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Example sentences for "civilized people"

  • This valley, the New Mexico proper of the Spaniards, when first visited in the sixteenth century, was thickly inhabited by an agricultural semi-civilized people, dwelling in towns of stone and mud houses several stories in height.

  • When the Mosaic legislation was completed the Hebrews were a civilized people, but not far enough advanced to institute political society.

  • They were in fact a civilized people, and had been for two centuries; but their institutions of government were still gentile, and of the type prevalent throughout the Later Period of barbarism.

  • A civilized people, the Brahmins, coalesced with a barbarous stock, and lost their language in the new vernaculars named, which retain the grammatical structure of the aboriginal speech, to which the Sanskrit gave ninety per cent.

  • In entering Hindostan they would meet with a civilized people, governed by rigid caste, where they would have no alternative but to remain aloof from the other inhabitants.

  • This information was obtained by an admirable regulation, which has scarcely a counterpart in the annals of a semi-civilized people.

  • Thoth, or At-hotes, as the originator of both astronomy and the alphabet; doubtless he represented a civilized people, by whom their country was originally colonized.

  • The indications are that the Bronze Age represents the coming in of a new people--a civilized people.

  • But if civilization consists in a courteous, refined manner, in a calm enjoyment of literature and the arts, in an ability to live easily and comfortably with a due regard to all the amenities of life, then the Japanese are a civilized people.

  • A very brilliant writer on Japanese subjects[1] {90} has said that the Japanese have been a civilized people for at least a thousand years.

  • They are very sensible to corporal torments themselves, like all barbarians or semi-civilized people.

  • This inconsistency runs through all the actions of these semi-civilized people.

  • We are not dealing with a savage but with a civilized people.

  • The public are addressed and pleas are put forward for their support on the ground that we are dealing with a country of the like extent as our own, inhabited by a primitive semi-civilized people.

  • That the Chinese are a civilized people, very abstemious in their habits, especially as regards the use of opium, spirits, and stimulants of all kinds.

  • But the question, What rights can they claim of a civilized people?


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    active volcanism; became exceedingly; civilized communities; civilized community; civilized countries; civilized life; civilized nations; civilized people; civilized peoples; civilized society; civilized warfare; deputy sheriff; find from; found also; general superintendent; gentle voice; had set; house was; longer believe; made clear; many peoples; national reputation; prettily situated; rise over; rubbed through; separate schools