1 The cornfields were far apart in those times, with miles of wild grazing land between.
2 The great fresh open, after the stupefying warmth indoors, made them behave like wild things.
3 There was no sound but the high, singsong buzz of wild bees and the sunny gurgle of the water underneath.
4 I don't exactly know what to do about him,' she said, shaking her head, 'he's so sort of wild all the time.
5 The road ran about like a wild thing, avoiding the deep draws, crossing them where they were wide and shallow.
6 Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones.
7 Sally was a wild thing, with sunburned yellow hair, bobbed about her ears, and a brown skin, for she never wore a hat.
8 Before I knew Lena, I thought of her as something wild, that always lived on the prairie, because I had never seen her under a roof.
9 His toes stuck out of his shoes, and he hadn't shaved for a long while, and his eyes was awful red and wild, like he had some sickness.
10 We were taking them some provisions, as they had come to live on a wild place where there was no garden or chicken-house, and very little broken land.
11 I crossed the bridge and went upstream along the wooded shore to a pleasant dressing-room I knew among the dogwood bushes, all overgrown with wild grapevines.
12 Pavel, the tall one, was said to be an anarchist; since he had no means of imparting his opinions, probably his wild gesticulations and his generally excited and rebellious manner gave rise to this supposition.
13 The older girls, who helped to break up the wild sod, learned so much from life, from poverty, from their mothers and grandmothers; they had all, like Antonia, been early awakened and made observant by coming at a tender age from an old country to a new.
14 Perhaps the glide of long railway travel was still with me, for more than anything else I felt motion in the landscape; in the fresh, easy-blowing morning wind, and in the earth itself, as if the shaggy grass were a sort of loose hide, and underneath it herds of wild buffalo were galloping, galloping.
15 Everywhere else it had been ploughed under when the highways were surveyed; this half-mile or so within the pasture fence was all that was left of that old road which used to run like a wild thing across the open prairie, clinging to the high places and circling and doubling like a rabbit before the hounds.
16 His girls never looked so pretty at the dances as they did standing by the ironing-board, or over the tubs, washing the fine pieces, their white arms and throats bare, their cheeks bright as the brightest wild roses, their gold hair moist with the steam or the heat and curling in little damp spirals about their ears.
17 Years afterward, when the open-grazing days were over, and the red grass had been ploughed under and under until it had almost disappeared from the prairie; when all the fields were under fence, and the roads no longer ran about like wild things, but followed the surveyed section-lines, Mr. Shimerda's grave was still there, with a sagging wire fence around it, and an unpainted wooden cross.
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