1 His newborn cunning gave him poise and control.
The Call of the Wild By Jack LondonContextHighlight In Chapter III. The Dominant Primordial Beast 2 He alone endured and prospered, matching the husky in strength, savagery, and cunning.
The Call of the Wild By Jack LondonContextHighlight In Chapter III. The Dominant Primordial Beast 3 He did not rob openly, but stole secretly and cunningly, out of respect for club and fang.
The Call of the Wild By Jack LondonContextHighlight In Chapter II. The Law of Club and Fang 4 He was preeminently cunning, and could bide his time with a patience that was nothing less than primitive.
The Call of the Wild By Jack LondonContextHighlight In Chapter III. The Dominant Primordial Beast 5 Squirrels were chattering, birds singing, and overhead honked the wild-fowl driving up from the south in cunning wedges that split the air.
The Call of the Wild By Jack LondonContextHighlight In Chapter V. The Toil of Trace and Trail 6 The facts of life took on a fiercer aspect; and while he faced that aspect uncowed, he faced it with all the latent cunning of his nature aroused.
The Call of the Wild By Jack LondonContextHighlight In Chapter I. Into the Primitive 7 For the last time in his life he allowed passion to usurp cunning and reason, and it was because of his great love for John Thornton that he lost his head.
The Call of the Wild By Jack LondonContextHighlight In Chapter VII. The Sounding of the Call 8 They are afraid of this Ghost Dog, for it has cunning greater than they, stealing from their camps in fierce winters, robbing their traps, slaying their dogs, and defying their bravest hunters.
The Call of the Wild By Jack LondonContextHighlight In Chapter VII. The Sounding of the Call 9 Spitz was the leader, likewise experienced, and while he could not always get at Buck, he growled sharp reproof now and again, or cunningly threw his weight in the traces to jerk Buck into the way he should go.
The Call of the Wild By Jack LondonContextHighlight In Chapter II. The Law of Club and Fang 10 Because of his very great love, he could not steal from this man, but from any other man, in any other camp, he did not hesitate an instant; while the cunning with which he stole enabled him to escape detection.
The Call of the Wild By Jack LondonContextHighlight In Chapter VI. For the Love of a Man 11 His cunning was wolf cunning, and wild cunning; his intelligence, shepherd intelligence and St. Bernard intelligence; and all this, plus an experience gained in the fiercest of schools, made him as formidable a creature as any that roamed the wild.
The Call of the Wild By Jack LondonContextHighlight In Chapter VII. The Sounding of the Call