Here, in the wilds of uncivilised Caffraria, I had truly found one sincerely pure, loving heart.
On approaching, we found it to be a more uncivilised place than we had expected, and we had not expected much.
Certainly arms had been put into the hands of these uncivilised hordes under the pretence of organising a sort of militia.
The district must have been inhabited a great many years, for more had been done in it to secure a provision from the ground by hard manual labour than it would have appeared to be in the power of uncivilised man to accomplish.
So that, upon the whole, in New Holland, as in most other uncivilised countries, old age is a period of much dignity, and of considerable enjoyment of life.
Thus he explains the difficulty of the creation of the firmament on the second day by saying, 'This was made before, but that simple and uncivilised multitude had to be taught in a homely and palpable way.
The cleanliness in dress and food, the reciprocal offices of kindness and courtesies of society, are magnets which attract him and make him forget his rude and uncivilised home.
New roads were made, and the British were invited to form themselves into the little communities of cities, to check the spirit of independence kept alive in the uncivilised abodes of deserted forests.
That Ireland has not always presented so degrading and uncivilised an aspect as now exists in that unhappy country, there is abundant testimony to convince the most incredulous.
The most thoroughly wild and uncivilised members of our race, regarded by the Malays as little better than brute beasts, with no recorded history (ii.
You can forget these months in the desert and the uncivilised Arab who crossed your path.
She was alone in an uncivilised country among a savage people with no protection of any kind.
Like many uncivilised tribes, they behave with much ungentleness to their women.
Animism generally survives among uncivilised peoples in the practice of ancestor worship, of which there is no trace among the Hebrews.
To the accompaniment of music and frenzied dancing they work themselves into a state that approaches madness--always among uncivilised peoples taken to be a sign of the hand of God (Hosea ix.
Was the whole race in each of these cases subjugated, or exterminated, and that by uncivilised man with his primitive weapons?
In most uncivilisedcountries the natives use their arms against the wild animals of the forest.
Even when uncivilised he is called upon to exercise more or less wit before he may eat, and the higher his grade the more stress upon his intelligence.
The great eyes of this specimen of uncivilised humanity clouded over, and then brightened.
Uncivilised man is ever harsh in his treatment of woman.
A considerable minority are probably not inferior to the lower classes of poor and uneducated women in the cities, or more uncivilised provinces.
He was pleased to examine the passions of a race, least of all indebted to art; yet the prevailing notions of Citizen Frenchmen, perhaps, gave him a bias, when estimating an uncivilised people.
If we may trust our knowledge of other savages, the general fact thus affirmed of the native Australians holds good with regard to every other uncivilised tribe.
It is for exactly the same reason that the dominant emotion in the relations of uncivilised men with each other, and still more evidently so, of wild animals with each other, is usually that of fear.
Uncivilised man has little enjoyment of scenery or of animal life, except as in respect to their power of providing him with food, clothing or other physical gratification.
Therefore do not be surprised if I now feel towards you as I do, for I am more uncivilised than he, and more fierce and headstrong in proportion as the Celts are more so than the Romans.
Prisoners and wounded were massacred without discrimination, and an uncivilised and barbarous warfare waged when Borrow crossed the Portuguese frontier "to undertake the adventure of Spain.
Uncivilised man does not take long to pick up; he only wants food, and plenty of it.
This man we put up as our champion, and for an hour and a half did he argue in our interests, speaking with all the untrammelled fluency of uncivilised man.
As opportunity occurred of annoying or extirpating their neighbours, they gradually extended their own domains, by usurping, under the pretext of such royal grants, those of their more uncivilised neighbours.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "uncivilised" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
