She was getting excited at the admiration of the onlookers, and her dance grew wilder and more daring.
"Liza of Lambeth"
W. Somerset Maugham
As he gradually got up into that wilder country, the gloom grew more intense, the desolation more awful.
"Prince Fortunatus"
William Black
Then he rose and went on again, for, from the high-road along which he had driven, he had caught a glimpse of a wilder part of the glen, where the river seemed to come tumbling down a rocky chasm, with some huge boulders in mid-channel; and even now he could hear the distant, muffled roar of the waters.
"Prince Fortunatus"
William Black