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And I suppose for the very reason that these were beasts of a long-sharpened sagacity, wild-hearted, rebellious, yet not the slaves of impulse, he yet kept himself their king who was, in fact, their captive.

Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance Walter De la Mare 1914

For here, to this wild-hearted Irishman with the forbidden strain of the _Urmensch_ in his blood, came the sharp and instant revelation that the Consciousness is not contained skin-tight around the body.

The Centaur Algernon Blackwood 1910

It was fortunate for him that he was a level-headed as well as a wild-hearted chap, else he might have sunk to the perdition his worthy uncles prescribed for him.

The Man from Brodney's George Barr McCutcheon 1897

"Her only safe refuge is with me, and I could count on her to help me clear away this wild-hearted Magyar devil."

The Midnight Passenger : a novel Richard Savage 1874

Her hands convulsively grasped the back of the chair next to her, and, supporting herself by it, she stood with bloodless cheeks, looking at her suitor through her tears with eyes so full of grief and tenderness that the wild-hearted man before her was thoroughly overcome, and lost all self-confidence -- nay, forgot his own cause in his distress at her emotion, and his anxiety to soothe it.

Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag Gustav Freytag 1855

He had spoken with admiration of reticent characters, full of self-control and dignity; and he hoped -- he trusted, that all this time he had not been allowing himself unconsciously to fall in love with a wild-hearted, impetuous girl, who knew nothing of life beyond her father's house, and who chafed under the strict discipline enforced there.

Ruth Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837

Let us suppose her in a few hours recovering steady consciousness; in a few days recovering some power of self-support; in a fortnight able to seek the gay saloon, where the Senora was sitting alone, and rendering thanks, with that deep sincerity which ever characterized our wild-hearted Kate, for the critical services received from that lady and her establishment.

Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers — Volume 1 Thomas De Quincey 1822

Let us suppose her in a few hours recovering steady consciousness; in a few days recovering some power of self-support; in a fortnight able to seek the gay saloon, where the Senora was sitting alone, and rendering thanks, with that deep sincerity which ever characterized our wild-hearted Kate, for the critical services received from that lady and her establishment.

Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers Thomas De Quincey 1822

She risked affections as the shallow, unlikeable New York college brat in Brooke Berman's "Hunting and Gathering," and worried me by playing the wild-hearted convent girl in "Les Liaisons Dangereuses" as a Valley Girl.

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Reporting from Teluk Meranti, Indonesia - They're equatorial Huckleberry Finns, two wild-hearted boys guiding an old wooden fishing boat along a wide and mighty river.

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