1 Buck led the pack, sixty strong, around bend after bend, but he could not gain.
The Call of the Wild By Jack LondonContextHighlight In Chapter III. The Dominant Primordial Beast 2 Then, rested, refreshed and strong, he turned his face toward camp and John Thornton.
The Call of the Wild By Jack LondonContextHighlight In Chapter VII. The Sounding of the Call 3 This had been strong upon him when he pulled in to the bank, and it had not departed from him.
The Call of the Wild By Jack LondonContextHighlight In Chapter V. The Toil of Trace and Trail 4 The dominant primordial beast was strong in Buck, and under the fierce conditions of trail life it grew and grew.
The Call of the Wild By Jack LondonContextHighlight In Chapter III. The Dominant Primordial Beast 5 These men wanted dogs, and the dogs they wanted were heavy dogs, with strong muscles by which to toil, and furry coats to protect them from the frost.
The Call of the Wild By Jack LondonContextHighlight In Chapter I. Into the Primitive 6 Buck wondered where they went, for they never came back; but the fear of the future was strong upon him, and he was glad each time when he was not selected.
The Call of the Wild By Jack LondonContextHighlight In Chapter I. Into the Primitive 7 Buck had already dragged down a stray part-grown calf; but he wished strongly for larger and more formidable quarry, and he came upon it one day on the divide at the head of the creek.
The Call of the Wild By Jack LondonContextHighlight In Chapter VII. The Sounding of the Call 8 Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tide-water dog, strong of muscle and with warm, long hair, from Puget Sound to San Diego.
The Call of the Wild By Jack LondonContextHighlight In Chapter I. Into the Primitive 9 He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of his own strength and prowess, surviving triumphantly in a hostile environment where only the strong survived.
The Call of the Wild By Jack LondonContextHighlight In Chapter VII. The Sounding of the Call 10 Three hundredweight more than half a ton he weighed; he had lived a long, strong life, full of fight and struggle, and at the end he faced death at the teeth of a creature whose head did not reach beyond his great knuckled knees.
The Call of the Wild By Jack LondonContextHighlight In Chapter VII. The Sounding of the Call