“The beast in him roared.”

“. . . a sheer yelp of pain . . .”

“Joe was snapping like a demon.”

They were mere skeletons, draped loosely in draggled hides.

“The camp was suddenly discovered to be alive with skulking furry forms--starving huskies, four or five score of them, who had scented the camp from some Indian village.”

The “song of the huskies”

“The Thirty Mile River was wide open. Its wild water defied the frost."

“Buck got a frothing adversary by the throat, and was sprayed with blood when his teeth sank through the jugular. The warm taste of it in his mouth goaded him to greater fierceness.”

“Buck was too clever ever again to be caught red-handed. He worked faithfully in the harness, for the toil had become a delight to him; yet it was a greater delight slyly to precipitate a fight amongst his mates and tangle the traces.”

The genre of The Call of the Wild is