Word: wildness
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Some haunt the cataract's wild roar...
...wild-rose pink is on her cheeks...
...Canadian backwoods girl, who could wield gun and paddle as skilfully as her hunter brother, with whom she lived in the wilderness. When I first saw her, she was speeding a canoe across the wild river that ran in front of their cabin. The apparition of this beautiful girl set the last charm upon the loveliness of the spot. The utter solitude of the forest around; the white water of the river, that mirrored the hemlocks hanging in rich tracery over its edge; the densely wooded mountains behind, that rose blue in the thin autumnal haze, - all were consecrated...
...forest scenery; but she criticised it intuitively, not by reason. She did not know that this was a rare gift. She was not conscious of her powers, and did not know but that every woman was stirred to deep emotion by the quiet beauty of a lake or the wild grandeur of a windy mountain. Her life was given to the loveliness of the silent forest and the misty waterfall; to the flowers, the rocks, and the trees. They were her companions, her teachers, her world. In them she lost all thought of self, and therefore she was natural...
There, with a simple wild-flower wreath...