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1  Every muscle, every fibre, every cell, was tired, dead tired.
The Call of the Wild By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V. The Toil of Trace and Trail
2  There was nothing the matter with them except that they were dead tired.
The Call of the Wild By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V. The Toil of Trace and Trail
3  All day long he limped in agony, and camp once made, lay down like a dead dog.
The Call of the Wild By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III. The Dominant Primordial Beast
4  When they halted, the dogs dropped down as though they had all been struck dead.
The Call of the Wild By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V. The Toil of Trace and Trail
5  And not only did he learn by experience, but instincts long dead became alive again.
The Call of the Wild By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II. The Law of Club and Fang
6  When a halt was made, they dropped down in the traces like dead dogs, and the spark dimmed and paled and seemed to go out.
The Call of the Wild By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V. The Toil of Trace and Trail
7  Then the sled lurched ahead in what appeared a rapid succession of jerks, though it never really came to a dead stop again.
The Call of the Wild By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VI. For the Love of a Man
8  O'Brien contended it was Thornton's privilege to knock the runners loose, leaving Buck to "break it out" from a dead standstill.
The Call of the Wild By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VI. For the Love of a Man
9  He was lying on his side, dead where he had dragged himself, an arrow protruding, head and feathers, from either side of his body.
The Call of the Wild By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VII. The Sounding of the Call
10  Death, as a cessation of movement, as a passing out and away from the lives of the living, he knew, and he knew John Thornton was dead.
The Call of the Wild By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VII. The Sounding of the Call
11  Besides, his hands were full with his sister, or his arms, rather; while Buck was too near dead to be of further use in hauling the sled.
The Call of the Wild By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V. The Toil of Trace and Trail
12  It came from the things that lived and moved again, things which had been as dead and which had not moved during the long months of frost.
The Call of the Wild By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V. The Toil of Trace and Trail
13  And when, on the still cold nights, he pointed his nose at a star and howled long and wolflike, it was his ancestors, dead and dust, pointing nose at star and howling down through the centuries and through him.
The Call of the Wild By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II. The Law of Club and Fang
14  But no living man had looted this treasure house, and the dead were dead; wherefore John Thornton and Pete and Hans, with Buck and half a dozen other dogs, faced into the East on an unknown trail to achieve where men and dogs as good as themselves had failed.
The Call of the Wild By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VII. The Sounding of the Call
15  He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint, and sinew in that it was everything that was not death, that it was aglow and rampant, expressing itself in movement, flying exultantly under the stars and over the face of dead matter that did not move.
The Call of the Wild By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III. The Dominant Primordial Beast