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1  They were all terribly footsore.
The Call of the Wild By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V. The Toil of Trace and Trail
2  No, it is splendid, and it is terrible, too.
The Call of the Wild By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VI. For the Love of a Man
3  Six days of exhausting toil were required to cover those thirty terrible miles.
The Call of the Wild By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III. The Dominant Primordial Beast
4  He did not know that he growled, but he growled aloud with a terrible ferocity.
The Call of the Wild By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VII. The Sounding of the Call
5  And terrible they were, for every foot of them was accomplished at the risk of life to dog and man.
The Call of the Wild By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III. The Dominant Primordial Beast
6  By the time his search had disclosed nothing more than many bruises and a state of terrible starvation, the sled was a quarter of a mile away.
The Call of the Wild By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V. The Toil of Trace and Trail
7  It marked his adaptability, his capacity to adjust himself to changing conditions, the lack of which would have meant swift and terrible death.
The Call of the Wild By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II. The Law of Club and Fang
8  They saw him marching out of camp, but they did not see the instant and terrible transformation which took place as soon as he was within the secrecy of the forest.
The Call of the Wild By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VII. The Sounding of the Call
9  He would bark and dance about in front of the bull, just out of reach of the great antlers and of the terrible splay hoofs which could have stamped his life out with a single blow.
The Call of the Wild By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VII. The Sounding of the Call
10  So terrible was his appearance that Spitz was forced to forego disciplining him; but to cover his own discomfiture he turned upon the inoffensive and wailing Billee and drove him to the confines of the camp.
The Call of the Wild By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II. The Law of Club and Fang
11  He fished for salmon in a broad stream that emptied somewhere into the sea, and by this stream he killed a large black bear, blinded by the mosquitoes while likewise fishing, and raging through the forest helpless and terrible.
The Call of the Wild By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VII. The Sounding of the Call