Thus secluded, hundreds of wild songsters filled the air with music, while the melancholy notes of the wish-ton-wish's evening song traditionally had power to sooth their savage natures.
According to their customs, captives were either adopted by the captors and enjoyed all of the rights and privileges of the tribe and confederacy, or sentenced to death, attended by all of the horrors of savage torture.
Calm night, our soothing mother, bringing rest to all, freed them at last from the insulting taunts of theirsavage guards as their swarthy forms were swallowed up in the surrounding darkness.
An equipoise between intellect and passion is alone deficient in the nature of the Mexican people, for the savage has not been entirely extirpated from the mingled blood of Indian and Spaniard.
Uncultivated prairies and immense herds of savage beasts had already testified the abandoned state of the country; yet the region our forces now entered disclosed the frightful "nakedness of the land.
He had a sort of savage delight in feeling the rain beat against him, in seeing the lightning's flash and hearing the thunder's roar.
The savage in him was covered by the thin veneer of civilisation, but it was there.
Last night the thought had brought him a cruel, savage joy; that morning even he had gloated over the thought of his revenge; but now all was different.
Purvis shrank before thesavage gleam of the man's eye.
It was terrible to see the savage joy, the fury, with which the food was received and swallowed down by the beasts.
Long years ago he did receive a grievous injury to the head in combat with a savage foe.
The countenances of the mate and Prins darkened to his savage mood.
Marius, anxious to accustom his soldiers to the savage and strange appearance of the barbarians, would not give them battle at first.
The condition of the extensive province of Gaul was more promising, its savagetribes having begun to adopt the arts of civilization.
I may here notice that, unlike the dog, the cat has never been tamed by the savage races of mankind.
Now civil war has spent its savage rage, Say, shall we now for anarchy engage?
There was the sharp, clean crack of a Krag-Jorgensen, and a yell of savage triumph.
On one side of that wall they had fought savage and Briton for a home and a country, and on the other side they had done it again.
With one leap, Crittenden reached him with the butt of his gun and, with savage exultation, he heard the skull of the Spaniard crash.
So Frederick Delaval and the Misses Honeywood laughed; and Mr. Verdant Green also laughed in a very savage manner; and they all seemed to think it a very capital joke, and walked on together in very capital spirits.
The purity of love was unknown to a savage nature, chiefly animated by animal passion.
On their return from their forest haunts, after months of savage liberty, they too often threw off all restraint, and indulged in the most furious orgies.
Thus did these indefatigable priests, for the first time, engage in the work of converting the savage in the American wilderness.
In this as in other American savage nations, the rule governing the transmission of hereditary honours and possessions was through the female line.
The annals of those days tell us strange stories of the infatuation which some young women felt for the savage warriors whom they had wedded in Indian fashion.
Yet, while the Iroquois women had so much importance in the household and in the regulation of inheritance, she was almost as much a drudge as the squaw of the savage Micmacs of Acadia and the Gulf.
It was the culture of this very prolific plant, so easily sown, gathered, and dried, that largely modified and improved the savage conditions of Indian life elsewhere on the continent.
A crowd of the savage players tumultuously followed the ball, and in a moment were inside the fort where they snatched weapons from the squaws.
For a moment he raced behind them in insane fury, but only hissavage growl leaped through the darkness fast enough to catch up with them.
An oath dropped from his lips, blasphemous, moresavage than any wilderness voice.
He uttered one hoarse, savage note, a sound in which all his hatred and his fury and his savage power were made manifest, whirled with incredible speed, and charged.
There had always been the same drawing back of the lips, the same gusty breathing, the same strange little flakes of fire in the savage eyes.
The savage creature turned, the white fangs caught the light in the open mouth.
He was enthralled by the change that was on the forest,--a whipping-back of a thousand-thousand years to a young and savage world.
It was a perfect background for thesavage tale that she had to tell.
And these would be savage battles--with death at the end of many of them.
It had seen savage battles between the denizens of the wood; the deer racing by with the wolf pack in pursuit.
In certain relations of daily life the savage is as quick to learn, and as accurate in his judgment, as civilized man; mention need only be made of his skill in the hunt, and his intimacy with the forest.
It is impossible to forecast in what manner a savage may be impressed by an event of which he can note only external conditions, or how his action may respond to the impression.
This principle, appearing in mediæval magic, could also be illustrated from savage custom.
Is he gradually deteriorating to the half-savage state?
On the sudden, by no gradual transition or slow approach, is this semi-savage brought in contact with the latest refinements and most astounding discoveries of civilisation.
Yells of approval and savage delight punctuated every other sentence.
Not ten feet distant, leaning on a cane, was an officer lamed for life and permanently retired from service because of a desperate wound received in savage warfare.
And the three went bounding back along the bank, pursued and spurred by the savage shouting from below, but, as God so willed it, without so much as a glance.
Phantom-like we move, while weird forms retire before us, but still clinging to our boat as the connecting-link between civilized and savage life, a thoughtless move from it in any direction being a dangerous and hazardous experiment.
The hanging of Chekika and other Indians by Colonel Harney aroused the anger of the chiefs, who have declared hostility and savage brutality to any white man that came within their reach.
The land bordering on Sarasota Bay contains some portions of country as uncivilized as when the savage glided across its green waters, or his voice rang through its uncultured forests.
The blood of our citizens is still warm upon the hillocks and turfs of Florida, and the wily savage roams undismayed, with his thirst for the blood of fresh victims unquenched.
Harney: The brave and gallant avenger of savageatrocity and barbarity.
Some time afterward General Thompson ordered Osceola to come up and sign the emigration list, which request moved the indignation of this savage to the highest pitch of desperation, and he replied, "I will not.
Colonel Belknap: The red man's friend in peace--the terror of the savage in war.
A woman stole under the guard of his keepers, and struck him a savage blow on the cheeks, first one and then the other.
Ser Niccola Tuldo, turning on her eyes that still retained their savage ferocity, cried out: "Begone!
But these murderers are filled with so savage a rage, it will be a difficult matter to stop them.
Messer Guido shared thesesavage passions, and grew gloomy, restless and sullen.
The sweet voice and beaming face shed a sudden peace and radiance over the savage soul of Niccola Tuldo.
At this all six did hurl them upon him, and slew him, lunging with such savagehaste they did wound each other.
Not only was the mother with the child the first founder of human society, but the woman in savage life was the first inventor and originator of all life-sustaining industries.
For the reason that the savage is in the stage of social order through which all civilized nations have passed at some period--the stage of the mother-rule more or less modified by partial masculine domination.
The traditions of Amazons and the conduct of savage women give room to believe that the instinct for war was primitively very much the same in both sexes.
It gave woman release from the terrible labor-burdens of savage life; it gave her time and strength to develop beauty of person and refinement of taste and manners.
As soon as the youth appeared, the savage halted his steed.
This was the savage who had previously been nipped in the ear, and, without waiting for another shot, he sped away in the darkness, and his two companions after him, leaving the dead Indian where he had fallen.
But his savage nature was not yet conquered, and, unable to leap directly into the tree, he sprang for the trunk and came up, slowly but steadily.
On beholding the intruders, his fears changed to exultation, and he uttered a roar of satisfaction as he glared at them, which could only be likened to the cry of some savage denizen of the plains.
Wild, in a savage tone, and striking him with the silver staff.
Aroused to a sense of the possibility of escape, Jack, who had viewed the deadly assault with savage satisfaction, burst from his captors and made for the door.
As Jack was removed, he noticed Jonathan Wild at a little distance from him, eyeing him with a look of the most savage satisfaction.
The knight stood upon his defence; but he would unquestionably have been torn in pieces by the savage hounds, if a shower of oaths, seconded by a vigorous application of kicks and blows from their master, had not driven them growling off.
He's as savageand suspicious as the devil himself.
But all at once, rendered savage by the persistency of the pursuit, the great antelope turned toward the horses and charged straight at Dyke.
But, I say, are we to go and skin that old savage to-night?
And in that time Joe, left to the care of this half-savage woman, who had quite made up her mind that her master would die, would be dead indeed.
Then all at once Jack appeared, carrying three assegais, and holding himself up with a great deal of savage dignity; but as he approached he was struck on the back of the head by a bone.
We're out here in a savage land, but we don't want to grow into savages, nor yet to be as blunt and gruff as two bears.
The tearing and rending had ceased, and though the boy listened patiently for quite an hour, no animal returned to the savage banquet.
But it was very difficult to recover these relics, or so much as to find out the place where they lay, on account of the inhospitable and savage temper of the barbarous people that inhabited the island.
The Crommyonian sow, which they called Phaea, was a savage and formidable wild beast, by no means an enemy to be despised.
Thus they let their anger and fury take from them the sense of humanity, and demonstrated that no beast is more savage than man, when possessed with power proportioned to his rage.
Nay, he chose not to leave the savage beasts in the deserts without giving them a specimen of the Roman valor and success.
Into such a variety of wild and savage countries had these two generals carried their victorious arms!
