Wild-animal

The dance interrupted, in a quarter of an hour, by battle; the cries, the squealings of children, of infirm persons, and other assistants, tarring them on, as the rabble does when dogs fight: frightful men, or rather frightful wild-animals, clad in jupes of coarse woollen, with large girdles of leather, studded with copper nails; of gigantic stature, heightened by high wooden-clogs (sabots); rising on tiptoe to see the fight; tramping time to it; rubbing their sides with their elbows: their faces haggard (figures hâves), and covered with their long greasy hair; the upper part of the visage waxing pale, the lower distorting itself into the attempt at a cruel laugh and a sort of ferocious impatience.

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Lady Wentworth was pacing up and down, like a wild-animal in its den.

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South of us begins a short distance, an interminable morass; a paradise for sportsmen, inhabited only by water-fowl, wild-animals, snakes, mosquitoes, and a few squatter sovereigns.

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We have just published a New Edition of this Great Work, Illustrated with very fine CHROMO-LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES: Giving the Coloring to Life of the Scenery and Wild-Animals From Drawings made by DR. LIVINGSTONE, during Sixteen Year Wanderings in the Wilds of South Africa!

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