wildness

• They can revive the stories of his wildness, his adulterous relationship with Cindy when his first wife (mother of some of his children) was disfigured in an auto accident, his inappropriate senatorial activity on behalf of Charles Keating, and perhaps his not very glorious, pre-prison record in the naval air force. —  AroundTheCapitol.com
• Her wildness, meaning the unbridled, uncultivated, undomesticated side of her character, is not caught in Dorothy's journals. —  NPR Topics: News
• Now in these two families you have typically Use opposed to Beauty in wildness_; it is their wildness which is their virtue;--that the thyme is sweet where it is unthought of, and the daisies red, where the foot despises them: while, in other orders, wildness is their crime,--"Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?" —  Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers
• Very little of any kind of wildness was there about the Misses Braid. —  The Golden Scarecrow
• But how often, how often, have we felt that old wildness which is our common heritage, scarce shackled, clamouring in our blood I stood listening among the alders, in the deep cool shade. —  Adventures in Contentment

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