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" 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 raw... "
Walden - Page 327
by Henry David Thoreau - 1897
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Putnam's Monthly, Volume 4

American literature - 1854 - 712 pages
...have become a king among them, like Lavengro. It breaks out here with unmistakable distinctness : " As I came home through the woods with my string of fish,...pole, it being now quite dark, I caught a glimpse of a woodchnck stealing across my path, and felt a strange thrill of savnge delight, and was strongly tempted...
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Putnam's Magazine: Original Papers on Literature, Science, Art ..., Volume 4

1854 - 792 pages
...have become a king among them, like Laveogro. It breaks oat here with unmistakable distinctness : " As I came home through the woods with my string of fish,...pole, it being now quite dark, I caught a glimpse of a woodchuok stealing across my path, and telt a strange thrill of savage delight, and was strungly tempted...
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Putnam's Monthly, Volume 4

American literature - 1854 - 704 pages
...here with j unmistakable distinctness : " As I came home throngh the woods with my string of flub, trailing my pole, it being now quite dark, I caught a glimpse of a woodchuok stealing across my path, and felt a strange thrill of savage delight, and was strongly tempted...
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Americanisms: The English of the New World

Maximilian Schele de Vere - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1872 - 702 pages
...other marmots, it lies hid in its burrow, and dormant during the winter, emerging in early summer. " As I came home through the woods, with my string of fish,...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...
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Americanisms: The English of the New World

Maximilian Schele de Vere - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1872 - 708 pages
...other marmots, it lies hid in its burrow, and dormant during the winter, emerging in early summer. " As I came home through the woods, with my string of fish,...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...
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Americanisms: The English of the New World

Maximilian Schele de Vere - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1872 - 706 pages
...and dormant during the winter, emerging in early summer. " As I came home through the Avoods, Avith my string of fish, trailing my pole, it being now...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...
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Americanisms: The English of the New World

Maximilian Schele de Vere - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1872 - 700 pages
...other marmots, it lies hid in its burrow, and dormant during the winter, emerging in early summer.. "As I came home through the woods, with my string of fish,...pole, it being now quite 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...
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Idle Days in Patagonia

William Henry Hudson - Natural history - 1893 - 282 pages
...occasionally comes up in very unexpected and surprising ways. " As I came through the wood," says Thoreau, " I caught a glimpse of a woodchuck stealing across...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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a history of american literature

fred lewis pattee - 1915 - 522 pages
..."A man has not seen a thing who has not felt it." He took stock of his sensations like a miser. "As I came home through the woods with my string of fish,...then, except for that wildness which he represented." It was by this watchfulness for the elemental, this constant scrutiny of instincts and savage outcroppings,...
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Idle Days in Patagonia

William Henry Hudson - Natural history - 1917 - 314 pages
...occasionally comes up in very unexpected and surprising ways. "As I came through the wood," says Thoreau, "I caught a glimpse of a woodchuck stealing across...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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