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  • All the endeavour and achievement of the ten thousand generations was not, and, as wolf-dog and wild-man, the combat was between Jerry and the mate.

    CHAPTER VIII 2010

  • It is available at the web page given below. wild-man of Borneo

    What Are Some Positive Steps Teachers Or Schools Have Taken To Improve Literacy? « Literacy Schools « Literacy Help « Literacy News 2009

  • An artist and a murderer, Caravaggio was (according to Jarman at least) one of those wild-man queers of history, no flouncing fairy but a drinker and a fighter, like Christopher Marlowe or Jean-Arthur Rimbaud, ending his life on the run after killing a man in a knife fight -- with a knife which, so the story goes, was engraved with the phrase "Nec Spe, Nec Metu" ...

    Archive 2007-12-01 Hal Duncan 2007

  • An artist and a murderer, Caravaggio was (according to Jarman at least) one of those wild-man queers of history, no flouncing fairy but a drinker and a fighter, like Christopher Marlowe or Jean-Arthur Rimbaud, ending his life on the run after killing a man in a knife fight -- with a knife which, so the story goes, was engraved with the phrase "Nec Spe, Nec Metu" ...

    Appoggiatura Hal Duncan 2007

  • Before his students graduate from the Hartford Art School, instructor Dennis Nolan sits each one of them down and gives them his intense wild-man look.

    Archive 2009-06-01 James Gurney 2009

  • The CNN/MSNBC crowd have firmly bought into the story of Bill Clinton wild-man.

    Bill Clinton Re-Emerges As Major Issue In Campaign 2009

  • Before his students graduate from the Hartford Art School, instructor Dennis Nolan sits each one of them down and gives them his intense wild-man look.

    Two Things to Remember James Gurney 2009

  • IT WASN'T A PRETTY PICTURE LAST WEEK ON the set of "" Man on the Moon, '' the movie (due next spring) about wild-man comedian Andy Kaufman.

    Kids, Don't Try This In Acting Class 2008

  • Casey was widely distrusted on Capitol Hill, and Inman, with his reputation for honesty and his knack for spinning the press, was a perfect antidote to Casey's wild-man image.

    Inman Undone 2008

  • This figure is known to Christians as a wild-man, dressed in furs, who baptised his followers in rivers and seas.

    Archive 2008-06-01 Christopher 2008

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