How To Use Barbarous In A Sentence

So, she ran round and round the scaffold with the executioner striking at her, and her grey hair bedabbled with blood; and even when they held her down upon the block she moved her head about to the last, resolved to be no party to her own barbarous murder. A Child's History of England
Down below, a mass of brank-ursine formed as it were a pedestal, from the midst of which sprang scarlet geum, rhodanthe with stiff petals, and clarkia with great white carved crosses, that looked like the insignia of some barbarous order. La faute de l'Abbe Mouret
The outcry against such autocratic barbarousness became nearly universal.
I NOTICE that apart from the widespread complaint that the German pilotless planes seem so unnatural (a bomb dropped by a live airman is quite natural, apparently), some journalists are denouncing them as barbarous, inhumane, and an indiscriminate attack on civilians. As I Please
In the times which we call barbarous, great benefices and abbeys were taxed in France to the third of their revenue. A Philosophical Dictionary

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These nine were, according to the barbarous practice of those kind of people, marooned, that is, set on shore on an uninhabited island. Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences
The trade in exotic birds is barbarous and inhumane.
So far as the essence of justice is concerned, there is no difference between one of the cases of punishment which you called barbarous, and one in which the penalty follows the offence within the hour. Dr. Heidenhoff's Process
When the word ‘scientist’ was first spoken in 1833, it was meant as a joke: its coinage first drew laughs and later was attacked as ‘an American barbarous trisyllable.’
As if in relate of a king's barbarous thoughts, Oswald right widely separated appears lusting for a red red blood of bad Gloucester, a attempted attempted attempted attempted murder which would win a menial reward from Goneril. Archive 2009-11-01
By comparison, the cluttered townscape of the older centres, with its narrow streets and timber-and-thatch housing, seemed outdated and even barbarous.
Fossey saw local Rwandan people as barbarous, and went to extreme lengths to protect the gorillas, even killing villagers' cattle and firing guns at them.
It's a passionate, daring and unflinching look at the barbarousness of war.
Those times were somewhat wild and barbarous, signore, and a gentleman who protected his estates and asked tribute of strangers was termed a brigand, and became highly respected. Aunt Jane's Nieces Abroad
Such things never appear to bother Albert, the consummate technician, who dissociates himself psychically from the violent, barbarous act.
They are derived loosely from the Christian just war tradition and more recently adapted in the Responsibility to Protect Doctrine R2P, which abridges state sovereignty and the inviolability of borders in favor of protecting populations from barbarous governments. Monica Duffy Toft: Does The U.S. Have A Responsibility To Protect The Libyan People?
But even then - I don't think many Barbeloids would disagree that fox hunting is a cruel, barbarous anachronism.
The clan of Kurush Khan, a subchief of one of the more barbarous Hyrkanian tribes from east of the Sea of Vilayet, had been driven westward out of its native steppes by a tribal feud. Conan the Freebooter
Acts of barbarous inhumanity are a grim reminder that, in the scheme of things, we are not much above wild animals.
I would love to hear their justification for such a barbarous attack. The Sun
In spite of the ongoing disparagement, the yellow metal has continued to shed its ‘barbarous’ reputation, taking out fresh 18-year highs last week.
Unstoppable overspill of abundant fruits and berries, stitched chain of natural hues, fabricant, barbarous, unhooked and lost nobility of the ‘real thing’ rhapsode -
Down below, a mass of brank-ursine formed as it were a pedestal, from the midst of which sprang scarlet geum, rhodanthe with stiff petals, and clarkia with great white carved crosses, that looked like the insignia of some barbarous order. La faute de l'Abbe Mouret
Curious to say the clyster is almost unknown to the people of Hindostan although the barbarous West Africans use it daily to “wash ‘um belly,” as the Bonney-men say. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
One can only deplore of course the barbarous extremes that some of this antipathy has taken.
The second was his dislike of the barbarous treatment methods then in fashion. Lower Your Blood Pressure in 4 Easy Stages
Christian peoples scattered throughout Asia Minor and along the Bosporus until this barbarous Ottoman Government is swept from the face of the earth. Pursuit of an 'Unparalleled Opportunity': The American YMCA and Prisoner of War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I
When the Persian ambassadors arrived at Athens, demanding tribute in their barbarous tongue, my heart filled with fury.
And this was thought no small peece of cunning, being in deed a matter of some difficultie to finde out so many wordes beginning with one letter as might make a iust volume, thought in truth it were but a phantasticall deuise and to no purpose at all more then to make them harmonicall to the rude eares of those barbarous ages. The Arte of English Poesie
Though attired in this barbarous guise, I did not, of course, dispense with my trousers, which, being black, contrasted somewhat oddly with my primrose-coloured ki ton, as they call the smock, and the dark violet clamis, or plaid. In the Wrong Paradise
Yet public opinion had been captured, and it was taken for granted that lynching was a just response to the barbarous sexual crimes against white womanhood.
The rites that he practised were of an uncouth, barbarous, and unusual nature.
He had often mentioned to me the distinguished services of a young seraskier, whom he had lately appointed capitar pacha, to combat in the north against a barbarous nation called Sclavonians, or Russians. The Pacha of Many Tales
Tatars" is the correct form]; and, as the barbarous Mongolians lost their hold on the districts of the middle Volga, the power of the Czars began its forward march, pressing back Asiatics on the East and Poles on the West. The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.)
Egypt another paradise, now barbarous and desert, and almost waste, by the despotical government of an imperious Turk, intolerabili servitutis jugo premitur ([483] one saith) not only fire and water, goods or lands, sed ipse spiritus ab insolentissimi victoris pendet nutu, such is their slavery, their lives and souls depend upon his insolent will and command. Anatomy of Melancholy
I saw everything as a cruel, barbarous joke on me and I became cruel and barbarous so that I wouldn't be broken by it.
It is not vnknowen that oure language for the barbarousnes and lacke of eloquence hathe bene complayned of, and yet not trewely, for anye defaut in the toungue it selfe, but rather for slackenes of our coũtrimen, whiche haue alwayes set lyght by searchyng out the elegance and proper speaches that be ful many in it: as plainly doth appere not only by the most excellent monumentes of our aũciẽt forewriters, A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes
Before Hitler's atrocities exposed the barbarous extremes of social engineering, eugenic views were regarded as radical visions of social reform.
When the comitia were abolished at Rome, the Prætorian guards took their place: insolent, greedy, barbarous, and idle soldiers were the republic. A Philosophical Dictionary
Later as German leader he sealed off the hamlet, creating an exclusive retreat where he and other top Nazis could wine and dine, savour the crisp Alpine air, and plan the most barbarous acts of the Third Reich.
Half dead upon the spot where he was phlebotomized, the wretched animal was left to reflect under the shade of a tulip-tree on the cruelty of man, on their barbarous appetites; cursing with all his heart the poverty of Morvinian curates, their conceited hospitality, of which he was the victim, and their brutal affection for pig's blood. Le Morvan, [A District of France,] Its Wild Sports, Vineyards and Forests; with Legends, Antiquities, Rural and Local Sketches
In imperial literature British rule meant law and British force signified the protection of the weak against a barbarous bully.
I left his cottage with "as much in - dignation as Concern, dcj) loring the fate of tliose beautiful countries, where Nature has been pro - digal of her gifts, only that they msiy become the prey of barbarous exadors. The manual of liberty: or, Testimonies in behalf of the rights of mankind; selected from the best authorities, in prose and verse, and methodically arranged
In the theogonies and cosmogonies of the Aztecs of America, he says that the traditions of ancient Asia are plainly to be found, while some vague traces of these primitive narratives are to be found even among the savages of Oceanica, and the most barbarous and miserable negroes of western Africa. The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851
What it is is an appalling, barbarous regime. The Sun
Babits was a classicist: the legacy of Greece and Rome meant more to him than what he felt was the barbarousness of the Old Testament.
Personally I did not know him, but I lived between 1998 and 99 in the parish where he was barbarously killed.
Justice Higgins argued in 1915 that conciliation and arbitration would provide a new ‘province of law and order’ to replace ‘the rude and barbarous process of strike and lockout’.
To impose retribution on all those guilty of barbarous acts would have required tens of thousands of executions, for which the Allies lacked stomach. Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
The death that is in the curse is put into his hand to manage it, to the dread and terror of sinners; and by it he bath always kept many, and to this day doth keep innumerable souls in unexpressible bondage, putting them upon barbarous inhumanities to make atonement for their sins, and forcing some to inflict revenge and destruction upon themselves, thinking to prevent, but really hastening, that which they fear. The Doctrine of the Saints�� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
Byzantium certainly has its brutal and barbarous moments. Times, Sunday Times
Technology without morality is barbarous; morality without technology is impotent
It was so barbarous and inhumane that polite Romans did not talk about it.
A high degree of refinement, however, does not seem to subdue our wicked propensities so much after all; and were civilization itself to be estimated by some of it's results, it would seem perhaps better for what we call the barbarous part of the world to remain unchanged. Typee; a real romance of the South Seas
To prevent "flystrike" (a maggot infestation caused by wrinkly skin, which was bred into the sheep so that they would have more wool), Australian ranchers perform a barbarous operation called "mulesing," which involves carving huge strips of flesh off the backs of unanesthetized lambs 'legs. PETA Latest News
He is a rob - ber of the vileft fpecies, who degrades humanity, and dishonours the dignity and equity of executive juftice in a free government, by a condud fo lawlefs and barbarous; who thus ihuts up the avenoea of lenity, and fteals from the poor fettler in the colony, the hard earned fruits of induftry. The Monthly Review
The second was his dislike of the barbarous treatment methods then in fashion. Lower Your Blood Pressure in 4 Easy Stages
In a world of barbarous inhumanity, the physical brutality goes largely undescribed. Times, Sunday Times
The allies fought to destroy a barbarous regime and avert the still more terrible outcome that would have followed its victory. Times, Sunday Times
For many people in England and elsewhere, the terms Anglo-English, England English, and English English are tautologous and barbarous.
It observes that the disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts that have outraged the conscience of mankind.
Two days later, on Wednesday 12 March, another young woman was barbarously stabbed to death.
_Edward_ the third, and _Richard_ the second for any that wrote in English meeter: because before their times by reason of the late Normane conquest, which had brought into this Realme much alteration both of our langage and lawes, and there withall a certain martiall barbarousnes, whereby the study of all good learning was so much decayd, as long time after no man or very few entended to write in any laudable science: so as beyond that time there is litle or nothing worth commendation to be founde written in this arte. The Arte of English Poesie
In "The Intellectual Beast Is Dangerous", Brecht asserts: "A beast is something strong, terrible, devastating; the word emits a barbarous sound.
Attached to the plane tree or any other tree for that matter, there was nothing noble about his robes, and barbarous gold, and all his other gifts.
He saw it now as his mission to establish similar normality in a barbarous land.
Page view page image: it would seem perhaps better for what we call the barbarous part of the world to remain unchanged. Narrative of a four months' residence among the natives of a valley of the Marquesas Islands, or, A peep at Polynesian life
Whereupon they prayed that the Romans would have compassion upon the [poor] remains of Judea, and not expose what was left of them to such as barbarously tore them to pieces, and that they would join their country to Syria, and administer the government by their own commanders, whereby it would [soon] be demonstrated that those who are now under the calumny of seditious persons, and lovers of war, know how to bear governors that are set over them, if they be but tolerable ones. The Wars of the Jews; or the history of the destruction of Jerusalem
I would love to hear their justification for such a barbarous attack. The Sun
Or maybe it was just Tolkien, sickened by the barbarousness of the 20th century, yearning for the certainties of a lost England that possibly never existed anyway.
In "The Intellectual Beast Is Dangerous", Brecht asserts: "A beast is something strong, terrible, devastating; the word emits a barbarous sound.
Now suppose the Professor found the use of shells to be primitive and irrational - ‘a barbarous relic!’
It is only barbarous peoples who undergo rapid growth after a victory.
Oh! the leathering Irishman, the barbarous, savage Irishman! The Wonderful Irishman
Byzantium certainly has its brutal and barbarous moments. Times, Sunday Times
But we being straightway moved by your tears gave you the breast of grammar to suck, which ye plied continually with teeth and tongue, until ye lost your native barbarousness and learned to speak with our tongues the mighty things of God. The Love of Books : The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury
I went with some friends to the Bear Garden, where was cock-fighting, dog-fighting, bear - and bull-baiting, it being a famous day for all these butcherly sports, or rather barbarous cruelties. Shakespearean Playhouses A History of English Theatres from the Beginnings to the Restoration
That the decadent and barbarous peoples will be crushed is a fair presumption; likewise that the stronger breeds will survive, entering upon the transition stage to which all the world must ultimately come. THE QUESTION OF THE MAXIMUM
The _accident_, I use the term philosophically, not popularly, the accident of a man's being married, or, in other words, having entered imprudently into a barbarous and absurd civil contract, cannot alter the nature of things. Tales and Novels — Volume 08
Nay, there is a signal of our enemies 'destruction visible, and that a very great one also; and this is not a natural one, nor derived from the hand of foreigners neither, but it is this, that they have barbarously murdered our ambassadors, contrary to the common law of mankind; and they have destroyed so many, as if they esteemed them sacrifices for God, in relation to this war. Speech by Herod the Great to the Jews
They will also say that the Faroese method of killing whales is a barbarous way of treating an intelligent, warm-blooded mammal.
The monsters thus produced seem to be a revival of the dracontine forms of the semi-barbarous Celtic and early Frankish arts. Illuminated Manuscripts
We believe it is the duty of everyone who cares about humanity to stand up and build the resistance to this barbarous war.
‘If we do have to take military action, we do so in the sure knowledge that we are removing one of the most barbarous and detestable regimes in modern political history,’ he said.
However, the sad story of the Yaquis 'fate, at the hands of the Mexican government itself, was related in painstaking detail in a book entitled Barbarous Mexico, published by an American, John Kenneth Turner, in 1911. Yaqui in exile: the grim history of Mexico's San Marcos train station
And you who bear authority over these benighted people, whether under the name of pasha, effendi, or mollah, let me advise you, although an unpromising subject for advice, not to act the stupid as well as barbarous part of riveting your nations in chains. A Philosophical Dictionary
Bill Thomson, whose reputation for pure, unadulterated "cussedness" was notorious in this semi-barbarous section, was his overseer and most intimate friend. Winona: A Tale of Negro Life in the South and Southwest
‘The more civilized his object, the more barbarous the worker,’ Marx wrote.
Routing those that came out of Capua against them, and thus procuring a quantity of proper soldiers' arms, they gladly threw away their own as barbarous and dishonourable.
Thus, the (relatively light-skinned) lictor at right, far from exalting in his barbarous duties, leads Symphorien to his death with obvious reluctance; he is, in short, the very picture of pity and regret.
This was very barbarous and inhuman; even an enemy, in misery, is to be pitied and not trampled upon. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
[21] I might also mention the sentiment of Count Conigsmarck, who allowed, that the barbarous assassination of Mr. Thynne by his bravoes was a slain on his blood, but such a one as a good action in the wars, or a lodging on a counterscarp, would easily wash out. The Dramatic Works of John Dryden
What it is is an appalling, barbarous regime. The Sun
That is not only an invidious, but a sarcastical and barbarous A Dialogue Between Dean Swift and Tho. Prior, Esq. In the Isles of St. Patrick's Church, Dublin, On that Memorable Day, October 9th, 1753
Yet this ignoble war between barbarous tribes whom it has long been the fashion to pet, this poor scuffle between the breechloader and the Birmingham trade musket, may yet in one sense do good. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
'It's their culture innit' seems to be the yardstick whether it's about 9/11 or the state of play around the world where Islamists are intent on wrecking the status quo in favour of their medieval seventh century barbarousness. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
She was arrested and barbarously tortured.
But how could you, Leith," I cried, the picture of the consumptive lad strong before me, "how could you treat him so barbarously? Local Color
He and a brother were barbarously murdered.
Full of zesty barbarous language and wordplay, it reminds me of why Wilde is so revered.
Note, Those who have themselves apostatized from the truths of God are often the most subtle and barbarous persecutors of those who still adhere to them. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
Christopher Wren, and others, who lent their aid in depreciating the old mediæval style, which they termed Gothic, as synonymous with every thing that was barbarous and rude, it may be sufficient to refer to the celebrated Treatise of Sir Henry Wotton, entitled _The Elements of Notes and Queries, Number 09, December 29, 1849
Oceania is not allowed to know anything of the tenets of the other two philosophies, but he is taught to execrate them as barbarous outrages upon morality and common sense. Nineteen Eighty-four
The best human intelligence is still decidedly barbarous.
Attacked!" repeated Wolfe, -- "attacked!" and then suddenly sinking his voice into a sort of sneer, "why, since the event which this painting is designed to commemorate, I know not if we have ever had one solitary gleam of liberty break along the great chaos of jarring prejudice and barbarous law which we term forsooth a glorious constitution. The Disowned — Volume 02
Italy's president, Giorgio Napolitano, decried what he called the "barbarous killing of two foreign workers" and denounced "this blind explosion of hatred. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
One picked it up at random to chuckle over its wicked insights, its barbed phrases, and its corrosive view of society in which elements of ridiculousness, cruelty, and barbarousness nestled in close juxtaposition with things taken for granted and worn smooth with custom and careless handling. The Worldly Philosophers
The youth was apparently not much delighted with his visit to this barbarous chieftain, whose dwelling was "a great dark tower, where," says he, "we had cold cheer, such as herrings and biscuit, for it was Lent. Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth
First, in order to be initiated, a person has to bind himself, by the most cruel and barbarous oaths, never to reveal any of Masonry's secrets.
Granada, from which its austere anchorites had been driven by the barbarous decree of exclaustration (1835), was acquired and restored by the Jesuits, who have established in it their novitiate for New The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
As late as 1787, the English agricultural traveller Arthur Young was astonished to find many regions of France still dominated by ‘the common barbarous course’ of the three-field system.
They will also say that the Faroese method of killing whales is a barbarous way of treating an intelligent,(Sentence dictionary) warm-blooded mammal.
A Londoner by birth and inclination, he couldn't stand ‘the barbarousness and insipid dulnesse of the Country’.
It was barbarous to treat prisoners in that manner.
Italy's President Giorgio Napolitano condemned what he called the "barbarous killing of two foreign workers" and denounced "this blind explosion of hatred". WalesOnline - Home
No less sincerely did they consider the Soviet regime to be a product of the backwardness and barbarousness of Russian conditions.
Where thy name was wont to be invocated, thy word preached, thy sacraments administered, there now reigneth barbarous Mahumet with his filthy Alcoran. Archive 2004-09-05
On the other side of the argument, people say that we have no right to kill foxes in the way that we do, and that fox-hunting is both cruel and barbarous.
How can they forgive such barbarous behaviour?
A high degree of refinement, however, does not seem to subdue our wicked propensities so much after all; and were civilization itself to be estimated by some of its results, it would seem perhaps better for what we call the barbarous part of the world to remain unchanged. Typee
We of to-day cannot realize the barbarously filthy and slavish lives of those that lived prior to 1925. Goliah
The Poonga-Poonga volunteers stood with glistening eyes and grinning faces, naked save for their loin-cloths, and barbarously ornamented. Chapter 23
Call me barbarous, call me ignorant, but at least I won't have this disturbing feeling that I'm helping someone make piles of money off whatever terrible event is unfolding at the moment.
The term Gothic was applied contemptuously to this architectural style by writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, who regarded everything non-classical as barbarous. Early European History
Elizabeth, — of her tears and endless sorrow, when she should find her lover so barbarously snatched from her, — tears, the first I had shed for many months, streamed from my eyes, and I resolved not to fall before my enemy without a bitter struggle. Chapter 20
But the Order of St. Francis has not suffered by them, having renounced these extravagancies so common to the barbarous ages. A Philosophical Dictionary
It was barbarous to be happy when Edmund was suffering.
What it is is an appalling, barbarous regime. The Sun
The allies fought to destroy a barbarous regime and avert the still more terrible outcome that would have followed its victory. Times, Sunday Times
Such usages are sometimes described as barbarous and pleonastic, but such criticism does not affect their widespread use.
‘These horrific and barbarous attacks on civilians overnight in Casablanca demonstrated a callous disregard for all human life, regardless of nationality,’ he said.
He thought the poetry of Whitman barbarous.
But was it fair to call Africa barbarous and uncivilized, and to say that the slave traders were doing no harm by removing people from that continent?
Thus the small Lucerne clover or medicago is often sold as "shamrock" to Irish patriots, and the watercress has been solemnly pat forward as the true shamrock simply because old writers tell us, as evidence of the barbarous state of the Irish, that they fed upon shamrocks and watercress. More Science From an Easy Chair
MacLaren died, and about the same time his cattle were houghed, and his live stock destroyed in a barbarous manner. Rob Roy
Experimentation, the avant-garde, suddenly becomes something barbarous and ineffective.
In a time of barbarous cruelty, the human menagerie forms the backdrop to our story.
a dozen religions: some of them barbarous; some cynical and pessimistic; some amoristic and romantic; some sceptical and challenging; some kindly, simple, and intuitional; some sophistical and intellectual; none suited to the character and conditions of western civilization unless it be the Christianity which was finally suppressed by the Crucifixion, and has never been put into practice by any State before or since. Treatise on Parents and Children
Her story stands out as one of the most bloodcurdling legends in a country that has no shortage of grotesque, gruesome, and barbarously chilling tales.
Yet despite his fierce appearance and the barbarous glint in his eyes, the Chief bore himself with a dignity no less than regal - so much so that Ravenna found her own father paling in comparison.
Lithuanian was considered to be a barbarous language, unworthy of religious use, so Polish was used for all official religious business.
Just curious - can I call them barbarous savages now?
To impose retribution on all those guilty of barbarous acts would have required tens of thousands of executions, for which the Allies lacked stomach. Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
Even today, Haitian occupation is portrayed as cruel and barbarous.
Addressing Benedict, the head of Cyprus 'Orthodox Church, Archbishop Chrysostomos II said that "Turkey has barbarously invaded and conquered by force of arms 37 percent of our homeland. Pope On 3-Day Visit To Cyprus
Khusrû was treated with great kindness by his father, after he had been barbarously deprived of sight; [17] but when his brother, Shâh Jahân, was appointed to the government of Southern India, he pretended great solicitude about the comforts of his _poor blind brother_, which he thought would not be attended to at court, and took him with him to his government in the Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official
By the lard! the judge must have been in the terrors of cuckoldom, to influence the decision; and the jury a mere herd of horned beasts, to bring in such a barbarous verdict. The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom
A hundred million Christians were under the heel of the most barbarous tyranny in history: the Bolshevik regime of the greatest terrorist of them all, Joseph Stalin.
What barbarous, villainous, and depraved acts did he commit that labor leaders and heads of national liberal groups denounce him as the enemy of minorities, the poor, women, and the environment?
Many a time had he paused before it by day and by night, wondering who lived within its massive, irregular walls, behind those uncouth, barbarously sculptured saints who kept their interminable watch high up by the lozenged windows. The Witch of Prague
Randolph later wrote an incoherent apology for his ‘diabolical, barbarous and wicked’ behaviour.
He saw it now as his mission to establish similar normality in a barbarous land.
Scattered around, and littered upon shake-down beds of straw, some half dozen young besmutted savages, male and female, lay stretched in all positions, some north, others south, without order or decency, but all seeming in that barbarous luxury which denotes strong animal health and an utter disregard of cleanliness and bodily comfort. The Emigrants Of Ahadarra The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two
Up to 1823 the suicide was required to be buried at a crossroads, in unconsecrated ground, with a stake through the heart (the barbarous ceremony was, for obvious reasons, rarely carried out).
To impose retribution on all those guilty of barbarous acts would have required tens of thousands of executions, for which the Allies lacked stomach. Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
The Goth tribe was famous for its barbarousness, fierceness and sanguinariness, which was quite similar to the darkness European Middle Age.
In 2002, five women are discovered barbarously murdered in Sierra Leone. The Devil's Feather by Minette Walters: Book summary
Like a sysop coping with an online world in which it's always September, he strove to civilize and enlighten the incursive Goths, a barbarous people who held learning in contempt.
And this was thought no small peece of cunning, being in deed a matter of some difficultie to finde out so many wordes beginning with one letter as might make a iust volume, though in truth it were but a phantasticall deuise and to no purpose at all more then to make them harmonicall to the rude eares of those barbarous ages. The Arte of English Poesie
Or rather, did they strive to bring ‘civilization’ to the rude and barbarous peoples of the west and north?
Battered and the Pipes Shattered about their Eares, that idely Idolize so base and barbarous a Weed, or at least overlove so loathsome a The Social History of Smoking
Relying on impressions from travel books, Carey concluded that over half ‘of the sons of Adam… are in general poor, barbarous, naked pagans as destitute of civilisation, as they are of true religion.’
They are seldom, accordingly, disagreeable, with us, to the eye of the most cultivated taste; their singularity forms a pleasing variety to the continued succession of lawns and shrubberies which is every where to be met with; and they are regarded rather as the venerable marks of ancient splendour, than as the barbarous affectation of modern distinction. Travels in France during the years 1814-15 Comprising a residence at Paris, during the stay of the allied armies, and at Aix, at the period of the landing of Bonaparte, in two volumes.
Nor again was it to introduce feudalism; for as I have shown, the system already in existence was feudalism without its advantages; the substitution of fixed dues for the barbarous custom of "coigne and livery" was an unmixed benefit to the occupiers of land. Is Ulster Right?
These things can * prevent* or * slow down* descent into barbarousness as well as uplift. Matthew Yglesias » Free Speech
a barbarous crime
Calling upon the malefic pit lords and their barbarous leader, Mannoroth the Destructor, Archimonde hoped to establish a fighting elite that would scour creation of all life.
And, lastly, to the same category of measures belongs the decreed long servitude of the Abrahamites in a strange land, in which, not only the door to social enjoyments would be shut against them, but a barbarous tyranny would also deprive them of the free exercise of acts which are an imprescriptible right of all mortals. A Guide for the Religious Instruction of Jewish Youth
It was barbarous to treat prisoners in that manner.
they were barbarously murdered
And I will not reach aboue the time of king Edward the third, and Richard the second for any that wrote in English meeter: because before their times by reason of the late Normane conquest, which had brought into this Realme much alteration both of our langage and lawes, and there withall a certain martiall barbarousnes, whereby the study of all good learning was so much decayd, as long time after no man or very few entended to write in any laudable science: so as beyond that time there is litle or nothing worth commendation to be founde written in this arte. The Arte of English Poesie
The title of this tirade is very quaint, viz. "Tobacco battered, and the Pipes shattered (about their Ears who idly idolize so base and barbarous a Weed; or at least-wise overlove so loathsome a Vanity) by a Volley of holy Shot from Mount Helicon. The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831
As the era's most vocal horticulturist, Robinson decried one of the favourite tricks of architects, the clipping and aligning of trees, as ‘barbarous, needless, and inartistic.’
In the ears of the new French lords and their clerks, English had a barbarous sound, and there followed an onslaught on the old vernacular.
First, in order to be initiated, a person has to bind himself, by the most cruel and barbarous oaths, never to reveal any of Masonry's secrets.
The Stung Arm being informed of the whole design, pretended to approve of it, and leaving her son at ease, henceforward was only solicitous how she might defeat this barbarous design: the time was pressing, and the term prefixed for the execution was almost expired. History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing
Mark would not, and Prue could not, go to see the traveller off; the former being too angry to lend his countenance to what he termed a barbarous banishment, the latter, being half blind with crying, stayed to nurse Jessie, whose soft heart was nearly broken at what seemed to her the most direful affliction under heaven. Moods
Today, any state-sponsored eugenic ideology would surely face considerable opposition, but instead we have (to use the barbarous locution now common) ‘privatized’ eugenic decisions.
I don't think it needs to be described in that barbarous language, which has become infected by that awful poltroon, Foucault.
The independence of some cannot cost the enslavement (pauperization) of others in a democracy, and unemployment is a hard reality with barbarous consequences (for example, employees have health care supplied by the employer as a deductible cost, a completely different situation of unemployed people) to many Americans. Unemployment, Labor Market Regulation, and Sour Grapes, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
We should have said to each other in the language of Shakespeare -- "_if these things be necessities, let's meet them like necessities_;" but to be deceived and duped, and cajoled into a state of great joy and exultation, and then, in an instant, precipitated into the dark and cold regions of despair, was barbarous beyond expression. A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed. Late A Surgeon On Board An American Privateer, Who Was Captured At Sea By The British, In May, Eighteen Hundred And Thirteen, And Was Confined First, At Melville Island, Halifax, Then At Chatham, In Engla
Split infinitives are commonly quite beautiful, especially when compared to the often-barbarous sound of an unsplit infinitive. National Grammar Day 2009: Ten Common Grammar Myths, Debunked « Motivated Grammar
raca," or "that fox," if there be no equivalents for the words in barbarous languages? Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers
Yes, but you gave that as a response to my question about what basis there is for believing banning racist works “can * prevent* or * slow down* descent into barbarousness” (your words). Matthew Yglesias » Free Speech
The English poet John Dryden, who died in 1700, complained that the language was becoming unruly and disordered - ‘how barbarously we yet write and speak’, he said.
It was too much, somehow, to expect something as poetic as a bridge to survive so barbarous a war.
Hannah, on purpose to vex them and make them to fret, which is a barbarous thing. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
Byzantium certainly has its brutal and barbarous moments. Times, Sunday Times
I have traversed a vast portion of the earth, and have endured all the hardships which travellers, in deserts and barbarous countries, are wont to meet. Chapter 24
The second was his dislike of the barbarous treatment methods then in fashion. Lower Your Blood Pressure in 4 Easy Stages
On whose authority, he demanded, was such a barbarous act to be committed?
You non-vegetarians are barbarous murderers, but please stop hurting our feelings by challenging the wisdom of a vegetarian diet!
And, for the usual method of teaching _Arts_, I deem it to be an old error of Universities, not yet well recovered from the scholastic grossness of barbarous ages, that, instead of beginning with Arts most easy (and these be such as are most obvious to the sense), they present their young unmatriculated novices at first coming with the most intellective abstractions of Logic and The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649
Faber, and the barbarous Sartorius, for sartor, a tailor. The Romance of Names
So, I'd like to know why Mark Kirk would support Bush in this sharp move to take the world back to barbarousness. Archive 2006-09-01
The allies fought to destroy a barbarous regime and avert the still more terrible outcome that would have followed its victory. Times, Sunday Times
The church of Elgin had, in the intestine tumults of the barbarous ages, been laid waste by the irruption of a highland chief, whom the bishop had offended; but it was gradually restored to the state, of which the traces may be now discerned, and was at last not destroyed by the tumultuous violence of Knox, but more shamefully suffered to dilapidate by deliberate robbery and frigid indifference. A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland
the justification of barbarous means by holy ends
I would love to hear their justification for such a barbarous attack. The Sun
It was a barbarous thought, that they should not touch his life, if they did not imbrue their hands in his blood; since it was a kind of death, not less violent, which they wished to inflict by hunger. Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2

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