1 "They're weak as water, if you want to know," came the reply from one of the men.
The Call of the Wild By Jack LondonContextHighlight In Chapter V. The Toil of Trace and Trail 2 From every hill slope came the trickle of running water, the music of unseen fountains.
The Call of the Wild By Jack LondonContextHighlight In Chapter V. The Toil of Trace and Trail 3 Hans snubbed the rope around the tree, and Buck and Thornton were jerked under the water.
The Call of the Wild By Jack LondonContextHighlight In Chapter VI. For the Love of a Man 4 Its wild water defied the frost, and it was in the eddies only and in the quiet places that the ice held at all.
The Call of the Wild By Jack LondonContextHighlight In Chapter III. The Dominant Primordial Beast 5 He was half drowned, and Hans and Pete threw themselves upon him, pounding the breath into him and the water out of him.
The Call of the Wild By Jack LondonContextHighlight In Chapter VI. For the Love of a Man 6 He did not mind the hunger so much, but the lack of water caused him severe suffering and fanned his wrath to fever-pitch.
The Call of the Wild By Jack LondonContextHighlight In Chapter I. Into the Primitive 7 Buck had sprung in on the instant; and at the end of three hundred yards, amid a mad swirl of water, he overhauled Thornton.
The Call of the Wild By Jack LondonContextHighlight In Chapter VI. For the Love of a Man 8 Some pitched the flies, others cut firewood and pine boughs for the beds, and still others carried water or ice for the cooks.
The Call of the Wild By Jack LondonContextHighlight In Chapter IV. Who Has Won to Mastership 9 When the man brought him water he drank eagerly, and later bolted a generous meal of raw meat, chunk by chunk, from the man's hand.
The Call of the Wild By Jack LondonContextHighlight In Chapter I. Into the Primitive 10 The suck of the water as it took the beginning of the last steep pitch was frightful, and Thornton knew that the shore was impossible.
The Call of the Wild By Jack LondonContextHighlight In Chapter VI. For the Love of a Man 11 Concerning that night's ride, the man spoke most eloquently for himself, in a little shed back of a saloon on the San Francisco water front.
The Call of the Wild By Jack LondonContextHighlight In Chapter I. Into the Primitive 12 When he heard Thornton's command repeated, he partly reared out of the water, throwing his head high, as though for a last look, then turned obediently toward the bank.
The Call of the Wild By Jack LondonContextHighlight In Chapter VI. For the Love of a Man 13 Hunting and kindred outdoor delights had kept down the fat and hardened his muscles; and to him, as to the cold-tubbing races, the love of water had been a tonic and a health preserver.
The Call of the Wild By Jack LondonContextHighlight In Chapter I. Into the Primitive 14 And here, lying by the river bank through the long spring days, watching the running water, listening lazily to the songs of birds and the hum of nature, Buck slowly won back his strength.
The Call of the Wild By Jack LondonContextHighlight In Chapter VI. For the Love of a Man 15 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 LondonContextHighlight In Chapter II. The Law of Club and Fang 16 The boat flirted over and snubbed in to the bank bottom up, while Thornton, flung sheer out of it, was carried down-stream toward the worst part of the rapids, a stretch of wild water in which no swimmer could live.
The Call of the Wild By Jack LondonContextHighlight In Chapter VI. For the Love of a Man 17 He learned to bite the ice out with his teeth when it collected between his toes; and when he was thirsty and there was a thick scum of ice over the water hole, he would break it by rearing and striking it with stiff fore legs.
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