"Crushed them into the remotest recesses of their own minds, pressing out of them, like juices from the grape, all the…"

"It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life. I…"

"There was a hint in it of laughter, but of a laughter more terrible than any sadness—a laughter that was mirthless as…"

"On the sled, in the box, lay a third man whose toil was over, - a man whom the Wild had conquered and beaten down unt…"

"The land itself was a desolation, lifeless, without movement, so lone and cold that the spirit of it was not even tha…"

"The she-wolf] looked at [Bill and Henry] in a strangely wistful way, after the manner of a dog; but in its wistfulnes…"

"As he piled wood on the fire he discovered an appreciation of his own body which he had never felt before...It fascin…"

"He tried to sniff noses with her, but she retreated playfully and coyly. Every advance on his part was accompanied by…"

"She was made glad in vague ways by the battle, for this was the love-making of the Wild, the sex-tragedy of the natur…"

"I reckon you've called the turn, Bill. That wolf's a dog, an' it's eaten fish many's the time from the hand of man."