Susan Calvin burst into body-racking gusts of wild laughter, “not dead—merely insane. I confronted him with the insoluble dilemma, and he broke down. You can scrap him now—because he’ll never speak again.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

I want to study, too, so I promise myself to stay behind with Chantal the next time my wild twin cousins decide to go to a party. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I and my pupil dined as usual in Mrs. Fairfax’s parlour; the afternoon was wild and snowy, and we passed it in the schoolroom. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

They don’t know I got two draw fours, a wild card, a yellow skip, and a red reverse. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

In the pasturage along the road the wild oat heads were just clearing their scabbards. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No Unforgivable Curses from you, Potter!” he shouted over the rushing of the flames, Hagrid’s yells, and the wild yelping of the trapped Fang. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Mr. Levy ran the risk of getting into a public scene with these wild people. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is very important to save places where wild, free animals live. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

These things, in conjunction with the wild work we have in hand, help to unnerve a man.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Before Ork has finished, the younger priest drops to his knees and throws his hands up, shaggy lips smiling, wild. fourth priest: Blessed! Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Living at the edge of the wild country meant that Thialfi and Roskva were used to miracles and strange things happening in their world. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Through the blurry plastic lenses, I watched Victor take the ball through the Palmetto defenders like a wild bull. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Adam’s father Cyrus was something of a devil—had always been wild—drove a two-wheeled cart too fast, and managed to make his wooden leg seem jaunty and desirable. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t believe you have, no,” said Lazlo, finding a place for his arms about her shoulders, wild windswept hair and wings and all. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

When we didn’t know the name, I’d make one up: pagoda plant, wild confetti, French knot. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad stood there, smelling like freshly dug dirt and wild herbs. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“Luck,” James Vincent groaned to himself, to nobody, not in his wildest dreams realizing how prophetic his statement would turn out to be: “I got the kind of luck even a rattlesnake wouldn’t strike at.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

By contrast, the Americas had no wild maize, and thus no wild maize harvest. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t always wild about the identity, but it was comfortable to have one and to feel like you knew the role you were supposed to play. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

And his wild stories had already acquired him the nickname in his home town of Caen of ‘honest Georges’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I even saw some wild birds that were good to eat: a few quail, a pair of doves. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He had the same curly hair, shaggy beard, and intelligent eyes—a look somewhere between wild hippie and fatherly professor, except this man’s skin was the color of a lima bean. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“And you succeeded. I’ve been quite safe from wild ones here.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

She recognizes the bird, too, some wild thing they call a groosling in her district. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

That’s why settlements, and by inference tribes, began to proliferate in the Fertile Crescent at that time, when climate changes and improved technology combined to permit abundant harvests of wild cereals. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Both of them were Shay, but there were obvious differences: One looked wild, slightly angry; the other had a slightly distant expression, like someone having a daydream. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

They had wild green-and-yellow eyes, two curlicue tusks, and more drool than a dog at dinner. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“Which did you like best,” he asked, “the ante or the wild geese?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Upon seeing the wild dogs, Diko hissed, his multicolored scales rippling as he eyed them. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The wild, soft wings were in a frenzy. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She glanced at it and her heart gave a wild jump. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

They imagine this wild animal roaming about the savannah on digestive walks after eating a prey that accepted its lot piously, or going for callisthenic runs to stay slim after overindulging. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The leading boy slowed down and held up his pistol and fired two or three wild shots toward the temple. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oh, Sir, my brother has told me often of the pet you had, the wild thing, the otak—do you have it still?” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

He was quiet and reserved; she was wild and free. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

‘And neither will the wild men of the hills. Do you not hear their voices?’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

"A blanket7. That's so wild! A blanket? From Sears . . She pauses, then, "Oh, man ... we could be talking about a big lawsuit here. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Atticus had let her run wild since she was two years old, and look what he had reaped. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

But Theo is not living a wild life; it’s Vincent and Gauguin in Arles who are living a Bohemian lifestyle, with Gauguin taking the lead. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

In Africa as elsewhere in the world, some peoples were much “luckier” than others, in the suites of domesticable wild plant and animal species that they inherited from their environment. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I felt like a wild man who had stumbled in from the jungle to tear the place apart. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Girl, you put the wild in wild card.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn’t expect. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

The night was all around him now, and high overhead a wild white moon was riding in the sky. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

“It is one of the last wild places. My realm above is gone, I’m afraid. Only pockets remain. Tiny pieces of life. This one shall stay undisturbed ... for a little longer.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He looked about with a wild, pleading expression. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You know, Sam,” Bando says as he sketches and watches me concoct a wild, savory lunch, “I think I’ll just open one of the cans of stew.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was wild with resentment but too much under "self-control," that frozen virtue, that freezing vice. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The front door of the house opened and a lady with wild red hair stood there. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Johnny was talking about a red colt that was pretty wild. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Already by 8000 B.C. wild almonds show up in excavated archaeological sites in Greece. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her shoes were off, though, and her frizzy hair—I inherited my wild mop from her—had fallen out of its bun. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

A few days later—after we had arrived at Granny’s—I was playing alone in a wild field, digging in the ground with an old knife. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

We are greeted by a flock of wild turkeys, big, noisy, and glorious. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

A group of three wild horses with sweetly shaggy coats stood in the middle of the road. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

"Have you forgotten how wild you were at his age?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

They’re followed by another group of men, this time with a handful of wild onions and another with a rabbit, cleaned and ready to be cooked. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The yeshiva team had gone wild again, and they were all trying to get to Danny Saunders and shake his hand. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The wild turkey he shot earlier hangs above him, the nail driven through its neck. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He found two wild strawberries and ate them greedily. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

If a pack of wild dogs were to appear at this moment, the odds of scaling a tree before they attacked are not in my favor. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Cora and Caesar sprinted through the wild grass, exposed for the first time since the swamp. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Was it because the same set of plants occurred in the wild in many areas, were found useful there just as in the Fertile Crescent, and were independently domesticated? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I suppose I should have been worried about you, out in the wild all alone. Poor Tally.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Precisement! The body—the cage—is everything of the most respectable—but through the bars, the wild animal looks out.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since Fertile Crescent cereals were so productive in the wild, few additional changes had to be made in them under cultivation. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

For instance, climate changes at the end of the Pleistocene in the Fertile Crescent greatly expanded the area of habitats with wild cereals, of which huge crops could be harvested in a short time. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She heard him shout to the guards outside the room, heard them descending together in a wild rush, taking the stairs two and three at a time. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She stared at him in astonishment, and a certain wild joy. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I'm laughing, so hard that I fall onto the ground in a wild delirium, and my cheeks hurt with a delightful pain. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He was, at long last, about to be alone in the vast Alaska wilds. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Wolverine is wild. Invincible. Victory is in his bones, literally,” Styx insisted. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“The Boss? Pretty wild, huh? He’s, like, forty! Wait until you talk to him.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

By now, the rain had begun to thin, but the wind was still a wild thing. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

However, the famous explorer didn’t think that Roosevelt’s current plans, to travel down an already well-known river, “could offer anything new to an Expedition whose object was to unravel unknown aspects of our wilds.” Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

She could whittle a slice of wood to fit it—and pack it securely with mutowa sap and wild cotton fiber. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have my answer as to where the sheriff's wild shot got to. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“And both Rider wild cards are struck out by a rookie mistake!” the analyst shouts. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Later she would hunt for wild cotton to use instead of grass. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fiercely he parried and struck, fighting them off with the fiery staff that was made of his anger and a blade of wild grass. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

He was indeed poisoned, but the plant that killed him wasn’t wild sweet pea. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother would look at my wild tangles and scold me: “Aii-ya, Ying-ying, you are like the lady ghosts at the bottom of the lake.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A wild hive,” Moran whispered, “above him. On that oak. See it?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Sosie did a wild Watusi in the sand while Jennifer stood next to her pointing one finger up and down in a deadpan disco. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Still, our list of triumphs lacks many wild plants that, despite their value as food, we never succeeded in domesticating. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I closed my eyes and waited, waited in the darkness while my being filled with a wild, ecstatic fluttering, waited for him to come to me. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They’re too wild today, sir. We think there’s a storm coming in.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Tagoe takes off his glasses and lets his neck run wild. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Those were some of the advantages that the Fertile Crescent’s flora afforded the first farmers: it included an unusually high percentage of wild plants suitable for domestication. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know, Mr. Soggy Potato Salad. You’re a wild card.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Lowering myself, hunched over like one of those not-quite-bipedal wild boys who’d been raised by wolves or monkeys, I gathered up my discarded clothes. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

When my mother came across an unusual one, she would give an “Oh” of joy and tell me its name: daphne, wild heliotrope, pink orchid. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Especially instructive are cases in which a single wild plant species was variously selected for different purposes and thereby gave rise to quite different-looking crops. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

We stood watching the wild boar struggle in the snow. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I pictured the wild, frothing herd headed right for us. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I thought of the stones in my pocket; they’d worked against wolves and boys, but they’d be worthless against wild horses. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The party was a little wild, she continues. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Yes, it is true I was a wild girl, but I was innocent. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as if their tongues were charioteers driving wild horses. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know how the jungle smelled, but whenever I hugged him I smelled wild tree vines beneath his shaving cream and toothpaste. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Her strides took on purpose as if her feet were marking a path through the cornfields where wild girls ran unconstrained — and where they hid themselves when the world judged them for their agency. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

They are clear, straightforward, comprehensible; they contain nothing strange, wild or laughable. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

With so few major crops in the world, all of them domesticated thousands of years ago, it’s less surprising that many areas of the world had no wild native plants at all of outstanding potential. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Conversely, two of the eight founder crops could not have been domesticated anywhere in the world except in the Fertile Crescent, since they did not occur wild elsewhere. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was a new experience to him, and a wild flush came over him, so that he did not watch and feel out his brother’s mood as he usually did. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The diary entries following his return to the bus catalog a bounty of wild meat. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The crowd went wild over that, and the guitar player made a noise that sounded like he popped a string. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Under my fingers, my heart is beating like a moth wild in a lamp shade. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The possibility of being eaten by a wild animal was a primal fear. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Finally, as another wild burst of lightning illuminated the fairway, he spotted it twenty yards ahead of him. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ivy’s stomach did its normal thing, which is to say it thundered and flashed like a wild storm, but for once Ivy didn’t mind. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She found the remnants of a farm and gorged herself on bananas gone wild. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

These were old-timers, not to be confused-with the various hotheaded, wild, young hustlers out trying to make a name for themselves for being crazy with a pistol trigger or a knife. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

All Smith had to cling to was a wild thought that Seabiscuit might someday return. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But his studies on wild populations, variation, and natural selection had already provided crucial insights to these questions. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

In your wildest dreams you could not imagine that such things could happen to you! Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was like landing in a wild place; I’m glad I hadn’t seen the condition of the runways beforehand. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sounds of man and horse diminished, swallowed up by the wet green wild, and soon enough he could hear only the steady wash of rain against leaf and tree and rock. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

There where the wild mountain flowers would grow in the spring, I laid him away. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Accompanied by Nhamo, he went into the forest and found a wild beehive. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But this wild land was important in the war. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

“The wildest of all our falcons, the one most intolerant of human beings, has discovered rats. She will be an enormous asset to Delhi.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

For example, wild flax occurs west to Britain and Algeria and east to the Caspian Sea, while wild barley occurs east even to Tibet. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I lie there for a while, breathing in the smell of the wild roses and looking up at the branches of the sycamore tree. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The roads offered the wildest drives that I had ever known: nightmare traffic, brakes squealing, skidding cars, and horns blowing. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he visited the trap next day, he found that an old wild goose had been caught in it, obviously a Grand Admiral, because of his toughness and his heavy bars. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Evidently I had done something terrible, if the wild anger written on the woman’s face was any indication. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the bitter cold weather Pa could not be sure of finding any wild game to shoot for meat. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sir Mador got up and began doing some wild swipes at the enemy with his sword. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now Omakayas was afraid that he would be taken for a wild bird and shot or killed. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

“It’s really nice to meet you, sir. You drive like a wild maniac, and I respect that.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“You deserved to be punished. Someone had to teach you a lesson. Your parents never raised a hand to you. They let you run wild. So the duty fell to me.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

“But if Holly’s successful we shall soon have plenty of does: and from all I’ve ever heard of hutch rabbits, they don’t take easily to wild life. The truth is, you’re just a silly show-off.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Boots was no longer a wild creature. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

For a fleeting second he thought it might be a thief, but then he discounted that, because robbers in a place like this were as unlikely as wild animals. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we got to the path, we were breathing hard and Fiona was hoarse from shouting, her eyes as wild as her hair. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

For many days I did not think of the weapons again, not until the wild dogs came one night and sat under the rock and howled. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was silent, head raised, alert as a wild creature of the forest. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

I remembered in Pan’s cave, how the wild god had addressed each one of us individually .. . except Nico. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He looked better in clean clothes, though some blood was seeping through at the knee and his hair was still wild with sand and salt. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

That sounds mean, but if she gets in the habit of eating what she catches, she will go wild.” My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to show you,” he said, “that no animal, no matter how big or wild, is dangerous as long as you know what you’re doing.” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She rushed to him, expecting to be met halfway in a wild embrace. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Fora moment the audience is quiet, but then they go wild, standing up, screaming. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Among land animals hunted, wild boar and deer were the commonest prey, followed by mountain goat and bear. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

They might be wild, but they depended on me for everything. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

His tough and authoritarian leadership style was necessary in the wild where disease, Indian attacks, and the inhospitable environment relentlessly threatened everyone’s lives. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Of the two boys, Johnny was supposed to be the really bad one—a menace that ran wild through the streets of the Ida B. Wells. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She still loved to ride, and every afternoon, weather permitting or not, she rode alone for several hours in the wild land beyond the castle. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, they would fly on and live out their lives in the wild. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The hunting of all wild beasts is within my sphere. And you, foul creature, are a wild beast.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

He looks at me with those wild, snapped eyes. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I ask. if you want to change the sufeject, confuse the other person by going off on a wild, chatty detour. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

So when the wild boar said, Freedom is inside that thicket of branches where I sleep, they followed him. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Depending on their geographic homeland, East Asian and Pacific peoples differed in their access to domesticable wild plant and animal species and in their connectedness to other peoples. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Professor McGonagall did not invite confidences; Dumbledore, though in many ways more intimidating, still seemed less likely to scorn a theory, however wild. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I pleaded with God not to let all the wild green bushes and grass surrounding me bring up my asthma and allergies. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Their flight last night had been wild and at random. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

He grew wild, a thriving weed, a tall, quick boy, loud and proud and full of temper. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

And that energy which had made him wild now made him thoughtful. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was like picking her way through the wildest part of the Wood in the dark, for people stood in her way and stared at her as she tried to pass them. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were everywhere—buttercups, daisies, wild roses, violets. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Her young will be returned to the wild,” he replies. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were about four hundred of them in the grey vicinity—very beautiful creatures, the wild White- fronted Geese, whom, once he has seen them close, no man ever forgets. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were wild shouts of enthusiasm at this suggestion. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

The conga drum player was especially wild, playing insane fill-ins all over the place. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve never seen a wild bird that didn’t try to fly, get stopped by the jesses, and hang upside down. She flipped up on your glove like a trained bird.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Its reputation for being loose and wild was ascendant. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They has to be tamed. Just like wild animals.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I had changed; I had none of that fear, none of those wild impulses now. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

In history we learn about the pilgrims in Plymouth Plantation in 1621 and the food they ate, wild turkeys and corn and five deer brought to the feast by the Indians. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Inej remembered him leaving little bouquets of wild geraniums for her mother to find everywhere, in the cupboards, the camp cook pots, the sleeves of her costumes. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“So I’m just learning,” said Tucker, and threw himself into a wild twirl next to Papa Bellini’s pipe. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Late in the afternoon, I rounded a bend to find a wild turkey and her chicks crossing the trail ahead of me. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Greasy Sae’s soup, made with stock from the bones of a wild dog we’d shot a week earlier, was below her usual standards. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

And no pheasant buried in coconut leaves for twenty days and stuffed with wild rice and cooked over a wood fire so tender and delicate it make you cry. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would have helped them survive in the wild. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

As we shall see in the next chapter, the corresponding problem for domestication of big wild mammals proves easier to solve, because there are many fewer species of them than of plants. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

They were thus in a position for several thousand years to exploit as potential crops the most useful available wild plants, whatever those should be. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Montag's hand closed like a mouth, crushed the book with wild devotion, with an insanity of mindlessness to his chest. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beyond him the Wall fell away sharply; beyond him there was only the darkness and the wild. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

As soon as I got outside, I ran up into the woods, pushing tree branches and wild grape vines out of my face. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Anything that hinted at corruption always filled him with a wild hope. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I had snaked fencing wire up and down the underside of the fire escape outside my window, hiding it in the wild ivy that covered the side of the building. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Thousands of years ago Indigenous scientists turned a wild grain into a food source that sustained their bodies and their spiritual lives. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

I w as thinking of the violence of my last meeting with Scott, of the way he was at the end -wild and paranoiac, on the edge of madness. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

His hands and feet threshed in the tangle of the wild grapevine, and he whimpered and gibbered as he tried to get up. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why, even her own mother who died in an asylum had never gone wild like that. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

A motley collection of evil-looking implements was framed by the cloudless sky as wild cries rang out from the newly-inducted recruits. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He kept slipping and getting up, and slipping and getting up, and all the while the audience had gone wild with laughter and hysteria. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a wild look in his eyes, he headed instead for Rubsamen Medical Supply. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

And so I thought of a way for Nelson to be in the capital, under supervision so he wouldn’t be running wild with women or his rebel uncles. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A cold wind was blowing, snapping at their eyelids, and the dark blue hawk soared up in a mighty draft, wheeling and screaming in the wild air. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Plus, I had the advantage of knowing the exact location of the greenest patch of wild parsley. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Some would be walking in cool woods and picking bunches of wild flowers. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

One of the most striking losses was the Carolina parakeet, a lovely, innocuous bird whose numbers in the wild were possibly exceeded only by the unbelievably numerous passenger pigeon. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I look down and see the wild pansies, small purple and white violets, growing at my feet. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I barely have any breakfast, just some wild rice pudding made with goat’s milk and maple syrup Mr. Grote tapped the day before. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

A good smell—at least I thought so—wild and earthy. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

It was such a wild and harsh noise that she bolted up, her eyes wide open in fear. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Farmers, on the other hand, lived in artificial human islands that they laboriously carved out of the surrounding wilds. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seven nights ago Shadowfax returned; but the king’s anger is not less, for now the horse is wild and will let no man handle him.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Some of her wild hair, curly again thanks to the humidity in the air, was brushing his shoulder in spite of her careful posture, as if it had a life of its own. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

They invented new tools such as stone scythes for harvesting wild wheat, and stone pestles and mortars to grind it. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Deoch continued, “She was just as restless then, and wild. Just as pretty, prone to startle the eye and stutter the heart.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Buck’s restlessness came back on him, and he was haunted by recollections of the wild brother, and of the smiling land beyond the divide and the run side by side through the wide forest stretches. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over yonder were what she called her “word plants”—the wild flowers she planted because they had names she liked. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Even the wild things in the fields and woods hardly noticed their passing. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I smooth my hair, suddenly conscious of what a walk in the woods will do to wild a person. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

And everyone is going wild, stomping and crying and lifting their hands up to the sky. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He has this wild look about him, and I don’t mean ’cause of his hair, but like in his eyes. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to throw a wild notion at you.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

It was as if they had scent glands or marsupial pouches, adaptations for fecundity, for procreating in the wild, which had nothing to do with skinny, hairless, domesticated me. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She stirred who-knows-what poor wild thing into the stew and called it beef or rabbit. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mark tried to push the guy away, but he was desperate and wild, climbing Mark’s body like a rope, high enough that his legs now wrapped around Mark’s head. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I wanted to dance to this music in my head, but when I took a step, I tumbled into the creek with a wild splash. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

"It was great! Straight-A student. Hanging around nerdy guys too scared to try anything. No wild side at all. You were every father's dream daughter." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only hope for the wild animal populations in these countries is that, because animals are disappearing fast, they are harder to find and kill. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Emily took over the keyboard and typed, Do you know what fort, wild, home, rat, open, and belief mean? Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Even modern European plant geneticists have failed to develop any crop except macadamia nuts from Australia’s native wild flora. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Similarly, supermarket apples are typically around three inches in diameter, wild apples only one inch. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

A brick wall as high as me surrounds it and wild bushes grow higher. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Emily opened the book and saw that James had circled consecutive letter corrections in order to spell out the words fort, wild, and home. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

At the center of the maze, a piper is playing a lilting, wild song. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

We even had wild turkeys back then, and I could bag some of those too. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The quilt betrayed a crookedness in her thinking: run it up a pole as the flag of her wild country. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He held her tight, pressing her to his chest, feeling the wild beat of her heart against his ribs. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The banana company's city, which Patricia Brown may have tried to evoke for her grandchildren during the nights of intolerance and dill pickles in Prattville, Alabama, was a plain of wild grass. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I rip it open at once and inside there's a feast -fresh rolls, goat cheese, apples, and best of all, a tureen of that incredible lamb stew on wild rice. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Thanks to this availability of suitable wild mammals and plants, early peoples of the Fertile Crescent could quickly assemble a potent and balanced biological package for intensive food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“But I warn you, Miss Lumley! If they behave like wild animals at my party tomorrow, I will implore my husband to set them loose in the woods again, where they belong!” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Up here the land was harsh and wild, and the high road little more than a stony track. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

How he was driving along, saw and saved this wild black girl: No qualms. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

They smell earthy and sour, like wild animals. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

For a wild minute yesterday, I thought Gram must have found some way to write to me from beyond the grave. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

It was me, burning on the court, doing the wild thing with the ball, slamming and jamming. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

That was wild, but somehow I could relate to the fish. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Yet the wild wood called, and we returned to it. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

When I made it to the meeting spot, Chi-Roy and Miig were already there, each with a wild turkey strung up in the lower branches of a maple. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The jib was loose, without the benefit of a boom to hold the bottom edge stiff, and it slapped mightily in the wind, like a wild white rag. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dogs were used for hunting and fighting, and as an alarm system against wild beasts and human intruders. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh,” he says, and there’s a lot of wild, unnecessary nodding. he's basically a Muppet. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

There were no leaves to stir in this wilderness, but the air buffeted his body and made his hair stream away from his face; it was wild outside him and wild within. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The decision to hunt for variation in wild flies proved critical. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

They are dirty and weak, feral and hungry-looking, like I’ve wandered into the den of some wild, desperate pack with Max as their leader. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

It could very well have been, however, that my aunt did not take subtle enjoyment of her friend, but, a wild woman, kept rollicking company. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Siddhartha saw a group of monkeys in the depths of the forest, moving about high in the branches, and heard their wild eager cries. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

That included baking a wild yeast bread and cooking a wild pig two different ways. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The door to the dormitory opens, and Tris walks in, hair unkempt and eyes wild. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

My trees grow at an advanced rate for anywhere from two to five years before tapering off to normal, and they are a wild success. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He began to whoop like a wild Indian. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“Why, it’s the old man who went wild and started rootin’ in the forest Wherever did you get hold of him?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

What changes did they actually make in wild plants, besides rendering some of them bigger or less poisonous? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

None of it escapes into the cold, wild air. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

What kinds of wild things is he doing?’ Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

We had fried trout afterward and some sort of a stew and a big bowl full of wild strawberries. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Instead, Frith sent them strange singers, beautiful and sick like oak apples, like robins’ pincushions on the wild rose. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever it was, it was the first time I realized the wild streak in you. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

He seemed to take up half the store, though part of that could have been his wild smile, red and huge as a carved watermelon. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

All her muscles were sore from the wild ride here. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The attempt to tame the wild creatures, for instance, broke dow'n almost immediately.They continued to behave very much as before, and when treated with generosity, simply took advantage of it. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

As her sister gave a wild little laugh, Briony realized how frightened she was of Cecilia. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

To be domesticated, a candidate wild species must possess many different characteristics. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

On Saturday the fourteenth of October the first wild ducks went over Salinas. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

And Jasper lagged behind, weary from his wild scamper, his tongue hanging from his mouth. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

There was something about getting to the very top that gave you a wild feeling and made you want to yell or sing or raise up your arms and fly. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

As if fired from a cannon, the priest himself came hurtling out, with his pelican daemon in a wild flutter of feathers and injured pride. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

We’re similarly liable to pick up diseases from wild animals, such as the tularemia that hunters can get from skinning wild rabbits. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

A snack of wild almonds can kill a person foolish enough to ignore the warning of the bitter taste. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

In contrast, most ancient Southwest Asian crops exhibit just one of the alternative wild variants or alternative transforming mutations, suggesting that all modern varieties of that particular crop stem from only a single domestication. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

My eyes were wild enough to convey what I didn’t say. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The rumor ran wild for a few days, and was finally confirmed. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The wild men fell on their faces before him. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

If that were David, he’d be wild to get those clothes off, but Jason sits there, a dark water spot spread on the front of his navy Red Sox shirt. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thought pulled forth unbidden memories of Dimple—her sparkling, watchful eyes, her frown with the crease between her brows, her curly, wild hair. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

His host threw over him a heavy blanket cloak, his own reserve against the winter wind when it came wild. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

No wild vandals could have been more thorough. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

With a sigh, I take down my braids, rubbing my hands through my hair until it hangs wild in my face. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

They didn’t have a car anymore; the old Ford Anglia they had once owned was currently running wild in the Forbidden Forest at Hogwarts. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

A wild undulating cry broke out as the train sped for safety. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

In my wanderings this year I have taken more chances and had more wild adventures than ever before. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked over to Bianca and her eyes was like wild panic. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

I stop before our door, trying to catch my breath and calm the wild panic that I’m sure shows on my face. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“Smoked eel on a bed of wild asparagus.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It slows you down. Keeps your thoughts from running wild. A good discipline in any circumstance. Or you might try doing what the Buddhists do.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“We hunt loads of wild turkeys in the spring,” Henry says sagely. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The natural lifespan of wild chickens is about seven to twelve years, and of cattle about twenty to twenty-five years. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A word scramble, maybe? Open wild rat home...Rat fort belief...” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

A giant couldn’t eat half a leg of deer plus a huge mound of wild rice and eight of the fifty quail eggs and go back for dessert. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The claws dug hard in Ogion's wrist; the barred wings trembled; the round, gold eye was dull and wild. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

This is not the time to be making wild escape plans. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He let me behave like a wild boar. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

I made more snares and set these again, but while the wild dogs came close they would not touch the fish. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not of spiders, though she wasn’t wild about spiders, either…. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Isannah, her bright curls in wild array, flew into the courtroom, seeming, like a mouse, to run without feet. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had heard that giants could still be found in the godless wild beyond the Wall. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It seemed that all the creatures of the wild were holding their breath. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Truly domesticated animals differ in various ways from their wild ancestors. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

When we walked in the door, Mama looked at us like we were wild children living out in the forests who’d come into her house asking for food. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

In the afternoon she harvested wild cotton plants to use in her pads. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t see the red dust that coated sassafras bushes and wild flowers by the roadside. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

He grits his teeth into a wild smile beneath his beard. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

He had an impish face, curly black hair, and wild eyes, like he’d just had several cups of coffee. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I didn’t feel frustrated because I could not immediately get to the wild places. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

For example, there is some experience of hunting wild animals in every human culture. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

They pushed against each other in small, rhythmic gyrations that were driving her wild. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

They soon grew as fierce as the wild ones and only came back to the village to steal food. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were wild and furtive with the chase. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Lev pulls me up and grabs me around the waist, and we dance and sing with full force into each other's faces, hilarity in our wild eyes. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Only the strongest, smoothest, wildest hero ever. Rides a crow the size of a Cadillac truck—no, a stretch limo! He even has his own walk-up music—they say drums play when he walks.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He’d also made creamed onions, wild rice, cranberry sauce, and squash casserole. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

His body was tangled up in itself in the wild grass; I couldn’t tell where one limb began and the other ended. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

As we approached the cottages, we found the remnants of a garden, but everything in it had gone wild. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Akira, sitting next to her as he’d asked to do, had a look on his face of terror-delight, as if a part of him liked this wild ride and a part of him didn’t. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Y-y-yessuh,” he whispered again; feeling that it was all a wild and intense dream that must end soon, somehow. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Each time, at each announcement, his heart jumped for a moment, and he thought wild thoughts. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Your mother joined us at the farm a few days after she sent you and your grandfather on. When she realized you were lost, she went wild.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thus, agriculture could arise in the Fertile Crescent from domestication of locally available wild plants, without having to wait for the arrival of crops derived from wild plants domesticated elsewhere. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“It was wild. There were wild men and wild women and wild animals.” Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Good guy, but he looks mad wild because his hair is patchy since he cuts it himself to save a few bucks, which is crazy stupid because Tagoe is a haircut artist. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

"You never call them here," he said to Eleanor, his voice dying, his eyes wild. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

She survived initiation, the wilds, border skirmishes, whippings. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Sometimes at night he howled and cried like a wild animal... Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Howls, shrieks, the lash and whistle of the wind, the creak of the basket like a tormented animal, all filled the wild air with hideous noise. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Hybrid words and wild varieties of compound words are the progeny. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Of course, you didn’t. Neither did I until last night, and how were we supposed to get word to you when you live off in the wilds?” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother held out her skirt, making a hollow out of it, while I dropped in the flowers and she named them: forget-me-not, wintergreen, pink, wild rose. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aunt Ivy had warned me a hundred times about the “wild men out West.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Above ground the wild potato grows as a bushy herb, two feet tall, with stalks of delicate pink flowers reminiscent of miniature sweet-pea blossoms. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They can be subdued and ridden, even in the wild, but it’s usually helpful to startle them first. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

His is the wildest circle, although he has always been perfectly composed and sober when speaking with me. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

They moved with a fast crowd, all of them young and rich and wild, but she came out with an absolutely perfect reputation. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Keeping their heads low, they moved from post to post, serving each creature with a bowl of stew, some wild grapes, and a small loaf of honeyed nutbread. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Hazel began to speak about the life of the downs and the excitement and freedom enjoyed by wild rabbits. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would remain in there brooding for days, suddenly emerging to fire his warriors with grandiose schemes and wild ideas. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

All wild places were his home, thickets and forests and mountains, but best of all he loved Arcady, where he was born. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

One sultry afternoon, on his way home from the menagerie, he went to the Colosseum and bribed his way into the cellars where the wild beasts were kept. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Will clutched at Lyra and they both clung together as the scream turned into wild, mocking peals of laughter, which were answered by other harpy voices in the fog along the shore. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The tall buildings had shrunk down into trees and long ribbons of wild, dying grass. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

There he let his eccentric tastes run wild. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Between the third and fourth day, my mood jumped back and forth erratically from wild exhilaration to gloomy apprehension. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Sweet odors came from the wild grasses in the ravines and from the sand plants on the dunes. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And after we shoot the wild pepperoni,” I sputtered, “we eat it!” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Some people are so wild about metaphors that they can’t resist using them in pairs. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You wait! It’s the turn of the wild beasts. Now we’ll really see something! Aren’t you enjoying it?” he added, looking at her pale face and clenched hands. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

His wild laughter mocked the world and everyone he had ever known. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

At age eleven, the Centurions throw us out of Blackcliff and into the wilds of the Empire without clothes, food, or weaponry, to survive as best as we can for four years. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

His baby brother had been wild as a winter storm since he learned Robb was riding off to war, weeping and angry by turns. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The wise Mr. Lockley has told us that wild rabbits live for two or three years. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

No single step separated the woman gathering wild wheat from the woman farming domesticated wheat, so it’s hard to say exactly when the decisive transition to agriculture took place. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like a wild creature, eyes darting darting, I keep checking for trouble. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Although Weston vaulted the railing in a wild attempt, it was obviously hopeless. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

The children were clean, and although their clothes were a bit large and their hair was long and loose, they looked far more like children than wild animals. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Among wild plant and animal species, only a small minority are edible to humans or worth hunting or gathering. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

On the floor were three rugs with dark, swirly patterns of wild beasts in forests. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Some are bought for zoos, particularly by wealthy Arabs who like to keep private collections of wild animals. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

They tried the sentence again, reading together out loud: “‘For the most wild yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief.’” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

They would tear to pieces the wild creatures they met and devour the bloody shreds of flesh. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was afraid we’d end up eating dandelions, digging wild turnips and grubs out of the ground to stay alive. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bunny was blowing her whistle and the Hells Angel with his wild hair and bushy beard could see me in the firelight. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

We may have been wild and rebellious, but our mother wasn’t raising complete heathens. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Fans went wild when he inscribed their scorecards in their own language. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

And, to be honest, I envy him a bit, with his wild romances. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Of these eight, only two, flax and barley, range in the wild at all widely outside the Fertile Crescent and Anatolia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

This South American country was rumored to be wild and inhospitable, but she had contacts in the Dutch colony there, through her son-in-law and other former Labadists. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Every year, fifty amateur players, or wild cards, are nominated by secret committee to be placed into the team selection process. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then I headed back to the woods, where I picked a few bachelor buttons that grew wild in the plots of sunshine before getting bored and tossing them away. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They looked like kids running a little wild during the summer. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

With her bugging eyes and messy hair, she was wild in her excitement. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Next to him, a huge lump of a man with a leg in a steel brace, a misshapen head, and a wild brown beard, fire flickering through his whiskers. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Hams, mutton, even wild turkey hung there in the darkness of the smokehouse, waiting to be used in the winter, when food was not so plentiful. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many said they were glad the boom was over, that it had been too wild and both Midland and Odessa had suffered for it. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were smiles on many faces, for we had feasted well on deer and quwi stew, corn-dough loaves and quinoa, wild strawberries and large, juicy cherimoyas. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“I’m so glad you’re all right, Tally. The thought of you all alone in the wild... of course, you weren’t alone, were you?” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The rocket bombs crashed oftener than ever, and sometimes in the far distance there were enormous explosions which no one could explain and about which there were wild rumors. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Village life certainly brought the first farmers some immediate benefits, such as better protection against wild animals, rain and cold. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kids with kitchen duty appeared bearing trays of food, all covered with gleaming silver tops so that you couldn’t see what was inside, sparking wild speculation about what might be for dinner. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

His voice was hoarse; his look that of a man who is just about to burst an insufferable bond and plunge headlong into wild license. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Like cultural idiosyncrasies, individual idiosyncrasies throw wild cards into the course of history. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

By contrast, no wild maize ancestor has ever been found, despite decades of search. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I jumped to my feet, wild with hurt and scare. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even with the wild creature charging toward her, Ma didn’t looked afraid. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

In wild terror, I ran along the bed of that dry wash, cut right up a sloping bank. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked at her, his eyes wild and confused. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

In front of him in a half-circle were the wild dogs. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We figured your family would enjoy the animals more if they were roaming free, like they would in the wild. So we’ve sedated them for your safety. They’re no harm to you.” Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

At first, cane was simply a wild plant that tasted good. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Instead he met, ran into, a wild black girl smashing herself in the head with fright, who lay now in the other room while a black boy was rounding up stock outside. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Animals in the wild are, in practice, free neither in space nor in time, nor in their personal relations. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was a place of heathenism and superstitious rites,—to be inhabited by men nearer of kin to the rocks and to wild animals than we. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is the moaning of the world, it is the martyred creation, wild with anguish, filled with terror, and groaning. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some time passed before I felt tranquil even here: I had a vague dread that wild cattle might be near, or that some sportsman or poacher might discover me. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

A wild bonobo female, infant on her back. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

That at least was as he remembered; the ancient stones slick with spray and spotted by lichen, the sea foaming under their feet like some great wild beast, the salt wind clutching at their clothes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

To almost everyone else, he was just the wild ex-soldier who owned the liquor store right in front of her apartment building. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

It’s creating its own wild patterns, disrupting, destroying paths. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

I knew that wild sea from long ago was much on Timothy’s mind all afternoon. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You have also taught me to be wild,” said the robot. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Pomona was the only nymph who did not love the wild woodland. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your room’s up here. Second floor. I took the larger bedroom, since you’re a wild card and I’m not. Hope you don’t mind.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The Halfhand had ventured deeper into the wild than any other living man. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But Bull felt an obligation to his men that they be exposed to some of the true wild men who still inhabited the ranks of the Corps. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not long after Reginald left, I dragged out the wildest zoot suit in New York. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

In some warped and exaggerated form, it seemed like the same kind of impulse as getting wild on a Saturday night, letting off steam after a week of tension or boredom. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the spring the tall grass grew along its sides— wild oats and mallow weeds and yellow mustard mixed in. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The lines of fire became flowing torrents, file upon file of Orcs bearing flames, and wild Southron men with red banners, shouting with harsh tongues, surging up, overtaking the retreat. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The scene there was one of wild disorder and panic. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

And if she wanted to continue living, if she wanted to be wild again, she needed to be with her family and her friends on her island. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The significance of that botanical wealth for humans is illustrated by the geographer Mark Blunder's studies of wild grass distributions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the brief periods of rest he was sometimes able to gather a little food—a few wild mushrooms here, a handful of fern sprouts there. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

“Prisoners are treated now like wild animals and are kept in cages,” he said in a lecture in 1905. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked up to see Zigzag's wild head staring down at him. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

In the spring the aromatic scent of wild flowers, redbuds, papaws, and dogwoods, drifting on the wind currents, spread over the valley and around our home. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

A wild rain lashed down upon his black brother as he tore at the flesh of an enormous goat, washing the blood from his side where the goat’s long horn had raked him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Next, her head would bob a bit and her eyes would take on the intensity of a wild predator. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I figured that's what Noodles meant when he told me that Needles was "wild." When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

In less than five minutes the spot of earth which I identified with the best of all possible worlds was gone, lost within the wild uncultivated countryside. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I patrolled through the forest, my movie-saturated imagination began to run wild. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

They were a wild and homeless lot, culturally lost, spiritually disinherited, candidates for the clinics, morgues, prisons, reformatories, and the electric chair of the state’s death house. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pulling shut the door, which, despite all Charles’s efforts, still did not close quite flush, they remembered the bear and wondered how they could keep the wild creatures from destroying the cabin in their absence. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

The child had certainly not been killed by a wild animal. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both domestic and wild animals were affected by “arsenical enteritis, gastric ulcers, and cirrhosis of the liver.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He inquired about the small wild plants of field and riverside and hill. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

We spent days tracking leads, interviewing dozens of people, following wild rumors, investigating different theories. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

As long as I live I will never forget those wild eyes, like the eyes of a trapped, savage animal. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

A second later, I’m at the mirror, shaking my head a little to wake up my hair, then a lot to make it wild. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“So, you are a wild card now? I mean, congratulations, that is really great—but I don’t remember seeing you in the top rankings this year.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There was a wild light in Thalia’s eyes. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

That seems impossible, even to my wild mind. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

"It would not trouble me if the boy was wild, Ned. You don't know him as I do." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

While Coach Hedge was having dinner on the foredeck, a wild pegasus appeared from nowhere, stampeded over the coach’s enchiladas, and flew off again, leaving cheesy hoof prints all across the deck. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Her face go even more ashy than before, and her eyes go plumb wild. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

It was a long night during which the nightmares, like a herd of wild horses, trampled through my fevered mind. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I waited for more, but Nyame just clasped his hands again and stared out, wise and all-knowing, like he’d just dropped some crazy freestyle bars and the crowd was going wild. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

There are a lot of shiftas in Kenya—poachers who kill wild animals for money. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had a fine, wild laugh, my ma. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

He barreled toward Archer with a wild look in his black eyes, lips pulled back from his teeth. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

His gaze fell on the skeet-range, and he reeled away with a sharp cry of distress, his wild and feverish eyes scanning the walls of his office frantically as though they were swarming with Yossarians. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I got another wild card plus a skip. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I had been imagining wild animals for a while now, but these sounds were more intense. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Then, behind them, they heard a wild howling. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

As the others applaud another wild card, I bring up a small, secret panel of my screenshot. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Here, Hazel and Fiver were sitting with Dandelion under a flowering wild cherry. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a moment or two, Snape raised his face, and he looked like a man who had lived a hundred years of misery since leaving the wild hilltop. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The idea had been that he would basically pull my arms off and then hold them up over his head in triumph, howling like some wild barbarian.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

For right now, that exceeds my wildest hopes. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

In the twilight, her wild volutions of hair look more radiant than ever: a struck match. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

For they imagined as they wished—that it was a wild shot, an unintended killing—fools, not to comprehend they were already in the grip of death. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The walls were lined with metal shelves six stories high, decorated with war banners, painted shields, and the stuffed heads of dragons, hydras, giant lions, and wild boars. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

But he was too wild with curiosity to think about that. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Their eyes were sunken and red, and they had the wild look of men driven to the end of their ropes by pain and exposure. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

The other Sarai, near as she could tell, looked just as she herself had on the night that he had seen her: with wild hair, and Isagol’s painted black mask. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I catch three pumpkinseed sunfish and a catfish while Bando gathers tender dandelion leaves, chicory greens, and wild carrots for salad. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The land before them sloped away southwards, but it was wild and pathless; bushes and stunted trees grew in dense patches with wide barren spaces in between. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

By the time they came to a wild boar, they were tired and hungry and scared. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

She made a wild, pointless gesture with one hand and then covered her mouth with both hands. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wild turkeys may have suffered the same fate as their domestic brethren, for turkeys on farms in the area treated with chemicals also produced few young. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Whether or not they believed his wild tale of superhuman strength, no thane in the hall would attack him again and risk the slash of that mild, coolly murderous tongue. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

The track snaked uphill and led to a flat field where poplars and cottonwoods soared and wild bushes grew in clusters. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

That afternoon we were scheduled to play the winning team of another neighborhood league, a team with a reputation for wild, offensive slugging and poor fielding. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

His bulging eyes, wild hair, enormous dark belly, and animal-fang necklace made the barefoot figure more beast than human. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Quinn’s hair is all frizzy and wild and her eyes look small and scared. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I take the road to Beaver Corners, pass several dark houses and a church, and then I’m out in the wilds again. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

No other animal has ever been observed to draw a recognizable image spontaneously in the wild. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, especially with your hair all wild like that. You look like a gypsy, a rebel with an eye for fashion.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The fresh and dried fish; the fat, oil, or meat from beaver, beluga, caribou, moose, oogruk, polar bear, and walrus; cranberries, salmonberries and wild rhubarb all had so far escaped contamination. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Instead they plucked wild fruits from the forest, painted handprints on the walls, and ate the Amazon’s 1,500 species of fish, especially the 500-pound pirarucju, the world’s biggest freshwater fish. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Robbie was a tall Haitian kid with long locks who had shown up midyear with a goofy grin and wild drawings covering every surface of his clothes, his backpack, his desk. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Competing at the Olympic Games was a gift beyond my wildest dreams, and no matter what happened I was proud of myself for making it this far. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Something true and living was being drained from him, and his dæmon fluttered weakly and called in a wild high call, but she was dying. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The flowers were all colors of yellow that day—silky yellow petals like wild canary feathers, and blossoms as dark as the center of the sun. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

They went to the wilderness to worship, to the wildest mountains, the deepest forests, as if they kept to the customs of an ancient time before men had thought of building houses for their gods. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandmother came with fruit and my uncles clumped around and around my bed, snorting like wild horses. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, Amazonians typically do not make the distinction between “cultivated” and “wild” landscapes common in the West; instead they simply classify landscapes into scores of varieties, depending on the types of species in each. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Frantic animals — stray horses and cows, dogs and cats, and even rats — ran wild, causing increasingly more confusion. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Her hair was long in most pictures, and a little wild. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

There were no bars on the windows that I could see, and no wild or disquieting noises. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I could’ve sworn it was a lion, except that Hons don’t live wild in America, and this thing was the size of a Hummer. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Grace, tame as well, though with sneaky vestiges of wild. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Behind them, palm trees swayed before a burning red sky, and beyond that churned a wild ocean full of beautiful dark-skinned mermaids and swirling dragons. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The whole effect is wild and disheveled but essentially friendly. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were the first cowboys in a wild and desolate land which they took from the Indians. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

On my next trip I gathered some sage and dug up a few wild onions I’d noticed on the way up the hill. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

With a wild look in his eyes, Mr. Cheevers went on deck. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He probably died on August 18, 112 days after he’d walked into the wild, 19 days before six Alaskans would happen across the bus and discover his body inside. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The garden had been allowed to go wild, except for the area on each side of the front walk. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I said, “Dad, when I get out of this stinking hole, wild horses couldn’t drag me back.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The storm was so powerful that it lifted Edward off the ocean floor and led him in a crazy, wild and spinning dance. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

She had seen enough times in the faces of those in their final moments, a sudden look of surprise—and a wild, mad joy. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

People said that boy w as always kind of wild. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could no longer pay the cook and the harper, and Lynesse grew wild when I spoke of pawning her jewels. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The moon was full and bright enough that I found the mangled coyote between clumps of wild blooming buckwheat, where some other creature had likely dragged it. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Stuck in a half-finished house surrounded by rotting stumps and wild animals of all sorts, she felt as far removed as ever from the sophisticated life that she envisioned for herself. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I try to grab her wrists, but she is too wild. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

He told wild lies of taking the two of them, Miss Dalton and her friend, to her room. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Would they have been happy, out in the wild, or would the dark, twisted sadness between them have grown up even without the Capitol’s help? Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Denna said, then she threw her arms around me in a wild, delighted hug. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He taught me to cook, and otherwise let me run wild with my cousins. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The horse’s eyes had a wild roll to ’em but he didn’t seem to mind, so Pa picked up his reins and pulled the horse out of the flower garden. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Their medals and weaponry clanged like wild bells ringing out. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Last autumn the wild geese flew day after day across the path of the shells. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He swung his wild eyes again upon the Wart, guessing the trick. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we shall see, there were few or no wild mammal species suitable for domestication in the other Mediterranean zones of California, Chile, southwestern Australia, and South Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

After all, she thought, Andeg was wild and she had always known it, always expected this moment to come. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

There are a couple of other wild cards dressed up in gray-and-white outfits—Demon Brigade fans, probably hoping their clothes will warm them up to the official team. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then he lifted his voice in a wild brassy blare that set echoes clamoring in the draws and canyons for miles around. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he turned to me and said, “Wanna pick wild strawberries?” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

But a woman who came up with a palatable wild dog and rhubarb stew is bound to feel as if her hands are tied here. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Petey stepped into the diner, blondish hair wild as a thicket, wearing a short white dress that shone like moonlight against her skin. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Exactly. We’ve been living in the wild or in the settlements so long. It brings back memories.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

His Noise is just wild colors and pictures and things I won’t ever be able to say. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

It is a land of rocky ways and stony hills and rugged mountains, and in such places the exquisite vivid bloom of the wild flowers, Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was too close to the road or maybe we’d turned a little wild and couldn’t live in a normal house anymore. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been formal once, but now was wild. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Idly Eleanor picked a wild daisy, which died in her fingers, and, lying on the grass, looked up into its dead face. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Down in the cellar there are shelves and shelves of white rats and black mice, special ones that aren’t wild. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

My job is to search for wild vegetables and mushrooms in nearby woods while Chou guards our tents. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wild, frightening excitement in my body began to die. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The racing was lawless and wild and the Americans loved it. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Similarly, wheats, barley, lentil, chickpea, beans, and flax all have numerous wild relatives besides the ones that became domesticated. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

We drove through the entire length of the prison, and then along a winding dirt road through a rather wild, wooded area at the rear of the property. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It may have been only a trick of the wind in the cracks and gullies of the rocky wall, but the sounds were those of shrill cries, and wild howls of laughter. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Through my contact lenses, the entire main intersection of Shibuya is alight with hovering screens, rotating through each wild card’s photo and showing clips from past drafts. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Roderigo rent his chains asunder manfully, and Hugo died in agonies of remorse and arsenic, with a wild, “Ha! Ha!” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Flanked on either side by not just one, but two wild cards in the Phoenix Riders’ first match of the season. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“About your secret? How you were raised in the wild?” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Familiar wild heads flared in our night windows; the villagers encircled us. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I suppose with all the crazy stuff happening, my imagination is going wild. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

He told long, wild stories about his childhood; as I pumped panting up steep hills he glided along beside me, joking steadily. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because of the limited variety of wild starting material suitable for plant domestication, even Africa’s earliest agriculture may have begun several thousand years later than that of the Fertile Crescent. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Franks lodged a powerful protest in open court against the state’s humiliating his clients in such a “fantastic” fashion and treating them, he said, “like wild beasts.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I followed him across a field grown wild with milkweed and goldenrod. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The smoke from the burning pizza changed into something fragrant—the smell of a dean sea breeze with wild- flowers mixed in—but I had no idea if that meant my father was really listening. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

He was weatherworn inside and out, as taut and rugged as the horses he ran wild on the mountain. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But he continued to hold her tightly, like someone restraining a wild animal from running away. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The surgeon had bent over the man and the red eyes had gone wild with new fear, rolling horselike, terrified. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was shaking, her eyes and hair wild on her face. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“My, you’re very polite,” Mrs. Cadaver said, flashing her wild gray eyes. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

But in western Eurasia only one of several potentially useful wild species was domesticated—probably because that one spread so quickly that people soon stopped gathering the other wild relatives and ate only the crop. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He read: “ ‘Residents of Delhi, in the Catskill Mountains, report that a wild boy, who lives off deer and nuts, is hiding out in the mountains. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a wild fly species named Drosophila pseudoobscura, for instance, Dobzhansky found multiple gene variants that influenced complex traits, such as life span, eye structure, bristle morphology, and wing size. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

He told me all this very much later, but I've put it down here with the idea of exploding those first wild rumors about his antecedents, which weren't even faintly true. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Facing the world with her barren eyes, her wild hair, her bright face. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Slowly the energy left her, and her hands began to move in slow arcs, soothing and sensuous, the wild drums silent. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Beyond them clouds sailed over the moon, fast and wild. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

For a moment he stood, his heart beating with wild fears, and then he plunged in. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Earlier in the spring I had found a lush patch of miner’s lettuce and wild rapini in the Berkeley Hills, but by June the greens had begun to yellow. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Sissy worked in a rubber factory and was very wild as far as men were concerned. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frightened by visitors, the deer bolted for the nearby for­est, which had its own herd of wild roe-deer and could support more. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

When the birds were ready to roast, Mama packed them close together along with wild onion bulbs and then pressed rich, streambed muck carefully around them. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

With all his security upgrades, Thread has paid little attention to the fence, perhaps feeling harsh weather and wild animals are enough to keep everyone safely inside. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

After that wild ride, Smith put Pollard up on Seabiscuit for the first time to see how he would handle the horse. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He grins cheekily, crosses his arms against his chest, and calls out a challenge to the other team at the opposite end of the game world, which makes the audience go wild. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Finally, their wild ancestors required very little genetic change to be converted into crops—for instance, in wheat, just the mutations for nonshattering stalks and uniform quick germination. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He protected us and the wild places of the earth. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

She matched her words so perfectly that the speech was not a speech at all, but one creature’s voice in the wild, as natural as a raven’s caw or a coyote’s howl at midnight. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

That wild mountain—the very top of it—was what I was traveling toward. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Kino watched them for a moment, and then his eyes went up to a flight of wild doves twinkling inland to the hills. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The wild doe has become a gentle deer,” he said, showing that he recognized my transformation. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

In season, they fed on acorns, berries, wild plums, prickly-pear apples, grass, weeds, and bulb plants which they rooted out of the ground. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Native Americans of the eastern United States domesticated no locally available wild pulse, no fiber crop, no fruit or nut tree. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He looked wild as well as ill, a sheen of sweat on his brow. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I found a recipe that gave instructions for gathering wild yeast, in a process that took several days but didn’t sound too difficult. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

No wild creature could have carried the dead body away. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

All that month there is heat and wild rain. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

That provides part of the explanation why many crop plants have much bigger fruits than their wild ancestors do. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes go wild, and he opens the door and leaps from the cab. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Many of the animals were in prime condition and had more body fat than is customary for animals arriving from the wild. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Grote leaves at dawn with his rifle and rod and brings home squirrels and wild turkeys, whiskery fish, now and then a whitetailed deer. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

For a few wild minutes, she flailed at the door, pounding it with her fists, scratching at it until her fingernails were bloody. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The Station Inspector saw the bandages and loosened his grip, at which point, like a wild animal, Hugo escaped. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Inwardly he rejoiced, for his father sometimes talked to him when he smelled of brandy, sometimes even told things he had done in the wild days when he was a boy. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Axel looks beyond the cleared area into the space that runs behind his house where the wild turkey prints lead. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Lily opened the door, her hair wild and her eyes half closed. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

On each of these screens, footage plays of the wild cards in action during some of their most popular in-game moves. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I breathe in a lot Of good fresh Saturday air And let my Fingers run like A wild crab Across the strings. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll take the wild rabbit,” I say, then add, “have you ever tried it on a bed of daylily buds?” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He's on his feet with this wild look in his eye, and Loretta Lee glides into the room. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

I’d been playing just over an hour and had just cleared level 81 when I heard another wild burst of cheering in my ears. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

James leaned forward and read out loud: “‘For the most wild yet most homely narrative—He looked at Emily, his mouth hanging open. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Quickly I dug a hole for the shellfish, rolled a heavy stone over the opening to protect them from the wild dogs, and started off toward the south part of the island. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thus, the first farmers in the Jordan Valley selected the 2 very best of the 23 best wild grass species available to them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

At every few moments the fury of the crowd boiled over and the voice of the speaker was drowned by a wild beastlike roaring that rose uncontrollably from thousands of throats. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

There's a guy there at the window, a man in a tweed jacket, about forty years old with a big head of wild hair. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Did I look like a wild man or something? Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Luke and Thalia both looked hungry and lean, with wild animal eyes, like they were used to being attacked. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

He exhaled two tusks of smoke through his nostrils and for a fleeting moment looked like a wild boar. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The map was like this birds tigers gibbons 10 The dhole is the Indian wild dog and it looks like a fox. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She saw with satisfaction his nerves begin to go, his hands take to quivering, his loss of weight, and the wild glazed look in his eyes. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

And we stumbled together up the bluff and across the moor toward Miss Maggie, who woke at our pounding and came to the door, wild eyed, and took us straight in. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Behind the house there was a meadow of nearly an acre, carpeted in summer with sweet wild strawberries. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

It has been found that animals, both wild herbivores and livestock, are sometimes strangely attracted to a plant that has been sprayed, even though it is not one of their natural foods. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

One wild puff full of powder had whitened Mrs. Reilly’s face, the front of her dress, and a few loose maroon wisps. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’ve thus seen that the difference between gigantic supermarket strawberries and tiny wild ones is just one example of the various features distinguishing cultivated plants from their wild ancestors. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Mentor deals with lots of wild little things in the schoolhouse. I myself was a wild little thing once, and it was he who tamed me.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

His gaze—helpless, wild—hit me like a blackjack. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

These examples reemphasize that the same few suitable wild species attracted the attention of many different human societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Tiger, rhinoceros, ostrich, wild boar, brown bear—no matter the beast, you must get its goat. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

They told Mole that Sam was a young adolescent, nonviolent, and that he liked wild foods. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“These buildings, this hall, this dream of poets of centuries is the wild aspiration of crazy architects alone.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

There was nothing in her mind beyond an overwhelming wild happiness. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Would I ever race like a kid again, a wild cabrito rattling the pebbles on the goat path; and would I ever wrestle the crazy Horse and wild Bones again? Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Several people will be completely ruined after this evening. There’s going to be a mass exodus for Mexico City in the morning. But then Mexico City is so wonderfully wild.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked again at the cover of the Masses and I knew that the wild cartoon did not reflect the passions of the common people. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind Grandpa was a ruddy-faced man with a wild swirl of red hair pushing out from under his baseball cap, which had a Maytag logo. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

They handled themselves awkwardly, dropping easy grounders, throwing wild, fumbling fly balls. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Tucker tossed things left and right in a wild search. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something was shaking the deck A gaur—an Indian wild ox—exploded out of the rain and thundered by me, terrified, out of control, berserk. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes were wild and red as he stood over us, gasping and panting for breath; saliva dripped from his mouth. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though Styx told wild stories about things he’d seen and done, all the places he’d been, and to Dad, such adventures belonged in books, only to be whispered in the dark. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Kind of like those wild horses that can never be tamed. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

To be sure, some researchers have vigorously attacked the new findings as wild exaggerations. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I’m tellin’ you they let the kids run wild up there. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Otherwise, we dined on barley mush and wild greens. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

She had just the type of tree in mind: a pretty birch tree with its wild orange leaves in contrast over white bark. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

We had wild game for the killing, fertile ground for growing bread corn, and the Indians had been put onto reservations with the return of U.S. soldiers to the Texas forts. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

The people who lived there had been happy before, but then wild animals had come and had begun to frighten them. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

His face was human, but his hair was wild and green, like a mop of seaweed. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

You have to bend under a wild arch of cosmos when you come up the walk, and use your whole right arm to push the hollyhocks aside to get in the front door. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was not without a certain wild pleasure I ran before the wind, delivering my trouble of mind to the measureless air-torrent thundering through space. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

But blusher mushrooms—while rare—grow wild, even on this island. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

When their bellies were full and their eyes grew heavy, the wild boar covered them with blankets made of leaves stitched together with vines and watched over them while they slept. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Working wild hogs was always exciting and generally proved to be a lot of fun. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is not so much a question of constructing an imitation of conditions in the wild as of getting to the essence of these conditions. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted my picture taken before my bangs fell and the rest of my hair looked wild from dancing. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Even 20th-century plant breeders, armed with all the power of modern science, have had little success in exploiting North American wild plants. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He had been imprisoned in a lightless garret room for far too long: his beard was wild and his hair was a tangle. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

About the way they locked me in the garage like some wild animal. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It was only within the last 11,000 years that some peoples turned to what is termed food production: that is, domesticating wild animals and plants and eating the resulting livestock and crops. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Captain Prince thought it was the wildest idea he’d ever heard. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even the wild shouts that went up and down the road did not relieve it. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The wild delirium she felt might have been lack of sleep combined with too much coffee. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Mateo says, which doesn’t really scratch the surface on who they are to me, but I let it slide because this is so wild even Mateo is tearing up for me. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I laughed, a little wild, and reached out fast as a striking snake for his leg. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

The joyous celebration lasted long into the night, and the stillness was fractured often by wild, exultant shouts and by the cries of people who were merry or sick. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

It is surprisingly easy to get lost when you’re deep in the woods with your head down, looking for wild mushrooms. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Geological Survey topographic maps and are a good thing to own in these wild mountains. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not that boy. He wouldn’t hurt a fly. All them Odoms are like that. Good-hearted. Kinda wild sometimes, those brothers of his. But good-hearted.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

In a cruel irony, ballet commentators back in Russia were irked by Western reviews of the Stravinsky- Nijinsky ballets, which used adjectives such as 'barbaric’, ‘primitive’, ‘wild’ or ‘savage’ in almost every paragraph. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I didn’t ask any questions, of course, but I felt so sorry for them and was rather glad I hadn’t any wild brothers to do wicked things and disgrace the family.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mom, you know I’m not like that. I never go wild and eat pepperoni pizza. I don’t even break curfew.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Azaleas, mountain laurel, blueberries, huckleberries, viburnums, dogwood, bayberry, sweet fern, low shadbush, winterberry, chokecherry, and wild plum are dying before the chemical barrage. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

As a baboon who grew up wild in the jungle, I realized that Wiki had special nutritional needs. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The beautiful, wild, timid thing breathed softly, caressingly at Rab, but at the same time the queer, crystalline eyes watched Johnny as though sure that this was a boy who ate horses. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

In addition to quail, wild turkeys were seriously reduced by the fire ant program. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The coach grinned and pumped us one back and we went wild. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

In the same way, the early unconscious stages of crop evolution from wild plants consisted of plants evolving in ways that attracted humans to eat and disperse their fruit without yet intentionally growing them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Equatorial Africa’s tsetse flies, carrying trypanosomes to which native African wild mammals are resistant, proved devastating to introduced Eurasian and North African species of livestock. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

But there are always a handful of wild cards thrown into the draft, amateur players nominated because they are so good at the game. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“A little early to be sending our wild card into the line of fire?” he says. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And Sir Grummore began cackling in a tuneless alto, like thousands of wild geese on the Wash. “Hush! Hush!” cried Sir Palomides. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her hands trembled and made the lantern bob, casting wild shadows on the ground, but she pressed on and tried to ignore the frightened voice in her head that told her to go back. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a wild moment, I thought it was Kevin, thought I was home. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He’d gone to our hideout, an old shed almost covered by the wild grape, honeysuckle, and brambles growing around and over it. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The grass is covered with sweat, and I stand alone with the wild card between my fingers. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Bigger paused and looked round the poolroom with a wild and exasperated expression, his lips tightening with resolution. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Even the farmer himself seldom understands the value of wild bees and often participates in the very measures that rob him of their services. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“It’s this wild animal here. We employed him only last month, and he already wants to steal everything in my house.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

In the mountain forests, where groups of students were often sent to gather wood, Shin ate wild grapes, gooseberries, and Korean raspberries by the fistful. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

As he turned Lyra saw the wild white rims around his pupils, and then the other children realized what was happening and stopped to look. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘The land’s good for trees and wildlife,’ he told Dad, ‘and maybe a few wild plants that like poor soil— and that’s about all.’ On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She turned to look at me, her curly hair wild around her round face, half tucked into her too-small parka. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The newspapers reported that there were wild, bearded men parading the streets in Austin, dressed in long robes and carrying big signs that read repent, the end is nigh. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Anya could see the wild Dnieper River behind her, its waves thrashing against its shores as it hurtled past. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Around 8500 BC, when wild plants gave way to wheat fields, the oasis supported a large but cramped village of 1,000 people, who suffered far more from disease and malnourishment. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone went wild, pogo-ing up and down, both hands raised in the rocker salute. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Emily opened the book and saw that James had circled consecutive letter corrections in order to spell out the words fort, wild, and home. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

It isn’t just Oliver who goes wild over that one. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

It was so wild and so remote when I was there. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The herd of wild sports equipment stayed put against the far wall. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

A fruit bat gave a high pinging cry as it left the branches of a wild fig. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

A wild animal that feels that it no longer has any reason to live reaches in the end a point when its remaining energies may actually be directed toward dying. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She slept until daybreak, saw that it was still snow­ ing, and dozed, off and on, through the white, wild day as the weasels and foxes did. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The light cast by the farol revealed the wild, frightened eyes of Chavez. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They multiplied, and by the time I was born there was a whole herd of wild horses on the mountain. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Did you ever try to draw blood from a wild elephant? We didn’t.” The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For we are going up, and up; and all is oh! so wild and rocky, as though it were the end of the world. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t just her belly now that felt a flutter like wild soft wings, but her chest where her hearts were, and even her head. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It would become part of this wild family legacy she was only beginning to understand. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

A flag waved from the top—a wild boar and spear on a bloodred field. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

She ran down the street, the green knee socks making her legs look like wild dandelion stems that had somehow lost their heads. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know Tremaine better than any of us. So keep your personal grievances out of it and help our wild card out, yeah?” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Oars flew from their hands; the blades went knocking wild alongside till the ship lost way, with no oarblades to drive her through the water. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The centaurs’ habits are not human-like; they live in the wild, refuse clothing, prefer to live apart from wizards and Muggles alike and yet have intelligence equal to theirs. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I drive, I keep my eye out for a Saturn SUV, and every time I spot one, my heart does this wild leap into my throat, even though I tell myself: I’m done. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The animals had now reassembled in the wildest excitement, each recounting his own exploits in the battle at the top of his voice. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

People in books got killed by bullets, arrows, and wild dragons. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Nearly every situation tended to be when it wet connected with King Pellinore, even in the wildest North. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was surrounded by high weeds and cacti, and inside some wild pigeons roasted. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Too fast, too wild for him to stop. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I had this wild thought that I could somehow replace the money before Lori discovered it was missing. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Nhamo had been away from humans so long, she felt like a wild animal who might be hunted instead of welcomed. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t wild about touching strangers, especially given that he didn’t seem to have showered in some time, but I said, “It’s all right to be scared, Noah.” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was a light yellow snake, covered with bright copper spots, like the wild flowers pulled loose and traveling. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

As more effort was directed towards cereal cultivation, there was less time to gather and hunt wild species. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The citation goes on to say that the best time to dig wild potatoes “is in the spring as soon as the ground thaws.... During the summer they evidently become dry and tough.” Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yes, the Romans did tend wild strawberries in their gardens. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He has an odd, wild expression on his face, and a muscle is jumping in his jaw. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

When he was up you couldn’t stop him, but his mood swings were wild. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Huge tapestries depicting landscapes hung on three walls: green farming valleys, the wild coast of the sea, and the Wood. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bertha chatted with some woman who had a bunch of wild kids running around the bus station. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

He would spend the day in the rear of the store writing wild notes, which he would send to Amaranta with flower petals and dried butterflies, and which she would return unopened. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

And Bertha Jorkins, who might have ruined all, proved instead to be a gift beyond my wildest dreams ... for — with a little persuasion — she became a veritable mine of information. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Maybe so, but right then Joe felt like a lint-headed fool, crazier than she and just as wild as he slipped into mud, tripped over black roots, scuffed through patches of dirt crawling with termites. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Of course he knows, Moose. But that doesn’t mean I want you to parade her around in front of him. I won’t lie to you. He isn’t wild about the idea of her living here.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s suggesting we live like the wild fey, among mortals, but not of them. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

A wild wind—a wind stronger than anything he’d ever seen or heard of, a wind without warning out of the northwest. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

We walk through the wild mess of our living room. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a brief few giddy years, I was the one with the reputation among my sisters of being the wild one. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I vowed that someday I would go back and kill the wild dogs in the cave. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

But if wild populations with variations in genotype keep interbreeding, Dobzhansky knew, a new species would never be formed: a species, after all, is fundamentally defined by its inability to interbreed with another. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

And then that wild spirit yell at the end. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The first thing I found, which I had forgotten, was that this place was near the wild dogs’lair. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Busy little wild card,” he says in French, his words translating in my view. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The liberal politician Charles Masterman warned that “he can convince himself of almost every truth if it is once allowed thus to start on its wild career through his rhetorical machinery. ” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

With another wild kick, she rolled herself over and stumbled to her feet, staggering in the direction of the forest A tickle grew in Tally’s throat as the pepper dust dispersed on the wind. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

My hair explodes out in a loofah of wild ringlets. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was a wild party, and it took our robot to make it happen. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The Roman Republic reached the height of its power in the first century BC, when treasure fleets from throughout the Mediterranean enriched the Romans beyond their ancestors’ wildest dreams. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Down in the audience, more than fifteen hundred people went wild. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would soon kill the wild dogs, but there were many small red foxes on the island. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Lizzy,” cried her mother, “remember where you are, and do not run on in the wild manner that you are suffered to do at home.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Ten thousand years ago wheat was just a wild grass, one of many, confined to a small range in the Middle East. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slaves who ran away and lived beyond the control of the planters were called “maroons”—from the Spanish word cimarron for cattle that escaped and lived in the wild. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Tree-ear carted another load of clay for Min that afternoon, then returned to the bridge where Crane-man had stewed some wild mushrooms for their supper. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Arya was dreaming of wolves running wild through the wood when a strong hand clamped down over her mouth like smooth warm stone, solid and unyielding. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He kept one eye on Sam Houston, who was known for his wild pitches, and the other on Lula’s older cousin, Fern Spitty, who swanned about nearby, twirling her white lace-trimmed parasol. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Farmer did the spinal tap himself while the doctors held down the girl, who erupted with wild cries. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“You will not come? You will not be my comforter, my rescuer? My deep love, my wild woe, my frantic prayer, are all nothing to you?” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Almost as if I were borrowing Jasper’s strange extra sense, I could feel Alice’s wild — though well-concealed — desperation to have me out of the room, to be alone with Jasper. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I’m not real tall, my eyes are a deep green color, and my hair is wild and kinky—and kind of a dirty brown. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

His trappings of scarlet and gold flapped about him in wild tatters. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

His father, Harry, his dreams shattered, had fled for the wilds of Canada, unable to cope with what he had seen in his wife’s last moments. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“They cut each other? Out here in the wild? To make themselves ...” Her throat closed on the word, as if she was going to gag. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Copying the tigers, their stalking kill and their anger, had been a wild, bloodthirsty joy. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes in those last years, if Melvin was feeling low, he’d go out and buy some wild tie and wear it every day for a week.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Charging from the side, they hurled themselves upon the wild men. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Those wild butterflies are back in my belly, and I can’t wait to start running so they will go away, or at least they’ll get tired and relax. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

She was hunting, her dress short to the knee, her arms bare, her hair in wild disarray. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am a wild beast, my friend: untamed and undaunted.” The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

He did a little wild dance, kicking his heels. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was eight years old, a flock of wild, green- rumped parrots moved into the fishtail palm tree by the back wooden fence. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Immobile, bearded and hand palm-lifted the horseman sat; behind him the wild blacks and the captive architect huddled quietly, carrying in bloodless paradox the shovels and picks and axes of peaceful conquest. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was the greedy joy in the tangy taste of wild hickory nuts. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had roast venison and fried catfish and stewed squirrel and blackeyed peas and cornbread and flour gravy and butter and wild honey and hog-plum jelly and fresh buttermilk. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sacrilege! Perhaps the wild god favored us with a blessing. Or perhaps Grover’s music was so awful it scared the enemy away!” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

She bestowed the blessing of a wild girl’s lips. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Now at his father’s words this wild dream had become possible. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then a few things happened which, when added up, turned the wild youngster into an entirely different person. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whole arena erupted in wild applause as I lifted my chest and raised my arms high. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

When they finished their regular act, the audience went wild. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

That nasty epidemic disease affects cattle and many wild cud-chewing mammals, but not humans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Sam was building a fire to cook his breakfast of wild cereal grains he had collected. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Tidbit thrashed about hysterically, his tiny face wild with fear. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Woundwort grew up very wild and, like Cowper’s hare, would bite when he could. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Malecki’s expression darkens, and he gets this strange, wild look in his eyes. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

A boy with a leather cap and wide, wild eyes stood in the doorway. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

There were wild strawberries growing on the sunny side of the ridge in a little clearing in the trees. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

For over two decades, Rondon, now forty-eight and the commander of Brazil’s Telegraphic Commission, explored and mapped the “wild, western wilderness of Brazil.” Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Mastodons, saber-toothed tigers, wolves, caribou, wild horses, and even camels all once thrived in eastern North America alongside the moose but gradually stumbled into extinction, while the moose just plodded on. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The Natufians were hunter-gatherers who subsisted on dozens of wild species, but they lived in permanent villages and devoted much of their time to the intensive gathering and processing of wild cereals. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m afraid it was destroyed at a really wild gathering. Everyone dearly loved it.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Neel had climbed all the tall palm trees, waded in the creeks, and foraged for wild guavas in every corner of the mangrove forest. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Her hair was loose, the curls wild and free about her head. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“You could survive in the wild. Eating out of trash cans and wandering the streets.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then he must do as the tigers would do—run to the edge of the city and away to the unpeopled wild country to the south. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Man is more dependent on these wild pollinators than he usually realizes. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

His dark hair is kind of wild and messy like he’s been at the beach, even though there’s no beach in Bartlett, and shines blue-black in the light. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He did not expect to find Josiah’s cattle near Herefords, because the spotted cattle were so rangy and wild; but without Betonie he wouldn’t have hoped to find the cattle at all. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Kaede flips her hair at the audience and strikes a mock pose for them, which makes them go wild. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

He beat down a square of tall grass and wild pink flowers, all without once ever looking at me. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Overnight, the fever had seized her and she lay hot and stifled, face red, eyes wild with fear when Mama came up to check on her. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

“This has been a pretty wild couple of weeks.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

With each flash she saw dancing trees and wild water pouring across the barnyard. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Big Mexican guy charges, throws a wild punch that glances off the side of Rondell’s face. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I tossed in everything I saw and thought and felt during the day and wrapped it all up with book quotes and prison slang and bits of wild conversation, and anything I thought was interesting. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

A wild rush—a howl that is louder than anything I’ve ever heard before. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Second, My Lord 02-06, if I may call him so, is an avid sportsman, and in the wilds of New-York he shall find plenty of scope for unusual chases and kills. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

And the curious ones laughed and said how foolish and credible people were to spread such wild rumors. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought of the food we would need to gather and how best to protect it from the wild dogs when we were not in the village. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Along the edge of the wood a sheet of wild clematis showed like a patch of smoke, all its sweet-smelling flowers turned to old man’s beard. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had heard plenty of stories about the wild parties he threw in his offices on the second floor of the factory, parties that went late into the night. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Jimmy does a pirouette over the unaccompanied wild percussion that we’ve built up and lands on his knee: “How sweet it is!” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

In the meantime Kantorek is dashing up and down like a wild boar. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turn to see the back door of the house hanging open, and my thoughts suddenly go wild. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

She pats my head and tucks my wild hair behind my ears. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He refuted Young’s wild charges, but the majority of the club’s members were bewildered, did not know whether to believe him or not. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

After all, didn’t Grandfather champion their wild tempers, and wasn’t Grandmother a near-white woman with police pull? I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

An even more obvious factor behind the delay was the wild animals and plants available for domestication. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I let out a wild laugh, almost choking over the yam as the scene spun before me. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cats in the wild do so much destruction to the bird population. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Kaira sang, “I like your style/and the way you smile/just drives me wild.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

They grabbed the menus and crayons from her hand, their eyes wild. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

They’d been surviving out here in the forest and fields around the abandoned village, and Anastasia had given birth in the wild. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

But then reflect that the vast majority of wild plants are unsuitable for obvious reasons: they are woody, they produce no edible fruit, and their leaves and roots are also inedible. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

A short distance beyond the dune, near the cliff, I saw the pack of wild dogs. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

A terrible, shameful image comes to me: Kamal with his delicate hands, his reassuring manner, his sibilant speech, contrasted with Scott, huge and powerful, wild, desperate. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Trolls eat raw flesh and are not fussy in their prey, which ranges from wild animals to humans. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another obvious difference between seeds that we grow and many of their wild ancestors is in bitterness. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

And then he starts to laugh, loud and deep and wild, in a way so familiar, it feels like pressing on a bruise. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

There was cider to be made from the wild pears. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

She made him taller, and massive, too, with crisping hair in curls like petals of wild hyacinth but all red-golden. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The neat rows reminded me of the braids Mama put in my hair at night to keep what she called my wild hair under control. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

One particularly effective method was to surround an entire herd of animals, such as wild horses, then chase them into a narrow gorge, where it was easy to slaughter them en masse. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wherritt again went wild, and again the conductor and his allies subdued him, but they were growing tired. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

We made good time, the huge sea smoothed before us, and held our rites when we reached Tenedos, being wild for home. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Showing fear was the worst thing one could do when confronted by a wild animal. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

If nothing else, having a Last Friend should make my friends feel a little better about me running wild around the city. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Then he threw himself off Devil’s Drop and almost drowned that day, almost died, and my anger toward him got wild and thrashing, monstrous and dangerous. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“He asked me to go to the Alisal when the wild azaleas bloom.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Rudy is a mutt; my father says he’s a cross between a chihuahua and a German shepherd, which must’ve been some wild dog sex. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Veteran demigods from the city had joined the battle, and were pushing their shield wall against an onslaught of wild centaurs. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The water in Gramps’s stories hadn’t been this wild. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

Rather than deal with the wild animals, who seemed to be everywhere on the flatland, they decided to go in search of food up in the hills. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

He wanted some wild demonstration of sympathy and love. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Well! He went into that part of his life, and a dark wild part it is. Shall I tell you? Or would it worry you just now?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

We were careless and wild, and I suppose we could be thought of as a sign of the life the war was being fought to preserve. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Laura looked at him all the time she was eating her hasty pudding, because she had heard Pa say to Ma that he was wild. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Between her and Papa and Grandpa I was too busy with home chores and store work to go hunting wild fruit. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

It was a little bit like shaping a wild, natural landscape into identifiable patterns for the benefit of the human onlooker. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The animals located a rich stand of wild grapes in a dell partway up the hill. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The crowd was so loud and wild I could only barely make out Navid’s head a couple of feet away. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

So wild had their voices been that Miyax crept to her door to call Kapu to come and ease her fears. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I can’t just let it run wild. Trebon’s only about five miles from here. And there’s smaller farms closer than that. Think of the damage it would do.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The wild stallion's heart was all muscle, and Dany had to worry it with her teeth and chew each mouthful a long time. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The buzzer sounded, ten seconds to go, pop-pop, get in there and fight, black boy, pop- pop, you slave, and he drove in, pop-pop, hook, Rivera's eyes were wild, pop-pop and right cross. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay, guys—there are eight more book rooms to explore and who knows how many more wild cards. Whose turn is it?” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

She was tired from the wild run here, from the long night with Maddy and Az, from a hard day’s work. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

On the Internet, the talk about Scott is horrible, the theories wild, disgusting. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

It looked wild, frenzied, like it wasn’t sure which way to go, forward and back, forward and back, and before it could slow down, I clamped my hand over the washer. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The sand exploded at his feet and out charged a wild boar, even larger and uglier than the one whose head hung above the door of. cabin seven at Camp Half-Blood. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

In the mornings, before it was too hot, Ultima and I walked in the hills of the llano, gathering the wild herbs and roots for her medicines. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Skirting a small lake, they had stared to see a great gray fisher bird that stabbed and paddled in the sedge, until a flight of wild duck had frightened them away with their clamor. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Father says the freedom of the wild horse is in the Márez blood, and his gaze is always westward. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve seen parades from the one in Brazil, the people looking like brightly colored ants as they danced through the streets, wild and free. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Harry’s broom had given a wild jerk and Harry swung off it. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

In a zoo, we do for animals what we have done for ourselves with houses: we bring together in a small space what in the wild is spread out. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The English guy looks over his shoulder, then back to me, his wild face wild with worry now. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“Clean on back there to the back,” a large drunk Negro said, pointing with a wild swinging gesture that almost made him lose his balance. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those wild cereal harvests were precursors to the domestication of the earliest crops, the cereals wheat and barley, in the Fertile Crescent. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Its back bristled with brown hair, and its eyes were wild and angry. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Bod leaned forward, dug his hands into the wild weed-grass that grew on the unkempt grave. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Since the hour he had arrived in the Red Ke^p, Lady Tanda had been stalking him, armed with a never-ending arsenal of lamprey pies, wild boars, and savory cream stews. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Unseen, on the edges of the undulating buttes, deer and wild turkeys stirred and every now and then the night burst alive with a shooting star that left a delicate and misty trail. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The same pattern repeated itself elsewhere in the world, whenever peoples lacking native wild mammal species suitable for domestication finally had the opportunity to acquire Eurasian domestic animals. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

All around him, wild, green-haired heads were emerging out of the water with him, but they were smiling at him. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The pair of them were like two wild birds. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

He had been raised in captivity and released to the wild by Heinz Meng. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

I seasoned it with wild garlic and jack-in-the-pulpit roots. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because grass-fed cows are eating the same diet as their wild ancestors. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Fort, wild, home, rat, open, belief, she chanted to herself as she wandered among the bookshelves. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I do think there are some interesting connections between the poet in ‘Song of Myself’ and Margo Spiegelman—all that wild charisma and wanderlust. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I got macaroni and cheese and she got a root beer float, and we drove back home to the superior wilds of Brooklyn. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

He loved Mom’s Texas cousins, but all of them, five wild little girls and their grumpy mama, lived in a tiny little house. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

Supposing the king’s small escort was trapped and overcome, but he escaped into the darkness — alone in the wild fields of Rohan with no idea of where he was in all the endless miles? The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Her lips were full and wet from the water, and her dark hair, which was all wild and kinky from the heat, glowed red in the exit-sign light. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

How could professional firefighters have allowed the fire to run wild? The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Two of the founders had very small ranges in the wild, chickpea being confined to southeastern Turkey and emmer wheat to the Fertile Crescent itself. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“These are wild. Can you zoom in a little?” Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

That life wasn’t as wild and as carefree as it looked from the outside anyway. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fort, wild, home, rat, open, belief, she chanted to herself as she wandered among the bookshelves. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The brush was wild but the grass was dead. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Out of the trees wild people stepped forth, gods and goddesses of the wood; with them came Fauns and Satyrs and Dwarfs. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

It was a winter of strong winds and rain and wild seas that crashed against the cliffs, so I would not have gone out much even if Rontu had been there. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Other tykes have eaten the oleander. It’s a danger, having a poisonous plant grow wild everywhere. They ought to pull it all up, not leave it where the tykes can get at it.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

What made me realize that I should slow down on my wild streak is when Ms. Gruwell threatened to kick me out of the Freedom Writers. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was a sow, not a boar, and under a patina of mud it was the pink of a domestic pig, not the brown bristle of a wild one. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

On the way home, she rolls down the window, her hair blowing wild. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He was short and thick around the middle, with a wild mane of white hair and huge black plastic-rimmed glasses. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Whenever he glanced in the mirror, he was startled by the wild, empty look in his eyes, as if he’d gone blind wandering in the desert. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Rather than depending on just a few crops that could fail, they minimized risk by developing an economy based on a great variety of wild foods, not all of which were likely to fail simultaneously. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The boy tosses his head back and laughs, a laugh that falls gentle and wild like desert rain. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Goats are okay, but what I really love are wild animals, like the ones you find at the zoo. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

An idea began to form in Pearl’s mind in wild golden loops. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I guess I should praise the Lord it wasn’t some wild woman he was hanging round his neck.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Equally puzzling is the failure of people to domesticate flax in its wild range in western Europe and North Africa, or einkorn wheat in its wild range in the southern Balkans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

They went to Tijuana for a couple days to do some study about these wild rabbits they got down there. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I always thought it was wild to see dudes you knew were hustlers playing chess for hours. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

To the waters and the wild, With a faery, hand in hand, For the world’s more fill of weeping than you can understand.”’ The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

In fact, he was sitting in the copilot’s seat, and they were cruising over the forest, looking down at the wildly tossing treetops, a wild sea of leaf and branch. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a thing of the wild, come in from the wild to sit by John Thornton’s fire, rather than a dog of the soft Southland stamped with the marks of generations of civilization. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z

The camaradas steered the six canoes right into the wild waters. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

"Last week we found this haunted watchtower, and the day before we chased a herd of wild horses. You should have seen them run when they caught a scent of Nymeria." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

However, if violence broke out between the two species, Neanderthals were not much better off than wild horses. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Corcoran swung to and fro between euphoria and the wildest of despairs. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The villages form a ring of human settlement around the volcano, and the ring is steadily closing around the forest on its slopes, a noose that is strangling the wild habitat of the mountain. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She still seems wild, like the fight is raging inside her, but the walking is helping. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My father was too wild for the Court. He liked the deep, feral woods far better than my mother’s intrigues. He left, and then she died. Now it’s just me.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

This man’s son had served under the great Odysseus, gone in the decked ships with him to the wild horse country of Troy—a spearman, Antiphos by name. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All right. Well, don’t you go gettin' wild like you do. I don’t want to hear about you jumpin’ out of the bleachers on the Pope or anything like that.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In those days it was not thought at all safe for a young, single girl to go into the wilds of Africa and study animals. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Seeing my reflection in a bowl of water or a looking glass, I thought how amazed Hamlet would be to see me transformed from a wild girl into a lady. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Rondon immediately thought that a jaguar or the wild boar-like peccary was attacking his dog—until he heard a chorus of voices. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Instead, they evidently knew the local wild plants as intimately as do modern New Guineans, and they used that knowledge to select and bring home only the most useful available seed plants. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I was in a wild and triumphant mood. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was quiet and moody, and sometimes for no reason at all wild, loud sounds came exploding from his throat and lungs. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both the mayor and the constable turned tail and ran, their eyes white and wild as startled horses’. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was no easy thing to send men into the wild, knowing that the chances were good that they might never return. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Would we become like the orphan child we often saw in the village streets, begging for bread and eating scraps of meat like a wild animal? Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Ramo had the task of keeping the abalones safe from the gulls and especially the wild dogs. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The others rallied to his cry and they went off howling like a pack of wild dogs. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hence if a productive crop is already available, incipient farmers will surely proceed to grow it rather than start all over again by gathering its not yet so useful wild relative and redomesticating it. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

All the thoughts I’d tried to stop were raging wild within me now. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

In the midst of the tramping of boots, contradictory commands, cannon shots that made the earth tremble, wild shooting, and the senseless sound of cornets, the supposed Colonel Stevenson managed to speak to Arcadio. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

In wild wheat and barley, a common single-gene mutation blocks shattering. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Poor baby. She was in that truck for days. Mack bought her from a circus, the same way he bought me, but she hadn’t been there long. She was born in the wild, like us.” The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Maize is one of the few farm species that is more diverse than most wild plants. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The wild wind must have been bringing clouds overhead, because suddenly the moon was covered, and darkness swept over the whole landscape—thick clouds, too, for no gleam of moonlight shone through them. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

High spurts the fountain; fierce and foamy the wild jet. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I got my hair all wild, and I splattered some red paint on my clothes.” I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

“This year, the team who gets first pick of the wild cards is...” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Gran claimed she was drawn to wild open wilderness and it didn’t get more wild than the endless forests and craggy beaches of Oregon. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A fierce and noble falcon right out of the wilds of White Man Mountain, and look at her—sweet as a baby.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Biology, his main subject, seemed to be a wild, overgrown garden of a discipline, lacking any systematic organizing principles. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

In the wild, turkeys and pheasants follow bison herds. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Bones went wild, leaped on Lloyd and began strangling him. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

His black hair was wild and his eyes were darkly circled. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The yeshiva team exploded into wild cheers and shouted loud words of congratulations in Yiddish to the batter. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

All Noodles ever said about him was that he was kind of wild, which is pretty much what everybody always says about their brothers and sisters, so that wasn't a big deal. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

I really dig Mr. Crosby; he’s pretty laid-back except when he starts talking about what he calls “government pork,” and then he gets all wild and upset. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

We thaw, begin to laugh a little, as we relate mishaps with bees and wild dogs and skunks. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The man, Bill noticed, had a wild look about him, the look of an outlaw, and he kept glancing around the house as if he were casing it. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Giants, six-armed Earthborn, and wild Cyclopes charged from the beach, tearing down the dining pavilion, setting fire to the cabins and the Big House. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

But Ged stooped and plucked a blade of wild grass that poked up dry and frail out of the snow where the otak had lain dead. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Then I went to the river and cut the tall, green alfalfa that grew wild and carried the bundle home so that I would have a few days of food laid in for the rabbits. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t tell him, but his eyes were looking just as wild as the horse’s too. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

In addition to the dogs he keeps as pets, he has lived with all kinds of wild animals in his home near Vienna. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes were wild and his chest heaving. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Looking out the window at the wild gusts of snowflakes, I thought: Oh my goodness, these people live in ice. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The horse beneath her felt powerful and wild, but he moved so smoothly that Ash found herself relaxing against her will. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, man, we blazed through the wild blue yonder over there,” he told me one time up in the woods while his girl was behind a bush watering the daisies. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Feeling for the first time that I could speak to listening ears, I wrote a wild, crude poem in free verse, coining images of black hands playing, working, holding bayonets, stiffening finally in death ... Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

We could have been an Okie family heading west, while Papa in his wide-brim hat and his turtleneck sweater drove like a wild man, as if he couldn't wait to get back to civilization. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rivera darting across the parking lot like a wild animal. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

By this time I'm hunkering along in front of the place, trying to maintain a casual attitude, except like I said my feet are going wild that year and I keep tripping over everything. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

We garden, we hunt, we pick wild mushrooms or berries. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

What if I were injured and then had to fight the wild dogs as I dragged myself homeward? Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was sure he was tending a sweet but abused young girl at first, but when she bit him, he said, Oh, she’s wild. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

We sat down to a feast of the ham, huge plates of fried potatoes, ham gravy, hot com bread, fresh butter, and wild bee honey. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Charles’s eyes were wild and his hair was disordered. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Those little birds filled with orange sauce, with wild rice and watercress. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Big is right. It’ll be like capturing a wild elephant. Them people better have them a great big net,” Santa said eagerly. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we destroy a wild area, we may be destroying a whole species of plant or animal that is not found anywhere else. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

They are adapted to live in the wild. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her heart runs wild and her eyes tear up. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I could see his mouth wide open and his eyes wild. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Swaying in the doorway was a huge barefoot apparition in striped men’s pajamas, gray hair cascading over its shoulders, a wild look in its eyes. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

And now a wild fear surged in Kino’s breast, and on the fear came rage, as it always did. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

That seemed like cause for celebration, but the only welcoming committee was a flock of wild, hungry harpies who attacked the ship. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Instead, he climbed up the brush cliff beside the water, clawing and tearing at the ferns and wild grape as he went. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brian tried to move to the bank and run, but the brush was so thick and wild that it was like a jungle—grass, willows, and thick vines grabbed at him, holding him. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

“The council meeting will now commence,” announced the chair, an older gentleman with wild white hair and an immense mustache. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Tayo looked up at the big orange sandrock where the wild grape vine grew out of the sand and climbed along a fissure in the face of the boulder. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

There were rumored to be vicious feral raptorpacks lurking amidst the stink piles, and possibly even a wild tyrannosaurus or two. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Feral horses, belonging to my grandfather, ran wild over thick banks of water hemlock, and there were more than a few rattlesnakes. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“What a wild bunch of savages those sparrows are! I thought they had me once or twice back there.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Wait until I'm in the arena and sic starving wild animals on me. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Her vision was fickle and wild as the sea, and it had already failed her once today. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

But a bird flew out of the eaves before he got a chance, and Freebie went wild. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

“What about a wolf—or a wild dog?” my dad said. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“Think about every wild creature in the forest,” I said. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Much harder to lay one’s hands on a wild bull, a basilisk or a wolf. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The young man was riding mournfully through the fen country—which had not been drained in those days and was probably the wildest part of England. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He still craved what every wild beast knows is its true destiny—freedom to hunt and mate and conceal itself and live out its life amid the sounds and smells of the wild. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Or Wart sleeping in the grass with the wild geese.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Yes, nobody minds them, so lark away, but don’t get wild, will you? Or there will be an end of all our good times.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

I used to be a wild gorilla, and I still look the part. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

His face was grimy, his eyes a little wild. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

But no matter my wild thrashings, with relish the loco leader slowly presses the brand into my hand. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Were mutations sudden and spontaneous, or were abundant natural genetic variations already present in wild populations? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Merciless disease, wild beasts, and Indian attacks were a constant threat. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

A vast, empty desert stretched out before me, all under a night sky filled with wild splashes of color. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Several of the tools used in this process, such as the stone reaping knives and grindstones, were similar to the tools independently invented in the Fertile Crescent for processing seeds of other wild grasses. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

As the seasons went by, we grudgingly began to share our knowledge, our weapons, our secret places that were thick with wild plums or turkeys. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“If you’re interested in wild foods, speak with my friend Sam here. He’s an expert.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The staff was around him, looking at him with wild eyes. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The variety of wild animals thus tamed is far greater than the variety eventually domesticated, and includes some species that we would scarcely have imagined as pets. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He was proud of her wild, exploring mind. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Singer put a berry in his mouth and though the juice had a lush, wild sweetness there was already a subtle flavor of decay. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

What life had made him bear, her lover, this wild, unhappy boy, many another stronger and more virtuous man might not have borne so well. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

So it was that near the end of a wild and wet evening in the last days of October the five travellers rode up the climbing road and came to the South-gate of Bree. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

But eventually her wild antics brought her at odds with the WCTU, which had been providing her with financial and legal help. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

I was looking for a stand of wild cane. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had seen the wild, ancient creature in him before, but this time that inhumanness edged into something she recognized with her gut: He looked at her with desire. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He began to shout at me, cursing, quite hysterical, throwing wild punches at me. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Still, he wasn’t wild about handing over a deadly weapon to a kid. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Only one man had tried to watch them in the wild. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

They heard the deep growls of shadowcats behind them before they had gone half a mile, and later the wild snarling of the beasts fighting over the corpses they had left behind. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

We did a lot of stuff together—we climbed through ceilings, we trashed classrooms—we were wild! Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A wild look raised his brows—crossed his features: he rose; but he forebore yet. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

His mouth is a grim line, his eyes wild. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Late in the evening, when the dancing became wild, Sass hurried us home. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

A similar problem has frustrated schemes to breed the vicuna, an Andean wild camel whose wool is prized as the finest and lightest of any animal’s. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She knew the world was a wild place. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

By the precise and delicate timing that is nature’s own, the emergence of one species of wild bees takes place on the very day of the opening of the willow blossoms. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I baked a fish in leaves, and ate a small, precious amount of wild rice. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Are you wild about having a fist slammed down your throat up to the elbow, wise guy?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think of my mom and Decca and Kate, and then I hit the opener, and up goes the door, and out I go into the wild blue yonder. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It reminded me of the tags environmentalists used to put on endangered animals, to track their movements in the wild. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Finding no telltale marks of an aerie on the bridge, Sam walked up Elm Street and stopped in the library to get a book on farming wild edible plants. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Nobody looked at Percy like he was a homeless wild child. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Girls of fearless sexual appetite, who needed to run wild under the moon. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Now and then, you can even spot a wild pig in the road! Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

In the woods around the convent must be all manner of roots and wild berries and plants unknown in Denmark. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

She could hear the wild hammering of his heart. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

La Belle Sauvage sped like a dart over the mad river, down towards Port Meadow, towards the wild waste of water that was sweeping through Oxford, towards whatever lay beyond. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The audience, who’s been stunned into silence, breaks into wild applause. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

In wild excitement, I stumbled up and fell overboard. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man they hunted had slipped away from human understanding; he had become a wild animal, and they were afraid. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t suppose you got another wild boar up your sleeve?” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

In the wild, most chickens and cattle died long before that, but they still had a fair chance of living for a respectable number of years. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am a farmer of wild foods—wild rabbits and pheasants, wild cattails and hickory nuts and walnuts.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

I leave the office and walk down the hall, where Bobby is leading a new recruit on his welcoming tour—a black guy with wild teeth and a stained blue sweatsuit. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Sometimes Elsie raced through the fields, chasing wild turkeys or grabbing the family mule by the tail and thrashing against him until Lawrence pulled her off. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

"These are bad times to dwell alone in the wild. The cold winds are rising." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

This was of course a wild underestimate, but a radical notion nonetheless, and Buffon found himself threatened with excommunication for expressing it. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“You’re sure we’re okay to be parked here? In case you forgot, some wild dude with a hammer broke one of our windows.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

He threaded among willows and sycamores and wild blackberry vines in the riverbed, patted the trunks of live oak and scrub oak, madrone, laurel, toyon. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The only sound was the sudden, wild laughter of Encanis, like breaking glass. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I spent those days making more arrows, and on the third day, with these arrows and my spear, I went out along the trail the wild dogs had made to and from my house. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

She actually bared her teeth like a wild animal, and Matt watched with interest to see whether she would manage to sink them into the man’s neck. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hand Clap cared little about the truth, and loved to let his imagination run wild. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most people don’t realize how dangerous wild boars are, especially in the fall, when the males are fighting for dominance. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

In the autumn South Carolina changed her color to ruby red and wild shades of orange. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of my wild kicks found Florah and sent her rolling. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Already men were breaking away, flying wild and witless here and there, flinging away their weapons, crying out in fear, falling to the ground. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Eurasia has the largest number of big terrestrial wild mammal species, whether or not ancestral to a domesticated species. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you think you could find me some wild sage?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Nigerian women came to America and became wild, Igbo Massachusetts Accountant wrote in one post; it was an unpleasant truth but one that had to be said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

It looked like a wild bush had grown up and practically covered the two little mounds. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nights, wild sunflowers in the vacant lot close up, scents of chicken and collards blow through kitchen windows. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

I started laughing, this wild kind of laugh that I couldn’t control. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The crew raced back and forth from the trees to the ship, bringing meat and eggs, heads of wild cabbage and casks of freshwater. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

She banged her chest and roared wild, angry sounds. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I lay on the bed and looked at the tiny bunches of wild roses sprinkled over her dress. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Could I even manage to take everyone I love with me, start a new life deep in the wild? Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mom and I made three pies with wild blackberries that Teddy and I had picked. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wild bacteria consume the cell culture, eat it up, and make a variety of different smells in the air while they’re prowing, whereas viruses kill cells^ without releasing an odor. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He crawled to another chimney and waited; it was so cold that he had a wild wish to merge into the icy bricks of the chimney and have it all over. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I race through the hospital like a trapped wild animal. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It feels dreamy and wild, like something Julia might have made. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Presently I stood within that clean, bright kitchen—on the very hearth—trembling, sickening; conscious of an aspect in the last degree ghastly, wild, and weather-beaten. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

This voice had a quality to it, a monstrous quality, wild and untamed. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Claim they eat livestock. Kill pets, wild game. Not a whit of truth to it. I seen ’em eat dilly bugs and the like. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“I’ve had it up to my horns with this nonsense. As if the wild god would speak to ... to him!’ The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The weatherman says, “Katrina is headed directly for New Orleans. If you haven’t gotten out, buckle down. It’s going to be a wild ride. Perhaps devastating.” Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

For one wild moment he wanted to tell him about Mr. Donatelli, but he swallowed it back and the moment passed. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had had the wildest idea in class when I realized I wanted to go find Aileen, and now I took a deep breath and hoped for the best. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Most had recently adopted agriculture or were soon to do so, but it was still a secondary source of food, a supplement to the wild products of the land. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

On the first level, he put enemies of speed: wild dogs, cheetahs, hummingbirds. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I think it’s time we moved on. It’s about to get dark, and I don’t want to see what kind of wild beasts roam these woods after dark.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Her hair hung wet and heavy, a loose strand stuck to her forehead, and she could imagine how ragged and wild she must look, but for once she did not care. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It is almost never a good thing to keep wild animals as pets. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The deer will suffer, too, and the land will be poorer for the destruction of the wild things that belong to it. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Every group had stories of terrible peril: boys who had been hurt or killed by bullets or bombs, attacked by wild animals, or left behind because they were too weak or sick to keep up. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He is one of the best explorers, one of the most nervy men in all dangers, whether they come from the elements, from wild beasts or from wilder men,” Roosevelt said. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Bernard swings his balloon so wild, he hits the boy sitting next to him, who acts like Bernard punched him or something. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Tagoe suppresses his tic often because his neck jerking around every other minute is not only uncomfortable, but it also makes him look unapproachable and wild. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Already a hand short, and entering on the Bay of Biscay with wild weather ahead, and yet last night another man lost—disappeared. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Most of all, it was the wild music that impressed Matt. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had such a wild hot fever that Mama nearly ran herself to death, packing fresh cold water from the spring, which she used to bathe me all over, trying to run my fever down. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

But even if the preindustrialized Appalachians were only half as wild and dramatic as in the paintings of Durand and others like him, they must have been something to behold. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Like this is a crucial piece of evidence in some wild conspiracy theory. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I said I was hungry, and Rosaleen said to hold my wild horses. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the 1920’s, according to the history the War kids recounted from their parents, War was a wild, bawdy place of dance halls and gambling houses. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

These children are running wild and where is the father? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

There was a spray of pink wild aster in it. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lifting my suitcase, with a wild excitement, I ran up to the truck. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

His tie was now loosened and his hair was wild. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

But many of the wild seeds did not immediately sprout, and they yielded no harvest. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He passed through the two very thick sliding glass doors that stopped the wild sounds of the Electronic Learning Center from leaking out into the rest of the building. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Early food production was less competitive with hunting-gathering in the Americas than in the Fertile Crescent or China, partly owing to the Americas’ virtual lack of domesticable wild mammals. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

All he saw, or thought he saw, was a lot of dangerous wild animals walking vaguely about. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

His stomach felt like it was on a wild roller coaster ride. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Our dinner consists of salmon and salad, with wild blackberries and roasted fingerling potatoes. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Without the pendant, Tally was stuck out here in the wild forever. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

A week later, Old Yeller helped me catch a wild gobbler that I’d have lost without him. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night, he had another dream about wild dogs. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

All I can do is follow the others, the rabbits and deer and I even spot a wild dog pack shooting through the woods. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Would he come back, I wondered, or had he gone to live with the wild dogs? Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

A flock of seabirds pursued her, their wild screams beating at her ears like Dr. Cable’s razor- edged voice. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“She runs wild all day with a butterfly net. She doesn’t know how to sew or keep house,” said Mother. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

He snarled like a wild animal and counterattacked. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The seeds of many wild plant species actually must pass through an animal’s gut before they can germinate. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

First and most directly, domestic animals became the societies’ major source of animal protein, replacing wild game. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She has more bonobos living in the wilds of the release site than she has in captivity, an achievement she brings up often. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

As for the dogs, they could chase penguins and run wild without going too far—on all sides was the frigid sea, where killer whales cruised in search of a meal. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

I don’t know if they’re really a good omen, but seeing wild dolphins always makes me feel better. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I kept imagining what it would be like to be back with my public school friends, going wild at football homecoming games, joining clubs, and finding dates for prom. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Something had happened to him, down there in the wild water. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

How could he give the award to a boy with such wild notions as this? The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The DJ is playing James Brown, and everyone is going wild, flailing their arms and screaming the lyrics. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

In a wild and free state they...stray sometimes for miles...wandering until they find a suitable environment. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Growing up, I’d had a lot of interaction with wild animals—elephants, rhinos, cape buffalo, hyenas. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

He launched himself upward again, hope running wild as he surfaced. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I was more akin to a wild animal than a boy of twelve. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I gazed up at the wild, exploding colors in the night sky. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

As I neared the end of the bridge I heard the clatter of hooves and the wild curses of Tenorio. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Foraging societies there grouped into permanent villages and learned to cultivate and breed the area’s wild wheat and barley. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She saw only her dreams of freedom turning bright and wild, like a rainbow glimpsed through a prism. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Two contrasting explanations suggest themselves: problems with the local people, or problems with the locally available wild plants. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You should see some of my other babies out in the wild.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She wished she were anything but a cursed wild girl, a beast. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

But they could hear the wild battles as one dog after another succumbed and was torn to pieces. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

That’s initially surprising, because we think of Africa as the continent of big wild mammals. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was not a wild slough, although tules, cattails and foxtails still grew, also dill, and yellow chamomile, fat and fuzzy as bees. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many wild seeds evolved to be bitter, bad-tasting, or actually poisonous, in order to deter animals from eating them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Were they once free-living in the wild and then induced to adopt a less strenuous life on the farm? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maya was the only one who seemed steady, her eyes wild and alive. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

His cool hands were on my face; I stared at him with wild eyes. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

They had autumn peaches picked from the trees and sliced in golden cream, mounds of wild honey, and apples that Nancy’s little boys had polished until they gleamed rosily against the white cloth. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, many parts of Eurasia did have quite a few of these 13 species living together in the same area: for example, seven of the wild ancestors occurred in Southwest Asia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Talk about wild things! Your grand-mother was the wildest, most untamed, most ornery and beautiful creature ever to grace this earth.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

The squealing of the pig and the scent of his blood made the hogs beneath me go nearly wild with anger. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

They seemed very small, and they tried to efface themselves in outside neglect, and the wild overgrown front yards tried to hide them from the street. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Jesper laid down another series of shots, sketching a wild formation he hoped would disguise their location. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Run and run and disappear into the mountains and live in solitude in the dark green of the wild, with a pine-needle carpet and a blanket of stars overhead. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

They were eight-foot-tall giants with wild eyes, pointy teeth, and hairy arms tattooed with snakes and hula women and Valentine hearts. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Chickens are too expensive, but I could make do with a wild turkey. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Her mother imagined all kinds of wild goings-on with a rock ’n’ roll band, but all they were doing was playing cards. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

The town in which Augustus Gloop lived, the newspaper said, had gone wild with excitement over their hero. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was a wild, impossible notion, to be abandoned as soon as thought of; but the room had awakened in him a sort of nostalgia, a sort of ancestral memory. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He wants to be wild, but has never been off the leash. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The look of wild, confused fear he gave me was a brief, sweet pleasure. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

There were several makuks of wild rice from the fall’s gathering, though the harvest had been so poor. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

The classy fellow and his death bride spun wild circles from one wall to the next. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Latrines are merely one of the many places where we accidentally sow the seeds of wild plants that we eat. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

While such late-sprouting seeds still have the opportunity to germinate in the wild, consider what must have happened as farming developed. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was a two-day train ride, so I got to see some of the countryside and, even from a distance, some wild animals. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Scorched bricks with wild grass growing all around the lot. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

And I missed the wilds of Alaska, to run through and in them with a dog team, alone and silent in such staggering beauty. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He’s so loud, you’d think he was being attacked by wild animals. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

And when all three of us stood before her, grinning and ready to lick the bowl, she declared us “a bunch of wild hyenas running loose in the jungle.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Then—well, he’s always been a little unbalanced—and just totally wild,” Kissinger continued. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“The top four scorers and members of our quiz team will be . . . Connor Bates—” Connor interrupts him with a wild, whooping cheer. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

There was something wild about a godswood; even here, in the heart of the castle at the heart of the city, you could feel the old gods watching with a thousand unseen eyes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

"In my opinion the speech was wild, hysterical, politically irresponsible and dangerous," he snapped. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was really the wild, where anything could be hidden, not a place for human beings. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Once I passed Humansdorp, the forests became denser and for the first time in my life I saw wild elephants and baboons. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or about the time he wrestled a pack of wild dogs that had surrounded a lame mustang. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was wild, he said, and in the wild that wound was fatal. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But the pantiled ridges were hard to walk on, and the first ones scrambled up on hands and knees, their wild eyes never leaving Will’s face. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Horned King uttered the long cry of a wild beast, and his riders took it up as they streamed after him. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

“Hold-Your-Nose Billy, a wild man is he, Hang him from a gallows tree. Here he comes, there he goes: Don’t forget to hold your nose.’ The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then I began to risk climbing trees to escape the wild dogs that quickly got bored and moved on. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

With all those wild hand gestures, you’d think I did a lot more than give her stuck-up Little Miss Princess daughter a tiny shove. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

What really counted was the possibility of escape, a leap to freedom, out of the implacable ritual, a wild run for it that would give whatever chance for hope there was. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

There was a little pea vine that grew wild all over the hills during wet winters and bloomed pale lavender in the spring. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

In her father’s palace she had watched them from her childhood, their stormy meetings, the black clouds they summoned and the wild red lightning. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a wild and crazy-looking James Grew who stood before him, his eyes shining and his body one big shudder. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know them, so their pain seems unreal next to Brother Khoi’s, whose eyes are as wild as those of his broken chick. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

For a second after I asked the question I thought the sickness had come back on him, because his eyes got a wild look again, as if he were seeing a nightmare. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I’m glad I’m not facing my parents, but even with my back to them, I can imagine the wild panic in their hearts. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

He could smell wild flowers growing in the weeds and grass beside the road, and he heard the big bumblebees and the smaller bees sucking the blossoms. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

An instant before reaching him the wild beetle cut and swerved out. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re not the only one with tools, wild card,” she calls up at me. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Eliza dismissed the wild tales with a shake of her head. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is going to sound wild,” she warned him. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He was curious and, in his small way, challenging the intruders that had dared to stop in his wild domain. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let us turn our thoughts to wild adventure on the high seas,” she suggested, after an unusually glum breakfast in the nursery. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

It is therefore able to multiply in a wild and unregulated manner. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Gran and Gramps lived nearby, and they were happy to take me for weekends so Mom and Dad could act wild and stay out all night for one of Dad’s shows. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well,” he says, “we’ve got one month to get two wild cards up to speed.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

We’re walking across the wild fields southeast of town, those ones that slope down to the river and head on toward the swamp. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The ravenous Marshall fans go wild at this first indication that Mojo can actually be beaten. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stood for a few heartbeats, feeling the wild blood surge in her neck, then went silently to the window— the silence of an accomplice. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A word scramble, maybe? Open wild rat home...Rat fort belief...” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

His voice became a shout and his eyes looked wild again. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The agony of those wheels on the drive, of that pealing bell, of my own first wild rush for flight to my own room. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The idea of waiting months, just so he can turn me down again, fills me with wild despair. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

His eyes were wild as a hurt deer’s. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Later we walked up the hill, looking for wild flowers. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the Outside article, I reported with great certainty that H. mackenzii, the wild sweet pea, killed the boy. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

His blond hair was filthy and uncut, growing wild, and his face was covered in stubble the color of shale. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He wandered through the wild solitudes of Thrace, comfortless except for his lyre, playing, always playing, and the rocks and the rivers and the trees heard him gladly, his only companions. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My lord,” Grover said, “please, you must come back with me! The Elders will never believe id They’ll be overjoyed! You can save the wild!” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Mushrooms, you soon discover, are wild things in every way. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Soon everybody talked about how sorry they were that they had not come to the hills earlier, rather than letting the wild animals eat their crops and drag off their children. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

A bunch of wild boys pushed and shoved their way in front of Howard and he didn’t even say anything. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Look at those flaring nostrils and wild eyes, Will!” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

But it suited David, somehow, as if growing up here in the wild allowed him to fuse with the animals that had donated their skins to his clothes. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

A wild crimson blot was crawling upward rapidly along his shirt front like an enormous sea monster rising to devour him. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

They do not, in any case, ask my brother and sisters the questions wild curiosity shapes. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The arrival of founder domesticates enabled local people to become sedentary, and thereby increased the likelihood of local crops’ evolving from wild plants that were gathered, brought home and planted accidentally, and later planted intentionally. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the cage, the other shamblers are going wild, throwing themselves against the bars in an attempt get a bite of their own. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Birds were zooming in and out of the hedges singing and squawking and probably wondering what we were doing here since the wild world had been mostly theirs for months now. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

This will be the wild black world at the bottom of the sea, a place meant only for monsters and ghosts. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

All plaques hold important facts, like the wild turkey sign, not only about the animal in flight, but about conservation efforts to help them. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The upper edges rose into the light, a far land of wild mountains. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

A diminutive boy in a wrapper of what looks like birch bark, his wild hair sticking up at odd angles, walks to the dais. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

In the beginning, Inigo had all kinds of wild vengeance notions, but gradually, simplicity had seemed the better way. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Scraps of red food dot his dark beard, and his eyes are wild and unhinged. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Also, I was having these bizarre dreams about hunting down wild game with my bare hands. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

She gave a shudder and took a long, shaky breath, and her eyes focused on him, full of a wild despair. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“We need the Weeper, and others like him. Who knows the wild better than a wildling? Who knows our foes better than a man who has fought them?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

His face was almost completely hidden by a long, shaggy mane of hair and a wild, tangled beard, but you could make out his eyes, glinting like black beetles under all the hair. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“No,” said the owl, sounding quite sure, “it will not. The wild onions are already up in the pastures.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Like the changes in seed dispersal, these changes in germination inhibition characterize wheat, barley, peas, and many other crops compared with their wild ancestors. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Billy had heard from a nurse that children who had had the operation were often taken to hostels further south, which might explain how Tony Makarios came to be wandering in the wild. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Looking at Alys, wrinkled and bent, it was hard to imagine her as a willful, wild girl. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She looked wild and dangerous, like a wounded creature. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The neighbors, close pressed and silent in the house, nodded their heads at his wild imaginings. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Palmer learned that in the wild pigeons used to live in the nooks and crannies of high rocky cliffs. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

He threw up a wild hook and I cut him off so he couldn’t get the bound. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Beside this tiny stream, wherever enough earth collected for root-hold, colonies of plants grew, wild grape and little palms, maidenhair fern, hibiscus, and tall pampas grass with feathery rods raised above the spike leaves. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Beneath me there was nothing but snow and ice. Here lay the Hardanger Plateau, the largest, loneliest, and wildest mountain area in north ern Europe.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

A town like this, rough and wild, made good mobs, she figured. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Just as I knew the field could never grow again, I knew that Leper could not be wild or bitter or psycho tramping across the hills of Vermont. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you two know what Grover is talking about—this wild blessing?” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The path is paved with cement, and there are wild roses on either side, so long that the thorns threaten to scratch my arms. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Each flew a red banner with the symbol of the wild boar’s head. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

My childhood dream was as strong as ever: Somehow I must find a way to watch free, wild animals living their own, undisturbed lives. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

I turned my head sharply away from him, clenching my jaw against all the wild accusations I wanted to hurl at him. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Behind them the river pulsed through the darkness, shimmering like wild silk. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was breathing hard, her eyes wild, her cheeks flushed, her hair held back only by a pencil she’d stuck behind her ear two hours ago and clearly forgotten about. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

To the west lay the ancient Grunewald forest, where sixteenth-century German princes hunted stags and wild boars and where Berliners of all classes nowadays enjoyed hiking, picnicking, and foraging for mushrooms. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I dared not go far over the hilltops, lest I lose my backtrack; it was wild country, steep, full of creeks and ravines, rising fast to the cloud-haunted mountains eastward. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t not go, not now they had found the entrance to the Chamber, not if there was even the faintest, slimmest, wildest chance that Ginny might be alive. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

There is a puzzle picture of wild flowers—all yellow, red, orange, and white in a field. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Dark green mold eats through the cracks in the wall as wild trees and vines threaten to overtake the building. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her legs were pumping so fast beneath her that she tripped where the lot’s loose asphalt met a patch of wild grass. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It looks out over the lagoons and the Wooded Island, now a wild and tangled place that perhaps would make Olmsted smile—though no doubt he would find features to criticize. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

There it stood in all its wild beauty, a waving red banner in a carpet of green. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It felt rough like a tree trunk, but seemed to pulse with all that wild reptilian life. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Clara grew like a wild plant, despite the recommendations of Dr. Cuevas, who had brought from Europe the novel idea of cold baths and electric shocks for the treatment of the insane. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They’re crazy, if you ask me—living rough and staying ugly. But they know more about the wild than most city pretties. It’s kind of admirable, really.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

And teosinte, unlike wild wheat and rice, is not a practical food source; its “ears” are scarcely an inch long and consist of seven to twelve hard, woody seeds. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“All the players will be out in force. If you’ve never seen an opening party before, brace yourself. It’s a wild one.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The stew was made out of dandelion greens and a couple of potatoes and some small wild carrots and some crawdads and a couple of little chunks of meat. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

I can hardly believe my luck, and my wild heart laughs, but I let out no sound. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

The figure I’d seen in the Tokyo Dome is one of the official wild cards. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The hosts of Morgul intent on their prey, taken at unawares in wild career, broke, scattering like sparks in a gale. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Even Dudley, who never read anything, would have been wild to get his hands on some of these. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

On one side of the road was nothing but sand and ocean, on the other it was these steep green cliffs full of baby trees and wild bushes. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

His belly was still flat and his muscles were hard, and he was brimming with some strange wild energy. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

When the children grew tired of swinging, they went down toward the pasture and picked wild raspberries and ate them. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

There’s no mistaking that wild frizz of hair, tied back with a bright beaded keffiyeh. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

His shirt was covered in blood, his dark hair a wild mess. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The only trouble was, this heifer Spot, as we called her, had been snaky wild from the day she was born. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

She hoped her face wasn’t revealing her wild, screaming thoughts. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was while Papa and I were cutting wild hay in a little patch of prairie back of the house. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Generally, we paid no more mind to his screaming than we did to the gobble of a wild turkey. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

She lay under the faded bedding like a rag doll losing its stuffing, her hair a wild collection of snakes on the pillow, her cornflower blue eyes poisoned with streaks of yellow and red. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Robbie caught the rhythm quickly and broke into an odd little jig, his long arms swinging wild circles. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

They slammed into a herd of wild centaurs that were attacking the Third Cohort. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

So what was Albus doing, if not comforting his wild young brother? Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Lina saw that Granny had forgotten to knot up her hair that morning—it was standing out from her head in a wild white frizz. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

This will be the age of cruel winds, the age of people who become as wolves, who prey upon each other, who are no better than wild beasts. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

When gathering wild grains, they took care to lay aside part of the harvest to sow the fields next season. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

And down the causeway he raced, like a pair of wild calipers. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Rufus always said you didn’t know your place any better than a wild animal,” he muttered. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever he was in his cups he would call for a reaving song, something loud and stormy that told of dead heroes and deeds of wild valor. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It rolled around under the tall white sycamores, beat its way through the wild cane, and found freedom out over the clear blue waters of the river. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

A wild light flamed in his eyes, but his malice was no longer matched by his old griping strength. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The undergrowth was lush with tubers, wild onions, and spicy lettuce; the forest, with green and yellow fruit. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

We drive past the same kind of ruins I saw when we left the city—the buildings collapsing under their own weight, and the plants roaming wild over the land, breaking through concrete. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“No, I mean a city kid. A kid who didn’t know they belonged in the wild.” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Oh, Matty, I remember when you were such a tiny thing, and so wild!” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

The quail call beside it and the wild doves come whistling in at dusk. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the long and skinny island was wild land: rolling green hills and forests and marshes with just a few orchards and farms. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

We repeat so often we lose count, propelled by Mother’s wild eyes and pressed mouth, frightened of what her expression would be if... Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“But surely you do know what makes the prince so wild and mad lately. Some say it is his father’s untimely death, while others blame his mother’s hasty marriage.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

She leaned there, her hair wild, looking at me in the street light, smiling. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

On this scroll it says that Sir Charles Baskerville had an ancestor called Sir Hugo Baskerville, who was a wild, profane and godless man. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Always there were two feelings in the dream—a wild exultation that now I was free of her and...terrible guilt. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The night has weakened the product in his hair, so the blond waves have gone wild and soft. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Mr. Grote shows me how he grows wild rice in the stream and collects the seeds. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The Titan was ten feet tall, with wild silver Einstein hair, pure silver eyes, and muscular arms protruding from a ripped-up blue janitor’s uniform. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Objection! Your Honor, I object to this wild unsubstantiated testimony.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

They keep us bottled up here like wild animals, he thought. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

My teacher was one of those wild, creative thinkers, one of those guys determined to make breakthroughs with teenagers. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Yes. You are descendant of a great people,” she continued, pulling my attention away from my wild, erratic thoughts and making me focus on the situation at hand. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Upriver the land was more rugged, die dense forest giving way to a series of bare stony hills that rose high and wild to the north and west. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The child’s privileged position allowed him to see at that moment that the wild mass was starting to get to the corner and the row of machine guns opened fire. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

For instance, consider all the peoples of sub-Saharan Africa living within the range of wild zebras and buffalo. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The odds against getting hit twice by anything as wild as a tornado were huge, and there was nothing they could do anyway, except just hope that it would miss them. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

As far as biological prerequisites for apple domestication were concerned, North American Indian farmers were like Eurasian farmers, and North American wild apples were like Eurasian wild apples. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I got a wild card, and I say we’re going back to mellow yellow, baby.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“It might just as well be in the wilds.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was much that was lovely, good, and freeing in this worship under the open sky and the ecstasy of joy it brought in the wild beauty of the world. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

In turn, we also saw that this extreme paucity of domestic animals in the New World reflects the paucity of wild starting material. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her bun was a mass of wild curls, but not in the unkempt way she usually saw it in the mirror. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He was wondering if there was another blast in the gun when he heard right up close the wild, wonderful sound of three baying dogs who he knew had treed a bobcat. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look at her now as she leads us through this wild place. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

It looked unreal, and she felt, herself, unreal, waking where she had, with her hair wild and her dress all crumpled. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

In this light, one can examine a crop widespread in prehistoric times and ask whether all of its varieties show the same wild mutation or same transforming mutation. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

They smiled at each other and then looked up to where the spirits danced wild circles across the darkening sky. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Or were barley and emmer wheat actually the best of the local wild cereals that they could have selected? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

There were no baboons or porcupines or wild pigs to ravage it, as there had been at the other place. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Adèle ran quite wild in the midst of it: the preparations for company and the prospect of their arrival, seemed to throw her into ecstasies. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

He had a wild, frantic look in his eyes. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The hedge had grown wild in the sixteen years since Hagrid had taken Harry from the rubble that lay scattered amongst the waist-high grass. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

But the sword was too long for him; a particularly wild swing made him overbalance, and he landed facedown in the grass. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

New Guineans old and young routinely eat mice, spiders, frogs, and other small animals that peoples elsewhere with access to large domestic mammals or large wild game species do not bother to eat. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

We picked crab apples and wild blackberries and pawpaws during the summer and fall, and we swiped ears of corn from Old Man Wilson’s farm. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was quiet in the woods, but here the quiet was right, and it was broken by the sound of wild things, which seemed a promise. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The most valuable domesticable wild species were concentrated in only nine small areas of the globe, which thus became the earliest homelands of agriculture. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

When the announcer finishes introducing the wild cards, the spotlights sweep to the area of the stadium where the official teams are sitting. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It may well be that foragers switched from gathering wild wheat to intense wheat cultivation, not to increase their normal food supply, but rather to support the building and running of a temple. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The herbs in the air reminded her of the hills around Camp Half-Blood in the summer, when the satyrs and naiads gathered wild plants in the lazy afternoons. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He twists in his chair and stares at me, his eyes wild and wide, like prey faced with a predator. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I popped back up into the thundering darkness and finally managed a heaving breath and one wild scream. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

We didn't know it then, but the coming months would teach us what it was like to spend time in the presence of a wild animal, something completely unpredictable. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I tried to think of something else, but my mind was full of vaguely remembered horror stories of the diseases that ran wild during this time. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

They especially liked the wild black persimmons that the Mexicans called chapotes. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

But in the wild lands beyond Bree there were mysterious wanderers. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

On the main island, wild horses walk the roads. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She kept low to the ground, inhaling, searching for Tane’s scent, her wild- girl senses alert. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“You looked like you killed and ate a wild boar,” she commented mildly. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

He hunts in these woods — he killed a wild boar. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

The Southern Pacific Railroad, headed by the wild energy of Leland Stanford, had begun to dominate the Pacific Coast not only in transportation but in politics. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The race was wild, replete with broken rules and injured animals. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Robin smoothed her hand over Ivy’s wild hair that her mom hadn’t braided in months. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The wild ancestors of our wheat and barley crops look so similar to the crops themselves that the identity of the ancestor has never been in doubt. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Was it really so terrible to be a wild girl? Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I remember Sophia in her workshop, her eyes wild and frantic. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Outside was a wild adventure, stuff full of wonder and excitement when they were bright colors in a drawing, but not the kind Ivy had ever wanted to experience in real life. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They had a smoky, rather bitter smell, as though a wild sap ran in their stalks, pungent and juicy. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Dari started sketching out new diagrams and structures—building off Twig’s wild ideas—and we made a plan to test the top two designs this weekend. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The only human trace left by that voracious blast was a glove belonging to Patricia Brown in an automobile smothered in wild pansies. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

For them, life was only as good as their next adventure, and they chased after the wildest ones like whalers hunting giants across the mighty seas. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The skiff was barely seaworthy, but it had survived the trip to the island, even through the wild currents that wrecked much bigger boats. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“After she died, they ran off into the woods and went wild. I imagine there are hundreds of them out there.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

But instead of attacking me the Horse let out a wild, shocking cry that sent me reeling back ward. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

A couple of women actually hissed at them, and a kid gnashed his teeth like some wild animal. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I wished, for one wild moment, that none of this had happened, that I was alone somewhere, going for a walk, and whistling. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

It’s just Flaca and her four girls, running after us, bags flailing, their eyes wild with fear. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Chomsky was the brainless brawn, Rand was the animus—the wild force of nature among them. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

They search the earth, exploring all the wildest places, hoping to find where he is hidden, and wake him from his sleep.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Leaving aside species with small or unpalatable seeds, they picked out 23 of the most palatable and largest-seeded wild grasses. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Cooler and fresher at the moment the gale seemed to visit my brow: I could have deemed that in some wild, lone scene, I and Jane were meeting. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

He’d captured her so perfectly in just a few strokes—her oversize square glasses, her wild hair, the furrow in her brow. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

One by one, the sixteen official Warcross teams choose their top picks from the wild cards. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And their wild reveling, their astonishing acts made their names ring out. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Taisin’s eyes stung from the heat, and she felt weak, exhausted—as though something wild had been dragged through her body. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Gradually his breath quieted, and his heart slowed from its wild pace. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

The next afternoon we prepared the broth for a fish stew with wild onions—dinner for my guest. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the wild, animals stick to the same paths for the same pressing reasons, season after season. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I can see beyond the door and walls where Theresa and I tumbled naked and wild on the green sofa and I know now she is in hell and all because of me. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

And for the time being, at least, we were stuck in a paddock with wild animals. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

But there are no wild species that resemble maize. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He glanced around at the girls seated in the room, who were pretending not to listen, but whose ears stood up, alert as wild creatures in a meadow. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t reply, but the wildness she wore isn’t so wild now. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was only March, but it was warm and the field was full of wild crocuses, jonquils and Indian paintbrush. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought about heading out west, to the wilds of Ohio. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

Nature is like a wild animal that you have trained to work for you. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was one of those rare occasions when the true story is even more strange and exciting than the wild rumors. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Jason tips his head down, looking under his eyebrows at me, like he’s expecting me to blast off on a wild, chatty detour. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘And would you have your proud folk say of you: “There goes a lord who tamed a wild shieldmaiden of the North! The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“The boy stood on a wall,” she continues, “watching, pointing, but he lost his balance and fell into the wild cage.” The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

The docking itself went well, with just a slight bump as Columbia nudged Eagle, but then Eagle gave a wild lurch and for a couple of seconds I thought we might have real trouble. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But curious or hungry children of early farmers, nibbling wild plants around them, would eventually have sampled and noticed those nonbitter almond trees. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t quite certain, either, why he had shot it, because Shorty was not the type who slaughtered wild animals for fun. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The “enemy,” a Khmer Rouge soldier or a wild beast, a monster or a ghostly man-creature, comes after me with knives, guns, axes, machetes. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a sort of wild look in his eye. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The tradition had carried on to the Caribbean—the Haitians would march in wild circles with the coffin so that the spirit wouldn’t be able to find its way back home to bother everybody. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Her eyes, wild and powerful, fixed themselves beseechingly on him, as if praying to him to make it true. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

But in other ways it’s totally wild and different. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

They had learned a good deal about elil from some source or other and seemed sure that few wild rabbits survived for long. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He saw only eyes and mouths and fists—wild eyes and half-closed eyes, wet, loose mouths and clenched ones, black fists and white. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Next to us, the wild boar was squealing and struggling. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Yet long before Columbus arrived, that wild grass had managed to evolve into maize and spread across North America. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He wanted no conversation, no witness, only to listen and perhaps to see the three of them, the source of that music that made him think of fields and wild turkey and calico. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Who told you this wild story,” my father demanded. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now it had turned wild, mostly tall weeds with just a bit of grain mixed in. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sam thought that he heard cries and wild shouting also, but the sound was faint, as if it came out of some distant cave. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The manicured trees quickly turned wild, and within an hour of leaving Taninli and its pocket of summer behind, the air began to carry the bite of cold. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Rats and mice and dogs and rabbits moved over the floor in wild panic. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

With you, for example, so that you understand some of the problems the chimps and the wild places face and can help to solve them. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

To wild cheering, Seabiscuit jogged down the homestretch all by himself. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then the ball goes in—swish—and the crowd goes wild. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out of the black night it came at last, cold and wild and flooded with lightning. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

My heart began a wild beat in my chest; no one at school knew about my Life Notices but Declaration. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Shutters slanted off, wild grasses bowing from the roof. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“But they enjoy looking like furry animals. That’s it, isn’t it? You enjoy looking like wild animals, don’t you?” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

His truck was parked at a wild angle on the gravel patch, but all the lights were off. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

But the trees had run wild, and the ground was covered with fruit that was no longer harvested, for the people who once lived here had long since left to find an easier life elsewhere. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

"Yeah, he was king of the wild frontier," I said, quoting the theme song from the TV show. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

All yesterday we travel, ever getting closer to the mountains, and moving into a more and more wild and desert land. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

But instead, it seemed to have only encouraged her to run wild. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

These were dangerous wild animals we were transporting, not farm livestock. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The boys were wild with all their half-composted discoveries and the long, open stretches for running. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

We can thus be sure that it was indeed possible to develop the wild plant into a useful crop, and we have to ask why that wild species was not domesticated in certain areas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Since it was impossible to eat wild grains without first winnowing, grinding and cooking them, people who gathered these grains carried them back to their temporary campsites for processing. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Horatio seized his head in his hands, making his red curls wild and unruly. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The First Gate was pretty wild, wasn’t it? Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

My heart pounded, for I expected everything: jungle flowers, wild roaring beasts. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Listen, I could’ve told Bob I was taking you back to my house to have wild sex, and he wouldn’t have said a thing.” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

It tasted of mulled blueberries and wild honey and afternoon sun. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

To be honest, my first reaction to this was: What if this is a wild goose chase? Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Each month he received copies of all their publications: love stories, wild west stories, detective stories, supernatural stories and what not. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our other caveat concerns the limits that locally available wild species set on the rise of food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

As a result, it has a high diversity of wild plant and animal species, higher than in the comparatively tiny Mediterranean zones of southwestern Australia and Chile. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Once you got away from all the jillions of people, Florida was just as wild as Montana. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the camp they found the sheep dog dead, killed and torn to pieces by the wild animals that had killed thirty head of sheep. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Roy had always wanted to see a grizzly in the wild, but his buddies at school told him to dream on. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When he passed me in the restaurant,” he said at last, “I had a curious impression. It was as though a wild animal—an animal savage, but savage! you understand—had passed me by.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could see an ambulance pulling up with its blue lights flashing, and her walking briskly to the swinging doors, with her wild hair all around her face. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

In the wild, bonobo infants spend the first five years of their lives virtually attached to their mothers. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

In the kitchen, the pot of hot dogs, which had long since boiled out of water, was seething and shaking on top of the wild gas flames. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It all started when my wife wanted to go to the City and live a wild life—and ran away to do so. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rondon not only helped brand the cattle but also deftly hunted the jaguars that preyed on them, and the wild pigs that destroyed the crops. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Tal’s style was filled with wild, inspired combinations, intuitive sacrifices, and pyrotechnics. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Roz sprang into a wild dance, her shaggy dress shaking and swooshing with each movement. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

If not for the wild, squirrels’ nests of hair, lack of clothes, and overall unwashed condition, they would have looked practically childlike. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

She stuck him with the pointy end, driving the blade upward with a wild, hysterical strength. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

If there was one wild onion, there could be more. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“How did you learn to read when you say you just ran wild like a savage and never did any work?” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

The grain was slow coming up in the Salinas Valley, and the wild- flowers came so late that some people thought they wouldn’t come at all. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Satyrs, like Pan, were goat-men, and like him they had their home in the wild places of the earth. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

They came out in the evening shade on a wild meadow bordering a stream. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

If they had merely glimpsed the statue through a car window at sixty miles per hour, they could only have made a wild guess at its authenticity. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Maybe the dawn woke the instinct in the dim memory of the blood when horses had been as wild as the deer and at sunrise went into the trees and thickets to hide. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Magdalys shook her head, still smiling, as Two Step broke into a wild dance and Sabeen came over to see what the commotion was. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Mars’s sacred animal was the wild boar, not the serpent. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Recently I have been fascinated by the subject of wild animals of North America.” The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

I was searching the ground for the lacy flowers of the wild carrot when I caught a shift in the shadows ahead of me, a flash of motion among the tree trunks. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

O’Dell ran to Auk II and began a wild little dance over it. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

My sleeplessness made me feel that my days were a hot, wild dream and my studies suffered at school. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The teenage boy and the man are as close to wild animal observation as anything I've seen. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I was almost glad because I figured the tom would go wild at her touch. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, no. Of course not. Father surrounded the grave with branches of mutarara, wild gardenia, to confuse them.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And that’s exactly the balance in the meat of wild animals. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Balekin’s expression is wild with fury, and he pulls against the bolt, as though he might rip his hand in half before he allowed this to happen. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Well, Turner Ernest Buckminster, right now I’m trying to figure out how to ask you why a wild turkey could have played that organ better than you today.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Our failure to domesticate even a single major new food plant in modern times suggests that ancient peoples really may have explored virtually all useful wild plants and domesticated all the ones worth domesticating. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

If Dray and Donna’s love is like a tornado—wild, dangerous, and unpredictable—then this thing between me and Kasim is like the ocean—deep, deep, and as wide as the endless earth. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Surrender, you two! and confound you for two wild beasts! Come asunder!” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Tell me, Lord Snow ... where were these other kings when the wild people stormed your Wall?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I feel wild, like I’m gulping for air. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Instead, the reason Native Americans did not domesticate apples lay with the entire suite of wild plant and animal species available to Native Americans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Gabe. Listen to me! We dorit have much time. This is not a wild made-up thing. This is real She remembers you. She remembers me. She—” Jonas paused and took a deep breath. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She said I was wild and that I had no direction in life. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Only wild kids were out after dark, she said. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I was too tired to think of the wild dogs. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

A thin stick of a man, he was bare-chested under the blanket, his hair in wild disarray, his eyes round and wide. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

From Crazy in Birdland Dear Crazy: I think your bird is mad at you because you named him after an ugly Australian wild dog. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

Farmer families did all they could to keep out wayward weeds and wild animals. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The poor guy got hauled off to the freak farm before he even had a chance to party, get wild, actually dance with a girl. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

For example, peas belong to the genus Pisum, which consists of two wild species: Pisum sativum, the one that became domesticated to yield our garden peas, and Pisum fulvum, which was never domesticated. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He loved hunting and fishing and getting away to the wilds where nobody could bother him. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the Golden Day he had seemed more curious than anything else—until the vet had started talking wild. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cook takes my broom, her hair a wild halo in the storm. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“That was wild,” said Amos, shaking his head. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

We walked toward it through red dirt and dried leaves that cracked under our feet, the air smelling of wild roses, pine, and cows. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Could she travel halfway around the world, braving the very real dangers of pirates, shipwreck, and disease, to face a wild and unknown land? The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Nor did I kill another wild dog, nor did I try to spear another sea elephant. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was that sort of thing, I guess, that always made Mama so afraid of wild hogs. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

The path is still wild, and it’d be easy—too easy—for someone to slip, spin, fall down the hillside. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

I swam for the raft in frantic strokes, precisely the sort of wild thrash­ing that sharks find so deliciously inviting. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“We stopped doing our chores and ran wild and did whatever we wanted when we should have been taking care of her,” I pointed out with disgust. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

But the effect makes it look like a wild, untamed lagoon. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

That spring was a very wild time for our robot. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

If he’s finally dead now and laid to rest in some African voodoo cemetery, or worse yet eaten up by the wild animals, well, amen. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They danced and wrestled each other, and they rolled on the ground like wild animals, shouting and laughing. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He, too, was a wild child, dirty and ragged, his hair a long mass of tangles. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The former bodyguard said Kim Jong II often went there to hunt roe deer, pheasants, and wild geese. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Pa said he must go to town to trade the furs of the wild animals he had been trapping all winter. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were so broke that for weeks we ate nothing but bowls of marogo, a kind of wild spinach, cooked with caterpillars. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Odysseus was frightened, for on one foot was a scar made in boyhood days by a wild boar he had hunted, and he thought she would recognize it. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her aunt had always prophesied that Elizabeth would come to no good end, proud, and vain, and foolish as she was, and having been allowed to run wild all her childhood days. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the wild look changed in his eyes and he stepped back and saluted with stiff precision. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind carried a wild honey smell from meadows of beeweed. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I’d worked with Papa enough to know that any time you messed with a wild hog, you were asking for trouble. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

His gestures were theatrical and wild, generated by an animal impatience that possessed his body. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The object of the walk was a wild vineyard where the muscadine grew. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is all very wild and childish, I thought, but to hell with being ashamed of what you liked. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only Sam was doubtful: he at any rate still thought boats as bad as wild horses, or worse, and not all the dangers that he had survived made him think better of them. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

If Gandhiji was walking with us, could he tell me why we have all been sent into the wild like a bunch of starving goats? The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Her wild hair was tied back to look straight, though it wasn’t. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

These diseases are also shared with, or similar to the diseases of, our closest wild relatives, the African great apes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Not wilderness where there was system, or the logic of lions, trees, toads, and birds, but wild wilderness where there was none. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I looked up past the very tip-top of the wild trees, there was nothing but blue sky. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It was a hundred and ten degrees, easy, and we must’ve looked like deep-fried vagrants, but everybody was too interested in the wild animals to pay us much attention. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

A single wild rose tossed farewell, bursts slowly, its petals drifting snowlike upon the reluctantly lowered coffin. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wouldn’t let a wild animal take food out of our mouths. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Some of the wild cards then rise to become the regularly chosen players. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

When I took my bike on its first spin, my hair blew in my face as wild primroses and bluebells flashed pink and purple along the fence. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

At the end of the tunnel, a herd of wild grocery carts ambled past. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

They had smelled the distant wood smoke and the pattering stream, the hint of mutara, the wild gardenia, on the breeze. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The dogs, seeing him coming, went wild, leaping in place. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

And as they both realized, they were not good at survival in the wild. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Her pegasus’s eyes were wild, his mouth slathering from hard riding; but Reyna peered steadfastly forward into the storm. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The homs called through the night, wild and urgent, a cry that said hurry hurry hurry. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She was pretty, with wild black hair and huge brown eyes she hid behind square frame glasses. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The best way to find a virus in the wild, at the present time, is to place a sentinel animal at the suspected location of the virus and hope the animal gets sick. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In contrast, a domesticated animal is defined as an animal selectively bred in captivity and thereby modified from its wild ancestors, for use by humans who control the animal’s breeding and food supply. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

What made me keep on climbing in face of such discouragement, I don’t know, but I did, and that noon I had crow eggs and wild salad for lunch. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

None of her books, none of her teachers had said a single thing about what to do with this wild energy pouring through her. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“One doesn’t want Marcus to develop an exaggerated, unmanly fear of wild animals,” she said. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Even though we wouldn’t have admitted it out loud, in our wildest dreams, we never thought Bucky would be acquitted. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Mother claims I have the manners of a wild animal myself, as I am a tomboy, but I never fail to be respectful of my father’s garden. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were sure, of course, that they wouldn’t “become wild” here in America, where there was “no one to control them.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fists flailing like battering rams, Hugo sent imps sailing in wild cartwheels. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The store’s power had been shut off some time ago, and it was clear it had been open to the wild for too long. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“I guess we’ve all gone wild like the land. But now Lee is going away. I don’t know what we’ll do.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It circled and spun, making patterns too wild and varied for me to understand. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Yet New Guineans themselves know as much about the wild plants and animals available to them as any peoples on Earth today. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“The Cajun opossum with wild rice is superb.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘The pass, Sam!’ he cried, not heeding the shrillness of his voice, that released from the choking airs of the tunnel rang out now high and wild. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He lived with his mother in faraway wild forests. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Left to its own devices, it had grown knotted and wild, like a circus whose animals had forgotten their tricks. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wild oats had headed out barely six inches above the ground, as though with knowledge that if they didn’t make seed quickly they wouldn’t get to seed at all. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

One bright and fragrant spring day—as if on a wild equinoctial whim—Holmes suggested that Minnie invite her sister to Chicago to see the world’s fair, at his expense. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

It was slim and sharp, hut his wild beard covered most of it. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The hills were dotted with poppies, crocuses and wild cherry trees. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She was strange now, erratic, sometimes needing my friendship, trusting me with her dangerous longings for freedom, her wild plans to run away again; and sometimes hating me, blaming me for her trouble. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

On the court she’s a true entertainer, and the crowd always goes wild for her silly antics. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He remembered reading about wild boars that came plunging through forests, and how the hunters waited, and then leaped out and stuck knives into the throat and heart and eyes of the animal. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

They passed a dead man in a sitting position on a hummock, entirely surrounded by wild animals and snakes. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Over the years this clearing had grown over with a strange mixture of high, rank grass, tall weeds, berries and wild flowers. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Since the fifteenth century, Europeans have spread around the globe and encountered wild mammal species not found in Europe. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Bando, Zella, and Miss Turner were going to join us for a wild turkey Frightful caught, but a big snowstorm struck last night, and no one got up the mountain. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

His face was wild and flushed; I’m not even sure he recognized me at that moment. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

They traded a life of being hunted in the wild for a life of being raised, bred, and eaten by humans. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Looking at her in her agony the maidens, all sobered now, the dancing over and the singing and the wild wand-waving, said to one another, Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except it's a pretty wild idea, and I don't want her to think I'm nuts. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But these weren’t wild bonobos — they’d been raised with people, and had been cast out of their tiny familiar world and into a strange planet, where the hunters with guns, those mother-killers, were back. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Blowers spill out of planters, slightly overgrown and a bit wild, here at the furthest edge of summer. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Pa showed Laura the tracks of the wild creatures in the snow at the sides of the road. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d never painted a mural before, just filled notebook after notebook with wild creatures and winged, battle-ready versions of her friends and neighbors. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

He was kind of a fixture around here, an outspoken guy with a big personality and this mass of wild white-boy dreadlocks. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

At about the same time, though, another group of late domesticates arose with much less effort, as wild plants that established themselves initially as weeds in fields of intentionally cultivated crops. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The cheering was as wild as that of the crowd at a championship basketball game. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

The cells can do more than predict reality; they are evidently programmed with wild guesses as well. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Francie picked a bunch of goldenrod and wild asters to take home. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rhinos are social animals, and when we got Peak, a young wild male, he was showing signs of suffering from isolation and he was eating less and less. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I talked to him real soft and gentle and low, like he was a wild animal that I was trying to get to take food out of my hand. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes were wild, his jaw clenched in acute restraint, yet he didn’t lapse from his perfect articulation. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

This river had the deep wild odor of swamp water about it. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The huge window framed a wild garden of foxgloves and red-hot pokers. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Ugh! Ugh! Now I must go wash at once! Who knows what diseases these creatures must carry, after living so long in the wild?” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Her hair has turned wild; her face is slack. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except for her receding chin Turtle Wexler looked every inch the witch, her dark unbraided hair streaming wild in the wind from under her peaked hat, a putty wart pasted on her small beaked nose. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

You will not have us slay wild beasts for no purpose, and it seemed no more, so I tried no arrow. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The inside of the gas station looked like it had been ravaged by wild animals, and there was a fairly good chance that it had been. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

But they seemed surprised by the sight of his sharp nails—to Hanako he looked exactly like a little wild beast. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Once the crop had become available, there was no further need to gather it from the wild and thereby set it on the path to domestication again. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

His grandmother had not needed to grow her favorite herb, arigbe, because it grew wild everywhere. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Her youngest child was heading off into the wild. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

My grandmother once told me a story about a notorious hunter of wild pigs who used magic to transform himself into a wild boar. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

She trotted beside Miss Honey with wild little hops and her fingers flew as if she would scatter them to the four winds and her words went off like fireworks, with terrific speed. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Through the bare branches he saw a wild waste of gray water, surging from left to right across the wide open space that had been Port Meadow: he could see the city’s spires beyond it. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The cold, wild air was like wine in the veins. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he looked down into the wild faces of the singers, he had the feeling that they, at least, were sorry for Dumbledore’s passing. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

But the old man always thought of her as feminine and as something that gave or withheld great favours, and if she did wild or wicked things it was because she could not help them. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m getting to it,” said Lazlo, though in truth he hadn’t quite figured out that part of his wild and improbable theory. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I spent years and years doing what I wanted to do most of all—being with wild, free chimpanzees in the forest. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

He decided that she was not worthy bringing up and had the tiny creature left on a wild mountainside to die of cold and hunger. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Except he’s also summoned so many monstrous “allies” that the legion is completely surrounded by wild centaurs, tribes of dog-headed cynocephali, and who knows what else. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Its distended arms were outstretched, and there was a wild hunger in its gaze. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

But it was the wildest night she had ever seen. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

It is all so wild, and mysterious, and strange that if I had not known Jonathan’s experience in Transylvania I could not have believed. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

If their gods were listening, they might have been much confused by the wild difference in what was being asked of them. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

I now had unexpected spare time, which I used for reading, preparing my speech for the conference, and hiking the wild and beautiful hills above the town. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Universe #2, they throw parties wild enough to attract college students. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

The shot went wild, and the She Elephant bolted. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Bull troll. Fully grown. One hundred and eighty kilos, with tusks like a wild boar. A really wild boar.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Well, Miss Destiny, the rat crop of New York practically supports our wild raptors now that we’ve wiped out most of their natural food. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Granny always prided herself on keeping his wild hair and beard trimmed, his shirts clean, his pants brushed and “nice.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

After Ben had applied slices of raw wild onion to their welts, he sent the boys off to rest. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

When the chest came to land and they got out, to see no sign of life anywhere, only a wild waste of waters, Zeus pitied them and drained off the flood. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was no wilderness, but manicured groves of red-fringed switchgrass, buckthorn, elm, and black cherry, carefully tended to give the illusion of a wild space. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He had the face of one who walks in his sleep, and for a wild moment the idea came to me that perhaps he was not normal, not altogether sane. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

A common bet-hedging adaptation by which wild plants achieve that result is to enclose their seeds in a thick coat or armor. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I moved slowly, as if a wild bird had landed there and I was desperately trying to avoid startling it into flight. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

And anyway, I wanted to watch wild animals, not animals in cages. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

No, Penelope was certain; Lady Constance would rather endure a dozen wild children living in Ashton Place than risk inciting the kind of home wrecking that had transpired. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

The only living things I had met were monkeys, snakes, wild pigs, and deer, none of which I could have a conversation with. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

They had given up and figured it would be fast and maybe not as painful to get eaten by a wild boar. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

And then I brace myself for a wild ride. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

It was a wild boar, thirty feet high, with a snotty pink snout and tusks the size of canoes. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Grandpa said a night is coming when all the creatures here will run wild.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“I never met him,” said Sir Bliant “It was proved that Lancelot ran mad in his shirt and breeches, until he got gored by a wild boar and died in a hermitage.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hearing wild barks in the middle of a city had been jarring, unexpected, but now they were soothing. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

They needed shaves and their hair was wild and uncombed. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

His hair is longer than it used to be too, and he either lets it go wild or slicks it back. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Amidst all this, I had to listen as well as watch: to listen for the movements of the wild beast or the fiend in yonder side den. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

I easily take out a strange bird that must be some form of wild turkey. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Occasional mutant individuals among wild plants lacked thick seed coats or other inhibitors of germination. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Those extinctions eliminated all the large wild animals that might otherwise have been candidates for domestication, and left native Australians and New Guineans with not a single native domestic animal. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He was about twenty feet tall and extremely muscular, with a flowing white beard, scraggly hair, and a wild look in his eyes, like a crazy hermit. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

There was another wild screech, and Stew Cat left my back, leaping into the air. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although a slightly smaller plant, wild sweet pea looks so much like wild potato that even expert botanists sometimes have trouble telling the species apart. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe Alice wasn’t coming here to see this waterfall, I say to myself as the wild stream shoots off into space, but I’m sure glad she did. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

If she’d seen him in the mall somewhere, she probably would’ve thought he was a skater—cute in a scruffy way, a little on the wild side, definitely a troublemaker. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Chapter 4 sketches how food production—that is, the growing of food by agriculture or herding, instead of the hunting and gathering of wild foods—ultimately led to the immediate factors permitting Pizarro’s triumph. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

We could have hunted for deer or turkey or duck, but I felt more comfortable going for wild pig. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Reb Saunders stared at me, his eyes suddenly wild with rage, his beard trembling. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z