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1  It no longer was as one dog leaping in the traces.
The Call of the Wild By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III. The Dominant Primordial Beast
2  Day after day, for days unending, Buck toiled in the traces.
The Call of the Wild By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II. The Law of Club and Fang
3  Their business was to toil, and toil mightily, in the traces.
The Call of the Wild By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV. Who Has Won to Mastership
4  It recovered its old-time solidarity, and once more the dogs leaped as one dog in the traces.
The Call of the Wild By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV. Who Has Won to Mastership
5  By the time Cassiar Bar was reached, he was so weak that he was falling repeatedly in the traces.
The Call of the Wild By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV. Who Has Won to Mastership
6  His traces were fastened, the sled broken out, and with both men running they dashed out on to the river trail.
The Call of the Wild By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV. Who Has Won to Mastership
7  Dave had bitten through both of Sol-leks's traces, and was standing directly in front of the sled in his proper place.
The Call of the Wild By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV. Who Has Won to Mastership
8  Sometimes, in the traces, when jerked by a sudden stoppage of the sled, or by straining to start it, he would cry out with pain.
The Call of the Wild By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV. Who Has Won to Mastership
9  The toil of the traces seemed the supreme expression of their being, and all that they lived for and the only thing in which they took delight.
The Call of the Wild By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II. The Law of Club and Fang
10  Once, during a brief halt, when he got tangled in the traces and delayed the start, both Dave and Sol-leks flew at him and administered a sound trouncing.
The Call of the Wild By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II. The Law of Club and Fang
11  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
12  He worked faithfully in the harness, for the toil had become a delight to him; yet it was a greater delight slyly to precipitate a fight amongst his mates and tangle the traces.
The Call of the Wild By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III. The Dominant Primordial Beast
13  The resulting tangle was even worse, but Buck took good care to keep the traces clear thereafter; and ere the day was done, so well had he mastered his work, his mates about ceased nagging him.
The Call of the Wild By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II. The Law of Club and Fang
14  Sick as he was, Dave resented being taken out, grunting and growling while the traces were unfastened, and whimpering broken-heartedly when he saw Sol-leks in the position he had held and served so long.
The Call of the Wild By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV. Who Has Won to Mastership
15  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 London
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II. The Law of Club and Fang
16  His comrades talked of how a dog could break its heart through being denied the work that killed it, and recalled instances they had known, where dogs, too old for the toil, or injured, had died because they were cut out of the traces.
The Call of the Wild By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV. Who Has Won to Mastership
17  When the sled started, he floundered in the soft snow alongside the beaten trail, attacking Sol-leks with his teeth, rushing against him and trying to thrust him off into the soft snow on the other side, striving to leap inside his traces and get between him and the sled, and all the while whining and yelping and crying with grief and pain.
The Call of the Wild By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV. Who Has Won to Mastership
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