Wilds Sentence Examples

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  • The young Genevans failed in business, passed a severe winter in the wilds of Maine, and returned to Boston penniless.

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  • Of existing species the bear, wild-boar, badger, roe-deer and chamois may occasionally be seen in the remotest wilds of mountain and forest.

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  • The first real account of the gorilla appears to be the one given by an English sailor, Andrew Battel, who spent some time in the wilds of West Africa during and about the year 1590; his account being presented in Purchas's Pilgrimage, published in the year 1613.

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  • The extremely fresh condition of the remains has given rise to the idea that Glossotherium may still be living in the wilds of Patagonia.

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  • Betaking himself to the wilds of the country, he gradually gathered round him a body of desperate men whom he led in various attacks upon the English.

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  • Aymer de Valence, Butetourte, Clifford, and Mowbray were sent to net and " drive " the inner wilds of Galloway, where Bruce lurked in the forests and caves of Loch Trool and Loch Dungeon.

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  • From Patala the admiral Nearchos was to sail round the coast to the Euphrates, while Alexander himself marched through the wilds of Gedrosia, or modern Makran.

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  • Tigers are now only found in any numbers in the wilds of Khairagarh.

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  • But in the northern forests small birds are few, and even in summer these wilds give a strong general impression of lifelessness.

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  • Wanderings in the Wilds of South-Western Africa (1856); David I Unless otherwise stated the place of publication is London.

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  • Shah Shuja was proclaimed amir, and entered Kabul on the 7th of August, while Dost Mahommed sought refuge in the wilds of the Hindu Kush.

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  • I also go, brethren, to the General's village in the wilds of Uruvela."

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  • In every direction English influence penetrated, and Englishmen before 1603 might be found in every quarter of the globe, following Drakes lead into the Pacific, painfully breaking the ice in search of a north-east or a north-west passage, hunting for slaves in the wilds of Africa, journeying in caravans across the steppes of Russia into central Asia, bargaining with the Turks on the shores of the Golden Horn, or with the Greeks in the Levant, laying the foundations of the East India Company, or of the colonies of Virginia and Newfoundland.

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  • In 1671 Simon Francois Daumont Saint-Lusson at Sault Ste Marie had taken formal possession of the region in the name of the king of France; in 1685 Nicolas Perrot (1644 - c. 1700), a trader who had first visited the wilds of Wisconsin probably as early as 1665, was appointed "commandant of the West," and this event closes the period of exploration and begins that of actual occupation.

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  • Her general name in this connexion was ayporEpa (" roaming the wilds," not necessarily "goddess of the chase," an aspect less familiar in the older religion), to whom five hundred goats were offered every year by the Athenians as a thanksgiving in commemoration of the victory at Marathon.

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  • Now to add to the role of honor comes Two Brothers, a film about two tiger cubs set in the wilds of Cambodia.

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  • Best to leave many exotics to the wilds and the zoos.

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  • The action ranges from rural Essex to London's prisons and convict hulks; from the wilds of British Columbia to the Australian goldfields.

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  • Truly I sometimes almost regret that I was not born to become a pioneer settler in the African wilds!

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  • It was back upstream to show Martin Clark the wilds of the Upper Thames.

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  • In contrast, you could explore the wilds of Exmoor National Park.

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  • In historic times the resemblances between Rhea and the Asiatic Great Mother, Phrygian Cybele, were so noticeable that the Greeks accounted for them by regarding the latter as only their own Rhea, who had deserted her original home in Crete and fled to the mountain wilds of Asia Minor to escape the persecution of Kronos (Strabo 469, 12).

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  • Truly I sometimes almost regret that I was not born to become a pioneer settler in the African wilds !

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  • These features include Wild Symbols that substitute for other symbols to create a winning line, and also act as a special bonus when hitting over a certain number of Wilds.

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  • Great Spin Attack - Visit the dojo in Castor Wilds after collecting seven Tiger Scrolls.

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  • It won't take long in the African wilds to tell.

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  • He returned to the wilds of Judah, and was joined at Adullam 5 by his father's house and by a small band of outlaws, of which he became the head.

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  • Thus was begun the Second Crusade, 1 under auspices still more favourable than those which attended the beginning of the First, seeing that kings now took the place of knights, while the new crusaders would no longer be penetrating into the wilds, but would find a friendly basis of operations ready to their hands in Frankish Syria.

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