These cannibals stopped a moment at Sevres, and carried their cruelty to the length of forcing an unfortunate hairdresser to dress the gory heads; the bulk of the Parisian army followed them closely.
In the midst of this troop of cannibals the heads of two murdered Body Guards were carried on poles.
And there are no cannibals ready to make us into soup," added Bill.
Nice lot of cannibals those sharks are, to prey upon each other," said Teddy.
I've met men who'd cheerfully face a crowd of howling cannibals and yet would develop a very bad case of jumps if asked to cross a street roaring and humming with traffic.
The Fan cannibalsseem to have specially fascinated him.
The other prisoners were, one by one, killed and eaten, but the cannibals took their meals in a way that showed indifferent breeding.
The presence of these cannibals affected them no more than the soldiers of a masked battery care for the ants that crawl over its front.
Unfortunate man of science, after having braved the icebergs of the South Pole, the coral reefs of Oceania, the cannibals of the Pacific, to perish miserably in a railway train!
The last news from New Zealand was that an English ship, the Boyd, had been seized and burned by the cannibals in the Bay of Islands, and every soul on board, seventy in all, killed and eaten.
I viewed our present situation with sensations and feelings that I cannot express, surrounded by cannibals who had massacred and devoured our countrymen.
His one aim was to evangelize New Zealand; to bring a nation of cannibalsfrom darkness into the marvellous light of the gospel, and from the power of Satan unto God.
We surely would not expect that these poor naked cannibals should be moral in their sex life according to our ideas, or that they should have imposed a high degree of restriction upon their sexual impulses.
Ribbe: Two Years among the Cannibalsof the Solomon Islands, 1905.
Some months later she did as not one woman in a million would have done--remained for six weeks among cannibals with not another white person in the place.
During the night the little band of Christians could hear the war-horn calling the natives together, and the shouts of the cannibals as they came in from all parts.
At three o'clock in the morning Chalmers turned in, but he had not long been asleep when his wife discovered the cannibals approaching.
The cannibals were very proud of having taken care of Mrs. Chalmers, and received with a conviction that they had well earned them, the presents and thanks which her husband, on his return, bestowed upon them.
Cannibals most of them, ferocious all of them, heartless to a man.
A soldier--but what Government employs cannibals as soldiers?
Many of the cannibals whose cases are related by Mr. Baring-Gould, in his chapter of horrors, actually believed themselves to have been transformed into wolves or other wild animals.
It is perfectly clear that the cannibals of the Zulu legends are not common men; they are magnified into giants and magicians; they are remarkably swift and enduring; fierce and terrible warriors.
The only testimony upon which the assumption that the Caribs were cannibals is founded is that of the companions of Columbus on his second voyage, when, landing at Guadeloupe, they found human bones and skulls in the deserted huts.
Certainly cannibals do not possess abundance in the sense in which civilised men do, but this is because they are savages who have not, or have scarcely, risen out of the first stage of human development.
Passengers are carried to and fro in bongoes, managed by a noisy and naked boatman, who inspires alarm in the breast of the nervous passenger, who imagines this gang of savage-looking maniacs are cannibals howling for his blood.
Taylor, William, his adventure with cannibals in Patagonia, 525.
At present, we are told, 'the cannibals in the world may be numbered by millions.
Some of the most treacherous savages on this coast are undoubtedly not cannibals, while most of the Louisiade cannibals are a mild-tempered, pleasant set of men.
She says tying a man to a tree while cannibals eat up his family is the only thing as would express it a tall.
And so, when Mrs. Fisher asked me one day whether I supposed there was any cannibals there, I said there was one cannibal tribe that was most ferocious and had appetites that there was no such thing as quenchin'.
Did I not, during the battle, at more than a hundred paces, the very first time I handled a gun, hit one of the cannibals full in the chest?
He would not permit the massacre of the prisoner for which the stomachs of the cannibals were waiting!
This had been done in such a way that the cannibals would never dare to return to Phina Island.
What disquieted him was the possible return of the cannibals who now knew the situation of Phina Island.
You cannot be a Crusoe without a canoe coming to your island, without cannibals appearing one day or another!
Just then one of the cannibals looked up to see a tall and stately figure wrapped in a white garment which, as the flame-light flickered on it, seemed now to advance from the dense background of shadow, and now to recede into it.
Yes, and these were no ghosts; they were cannibals of whom when she was little, her mother had told her tales to keep her from wandering away from home.
We then saw a tribe of female cannibals enter the street, carrying the head of poor Mandat.
A poor village cure, some leagues from the place where the crime was committed, was imprudent enough to draw near to speak to the King; the cannibals who surrounded the carriage rushed upon him.
I quite agree with you that, from what John has said, there are reasons aside from the cannibalsover there, why we should explore it from one end to the other.
What did you value your life at, when the cannibals were holding their powwow over you, the other day to Dominica?
The question may be asked whether I ever tried to tell my cannibals about the outside world.
It is no exaggeration to say that the crowd of cannibals stood and squatted in front of my handiwork simply speechless with amazement.
You see, the oar I grasped when Bruno came to give the alarm proved of inestimable value; and so all through my marvellous years of sojourn among the cannibals an undeniable Providence guided my every action.
They had worked for a whole week, but without success, when one evening a loud and awful trumpeting told them that elephants had arrived on the plains below, or were passing through the country of the cannibals for pastures new.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cannibals" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
