Wildness

(noun.) an intractably barbarous or uncultivated state of nature.

(noun.) an unruly disposition to do as one pleases; 'Liza had always had a tendency to wildness'; 'the element of wildness in his behavior was a protest against repressive convention'.

(noun.) a feeling of extreme emotional intensity; 'the wildness of his anger'.

校对:蒂米

• I conjured him, incoherently, but in the most impassioned manner, not to abandon himself to this wildness, but to hear me. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• With the look fixed upon him, in her paleness and wildness, she panted out in his arms, imploringly, O my dear friend! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• Then Mrs. Boucher began in a low, growling tone, gathering in wildness as she went on: 'He _is_ his father's darling, I say. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• All her wildness and passion had subsided; but, though softened, she was not in tears. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• Soon as she see him, without him seeing her, all her fear and wildness returned upon her, and she fled afore the very breath he draw'd. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Another minute, and it was suffused with a crimson flush: and a heavy wildness came over the soft blue eye. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Maybe the first shock was too rough, and in the wildness of her art--! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• The wildness was gone and I felt finer than I had ever felt. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• I was rushing past Argyle, when he detained me, frightened at the wildness of my looks. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• There was a graceful and compassionate sweetness in her voice and manner, as she said this, that formed a strange contrast with the former wildness. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• He snatched me to his heart in all the wildness of frenzy. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Covered with ice, it was only to be distinguished from land by its superior wildness and ruggedness. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• The wildness and supernatural machinery of Macbeth, was a pledge that it could contain little directly connected with our present circumstances. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• This wildness frightened me. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• She was looking steadily into the blaze, with a calm, heart-broken expression, very different from her former agitated wildness. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.

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