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Toothache hurts the same, whether you are Helen Keller, a wolf-child, or a linguistic virtuoso.
On learning English DC 2008
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He is but a wolf-child run away from the jungle. '
The Kipling Reader Selections from the Books of Rudyard Kipling Rudyard Kipling 1900
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An interesting case of a wolf-child was reported many years ago in Chambers 'Journal.
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The wolf-child has little except his outward form to show that it is a human being with a soul.
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The wolf-child has little except his outward form to show that it is a human being with a soul.
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` ` A jemidar told me that when he was a lad he remembered going, with others, to see a wolf-child which had been netted.
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An interesting case of a wolf-child was reported many years ago in
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Segel takes this never-male-socialized, feral wolf-child into his man-pad, introduces him to his wank station and helps him rock out to Rush.
Ultrabrown 2009
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I think it is clear from the progression of Rusty's physiognomy from panels two to three that Mark walked in at on Rusty as he finished the lycanthropic transformation from wolf-child, a life-style that dare not say its name while around Mark's Fists of Justice.
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Among the best-known cases (some of which are evidently nothing more than idiots, or poor wandering children) are: Peter, the "Wild Boy" of Hameln (in 1724); the child reported in the Hessian Chronicle as having been found by some hunters living with wolves in 1341; the child reported by Bernard Connor as living with she-bears, and the child found with bears at Grodno in Poland; the wolf-child of the Ardennes, mentioned by Koenig, in his treatise on the subject; the Irish boy said to feed on grass and hay, found living among the wild sheep; the girl found living wild in Holland in 1717; the two goat-like boys of the
The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain
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