The savagery of the African negro has, unfortunately, shown itself among his descendants in the Island.
The bright sunshine and balmy air hardly soften the unspeakable savagery and desolation of the scene, fitting background for the tragedy of the fallen Fire-giver.
Wouldn't it be a bitter thing for a girl to go marrying the like of Shaneen, and he a middling kind of a scarecrow, with no savagery or fine words in him at all?
The savagery with which my brother-in-law attacked a roll was almost frightening.
Berry's employment of this convenient accessory was characterised by a savagery which, if deplorable, is not uncommon.
She had never seen such cunning savagery as was in the head of this horse, its ears going back and forth as it tested the strength of the restraining ropes.
There was no boisterous swash-bucklering savagery about these.
Familiar as he was with such sights, the appearance of the Igazipuza kraal as he rode into it that night, struck John Dawes as about the most wild and terrific aspect of savageryunchecked as he had ever beheld.
It was as though in some subtile way the girl had breathed a message of kindred savagery to their savage hearts.
With the rifle shots of the white men showering about him he had reverted to the savagery of the beast that is inherent in each of us, but that flamed more strongly in this boy whose father had been raised a beast of prey.
Nor was this difficult, as she was soon to learn, for it rapidly became evident that beneath the uncouthsavagery of the girl was a bed rock of innate refinement--a nicety of taste and predilection that quite equaled that of her instructor.
Where they found savagery they introduced barbarism, which, though unlettered and based on the sword, was a vast improvement over what may be called the geological state of man, in which he is but slightly raised above the brutes.
The time of bearing a noble creed, meaning culture and civilization as against savagery and idolatry, is past, and only intestine quarrels and local strife have succeeded.
The barbarism of the Yamato conquerors an improvement upon the savagery of the aborigines.
It is a question, in fact, whether even in the state of savagery any pure instinct for killing ever played a considerable part.
We do not know to what extent the small groups of men we find in conditions of savagery now represent primitive conditions.
Iberville seems to have exerted his influence to restrain the savagery of the Indians, and saved the life of at least one Englishman.
The Vikings were as savage as the Irish, but the savagery is not mingled with the Irish tenderness.
We have left the primeval savagery behind, the multitudinous slaughtering, the crude passions of the earlier men and women; we are nearer to civilization, nearer to the common temper and character of the Irish people.
Now, as they looked upon their helpless prey, all the animal savagery of their race rose up in them, and their eyes sparkled and their lips twitched in the lust for blood.
In a recent work in which the crudest fancies of primeval savagery are thinly disguised in a jargon learned from the superficial reading of modern books of science, M.
The bears and lions and leopards of heraldry are the degenerate descendants of the totem of savagery which designated the tribe by a beast-symbol.
Many generations and much subtlety of refinement must lie between herself and savagery before a woman can learn instinctively to fear the soul of a man rather than his muscles in a crisis like this.
The Parisians were convinced that the shells were aimed maliciously at hospitals and museums; and when a child happened to be blown to pieces their unspoken comments upon the Prussian savagery were bitter.
Numbers gave them courage of voice, and in its manifestation there was the savagery of the forests that hemmed them in.
How could I crouch beside the ingle of an untamed Viking husband, and in all unloveliness mother a rude progeny, and blur out, in the grossness and savagery of it, the vision of better things, and of the nobler love I have seen?
As for me, never could I have conceived that savagery so heinous could brood in a human bosom as now I felt it brood in mine.
Gaelic slogan: it gave him a sense of unspeakable savagery and antique, for it was two hundred years since his own family had cried "Cammercy!
I don't mean that I would excuse his doing so: but I am prepared to admit that there is a remnant of primitive savagery in us: it is barbarous, but it is logical: you kill the person who makes you suffer.
And Olivier, looking on at their secret duel, the savagery of which was known to him by his own experience, was full of pity for Joussier when he realized his weakness.
The hot brown barrels belched forth their lightnings into those painted faces, and the swarms of savagery melted away.
Scarcely had reinforcements attained the summit before the torrent of savagery burst screeching on their front.
My own opinion is that, though prestige and vanity and superstition all contribute to the prevalence of head-hunting, in the inherent savagery of the Dyak is found the true explanation of the custom.
