Know ye therefore that We, considering the premises and being willing to encourage the laudable design of spreading Christian knowledge among the savages of our American wilderness.
It is known to all Europe, that the North American savages act without any continued design, when not spirited up and directed.
Nothing in America calls for haste; you will always have time enough to make good your claims there: the Savages are your friends; they cannot endure the English.
Louder and louder grew the yells and wilder the gesticulations as the savages worked themselves up into a fury.
There he was, our own quiet, domestic, gentle Dunn, raging through that howling mob of savages like a bloody Bengal tiger.
All these people are subjects of the one emperor, and excepting fewer than twenty thousandsavages in the northern islands called Ainos, speak one language and form substantially one race.
Indeed, it seems to be the sole type of play achievable by primitive man--if we may judge from observations made amongsavages who are still in the earlier periods of social development.
Before many minutes they were discovered, and some twenty or more savages were seen rushing towards them.
Poor Jack fully expected to share the same fate, but the savages seemed to have no intention of injuring him.
Jack stood riveted to the spot with horror as he beheld the scene, and discovered the dreadful fare on which the savages were feasting.
He would have rushed down to the beach and swam off to meet her, but as he was hurrying on with eager feet, several dark savages rose up before him, and by significant gestures impeded his further progress.
The proceeding very much astonished all present, but it had the effect of making the savages respect the bold seaman.
He was, however, a prisoner; for after what had occurred he was very certain that the savages would not let him return to the frigate.
Some of the savageswere clambering on board, when Jack discerned through a spyglass a disturbance on shore.
Before the rest could follow their example the savages with hideous yells were upon them with their clubs, and to his grief and horror Jack saw every one of them struck down and killed.
The only thought after this was how to put the savages to death, old and young, men and women, more often by foul means than by fair.
It had been found that the savageseagerly received glass beads in exchange for corn and peltries.
The three or four hundred savages on the Potomac (Oxford Tract, p.
According to writers of the time, the demons worshiped by the savages were able to materialize themselves on great occasions, appearing to their votaries in some beastly form.
All schemes for educating the savages were obliterated in a day.
To the benevolent desire of Englishmen for the deliverance of the savages from devil-worship and semi-nudity, there was added the natural wish for ecclesiastical extension.
The unchecked hostility of the savages drove the outsettlers from Nansemond and the falls of the James.
Two or three hundred savages in the earlier account become four or five hundred in the later.
There were already sixteen settlements or "towns" on the shores of Massachusetts Bay, with an indefinite stretch of gloomy wilderness for background, the dwelling place of countless savages and wild beasts.
The sudden and frightful massacre by the savages in March, 1622, obliterated instantly all vain and premature projects.
The apocryphal story of his expounding the solar system by means of a pocket compass to savageswhose idiom he had had no opportunity to learn is to be found only in his later writings.
This interest in outlandish savagesno doubt suggested to the poet the creation of the monster Caliban, who probably seemed a realistic figure to the imagination of that age.
Little by little they had gained precarious foothold on the Indian domains, slowly forcing the savages westward.
About them still, although demoralized and defeated, circled an overwhelming mass of savages capable of crushing them to death, when they again rallied and consolidated.
Evidently they were puzzled, fearful of some trickery, for occasionally a gun would crack viciously, the brown smoke plainly visible, the advancing savages halting to observe the effect.
Even the Indian fire had died out, and it was hard to conceive that savages were hidden behind that black veil, and that they two were actually fleeing for their lives.
My dear, civilization is a huge cheat, and the Red Law of Savages in primeval night is worth all the tomes of jurisprudence, from the Pandects of Justinian to the Commentaries of Blackstone, and the wisdom of Coke and Story.
For my sake that you steeped your soul in guilt that even brutal savages abhor, and loaded your name and memory with infamy!
A cold climate, moreover, leads to uncleanliness because it makes garments necessary;[41] and among some savages the practice of greasing their bodies to protect the skin from the effects of a parching air produces a similar result.
We commonly find that savages who are clean in certain respects are dirty in others.
Even among savages public indignation frequently assumes that definite shape which constitutes the difference between punishment and mere condemnation.
And of various savages we are told that they believe in the existence of a supreme being who is a moral lawgiver or judge.
Savages who are clean in certain respects but dirty in others, p.
The violation of the prohibitory rules regarded by savages as a most heinous crime, p.
There are instances reported of savages who distinguish between murder and manslaughter.
The same considerations as induce savagesto kill their new-born infants also induce them to destroy the fetus before it has proceeded into the world from the mother's body.
Mr. McLennan grossly exaggerated its prevalence when he asserted that female infanticide is "common among savages everywhere.
The notions of savages concerning life after death also influence their moral valuation of suicide.
Of many savages it is reported that they have notions of good, as well as of evil spirits, but that they chiefly or exclusively worship the evil ones, since the others are supposed to be so good that they require no offerings or homage.
His thoughts were busy with the girl--alone in these mountains with an unknown country before her and a band of relentless savages who might, for aught she knew, be still pressing after her.
Chinamen learn Pigeon English in a few months, and savages in the South Seas master Beach-la-Mar almost as quickly.
At a signal, bang went twenty muskets, echoing from crag to crag in the silent wood, and the treacherous savages met the death they had been plotting for us.
It required all the exertions of the officers to prevent further cruelties, nor was a stop put to them, till several of these half-tamed savages were knocked down and made prisoners of.
The Kaffirs are, undoubtedly, one of the finest races of savages in existence, and of a physical type very different from, and superior to all other South African races.
It is the ransom those savages pay for the western comfort we bring them.
For these big, bold, burly men are fairly savages in comparison with the cultured Hindu whom they harried.
Taboo and I were only too glad to sit meekly among the ten thousand spectators that blackened the great sweep of the shore, while these savages matched their prowess.
So we went on shore in our little triumphal procession, and there I was embraced in a very emphatic manner by savages of every conceivable sex, age, and color.
There are farmers, miners, hunters, even painted savages among them.
Meanwhile her father and our bridegroom, with his friend Jacob and the six men, charged down on the savages with wild yells of fury.
We find him holding aloof from the savages at first and marveling at their simple hospitality.
Among these savageshe had found a dark subterranean hatred of the new civilization, which they knew to be destroying them; and now he looked and saw the same hatred in his own soul.
Yet few future events are more certain than the speedy extermination of the Indians of North America and the savages of New Holland in the course of a few centuries, when these tribes will be remembered only in poetry or history.
Their days were full of toil and anxiety and their nights were spent much of the time in vigils over the sick and dying or in warding against the prowling savages of the plains.
There he remained undiscovered all night while the savages were shrieking around like so many devils.
For ships and crews were sometimes lost by wreck or savages or scurvy.
With extraordinary skill and devotion they held the line intact and foiled the efforts of the savages to burst through.
Here, for twenty-five years, he devoted his mighty soul to the work of introducing the rudiments of civilization and Christianity to the most sullen and dangerous savages upon earth.
There are very few savages now," Mrs. Costello answered with a smile.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "savages" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
