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1  And this was Buck's pride, too.
The Call of the Wild By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III. The Dominant Primordial Beast
2  Likewise it was this pride that made him fear Buck as a possible lead-dog.
The Call of the Wild By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III. The Dominant Primordial Beast
3  There he lay for the remainder of the weary night, nursing his wrath and wounded pride.
The Call of the Wild By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I. Into the Primitive
4  He had merely intimated his displeasure, in his pride believing that to intimate was to command.
The Call of the Wild By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I. Into the Primitive
5  For the pride of trace and trail was his, and, sick unto death, he could not bear that another dog should do his work.
The Call of the Wild By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV. Who Has Won to Mastership
6  Because of all this he became possessed of a great pride in himself, which communicated itself like a contagion to his physical being.
The Call of the Wild By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VII. The Sounding of the Call
7  This was the pride that bore up Spitz and made him thrash the sled-dogs who blundered and shirked in the traces or hid away at harness-up time in the morning.
The Call of the Wild By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III. The Dominant Primordial Beast
8  Perrault was carrying despatches if anything more urgent than those he had brought in; also, the travel pride had gripped him, and he purposed to make the record trip of the year.
The Call of the Wild By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III. The Dominant Primordial Beast
9  Buck did not like it, but he bore up well to the work, taking pride in it after the manner of Dave and Sol-leks, and seeing that his mates, whether they prided in it or not, did their fair share.
The Call of the Wild By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV. Who Has Won to Mastership
10  Buck did not like it, but he bore up well to the work, taking pride in it after the manner of Dave and Sol-leks, and seeing that his mates, whether they prided in it or not, did their fair share.
The Call of the Wild By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV. Who Has Won to Mastership
11  Perrault was in a hurry, and he prided himself on his knowledge of ice, which knowledge was indispensable, for the fall ice was very thin, and where there was swift water, there was no ice at all.
The Call of the Wild By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II. The Law of Club and Fang
12  During the four years since his puppyhood he had lived the life of a sated aristocrat; he had a fine pride in himself, was even a trifle egotistical, as country gentlemen sometimes become because of their insular situation.
The Call of the Wild By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I. Into the Primitive
13  This was the pride of Dave as wheel-dog, of Sol-leks as he pulled with all his strength; the pride that laid hold of them at break of camp, transforming them from sour and sullen brutes into straining, eager, ambitious creatures; the pride that spurred them on all day and dropped them at pitch of camp at night, letting them fall back into gloomy unrest and uncontent.
The Call of the Wild By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III. The Dominant Primordial Beast