Life's social haunts and pleasures I resign; Be nameless wilds and lonely wanderings mine, To mourn the woes my country must endure-- That would degenerate ages cannot cure.
In the spring of 1832 we started for our new home in the wilds of Michigan.
He received his school education at Forres, whither his parents removed during his youth, and obtained his training as a poet among the wilds of Highland scenery, which he visited with his father, who followed the calling of a pedlar.
And will they, who have long months been traversing the dangerous wilds of the forest, hesitate to plunge into the fierce stream and swim to the region of safety?
Guerin was happy even in the wilds of America; he was more than happy when he found not only a ward and companion, in his friend’s son, but a thousand friends revived, in his library.
The modern Paulicians have lost all memory of their origin; and their religion is disgraced by the worship of the cross, and the practice of bloody sacrifice, which some captives have imported from the wilds of Tartary.
Even the wilds of Tartary are decked, by the hand of nature, with lofty trees and luxuriant herbage; and the lonesome traveller derives a sort of comfort and society from the presence of vegetable life.
The way winding still nearer, they perceived in the valley one of those numerous bands of gipsies, which at that period particularly haunted the wilds of the Pyrenees, and lived partly by plundering the traveller.
The latter accepted the offer with great pleasure, and they again set forward among these romantic wilds about Rousillon.
These were so strange and gruesome that it was only because they had learned something of the wilds that Harding and his friends could believe him.
Though the loneliness of the wilds had now and then weighed upon them, they all felt relieved when he left.
I'm going up into thewilds to look for a valuable raw material.
The wildsdraw me--but I'm afraid my nerve's not good enough.
He was in no mood to handle the subject delicately; they were alone in the wilds and the situation made for candor.
Even the four-footed inhabitants of the wilds could hardly have escaped.
Moreover, neither Blake nor his comrades desired to leave their new friends and once more face the rigors of the wilds alone.
After all, he had a strong affection for his nephew, and he knew that the wildsof northern Canada might prove deadly to a weak party unprovided with proper sleds and provisions.
I am a paint factory drummer who has never had the opportunities you have enjoyed; but so long as we're up here in the wilds the only thing that counts is that we're men with the same weaknesses and feelings.
Clarke refilled his pipe, and his face wore a sinister look as he took down a rather sketchy map of the wilds beyond the prairie belt.
I suppose people think of that place, if they ever do think of it, as an agreeable retreat in the wilds of the Himalayas where deodars and scandals grow, and where the Viceroy if he likes may take off his decorations and go about in flannels.
I have written to Horace, telling him everything about everything, and sent my letter off to him in the wilds by a runner.
But strange as it may seem, the traveler in Nature's wilds seems soon to grow indifferent to the world's doings.
Fonteneda, who spent seventeen years in the wilds of Florida, as a captive of the Indians, gives more explicit information about the subject than either Gomara or Herrera.
I have seen more large game on the plains of New Mexico and Wyoming, from the window of a Pullman car, in a single trip to and from the Pacific coast, than I ever saw in the wilds of South America during nearly a twelvemonth.
If a young man with an idea can once get Jim Burden’s attention, can manage to accompany him when he goes off into the wilds hunting for lost parks or exploring new canyons, then the money which means action is usually forthcoming.
Well brought up as he had been, so far away in the lonesome wilds of the Scottish Highlands, and having few companions save his brother and parents, it is but little wonder that he dearly loved his father and mother.
Your absence every warbling fountain mourn'd, And woods and wilds the wailing strains return'd.
Ambition here displays no gilded toy That tempts on desperate wing the soul to rise Nor Pleasure's paths to wilds of woe decoy, Nor Anguish lurks in Grandeur's proud disguise.
We arose, and to our great astonishment all the firmament seemed enveloped in splendid fireworks, as if every star in the broad expanse had been hurled from its course, and sent lawless through the wilds of ether.
Possessing a romantic disposition, he readily adapted himself to the rude customs that prevailed in the wilds of America.
The inhabitants of populous districts or towns in Britain might as well, in regard to their intercourse with the community, live in the wilds of America or Siberia!
In its native wilds the powers of this gigantic reptile are said to be enormous, being able to subdue a full-grown Buffalo; and even a Man has been said to fall a prey to its fury.
Still it occasionally pays brief visits to the Delta at the time of the rise of the Nile; but it soon takes flight into the wilds of Abyssinia, forgotten and unregretted.
It is now possible for strong outfits to travel its wilds with only a small chance of encountering Apache renegades, but very few have attempted it as yet.
What a contrast must have been presented to these men in the rude wilds to which they found themselves transported.
