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Updated: June 1, 2025
"Oh, I really do think that must have been it, Bessie. Don't you remember that he was different from the others! He spoke just as well as we do, as if he'd been to school, and he must know more about our customs." Bessie shook her head. "That doesn't mean that he isn't just as wild and untamed as the others down at bottom, Dolly.
He revealed, for an instant to Corrigan the wild, reckless untamed youth that knew no law save his own impulses, and the big man's eyes widened with the revelation, though he gave no other sign. He leaned back in his chair, smiling coldly, idly flecking a bit of ash from his shirt where it had fallen from his cigar. "I am prepared for a fight.
And the look in her eyes warned them to go. Now the Man and the Woman were alone in the black hush of the pine woods. "I saved you," she said at length; "now go away from here. Yes, go!" And as her face lifted defiantly to his, her voice slid upward like the lonely, untamed wail of some wild creature. "Go back from whar you come!
And now began our real journey up the Colorado River, that river unknown to me except in my early geography lessons that mighty and untamed river, which is to-day unknown except to the explorer, or the few people who have navigated its turbulent waters.
How the experiment might have ended but for this empirical and most unphilosophical interference, there is no saying; but it settled the point that the rebellious nature was not to be subjugated in a brief conflict. The untamed disposition manifested itself in greater enormities as she grew older.
Trees were uprooted, and mingling with the ice surged down towards the sea upon the crest of the unleashed, untamed torrent. The break-up that the men were awaiting had come. "'Tis sure a fearsome sight," remarked Bill one day when the storm was at its height, as he returned from "a look outside" to join Dick and Ed, who sat smoking their pipes in silence in the tilt.
The sea-breath in the New-England States thins the air and bleaches the sky, sucks the vitality out of Nature, I fancy, to put it into the brains of the people: but here, the earth every day in the year pulses out through hill or prairie or creek a full, untamed animal life, shakes off the snow too early in spring, in order to put forth untimed and useless blossoms, wasteful of her infinite strength.
A strange contrast they presented as they stood there; the bare-headed white man frail, delicate, spiritual of countenance, and the warriors great, grave, powerful, a very embodiment of the essence of untamed humanity, an incarnate presentation of the spirit of savage warfare. "How are you named, White Man?" asked the captain. "Chief, I am named Messenger."
And he could pick up a girl with one hand and hold her at arm's length while she shrieked with pretended fear and real ecstasy. The girls all liked Ben. There was that about his primitive strength which appealed to the untamed in them as his gentleness appealed to their softer side. He liked the girls, too, and could have had his pick of them.
"Am I a slave, to sit in solemn rapture at your feet and await your nod?" "You seemed to eagerly await the nod of another man to-night." She laughed. "Am I not your serene-browed Grecian goddess whose untamed eyes of primeval womanhood proclaim the end of slave marriage?" Gorden winced, scowled and was silent. "I like the beautiful ceremony you invented.
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