Which preposition to use with wilds
More than sixty years ago David Douglas, an enthusiastic botanist and tree lover, wandered alone through fine sections of the Sugar Pine and Silver Fir woods wild with delight.
I inquired if any had been seen of late years, and could hear of but a single family, which some ten years ago were said to dwell somewhere in the vicinity of Mud Lake, the highest and wildest of all these mountain lakes.
The dust flew wild in a half dozen places.
THE ACHIEVEMENT X. THE DOOM ILLUSTRATIONS "And you know a heap too much" A schooner comporting herself in a manner uncommon on the Pacific A man who was a bit of a mechanic was set to work to open the chest Slowly the man defined himself as a shape takes form in a fog "These sheep had become as wild as deer" The firing now became miscellaneous.
'Everyone is quite wild about her.
They like to sail; for we learn that "when they want to sail" they are so wild for it, that they even go to the length of "burning off a log of wood, and making it hollow by burning and scraping it with sharp stones."
In the Philippine Islands the younger generation simply has gone wild over Base Ball.
And the betting was wild on that historic pot!
And wild from his lips the Tecbir burst: "Let me go," he said, "and, by Allah's fear, At sundown I sit in my fetters here, Or lie 'neath a heaven of starry eyes, Kissed by moon-maidens of Paradise.
Her old nurse said: "Miss Silvia was always a little wild at heart," though if this was true it was never seen by anyone else except her husband.
To be sure, there were various incidents which seemed to conflict with such a theory, and the theory itself seemed wild to the point of absurdity; but at least it was a ray of light in what had been utter darkness.
'Is that all you have to say?' the crowd burst forth; and I think they rushed upon him and killed him, for I heard no more until the hubbub began again more wild than ever, with furious hands beating, beating against the locked door.
"Likely the child will be a perfect heathen after running wild among savages all her life.
I was let grow up wild like an ill weed, and thrived accordingly.
* One shall die by the dagger, In wrath, drenched with ale, Wild through the wine, on the mead bench Too swift with his words Too swift with his words; Shall the wretched one lose.
ROUGHING IT IN THE WILDS OF CANADA XXII.
And when March and April came, Inger and he would be wild after each other, just like the birds and beasts in the woods; and when May was come, he would sow his corn and plant potatoes, living and thriving from day to dawn.
His gaoler told me he had been mighty wild during his examination before the Council, and had had frequent bouts of madness since, but for the moment he was peaceable.
The creek babbled and splashed; its voice merged with the wilds into a bleak, cheerless duet.
she hangs aghast, 330 While thrills the "Spartan fife" between the blast. 'Tis storm; and hid in mist from hour to hour All day the floods a deeper murmur pour, And mournful sounds, as of a Spirit lost, Pipe wild along the hollow-blustering coast, 335 'Till the Sun walking on his western field Shakes from behind the clouds his flashing shield.
I tried to work myself into indignation; but all through these efforts I felt the contagion growing upon me, my mind falling into sympathy with all those straining faculties of the body, startled, excited, driven wild by something, I knew not what.
The waste lay wild before us, dark with a faintly-rising cloud, for darkness and cloud and the gloom of death attended upon that name.
Fortunately the disciplinarian was away most of the day and Keith was running wild around the island.
But I wadna hear tell o'this mother was perfectly wild against it, and poor auld grannie was neither to hand nor to bind.
They cast me out and left me upon the wild without a shelter, without a companion, storming and raving at them as they did at me.