How To Use anthropophagous In A Sentence
- Jamaica and Puerto Rico, immediate neighbors of the Caribs, were almost as fierce as the latter, and probably as anthropophagous. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
- Their pagan and, we regret to say, anthropophagous habits laid them open to a certain amount of criticism. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 4, 1919.
- So let us henceforth no longer abhor so very greatly the cruelty of the anthropophagous—that is, man-eating—savages. Bloodlust
- As it transpired afterwards, she had availed herself of the anthropophagous customs of the Amahagger to organize this sacrifice in revenge of the slight put upon her by Job.
- I will not name the sum which he offered, the ghoul, the vampire, the anthropophagous jackal, the sneaking would-be incendiary of my little Alexandrian, the circumcised Goth! The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859
- The Colonial government refused permission for mining, both because of Coral's colonists 'wishes to keep the planet whole, and because the Rraey's anthropophagous tendencies were well known. Old Mans War
- How did I toss and tumble in mine; which, small as it was, I was not destined to enjoy alone, but to pass the night in company with anthropophagous wretched reptiles, who took their horrid meal off an English Christian! The Kickleburys on the Rhine
- This had prompted the further speculation as to whether or not a Muslim might consider the taking of Holy Communion to be anthropophagous. Captain Corelli's Mandolin
- The same remark applies to the Russian Ballet; the Yugo-Slav handbell-ringers; the vegetarian Indian-club swingers from the Karakoram Himalayas; the polyphonic gong-players from North Borneo; the synthetic quarter-tone quartette from San Domingo; the anthropophagous back-chat comedians from the Solomon Islands; not to mention a host of other interesting companies, troupes, corroborees and pow-wows which are now in our midst for the purpose of cementing the confraternity of nations. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-02-11
- Antilles; but on the mainland, where not under strict control, all the forest tribes of Indians are more or less anthropophagous. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux