How To Use Wild man In A Sentence
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Various rural communities in Germany, for instance, held traditional enactments in which a local inhabitant was dressed to represent a wild man, sometimes in moss and leaves.
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She could not explain to him that he was a sinner, unregenerated, a wild man in her estimation, a being of quite another kind than herself, and therefore altogether unfitted to be the husband of her girl!
John Caldigate
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Martin Ramin for The Wall Street Journal Stallion-stitched leather buckle For the Wild Man A little bit country, a little bit rock 'n' roll circa '70s Eagles, this stallion-stitched leather buckle grooves well with a similar colored belt, worn-in low-slung corduroys, a dandy printed button-down and beat-up espadrilles.
Shoot From the Hip
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The former wild man of rock has reinvented himself as a respectable family man.
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For every person such as TS Eliot, who said ‘it is impossible to regard him as a naif, a wild man, a wild pet for the supercultivated’, there were countless others who thought him plain crazy.
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And the persistent jungle, ever encroaching on space, had out-posts of champac and wild mango, their giant roots, like the arms of an octopus, holding anchorage in clefts of the rock.
Caste
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But only a purely wild man went out on a limb of four or five minutes.
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First, though Thompson casts himself as a wild man, he's also a precisionist.
The Cheek's In The Mail
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The former wild man of rock has reinvented himself as a respectable family man.
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Iowa soldiers, I seen him give one whoop, and throw that plug hat hellwards over the crowd and jump down from that band stand like a wild man and make for the gang.
A Certain Rich Man
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He is boozing in a wild manner, and has become a nuisance.
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Because of his films, Russell was often considered as a vulgar and wild man-hater.
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Stories about a wild man - often envisioned as an unclothed man, hairy and incorrigible as a beast - were widespread in medieval Europe.
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It is a wonderful place, that jungle, with its tangled trunks and vines and its green foliage swimming in sifted sunlight; with its palms, palmettoes, ferns, and climbing morning-glories, its banana trees, gnarled rubber banyans, and wild mangoes -- which are like trees growing upside down, digging their spreading branches into the ground.
American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home'
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Merriam-Webster online doth quoth: ‘A geek used to be a carnival performer often billed as a wild man whose act usually includes biting the head off a live chicken or snake.’
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Historically, the Forerunner John -- that famous wild man who lived on nuts and wild honey, and dressed in camel hair -- was in the habit of calling errant Jews to repentance, and a good many of them were pleased to receive his words.
Scott Cairns: Holy Theophany: The Baptism Of Jesus And The Blessing Of The Waters
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The care of the domestic animals, the collection of the roots and fruits, the cutting up of the sheep or agouties, which were to serve for food for the day, the fabrication of a sort of cider they extracted from the wild manzanilla apples, -- he acquitted himself well in all these tasks, after having seen them done.
Godfrey Morgan A Californian Mystery
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Becker then, having carefully investigated the creature, pronounced it to be (as we already know) a full-grown specimen of a kind of ape, called by the Africans "the wild man of the woods," and by naturalists the _jocko_ or chimpanzee.
Willis the Pilot
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The wild man o 'the North himself, or my name aint Jim," said Crofts, turning pale.
Fast in the Ice Adventures in the Polar Regions