive cry fitted the wildness of her manner and the lonely height where she leaned.
He felt this, saw the old wildness with glad eyes, yet the greater part of his mind was given over to the thought of the unfortunate women he expected to see in Stonebridge.
Shefford discovered, however, when he had walked off a mile or so across the valley to lose sight of the post, that the feeling of wildness and loneliness returned to him.
But what were they to this ruthless night-wanderer, this raw and horrible wildness of the desert?
There was a melancholy wildness in the melody, and a continual repetition of the same plaintive cadences, that soothed and affected me.
At length, having wandered where chance or the wildness of my fancy led, till the lateness of the evening alarmed me, I regained the chaise as fast as I could, and arrived between twelve and one at Modena, the place of my destination.
Again: as coarse, plain food and hardy exercise add health and vigor to the physical--so does the contemplation of nature in her wildness and grandeur give to the mental a powerful and lofty tone.
In all the wildness of the Lombardic fancy (described in Appendix 8), this command of the will over its action is as distinct as it is stern.
Lucy," he said, "I sometimes think that I have done a great wrong in taking you into my keeping; for I must accept these calls to wildness that come over me at intervals.
It was human music, but of a wildness and a weirdness that startled the boy as it fluttered and danced across the dull red waters of the swamp.
Herein lay all her early wildness and strangeness.
Cold and dreamlike without, her shut teeth held back seething fires within, and a spirit of revolt that gathered wildness as it grew.
It is so still, but now it wants the wildness and the flowers, nor has it the deep river channels and their overhanging bluffs which here and there relieve the uniformity of the North American prairie states.
It was a moment of delight--of pure bliss to both those young beings; notwithstanding the wildness of the scene, the danger they had passed through and which might be still pursuing them.
This circumstance will account for his wayward, changeable life, as well as for the wildness and strength of his imagination.
She spoke quite evenly, but there was a suspiciouswildness about her eyes which struck a new vein in the prolific brain of the housekeeper.
Save the added wildness to these resistless gray eyes, and the sudden aurora gleam over brow and cheek, the demonstrative Frenchman might have doubted if she believed him.
