How To Use Savage In A Sentence

A savage beast devoured him! WALKING THE BIBLE
He would insist to his dying day that an arctic wolf had savaged him.
The Roman satirists savagely expose the fawning homage heaped upon the childless rich.
Inside, Ms. Savage accented the home's 16-foot coved ceilings—original from 1926—and espresso-colored floors with earth-toned couches and classic pieces, using a long wooden bench as a living room coffee table. A Gossip Girl's Main Stage
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To lose him so young, so suddenly and in such a savage way is a devastating shock to our family.
As the student's uniforms are traded for spears and war paint, the innocent boys devolve into uncontrolled, bloodthirsty hunters and ultimately, savages intent on killing the "beast".
Behind this carefullyconstructed shield, he has lashed out savagely at those who have bettered him in the eyes of history and bettered him in the practice of Christian values.
Griffons were pony-sized, quadrupedal avians with such a reputation for savagery that they had been banned from all the Northern mountain provinces.
Even Lord of the Flies - which I love as a metaphor for many, many things, like the savagery of humanity - treats the children more as symbolic figures.
As Toronto theatre critics dispense increasingly disparate opinions, some shows are savaged in one rag and lionized in another.
Some critics will accuse Duffy of acting as apologist for a campaign of violent repression, but this would scarcely be fair: “confronted by the sanctified savageries of the Tudor age, it would be a hard heart that withheld pity from the victims or felt no indignation against the perpetrators”. A Not so Bloody Mary ?
She had been badly hurt in what police described as 'a savage attack'.
In 1955 there were just four bolt-action centerfires made in America, the Remington 721 / 722, Winchester 43 and 70, and Savage 340.
She mocks their employer savagely behind his back and displays a kittenish charm to his face.
If you plant where savages are, do not only entertain them, with trifles and gingles, but use them justly and graciously, with sufficient guard nevertheless; and do not win their favor, by helping them to invade their enemies, but for their defence it is not amiss; and send oft of them, over to the country that plants, that they may see a better condition than their own, and commend it when they return. The Essays
The result of the combined exertions of Messrs. Savage and Wilson was not only the obtaining of a very full account of the habits of this new creature, but a still more important service to science, the enabling the excellent American anatomist already mentioned, Professor Wyman, to describe, from ample materials, the distinctive osteological characters of the new form. Essays
The Servant is a savage indictment of the English class system, and its waning hold over all aspects of the working and cultural life of Britain.
His jaw was underhung, and when he laughed, two white buck-teeth protruded themselves and glistened savagely in the midst of the grin. Vanity Fair
He was wakened by a savage whiskerando of the other watch, who, seizing him by his waistband, dragged him most indecorously out, furiously denouncing him for a skulker. Israel Potter
Slowly, as you make your way around this gorgeous setting, you go from frightened noob to savage hunter. The Sun
The cave is not a lifeless place, it is a living thing to which we have to give ourselves; a thing that can be gentle and also be a savage whom changes in temper can render dangerous.
He got savaged, for the umpteenth time, by a horde of ravening Republicans.
She reminds us that French revolutionary leaders were often portrayed as wild beasts or savage tigers by critics at the time and that the tiger in the poem is located in a nightmarish industrial landscape.
Companies invest when interest rates are low and capital is easy to raise, and then retrench savagely as rates rise.
Savage returned the gun to the cabinet, relishing the silence of his apartment. MINUTES TO BURN
The pair uncover a mystery involving animals going savage. The Sun
The Savage family consists of a bunch of stubborn hayseeds that get real angry when crossed.
Well over 10 million people were jobless in the face of savage inflation.
If anything, like a ravening creature, made savage through incarceration, the recollection had grown more vicious with the passage of time. MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
So the Church, recognising that its irenic precepts were largely ignored, tried to reduce the savagery of war.
The two combatants charged at each other with weapons drawn and fought like savage beasts.
There can be little doubt that Head's noble savage existed as a conceptual foil for Europe's ignoble civilization.
A sudden, savage backlash greeted the Government when it attempted to introduce a structured programme for early years learning at nurseries. Times, Sunday Times
Alexander fully expects to be savaged by reviewers again.
In the process the British created their national identity — as the special people of a small, beleaguered island — which compelled them to see their kin, the Americans, as a distinct people barbarized by their savage continent. 1812 and All That: A New Country at War
Savage charged the creature, swinging his knife at the prothorax. MINUTES TO BURN
AP - A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by conservative radio talk show host Michael Savage against an Islamic civil rights group over its use of a portion of his show in which he called the Quran a "book of hate. Undefined
Performer Mark Wahlberg began his public life as a small-time thug, even doing time at one point for the savage beatings of two Vietnamese men.
Owenson's status as a professional woman writer was constantly abused by contemporary male reviewers, who savagely attacked everything she wrote.
It borrowed acupuncture and the moxa from the Japanese heathen, and was taught the use of lobelia by the American savage. Medical Essays, 1842-1882
We are often obliged to report on mayhem and savage behaviour perpetrated by thugs who are barely out of rompers.
Where four million people disported themselves, the wild wolves roam to-day, and the savage progeny of our loins, with prehistoric weapons, defend themselves against the fanged despoilers. Page 7
The Hmong are the mountain peoples of Vietnam, Laos and Southern China. treated as savages by the ruling peoples of Vietnam, they were staunch allies of the US during the Vietnam war and after the fall of South Vietnam in 75, the US accepted a fair number as refugees. "We have to be very careful. We want professors to speak with what they see as their truths."
The animal had the character of being, contrary to what his species usually are, exceedingly savage; and he suffered himself to be taken up by me and carried from his foes with a kind of sullenness; but when, being out of the reach of danger, he was put down, he gazed on his deliverer, and then crouched at his feet. The Dog
He went down the wicket even to bowlers of extreme pace with the intention of making them drop the ball short, and when they did so, he would cut or pull the ball savagely.
They are in want of a directrix; and if we could supplement the gift with foci and centre, they would soon emerge from their savage condition, and become more civilized. The Romance of Mathematics Being the Original Researches of a Lady Professor of Girtham College in Polemical Science, with some Account of the Social Properties of a Conic; Equations to Brain Waves; Social Forces; and the Laws of Political Motion.
Albany recoils from the savage ethos in which his wife lives, foreseeing both her own destruction and that of the universe itself as a consequence of unbridled self-interest.
This cartoon is a savage satire of animation as it stood at the time and TV in general. Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures – The Complete Series » DVDs Worth Watching
My choice of shootin iron is - A Savage 24 in .22 over .410. What Happened to Squirrel Hunting?
“A poor forlorn and ignorant stranger, unacquainted with the very Alcoran of the savage tribe whom you are come to reside among — Never to have heard of Markham, the most celebrated author on farriery! then I fear you are equally a stranger to the more modern names of Gibson and Bartlett?” Rob Roy
Savages begin with fetisism and demon - worship, they proceed to physiolatry (the religion of the Vedas) and First Footsteps in East Africa
The family's cat, she said, had savaged the bird, and one wing had been torn.
During that time he was savagely beaten, he built and renovated a small house for himself, panhandled, spent days on end drunk, took drugs, rode along on thieving runs and stood in soup kitchen lines.
The poor outlook and rumours of price cuts to drive sales of its smartphones overshadowed an improved financial performance after savage cost-cutting over the past year. Times, Sunday Times
Savage seems to be living in cloud cuckoo land in a couple of key respects.
The exacting task of tracing the course of the Potomac to its headspring was undertaken by William Mayo and Robert Brooke acting for the Crown, and Benjamin Winslow and John Savage acting for Lord Fairfax.
When thus arranged, they reveal with some degree of certainty the entire range of human progress from savagery to civilization.
On this 14th of September the warmth and dazzlingness of mid-summer still reigned at Pougues; and the scenery in which we suddenly found ourselves, bosquets, dells, and glades, with all the charm but without the savageness of the forest, recalled the loveliest lines of the laziest poet: -- East of Paris Sketches in the Gâtinais, Bourbonnais, and Champagne
If it does, revoke, O student, your shrill _eheu_ for the Greekless and untrousered savage of the canoe, suppress your feelings, and go steadily into rhabdomancy with several divining-rods, in search of the Pierian spring which must surely exist somewhere among the guttural districts of the Ojibbeway tongue. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861
Savagery, etymologically derived from the Latin word for "forest", was associated with wildness and stood in opposition to civilization. Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
Lamely suave, spouting banalities about pop music and unconscious of his savage condescension toward women, he's a rancid summation of the Playboy ethic.
a "footpad" might leap upon and slay him; when wild beasts roamed the forest and the jungles, and there were savage men, and countries yet unexplored. The Lost Continent
It fires its way through first, second and third with a savageness that's terrifyingly addictive.
I was so rudely interrupted, the one thing only that can balm and embalm this savage breast is the ‘Maiden’s CHAPTER III
Such is Commerce, which shakes the cocoa-nut and bread-fruit tree in the remotest isle, and sooner or later dawns on the duskiest and most simple-minded savage. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
No one savaged the law's delays and inequities more energetically than Dickens, yet no one worried more about the results of revolution and lawlessness.
Now we see the savagery of the cornered beast at 2 percent.
Indian Independence of 1857 "-- in its way a very remarkable history of the Mutiny, combining considerable research with the grossest perversions of facts and great literary power with the most savage hatred -- were bound in false covers as" Pickwick Papers, "or other equally innocuous works. Indian Unrest
The nature of the dictatorships determined the savage character of the eastern conflict.
That, too, was absurdly crowded, not least because of a rare live appearance from, yes, Lily Savage.
Forgetting all the principles for which they were fighting in their endless war against their enemy, they have become savage barbarians teetering on the very edge of bestiality.
Oh! he was spiteful, acrid, savage; and, as a natural consequence, detestably ugly. Villette
On the night Lincoln was shot, another would-be assassin put Seward's son in a coma and slashed the secretary of state's face so savagely that the doctor who saved his life said he'd "looked like an exsanguinated corpse. David Quigg: HRC's Choice: Seward or Chase?
The savage attack has been classified as a hate crime by the Police Department.
‘Un Secret, a movie about ordinary Jewish people in extraordinarily savage times, is a current success with French moviegoers, and Claude Miller, who adapted the film from Philippe Grimbert’s eponymous novel, is surprised. Vitro Nasu » 2008 » January
Moreover, whereas the frontal view is savage and vehement, this head is gentle and dreamy, even pretty, expressing an entirely different mood.
They were faced with retreating into savagery or finding somewhere where knowledge and technical skills could be preserved. A Plague of Angels
They say that music soothes the savage beast, but it can also make the sick feel better.
Savage repression, foreign intervention, civil war, counter-revolution and the return of the old guard had become the order of the day. Egypt has halted the drive to derail the Arab revolution | Seumas Milne
The very means by which the dictator had clung to power, his legendary savagery, had destroyed his internal support.
In the gorgeous landscapes and balmy climate of California an Indian incremation is as natural to the savage as it is for him to love the beauty of the sun. A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians
I'm pretty peeved that Savage is chambering the 14 AC and 16's for .250 Savage and .300 Savage in the right hand guns and not the left. I recently read an article that was basically worshiping the fast "quarter-bore" rifle cartridges.
Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and to make gentle the life of this world. Burial for a King
Only a windlike chant would do -- something with an undertone of human despair, outsoared by brave, savage flights of invincible soul-hope -- great virile singing man-cries, winged as the starlight, weird as space -- Whitman sublimated, David's soul poured out in symphony. The River and I
Some people argue that capital punishment is a savage act and must be abolished in every state.
But I'll never forget and I'll always be grateful for their savage, righteous fury when I told them how I discovered his first peccadillo. THE SAVING GRACES
The savaged bodies of roe deer in Gloucestershire last month fuelled rumours of a wild animal attack. The Sun
This was the line pursued at the time by the body politic and large sections of the media to justify a knee-jerk reaction and savage state repression.
An old Savage 99F lever safety circa 1955 with buckhorn sight. I'm looking to get a new rifle and am torn between a 7mm rem. mag and a 300 win mag.
This lady he pronounced to be a "perfect savage," and added that "she was in the habit of cowhiding any of her slaves whenever she felt like it, which was quite often. The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Auth
The Kutchin must be classed as savages, although near the close of that condition. Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines
Be aware that injured animals, even tame pets will bite savagely if given a chance.
He looked very much like a savage creature, with his wild, shaggy black hair and infuriated and crazed grin.
Anne Savage, the park's senior conservation biologist, says understanding how pachyderms use vocalizations to communicate will help people better manage them in the wild and in captivity.
The pride of the poor people is infinitely great, and exceeded by nothing but their poverty, in some parts, which adds to that which I call their misery; and I must needs think the savages of America live much more happy than the poorer sort of these, because as they have nothing, so they desire nothing; whereas these are proud and insolent and in the main are in many parts mere beggars and drudges. The Further Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe
Suddenly, he grabs her savagely by the arm and throws her at the nearest wall.
Both have, however, one common ground on which they become indistinguishable, -- that region of the supernatural which is most primitive and most vague; and the closest relation between the savage and the civilized fancy may be found in the fears which we call childish, -- of darkness, shadows, and things dreamed. Two Years in the French West Indies
Not out of those, on whom systems of education have exhausted their culture, comes the helpful giant to destroy the old or to build the new, but out of unhandselled savage nature, out of terrible Druids and Berserkirs, come at last Alfred and Shakspeare. The American Scholar
Like a bulldog it refuses to let go, even when savagely attacked by the desperate victim.
Boasting savagely violent battle scenes and an adrenaline fueled chase through the breathtaking Scottish highlands, CENTURION is set during the war between Roman soldiers and Pict tribesmen during the 2nd century Roman conquest of Britain. Neil Marshall’s CENTURION to Stand Guard This Summer – Collider.com
It is a savage attack on the archetypical French liberal bourgeois.
All people knew (or thought they knew) that he had made himself immensely rich; and, for that reason alone, prostrated themselves before him, more degradedly and less excusably than the darkest savage creeps out of his hole in the ground to propitiate, in some log or reptile, the Deity of his benighted soul. Little Dorrit
There is no escaping the fact of the Crusader's savage butchery - of Jews at home and of Muslims abroad.
Black John was savaged by the police.
Here again were oxen, mules and asses, or great bucks such as we now know as eland or kudoo, carried in on rough litters of boughs to be disposed of by parties of savage huntsmen who had shot them with arrows or trapped them in pitfalls. Elissa
These events are not the rare savageries of a particularly long and bitter war - they are one of the major points of the war. Archive 2008-09-01
Her country had been attacked most savagely, but her Pacifism remained unshaken, she absolutely refused to recognise that the War existed.
After a century of "noble savage" idealization, the peasantry's violence during the French Revolution had reawakened fears of more "ignoble" savagery.
After this St. Germanus proceeded to Britain, and there encouraged his converts to meet the heathen Picts at Maes Garmon, in Flintshire, where the exulting shout of the white-robed catechumens turned to flight the wild superstitious savages of the north – and the Hallelujah victory was gained without a drop of bloodshed. A Book of Golden Deeds
I've shot 3-1/2 loads out of a Benelli SBE and it was no where near as bad as 3 slugs from a Savage 24F (break action) with a rifled choke on a bench. Bucking Slug Recoil
Dancing on the bonnet of your Model A, or perhaps charging around on your horse, hooting savagely and bullwhipping innocent bystanders.
Clawing for tenure in a savage competition, the upwardly mobile learn subservience to superiors.
Their admiration was even greater since the French had been represented to them as the most inhuman and savage people.
But the burden for achieving national unity is on a president who could manage a narrow victory only by savagely trashing his opponent.
If you see him very savagely cut up in "The Revolver," you will recognize the kindly hands which held the bistoury, scalpel, and tenaculum, and the gentleman who wept while he wounded. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859
That music is a product of civilisation is manifest; for though savages have their dance-chants, these are of a kind scarcely to be dignified by the title musical: at most, they supply but the vaguest rudiment of music, properly so called. Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library
This sparked a series of student demonstrations that were savagely suppressed, killing over 100.
As for use of the term "freaky boy," Savage insisted it wasn't meant in a derogatory fashion. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
Savage highlighted the ecological destruction caused by a field of 3.5m tons of plastic rubbish trapped and swirling in the north Pacific. Times, Sunday Times
The cumulonimbus is the Savage Beast of the Sky, a beautiful shaft of pregnant water bubbling at 26,000 feet, about to open up a can of whoop-ass on you and yours. 8/8/02 This one goes out
This notch on a stick was the Indian mode of gazetting a warrior; and a certain number of these notches was pretty certain to procure for him a sort of savage brevet, which answered his purpose quite as well as the modern mode of brevetting at Washington answers our purpose. Oak Openings
Where four million people disported themselves, the wild wolves roam to-day, and the savage progeny of our loins, with prehistoric weapons, defend themselves against the fanged despoilers. Page 7
Nature thought good sense a handsome dower — but good sense in dependance is like a chef d oeuvres of Raffaelle [10] in a bog house. if the savages of America have fewer luxuries than the slaves of Europe they have fewer miseries — the artificial distinctions of birth & fortune are unknown — distinctions which though the Philosopher must despise, he must want. on the banks of the Oronoko when the young savages is born — his infancy is neither embitterd by fashionable nursing his puberty by absurd education or his life by the anxieties so frequent Letter 66
Three villagers were hacked to death in a savage attack.
Money is one of my favourite books – killingly funny, savage, critical, and stylistically and structurally bent. I’ve torn my rug out getting my head round this
Great dirty warrens of houses, peopled with savages and imps of our own miscreation.
Both believe that the Bible can do ignorant, sensual savages no good; both believe that nothing but compulsatory power can restrain uncivilized barbarians from polygamy, inebriety, and other sinful practices. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject
For the next three months widespread and savage killings by both rebels and government forces caused some thirty thousand deaths. THE FOUR NATIONS: A History of the United Kingdom
A caricaturist and political cartoonist of exceptional savagery, Scarfe's work is diverse, prolific, and visually stunning as well as being controversial.
It is very much about editing as savagely as you can while still leaving enough form. Times, Sunday Times
It was another savage kick in the teeth for Portsmouth. The Sun
That, by the way, is why the USMC uses the M40A1 (militarized Remington 700), and despite what Hollywood shows people using for long range shooting in counterterrorist units or whatever, SWAT and other mil tend to base their snipers around the Savage 10 or the Remington. Is Your Next Deer Rifle An AR?
We, the peoples who were objects of imperialist expansionism, for ever the infantile dwarfs who required the benign or brutal patronage of the white superperson, in earlier times had to be liberated form the state of noble savagery. Editorial
The movie reinforces the stereotype of Indians as heathens and savages.
He got savaged, for the umpteenth time, by a horde of ravening Republicans.
But it could not be so gloomy in the kind sunlight as it was when lashed by the savage storm which we had seen it cowering under before; and at the station we lost all feeling of friendlessness in the welcome of the thronging guides and hotel touters. Familiar Spanish Travels
The words of this fighting savage, Mavovo, even those of them of which I had heard only the translation, garbled and beslavered by the mean comments of the unutterable Sammy, stirred my imagination. Allan and the Holy Flower
Those dispossessed in these savage deportations have long since resettled, and no serious movement demands their return home.
In Libya and Somalia his troops fought savagely to reduce poorly armed tribesmen. The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
It wasn't for the savaged flic because he was back by the door with his cap perched on his head and calming his temper with a cigarette. SKORPION'S DEATH
Inviting alien terrorists into civil courts provides a national stage for political theatrics, where their unimaginable savageries equate to common murder. Terrorist Trials Are About Terrorists, Not Mr. Holder
I do my best to forgive him for savagery.
Second choise would be my savage 110 in .308 with a 2. 5-10X50 tasco, and ofcourse a shooters ridge bipod. with 150 grain balistic silvertip handloads it does wonders. If You could have just one rifle...
But if ever there was a place for music to soothe the savage beast, it's El Arca Animal Sanctuary---the only wildlife rescue center of its kind in Spain.
He was savagely beaten into insensibility.
He depicted the Kentucky frontier as a howling wilderness inhabited by wild beasts and uncivilized savages.
So please save your noble, peace loving, one-with-nature savage schtick for the ignorant do-gooders who will mule, whimper, sob, slobber in maudeline fashion and plead for your forgiveness and that of your ancestors as an act of the collective white guilt that they exhibit. Today is the 200th birthday of our greatest President.
The same in Powder, and a Lotion made thereof, is much used by the Savages, to mundify old Ulcers, and for several other Uses; being highly esteem'd among them. A New Voyage to Carolina; Containing the Exact Description and Natural History of That Country: Together with the Present State Thereof. And A Journal of a Thousand Miles, Travel'd Thro' Several Nations of Indians. Giving a Particular Account of T
His manner was superficially assured, underneath perhaps half-savage, shy and farouche, and deprecating. The Plumed Serpent
They risked their lives in a hostile physical environment and triumphed over nature and savages. The Tribes Triumphant
The composer's first symphony was greeted with such savage criticism that he lost all confidence in his abilities. Times, Sunday Times
Those are powerful advantages, considering how savagely mass-market carmakers are discounting.
At last people suspected of savagery in Nazi-occupied Europe faced prosecution in British courts.
He had an abysmal latch and had to have his frenulum clipped but not before my nipples were savaged and bleeding. The Boobityville Horror | Her Bad Mother
Then St. Lusson (a sword in one hand and "crumbling turf in the other") cried to his French followers who applauded his sentences, to the savages who could not understand, to the rapids which would not heed, and to the forests which have long forgotten the vibrations of his voice, the words in French to which these words in English correspond: The French in the Heart of America
I see the savage dragged from the slave ship, frantic, eyes wild, searching for escape.
The savaged bodies of roe deer in Gloucestershire last month fuelled rumours of a wild animal attack. The Sun
And as Evelyn Van Wyck fled through the sombre forest aisles before the too arduous advances of her slant-browed, skin-clad wooer, the door of the cabin opened, without the courtesy of a knock, and a skin-clad woman, savage and primitive, came in. LI-WAN, THE FAIR
Now, a distinctive appellation is one of the first necessities of life, whether savage or civilized; and in an age when proper names, and the occupations from which proper names Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers
Every day, the enemy takes more hostages, assassinates developing Iraqi leaders and savagely beats suspected collaborators.
Popular British and Australian historians have savaged the commanders at the Dardanelles as cold-blooded murderers.
Sir Ronald had promised to be content without love; but he was not, and was huffish and offended, and savagely jealous of Reginald Stanford and all the hated past. Kate Danton, or, Captain Danton's Daughters A Novel
The savage lunchtime attack shocked other staff and pupils at the school. The Sun
The attraction of this film is watching it all go wrong and seeing the organ grinder savaged by his own monkey.
The upper part is the territory of the surgeonfish which savagely protects it by attacking divers when they approach.
So sadistic, remorseless brutes cannot dodge true justice for their savagery. The Sun
This man, of Kalmuck extraction, and hideous, even savage appearance, but the kindest-hearted creature and by no means a fool, was passionately devoted to Pasinkov, and had been his servant for ten years. The Diary of a Superfluous Man and other stories
Clean-skinned, copper-colored, lithe and wiry as a tiger cat, with the long, lank, oily black hair of his race, Norton bore himself with all the airs of a European princelet and dressed himself in the beaded buckskins of a savage. Pathfinders of the West Being the Thrilling Story of the Adventures of the Men Who Discovered the Great Northwest: Radisson, La Vérendrye, Lewis and Clark
A passer-by who saved a man from being savaged by his own dog and an off-duty policeman who intervened in a nightclub brawl were today honoured for their bravery.
Because of its prickles the Boers call the mimosa the "wait-a-bit" thorn, but there was no thought of waiting a bit among the 12th Lancers at the Berea, when they charged the savage Basutos and captured their chief Moshesh. Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places
With an exclamation of anger the savage seized his powder-horn to reprime, when a rude grasp was laid on his shoulder, and another Indian, who, from the eagle feather in his hair, and his general bearing, appeared to be a chief, exclaimed -- Ungava
In the 1920s British historian Charles Grey savaged the American adventurer as an unhinged embellisher at best, a liar at worst.
She's appears to be stuck on some ceaseless, money-grabbing expose-athon, underpinned by savage workaholism, to ensure maximum shock and awe. Times, Sunday Times
In response, Savage and her team started a program where children could trade in their slingshots for a stuffed animal of the cottontop tamarin.
Incidentally, all this was missing from the way audiences (in the Curzon cinema I think) saw another 1960s shockumentary — The Savage Eye (directed by Joseph Strick) — when I saw it I, like the audience, shuddered but felt no complicity at all. Ballardian » An Exhibition of Atrocities: J.G. Ballard on Mondo films
Four stags and three hinds were savaged in two separate attacks at Tatton Park, Knutsford.
He's been called misanthropic, but this play is driven by a savage compassion. Laughing Until It Hurts
He glared savagely at the ball in his hands; the black octagons were marred by the white powder of the ceiling.
We were expecting cuts but these were far more savage than anyone imagined. The Sun
fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit
In the film, we have ninety or a hundred minutes of good looking youngsters, who are being savagely attacked on an isolated island, near an abandoned rave.
a craving for barbaric splendor, for savagery and color and the throb of drums
The negroes were busy poisoning arrows with the juice of the euphorbium — a piece of work deemed a great affair among these savage tribes, and carried on with a sort of ceremonial solemnity. Five Weeks in a Balloon
A few months later, five year-old Janet steals money ‘in the first week of school’ to buy chewing gum and is savagely pilloried as a thief by Miss Botting, her teacher.
The commander of the shallop was the savage named Ouagimou, who was on terms of friendship with Bessabez, chief of the river Norumbegue, of whom he asked the body of Panounias, [243] who had been killed. Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 02
With all this, in order to cover up the failures of your government - a visible symbol of betrayal of the much-propagated cause of the common masses of Jharkhand - you the people in power are trying to attack us, sending troops to create white terror by regular combings and savage brutalities. CPI(Maoist) - An Open Letter To Sudhir Mahato, Dy. CM of Jharkhand
The creature would have struck Savage were her raptorial legs not wrapped around Tucker's body. MINUTES TO BURN
Others fondled in their arms gazelles or savage whelps of wolves, and suckled them-young mothers these with babes at home, whose breasts were still full of milk; crowns they wore of ivy or of oak or blossoming convolvulus. The Bacchantes
The other is a titan of British acting, whose friends include Neil Tennant and Lily Savage.
Communication, except the more primitive kinds and the printed word were lost as survivors slipped backward toward savagery.
The problem is at heart we're basically just savages, animals, and always will be, ready to use violence to solve all our problems, no matter what the consequences might be.
It might be kloonobargan, the hairy, man-eating savages; or a tharban, that most frightful of lion-like carnivores; or a basto, a huge, omnivorous beast that bears some slight resemblance to the American bison; or, perhaps worst of all, ordinary human beings like yourself, but with a low evaluation of life -- that is, your life. Escape on Venus
Thank heaven! we meet with few minds like that of Sir Charles Verville; such a degree of savage insensibility is unnatural. The History of Emily Montague
After seventy-eight years in this fair island, side by side, with the progress and improvements above referred to, there are still hundreds and hundreds of men and women who live like savages in unfloored huts, huddled together like beasts of the field, without regard to health or comfort. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919
First, in the post-primary universal acknowledgment of the fact that Hillary had been "savaged" by the media and the press, no one really touched on why she was savaged, criticized and basically attacked by the media to a far greater extent than any other candidate on either side, Democrat or Republican. Carl Jeffers: And to the Media -- Apology Accepted? -- Maybe!
Depend upon it, Sir, a savage, when he is hungry, will not carry about with him a looby of nine years old, who cannot help himself. The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D.
And now that Tim Pawlenty is jumping in the race, the appeal of the 2012 GOP field is plummeting faster than Randy Savage from the top turnbuckle rest in peace, Macho Man. HUFFPOST HILL - Jon Huntsman Latest Addition To Team Individual Mandate
Was the students' act bordering on something like savagery when they took advantage of the workers' penurious state?
Sales turn us into savages; lords of the buys. Times, Sunday Times

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