In savage as in civilised life there is a "snobdom.
They all had the means of concealing them about their persons; for most of them were dressed in the garb of civilised life, in the plundered habiliments of the rancho and hacienda.
She wears the dress of civilised life, but she wears it reluctantly.
The general inflexibility of character of the race, and their abhorrence of the restraints of civilised life, make them very intractable subjects.
Hence they are at unusual pains to maintain punctiliously the external forms of civilised life, mistaking the husk for the kernel.
Instead of that, I found settled communities, not only enjoying all the amenities of civilised life, but living in expensive luxury, and many of them in extravagance.
The social virtues, and even the natural affections, are only developed in their full force by means of artificial or civilised life, just as the perfectability of plants is only attained by the aid which art gives to nature.
From the days of the Acta Diurna of the Romans something in the shape of a newspaper appears to have been a necessity of civilised life.
A hotel, with oysters awaiting us for a forebreakfast refection in the background, waggons from Michigan, horses from Kentucky, all the apparatus of civilised life close at hand, the Pacific and its strange wild denizens at our feet!
Therefore indulgence is desired for one further count in this distasteful recital of ineptitudes inherent in this institutional scheme of civilised life.
His semi-delirious speculations on the miseries of civilised life, the preferability of the savage to the civilised, and suchlike, helped well to produce a whole delirium in France generally.
They are of themselves incapable of acquiring the arts and habits of civilised life; unless some interference that amongst civilised men would be considered unjust, takes place, they never can, by themselves, rise to that higher condition.
However few the instances, they are, undeniably, exact parallels to those recorded in civilised life.
Mr. Tylor, in addition to his three instances in civilised life, alludes to one in savage life, with references to other cases.
But, while it is easy enough to produce evidence to recognised phantasms of the dead in civilised life, it would be very difficult indeed to discover many good examples in what we know about savages.
I had seen nothing of civilised life, except during my short sojourn at Monterey, one of the last places in the world to give you a true knowledge of mankind.
A civilised life cannot be lived in undisciplined towns.
Of course, therefore, we were far beyond the every day influences of civilised life.
Fort Dunregan, in which we dwelt, stood more than a thousand miles distant from the utmost verge of civilised life in Canada.
We had no sugar basins, or butter-dishes, or table-cloths, or any of the other amenities of civilised life.
Still there are a few modern shops, notably a large drapery establishment, where the necessaries of civilised life may be procured.
When we reflect that this obstinate people are as intelligent as any in the world in the various pursuits of civilised life, our anger at such conduct, which gave away the cause of civilisation, may be tempered by a different feeling.
But six hours afterwards we were in Taganrok, in the drawing-room of the amiable English consul, surrounded by all the comforts of civilised life.
The novelty of my sensations, and the secret pleasure of escaping for awhile from the round of prescribed habits that make up the chief part of civilised life, banished from my mind every sombre thought.
The universal maintenance of a definite standard of civilised life is the joint obligation of an indissoluble partnership between the individual and the community.
The universal maintenance of a definite minimum of civilised life--seen to be in the interest of the community no less than in that of the individual--becomes the joint responsibility of an indissoluble partnership.
The universal maintenance of a definite minimum of civilised life--seem to be in the interest of the community no less than in that of the individual--becomes the joint responsibility of an indissoluble partnership.
The ancient equipment of congenital aptitudes and propensities stands over substantially unchanged, though overlaid with barbarian traditions and conventionalities and readjusted by habituation to the exigencies of civilised life.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "civilised life" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
