Knowing all that happens in the sierra, he had already heard of me some time ago, and laughed at the cannibalistic propensities attributed to me.
Older males were more capable of defending themselves against attacks of these cannibalistic females.
Bunting (1956) stated that species of Neoblattella are omnivorous with carnivorous andcannibalistic tendencies.
It is needless to say that Legaspi refused to perform such a savage, cannibalistic ceremony.
At the coming of the Spaniards the Tagalogs, like the remaining native peoples of the archipelago, were met with in the depths of the savage ages, and were to a certain extent, of cannibalistic tendencies.
He had not yet sprung the grim jest of almost all cannibalistic narratives.
Our sea-girt hermitage is a sanctuary for all manner of birds, save those of murderous and cannibalistic instincts.
The Caribes, who infested the smaller islands, were a warlike tribe of anthropophagi who terrorized the shores of Cuba by frequent and bloody excursions, carrying off many captives for their cannibalistic feasts.
It is interesting to note the location of this hole, which is invariably over the softest and plumpest part of the victim, near the lungs, showing that the cannibalistic univalve is very clever in its mode of attack.
It laid its eggs on the sides of the tank in long chains, but if not well fed, exhibited a decided cannibalistic tendency, devouring its own progeny.
Surely no animal could be more uncivilised orcannibalistic in its desires than man!
Crocodiles show an occasional cannibalistic tendency, while water-shrews are very pugnacious and oftentimes fight until one is killed.
It had been three years, Mr. Wiley said, since a cannibalistic feast took place, and he had been there to see it.
When a savage from the Solomons does backslide, he is usually the most cannibalistic of his tribe.
Like a vampire, he might become such as a curse from God, or he might be an innocent victim, or might suffer from an atavistic tendency, a cannibalistic craving for blood.
They had motile stems, leaves and flowers, and they had cannibalistic tendencies.
A genus of ground-cover plants with motile stems and leaves and cannibalistic tendencies was considered strong evidence of common origin.
I had read considerable about them, much of which ridiculed the rumors of their cannibalistic traits.
These stirred Nielsen to talk about the Seri Indians, and their cannibalistic traits; and from these he drifted to the Yuma Indians.
It seemed incredible to Hillary that he should really be standing there by that lagoon in thecannibalistic Solomon Isles, waiting to see a beautiful white girl paddle towards him across the blue waters.
It seemed impossible that the ruling brain behind them had survived the cannibalistic rush and taken command of the mound again?
Burton confirmed his reports regarding the cannibalistic habits of the Fans, and other statements were speedily corroborated.
Elfin tales deal with the magical powers and the cannibalistic nature of the Râkshas.
Best of all was the cannibalistic feast of the Crotalophoboi ending with a tempestuous, demoniacal war-dance.
One dislikes to set it down, but it was about this time that he entered upon those cannibalistic practices in which he persisted for the rest of his life.
Thus the time soon came when the natives dared not attack the whites; but they still carried on their cannibalistic wars against one another, apparently determined upon mutual destruction.
Then it was demonstrated that albatross nature is as cannibalistic as that of the Russian wolf.
If there were any human beings on these islands when the Maoris first arrived they doubtless fell a prey to the cannibalistic habits of the new-comers, whose insatiable appetite for human food was, as we have seen, irrepressible.
