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Example sentences for "savageness"

Lexicographically close words:
sauvages; sauve; sauver; savage; savagely; savagery; savages; savagism; savait; savan
  1. He demanded with such savageness the meaning of her adornment, that the indignant amazement with which she turned on him was real, and not feigned.

  2. The savageness with which he was turned on, enlightened him.

  3. Compare with the savageness of the Prefect of Rome in torturing S.

  4. He knew that; and he did not care to change it; it was singular, and gave her half her charm of savageness and innocence commingled.

  5. These preparations, however were made with a savageness of mien by the irregulars, and a sullen silence by all, that attested how little their inclination had been consulted in the decision of their Chief.

  6. Their savageness arises first from their condition.

  7. Thirdly, their savageness depends on their having young.

  8. Secondly, their savageness depends on the season; they are more savage about Candlemas than at any other time of the year, and men must be more on their guard against them then than at other times.

  9. Their conscientious refusal to recognise Henry as the head of the Church had excited his rage, which increased to the height of savageness when the pope offered to send to poor Fisher the hat of a cardinal.

  10. Although the old "bulls" show a certain amount of ferocity at times, their savageness is considerably exaggerated by the whalers, who love to spin yarns about them.

  11. These preparations, however, were made with a savageness of mien by the irregulars, and a sullen silence by all, that attested how little their inclination had been consulted in the decision of their Chief.

  12. From the cross-roads the way again inclined downward to the sea in increasing savageness of desolation.

  13. All, therefore, that remained in Syracuse, had to serve under a tyrant, who at the best was of an ungentle nature, and exasperated now to a degree of savageness by the late misfortunes and calamities he had suffered.

  14. He therefore accepted the invitation, and passed the forenoon very agreeably with the poor negroes, the mildness of their manners forming a striking contrast to the savageness and ferocity of the moors.

  15. His woolly visage and form were strangely lamb-like and innocent, but one could find in his yellow eyes a gleam of cunning and savageness as unlamb-like as it possibly could be.

  16. A wilderness is one thing; savageness and solitude have a character of their own; and so has a polished landscape with associations of art, poetry, legend, and history.

  17. The solitude and savageness of the place shot a fresh life through Morton's failing veins.

  18. In their first coalitions of society, much of this original savageness is retained.

  19. Whether this intercourse is prompted by all the finer impulses of life or is accomplished by the savageness of rape makes no difference to Nature's purpose.

  20. He was born with a sweet and generous temper; but he had been goaded and baited into a savageness which was not natural to him, and which amazed and shocked those who knew him best.

  21. Meer Jaffier hesitated; but his son Meeran, a youth of seventeen, who in feebleness of brain and savageness of nature greatly resemble the wretched captive, was implacable.

  22. All that savageness and wildness disappeared when she approached him.

  23. And shaggy, wet, dusty red, with all of brute savageness in the look and action of his head, he appeared hideous.

  24. She had expected every sign of savageness on his part, and certainly had not intended to go near him.

  25. His health, however, returned; but he no longer suffered the caresses of any but his keepers, and towards strangers manifested the original savageness of his species.

  26. Listen," said Mrs. Kildair, seizing her arm, and Beecher was struck with the savageness of her energy.

  27. Young Gunther was now completing the last year of his contract with a compressed savageness that would have wrecked any but the strongest constitution.

  28. One brutal, still charged with the savageness of the evening, to say: "Angry?


  29. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "savageness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.