wood-wild

Updated: May 18, 2025

And is this your Norman honor? To take a man unawares over his meat? And he ran right at the press of knights; and the fight began. "He gored them like a wood-wild boar, As long as that lance might endure," says Gaimar. "And when that lance did break in hand, Full fell enough he smote with brand." And as he hewed on silently, with grinding teeth and hard, glittering eyes, of whom did he think?

Charles Kingsley - Hereward, the Last of the English

And Claire, of a languissante temperament, as she says; but who would know it? Eighteen, with a figure abundant as that of a woman of forty, but just beginning to fine down; holding herself as French girls learn to hold themselves so young; and with the pretty eyes of a Southern nymph, clear-brown and understanding, and a little bit wood-wild.

John Galsworthy - Another Sheaf