 As I came home through the woods with my string of fish, trailing my pole, it being now quite dark, I caught a glimpse of a woodchuck stealing across my path, and felt a strange thrill of savage delight, and was strongly tempted to seize and devour him...  Putnam's Monthly - Seite 4441854Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1854 - 792 Seiten
...a woodchuok stealing across my path, and telt a strange thrill of savage delight, and was strungly tempted to seize and devour him raw ; not that I was hungry then, except for that wiMness which he represented. Once or twice, however, while I lived at the [•"'Hi. I found myself... | |
 | Maximilian Schele de Vere - 1872 - 708 Seiten
...dark, I caught a glimpse of a wood-chuck stealing across my path, and felt a strange thrill of savage delight, and was strongly tempted to seize and devour him raw — not that I was hungry then, but for that wildness which he represented. (Walden, HD Thoreau.) One of the few superstitions found... | |
 | Maximilian Schele de Vere - 1872 - 700 Seiten
...dark, I caught a glimpse of a wood-clmck stealing across my path, and felt a strange thrill of savage delight, and was strongly tempted to seize and devour him raw — not that I was hungry then, but for that wildness which he represented. (Walden, HD Thoreau.) One of the few superstitions found... | |
 | Maximilian Schele de Vere - 1872 - 1030 Seiten
...dark, I caught a glimpse of a wood-chuck stealing across my path, and felt a strange thrill of savage delight, and was strongly tempted to seize and devour him raw — not that I was hungry then, but for that wildness which he represented. ( Waldcn, HD Thoreau.) One of the few superstitions found... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1882 - 280 Seiten
...dark, I caught a glimpse of a woodchuck stealing across my path, and felt a strange thrill of savage delight, and was strongly tempted to seize and devour...the pond, I found myself ranging the woods, like a half -starved hound, with a strange abandonment, seeking some kind of venison which I might devour,... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - 1893 - 282 Seiten
...Thoreau, " I caught a glimpse of a woodchuck stealing across my path, and felt a strange thrill of savage delight, and was strongly tempted to seize and devour him raw ; not that I was hungry then, except for the wildness which he represented." In almost all cases — those in which danger is encountered and... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1902 - 566 Seiten
...dark, I caught a glimpse of a woodchuck stealing across my path, and felt a strange thrill of savage delight, and was strongly tempted to seize and devour...the pond, I found myself ranging the woods, like a half -starved hound, with a strange abandonment, seeking some kind of venison which I might devour,... | |
 | Brighton and Hove Natural History and Philosophical Society - 1914 - 780 Seiten
...ate flesh — pork and fish — and he confesses that he ha.s, when living at the pond, found himself ranging the woods. like a half-starved hound, with...strange abandonment, seeking some kind of venison which he could devour, and no morsel could have been too savage for him. But his ideal was steadfast, and... | |
 | Fred Lewis Pattee - 1917 - 474 Seiten
...dark, I caught a glimpse of a woodchuck stealing across my path, and felt a strange thrill of savage delight, and was strongly tempted to seize and devour...then, except for that wildness which he represented." It was hy this watchfulness for the elemental, this constant scrutiny of instincts and savage outcroppings,... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - 1917 - 314 Seiten
...Thoreau, "I caught a glimpse of a woodchuck stealing across my path, and felt a strange thrill of savage delight, and was strongly tempted to seize and devour him raw; not that I was hungry then, except for the wildness which he represented." In almost all cases — those in which danger is encountered and... | |
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