Word: wildes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...time; the stroke was short and ineffective, the recovery labored and awkward. The odd feature of the recovery, the turning of the blades just before the catch so that the blades are almost parallel to the water with the back sides prominent, has been retained. However, Coach Lueder has wild on fantastic theories. Everything is subjected to analysis. It must be able to satisfy a mind that takes nothing for granted...
Seventeen fur-bundled men and a fox terrier had passed in an airship completely up and over the Earth's icy pate, parting that wilderness as a comb might part the unexplored thatch of a wild man from Borneo. From Spitzbergen in Barent's Sea via the North Pole and the Pole of Inaccessibility, to Point Barrow, Alaska, they had peered out of their gondola for new lands, and in a strip of white waste 2,000 miles long by 10 to 100 wide, had spied none. They had seen seals, roaming polar bears, their own flags (Italian...
Their language is lowest Cockney, guttural and larded with strange terms of the wayside. Their occupations, when pursued, are raising scrubby ponies (they milk the mares and sell the foals to tinkers, small farmers, etc.); working intermittently for the Crown, usually at ditch cleaning or road-making; collecting wild birds' eggs for city oologists. The women go into the towns in rags, carrying their grubby offspring to excite pity and alms from passing motorists. The men, for the most part, loaf about, in and under their wagons...
...gray goose, the barking golden eagle, the fleet azure kingfisher, the white triangles of lonely wild swans. These come in the book's many interludes, as where Neddy Joe, the ancient lodge-keeper, sits in warm sunshine tying salmon flies out of bright feathers and passing crabbed strictures on all the folk he best loves. At an inn with a white sand floor and bacon flitches hanging in the rafters, a poet with the face of a thousand wrinkles relates how a great Irish bard, Dan Hoyser (Tannhäuser!), met Venus in Germany's mountains...
...igloos are seldom built of snow, but usually of driftwood and turfs; that William T. Lopp, onetime U. S. education chief for Alaska, got the Eskimos started in the reindeer industry, of which Carl Lomen is king; that there is said to be a mountain of jade in the wild hinterland; that Eskimo seamstresses wear their teeth to the gums chewing deerhide into shape; that whaling parties will travel afoot 30 miles out on the unevenly frozen ocean hunting for open leads to watch for a blowing bowhead; that flocks of duck, whose northward flight beyond Barrow is strong evidence...