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All these many years, since 1820, the northern part had remained a wilderness. [7]
Polly, mark my words--in three years from this, Hawkeye'll be a howling wilderness. [5]
Behind the store were moored the barges that floated down on the swift current to the Ohio, carrying goods to even remoter settlements in the western wilderness. [9]
Yet, peaceful as we were, it might have puzzled a stranger to see that all of us were armed--armed in this tenantless, lonely wilderness! [11]
He was a true citizen of the wilderness. [4]
There is no trail through Hunter's Pass, which, as I have intimated, is the least frequented portion of this wilderness. [4]
These English had toiled, slow but resistless, over the misty Blue Ridge after Boone and Harrod to this old St. Louis of the French, their enemies, whose fur traders and missionaries had long followed the veins of the vast western wilderness. [9]
It had led through the midst of the bare rocky landscape, and their eyes, accustomed to distant horizons and luxuriant green foliage, met narrow boundaries and a barren wilderness. [10]
The enthusiasm of this philosopher has grown with his years, and outlived his endurance: we carried our own knapsacks and supplies, therefore, and drew upon him for nothing but moral reflections and a general knowledge of the wilderness. [4]
She went over the water dry-foot as if it were the stony wilderness. [10]

Short sentences using wilderness

The Wilderness Volume 7. [9]

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From its summit you look south into a vast wilderness basin, a great stretch of forest little trodden, and out of whose bosom you can hear from the heights on a still day the loud murmur of the Boquet. [4]
It is a world of precious relics, a wilderness of marred and mutilated gems. [5]
The wind brought with it a suggestion of the pine-clad wastes of the northwestern wilderness whence it came, and that sure harbinger of autumn, the blue haze, settled around the hills, and benumbed the rays of the sun lingering over the crests. [9]
Indeed, the Island Wilderness is the very home of romance and dreams and mystery. [5]
Early in April, while the wilderness was still in the grip of winter, Delphin had been summoned from a far-away lumber camp to Saint Hubert, where several packing-cases and two rolls of lead pipe from Montreal lay in a shed beside the railroad siding. [9]
The homestead by which they sat was in a wilderness of blossoms. [11]
At length there were signs that we were drifting out of the wilderness, and one morning we came in sight of a rich plantation with its dark orange trees and fields of indigo, with its wide-galleried manor-house in a grove. [9]
The cattlemen's stations were scattered over that profound wilderness miles and miles apart--at each station half a dozen persons. [5]
An hour later we were on board his yacht, Wilderness, being introduced to MacGregor, the captain, to Mr. Dagmar Caramel, C.M.G., his guest, and to some freshly made American cocktails. [11]
In this letter we realize that he had gone into the wilderness to reflect--to get a perspective on the situation. [5]
At the top we found the stream flowing over a broad bed of rock, like a street in the wilderness, slanting up still towards the sky, and bordered by low firs and balsams, and bowlders completely covered with moss. [4]
Peter Irving, who was then in Edinburgh, was impressed with the brilliant talent of the editor of the "Review," disguised as it was by affectation, but he said he "would not give the Minstrel for a wilderness of Jeffreys. [4]
But no foe was seen or heard, and the Hebrews found some tokens of the thirst for vengeance of the sons of the wilderness in their ruined houses, the superb palm-trees felled, and little gardens destroyed. [10]
The great sugar-house was a wilderness of tubs and tanks and vats and filters, pumps, pipes, and machinery. [5]
He who has wandered through this wonderful mountain wilderness can never forget it. [10]
The hurricane found us fretful with life by reason of the heat, it left us thankful for being let to live at all; though the Wilderness appeared little better than a drifting wreck. [11]
Hands were flung up that were past counting, and men who were barely rested from the hardships of the Wilderness Trail shouted their readiness to go. [9]
We are all turned loose with our animal passions and instincts, of self-preservation, by an indifferent Creator, in a wilderness, and left to find our way out as best we can. [9]
But the Wilderness Trail was deserted. [9]
In the pause, too, I heard a long, soft shuffling of feet in the corridor--the evening procession from the chapel--and a slow chant: "I am set down in a wilderness, O Lord, I am alone. [11]
If they were to show you the Brazen Serpent that was elevated in the wilderness, you could depend upon it that they had on hand the pole it was elevated on also, and even the hole it stood in. [5]
Sinai, were preparing to resist the Hebrews' passage through their well-watered tract in the wilderness with its wealth of palms. [10]
Privately, and unknown to any one, I painted my great picture, "Heidelberg Castle Illuminated"--my first really important work in oils--and had it hung up in the midst of a wilderness of oil-pictures in the Art Exhibition, with no name attached to it. [5]
The sorrows of three years were suddenly lifted from his shoulders, and for an instant Ephraim wanted to dance until he remembered the rheumatism and the Wilderness leg. [9]
The case was this: Henderson (for whose company Daniel Boone cut the wilderness road) believed that he had bought the country, and issued grants therefor. [9]
But who is this, erect, compact, aggressive, searching with a confident eye the wilderness of upturned faces? [9]
Whoever penetrated into this wilderness entered a spot which the Most High had perchance chosen for a place of rest and retreat, like the silent, inaccessible Holy of Holies of the temple. [10]
For him alone this supply would have been bountiful to begin a sojourn in the wilderness, but he was no longer alone. [13]
I like to think of him, away off here in the wilderness in those early days. [9]
At the summit they were to rest and wait for the people who were to be led through the wilderness of Sin to Dophkah. [10]
And finally, when they asked him, he spoke of making through Carter's Valley for Cumberland Gap and the Wilderness Trail. [9]
In the afternoon there were many more sights to be viewed, but they were back in the hotel again by half-past four, because Ephraim's Wilderness leg had its limits of endurance. [9]
Louisville was even then bursting with importance, and as I rode into it, one bright November day, I remembered the wilderness I had seen here not ten years gone when I had marched hither with Captain Harrod's company to join Clark on the island. [9]
I rode out the Wilderness Trail, fell in with other travellers, was welcomed by certain old familiar faces at Harrodstown, and pressed on. [9]
This, and patrolling the Wilderness Road and other militia duties, made up Tom's life. [9]
Behind it was the wilderness of scrub, in which a fugitive would soon starve; in front was the narrow neck, with a cordon of chained dogs across it, and a line of lanterns, and a fence of living guards, armed. [5]
It was not the thousand dangers and hardships of the journey across the Wilderness Trail that frightened Polly Ann. [9]
Beyond them, to the northward, Stafford Park was still a wilderness of second-growth hardwood, interspersed with a few cedars. [9]
Since passing through the Gate of Baba, they had beheld on their way through the valley of the same name and their subsequent pilgrimage through the wilderness of Sin, nothing save valleys with steep precipices on either side. [10]
I suspect that the conditions of rude, stern life, in which the colonists found themselves in the wilderness, took the nonsense out of them, as the exigencies of a campaign did out of our physicians and surgeons in the late war. [3]
The dregs of the army were sent for this duty in the wilderness and most of the men bore in their faces the impress of corruption and brutality. [10]
Jane Withersteen loved that wild and purple wilderness. [13]
I could say that the Church of the Annunciation is a wilderness of beautiful columns, of statues, gilded moldings, and pictures almost countless, but that would give no one an entirely perfect idea of the thing, and so where is the use? [5]
Happy by comparison, that is, with what they both had suffered, and a haven of rest after the struggle and despair of the wilderness. [9]
But the report tallied with my own surmise, for they had used the word "Dover" when they left us for dead in the Wilderness. [9]
It was the symbol of authority in the wilderness. [11]
That is, I suppose it was a banyan; its bark resembled that of the great banyan in the botanical gardens at Calcutta, that spider-legged thing with its wilderness of vegetable columns. [5]
And the charm sufficed; for suddenly of a cheerless morning they came upon a trapper's hut in the wilderness, where their sufferings ceased, and the sight of Shon's eyes came back. [11]
The terrible losses suffered by Grant's army in the battles of the Wilderness spread general gloom. [7]
A telegraph line stretches straight up north through that 2,000 miles of wilderness and desert from Adelaide to Port Darwin on the edge of the upper ocean. [5]
We should have starved in the wilderness with you a-farming. [9]
Here was the spectacle of one strong man's brain pitted against the combined craft of the wilderness. [9]
It is a solemn city of winding streets and of miniature marble temples and mansions of the dead gleaming white from out a wilderness of foliage and fresh flowers. [5]
There is the skeleton figure representing Fox (who should have been called Goose), the poor creature who starved himself to death in trying to imitate the fast of forty days in the wilderness. [6]
Sinnet, of--" But Sinnet was gone upon a long trail that led into an illimitable wilderness. [11]
Then we were shown over the Wilderness. [11]
Why, if you shake a rag the train will stop in the midst of the wilderness to pick you up. [5]
The furniture, it seemed, had come from his own house in what was called the Wilderness Road, not far from the river banks, over the site of which limited trains now rolled on their way eastward toward the northernmost of the city's bridges. [9]
All the region round about, and up and down the river-road, was a dense wilderness of humanity hidden under an unbroken pavement of carriage tops and umbrellas. [5]
Let the reader ride from Abingdon through a wilderness of cornpone and rusty bacon, and then judge. [4]
Often did she ride by my side, making light of the hardships which, indeed, were no hardships to her, wondering at the settlements which had sprung up like magic in the wilderness, which were the heralds of the greatness of the Republic,--her country now. [9]
I think the reason why the newspaper and the world it carries take no hold of us in the wilderness is that we become a kind of vegetable ourselves when we go there. [4]
Nearby was the quarter of the Canadian French, scarcely now to be called foreigners, though still somewhat reminiscent of the cramped little towns in the northern wilderness of water and forest. [9]
How sharply its pinnacled angles and its wilderness of spires were cut against the sky, and how richly their shadows fell upon its snowy roof! [5]
It is a perfect wilderness of curiosity to me. [4]
It is the paper that nature furnishes for lovers in the wilderness, who are enabled to convey a delicate sentiment by its use, which is expressed neither in their ideas nor chirography. [4]
A hawk soared over the, water, the only living creature in all that wilderness. [9]
Mr. Dickens saw our ancestors bowed in a task that had been too great for other blood,--the task of bringing into civilization in the compass of a century a wilderness three thousand miles it breadth. [9]
We had six or seven miles of unknown wilderness to traverse, a portion of it swampy, in which a progress of more than a mile an hour is difficult, and the condition of the guide compelled even a slower march. [4]
In their wanderings one brother fell and broke his leg, and the others were obliged to go on and leave him to die in the wilderness. [5]
But moving about on this mountain is not a holiday pastime; and we were chiefly anxious to discover a practicable mode of descent into the great wilderness basin on the south, which we must traverse that afternoon before reaching the hospitable shanty on Mud Pond. [4]
I think that Old Mountain Phelps had merely the instincts of the primitive man, and never any hostile civilizing intent as to the wilderness into which he plunged. [4]
Wife, home, the old fascinating, crowded life--they had all vanished because of that vile trick of destiny; and ever since then he had been wandering in the wilderness through years that brought no fruit of his labours. [11]
First the grey of the mountains, turning to brown, then the bare bronze rock giving way to a tumbled wilderness of boulders, where lizards lie in the sun, where the meerkat startles the gazelle. [11]
The crack, crack of the Deckards on the south and east were stilled; not a barrel was thrust by the weary garrison through the logs, and the place became silent as the wilderness. [9]
I told her of Temple Bow, and how I had run away; of Polly Ann and Tom, of the Wilderness Trail and how I shot Cutcheon, of the fight at Crab Orchard, of the life in Kentucky, of Clark and his campaign. [9]
The pure ether of Shu hurls them back to the ground and now--oh look, listen--they are seeking the way to the wilderness. [10]
And the vision of his little, round face haunted Tom and me for many weary miles of our tramp through the wilderness. [9]
She raised one objection after another; but Tom was a firm man, and his late experiences in the wilderness had made him impatient of trifling. [9]
Not a tree, not a bush, not a human dwelling was to be seen in this dreary wilderness. [10]
Harrodstown was changed, new cabins and new faces met me at every turn, and Tom, more disgruntled than ever, had gone a-hunting with Mr. Boone far into the wilderness. [9]
He did not need to search for what he hoped to find in the wilderness. [10]
In spite of Mr. Lawler's Pilot, which was as a voice crying in the wilderness, citizens who had wives and homes and responsibilities, business men and clerks went to the voting booths and recorded their choice for Trulease, Watling and Prosperity: and working-men followed suit. [9]
She is no more than a wild bird in the wilderness. [11]
There, in the miry square within the Vincennes fort, thin and bronzed and travel-stained, were the men who had dared the wilderness in ugliest mood. [9]
His eyes and mind were fixed on a deed which would stain the virgin wild with the ancient crime that sent the first marauder on human life into the wilderness. [11]
Those who made merry there were soon to be driven and scattered before the winds of war; to die at Wilson's Creek, or Shiloh, or to be spared for heroes of the Wilderness. [9]
You will lead me over the mountains and through the wilderness by the paths you know. [9]
They had scarcely marched half an hour longer when they beheld the bluish-green foliage of tamarisk bushes and the towering palm-trees; at last, the most welcome of all sounds in the wilderness fell on their listening ears--the ripple of flowing water. [10]
I suspect that many of us are, after all, really camping temporarily in civilized conditions; and that going into the wilderness is an escape, longed for, into our natural and preferred state. [4]
He was no longer crying in the empty wilderness, but at last in touch-in natural touch with life: with life in all its sorrow, its crudity and horror. [9]
How he had lived over again the Wilderness and Five Forks; how the General had changed since he had seen him whittling under a tree; how the General had asked about his pension. [9]
The steep pathway led past masses of red granite, intersected by veins of greenish diorite, until he reached a level plateau high above the oasis, where, beside a clear spring, green bushes and delicate mountain flowers adorned the barren wilderness. [10]
They say it led our first ancestor to come over here when it was a wilderness. [6]
He yearned to leave the endless sage slopes, the wilderness of canyons, and it was in the lonely night that this yearning grew unbearable. [13]
To the west lay the wilderness of Aean, and if the wanderers escaped in that direction, and were pressed farther, they would again enter Egyptian soil and the exodus would be utterly defeated. [10]
He recognized that it was better to move to the wilderness than be moved. [5]
When he walked, it was as one who had no destination, who had no haven towards which to travel, who journeyed as one to whom the world is a wilderness, and one tent or one hut is the same as another, and none is home. [11]
A corner of it touched the railroad, but the rest was pretty much an unbroken wilderness, eight or ten thousand acres of rough country, most of it such a mountain range as he saw at Ilium. [5]
And even stranger it seemed to me to see these Arcadian homes in the midst of the fierce wilderness. [9]

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