Carlyle French Revolution|volume=I|book=II|chapter=Petition in Hieroglyphs|page=35|passage=The dance interrupted, in a quarter of an hour, by battle; the cries, the squealings of children, of infirm persons, and other assistants, tarring them on, as the rabble does when dogs fight: frightful men, or rather frightful wild-animals, clad in jupes of coarse woollen, with large girdles of leather, studded with copper nails; of gigantic stature, heightened by high wooden-clogs (sabots); rising on tiptoe to see the fight; tramping time to it; rubbing their sides with their elbows: their faces haggard (figures hâves), and covered with their long greasy hair; the upper part of the visage waxing pale, the lower distorting itself into the attempt at a cruel laugh and a sort of ferocious impatience.
Thomson Widows and Widowers|volume=II|page=183|passage=Lady Wentworth was pacing up and down, like a wild-animal in its den.
12 December 1859, Western pseudonym, Correspondence of the Express, South of us begins a short distance, an interminable morass; a paradise for sportsmen, inhabited only by water-fowl, wild-animals, snakes, mosquitoes, and a few squatter sovereigns.
1 September 1860, J. W. Bradley, New Illustrated Edition of Livingstone’s Explorations in Africa, We have just published a New Edition of this Great Work, Illustrated with very fine CHROMO-LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES: Giving the Coloring to Life of the Scenery and Wild-Animals From Drawings made by DR. LIVINGSTONE, duringSixteen Year Wanderingsin the Wilds of South Africa!
7 June 1871, Social Instincts of Animals, Some recent contributions to animal psychology, which are both new and interesting, have been made by Mr. Francis Galton, on the half-wild cattle of western South Africa, which he thus describes: “... They were watched from a distance during the day, as they roamed about over the country, and at night they were driven with cries to enclosures, into which they rushed much like a body of terrified wild-animals driven by huntsmen into a trap.â€
