单词 | savageness |
例句 | The savageness in his eyes when he threw the punch. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Thou wast my captive and my child — All savageness and appetite. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z From the bull’s side, just forward of the flank, protruded a feathered arrow-end, which accounted for his savageness. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z Hunger pains aside, one of Mikkelsen’s biggest takeaways from the shoot was the starkness and savageness of the landscape around him. Mads Mikkelsen: ‘One word wrong and you're a dead person’ 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z It’s an inherently cruel line of questioning that turns the disfiguring savageness of his murder into a pretext for doubting her. When the Camera Can’t Turn Away, These Women Force Us to Listen 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z In her last month of pregnancy Byron wrote off Annabella as “a nice little sullen nucleus of concentrated savageness.” Mad, Bad and Dangerous: The Legacy Left to Byron’s Wife and Daughter 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z You’d think that the utter savageness on display here would horrify fans. The New Celebrity Diet: Cyberbullying 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z “A lot of people who liked it related to the savageness of it,” he says. Gypsy Sport says hello to the afterlife of Gypsy Sport 2023-09-11T04:00:00Z Pope Francis said on Wednesday that Ukrainians were being subjected to savageness, monstrosities and torture, calling them a "noble" people being martyred. U.S. asks World Court to dismiss Iran's claims over frozen assets 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z “Bobby believed we should work to ‘tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of the world,’” Kennedy, 93, wrote. RFK wife Ethel Kennedy says assassin shouldn’t be released 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z He said the attack was another sign of the “great savageness” he claims is undermining French values. French police station attacked with fireworks, metal bars 2020-10-11T04:00:00Z Darmanin - named interior minister in a government reshuffle two months ago - set the tone for a get-tough policy by saying that the “growing savageness of a part of society must be stopped.” Is France really growing more ‘savage’? Word stirs trouble 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z “In the early history of Vancouver, and colonial cities generally, there is this opposition assumed between the civilization cities are imagined to represent, and the imagined savageness of Indigenous people,” he says. 'Bring our people home': the bold new plan for an Indigenous-led district in Canada 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z “That’s when I felt the savageness of my own selfishness,” he said. Yan Lianke’s Forbidden Satires of China 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z “Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.” Mike Pence pays tribute to Robert F. Kennedy on 50th anniversary of assassination 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z But I’d argue in turn that law exists precisely to “tame the savageness of man,” a phrase that Robert Kennedy drew from classical sources. Opinion | Liberals are well aware of the capacity for evil 2018-04-01T04:00:00Z It concluded: “Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.” The president was polarizing, even crude. The shocking became routine. Somehow, we survived 1968 — or did we? 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z The concept of "savageness" predates the colonial era even if the word doesn't. The Cost of Being ‘Savage’ in a Supposedly Civilized World 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z Or, as Robert Kennedy said, in a line he attributed to the ancient Greeks, to “tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.” Opinion | Going Against the Republican Herd 2017-10-21T04:00:00Z And let’s dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world. People Are Sharing This Moving RFK Speech After Dallas Shooting 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z But she not only recaptured that inchoate feeling she craved; she also glimpsed the savageness of her desire. The Woman Who Walked 10,000 Miles (No Exaggeration) in Three Years 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.” The president was polarizing, even crude. The shocking became routine. Somehow, we survived 1968 — or did we? 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z Their savageness and filth give one a very curious idea of the taste of our grandfathers and our great-grandfathers, only our ancestors, male and female, could hardly have been as bad as they are represented. Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. 2012-04-04T02:00:59.277Z One sensed the pitiless savageness of the struggle for life, in which the beaten were devoured by the survivors before they were dead. Wyndham's Pal 2012-04-04T02:00:54.360Z The dogs manifested the impatience of hounds in view of a fox, with ten times their savageness. True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World 2012-03-13T02:00:24.640Z They were at it again and with a savageness that had not marked their fighting before. The Iron Boys in the Mines or, Starting at the Bottom of the Shaft 2012-03-11T03:00:13.327Z There Landolf was to be spectator of a terrible scene, which shows as well the frightful savageness and cruelty of the Saxons as their noble purity of manners. Pine Needles 2012-02-20T03:00:19.367Z The Chapter!" replied the other in a tone of singular contempt, which changed to savageness as he continued, "You are well read in history, Mr. Dean, they tell me. For the Cause 2012-02-19T03:00:18.033Z "Oh," said he, taking another piece of bread and butter, "I'm not all alone in my savageness this time." The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z Its social savageness was bad enough—its spiritual insolence was worse. Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 2011-12-25T03:00:11.297Z LUCIAN.—As an initiated Pagan priest, the conduct of Moses towards his followers was quite in character; and the religion which he manufactured was, no doubt, well suited to the extreme savageness of the Jews.* Religion In The Heavens Or, Mythology Unveiled in a Series of Lectures 2011-12-24T03:08:03.360Z But the savageness of the Anglo-Saxon race has full scope to-day, not being on its good behavior, as at home. From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey 2011-11-26T03:00:12.337Z From Montevideo the latest intelligence is so confused that we can arrive at no definite conclusion, except that the domestic war is prosecuted with unusual savageness. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, November 1, 1851 2011-11-03T02:00:15.113Z We all know how dogs will remain quiet and calm when a soft and gentle air is played, but get furious to the point of savageness under the "plan-plan-rataplan" of a merry noisy tune. Alone with the Hairy Ainu or, 3,800 miles on a pack saddle in Yezo and a cruise to the Kurile Islands. 2011-10-30T02:00:10.270Z I had prepared myself for the savageness of a savage country. Thirty Years in Australia 2011-10-25T02:00:27.397Z The next relief, "the conquest of the earth," probably represents the slaying of Antæus by Hercules, and symbolises the "beneficent strength of civilisation, crushing the savageness of inhumanity." The Story of Florence 2011-10-20T02:00:24.237Z “Stay, leave him alone, you’ll kill him!” she said, rescuing Darrell from himself and his savageness as she had rescued him just before from his enemies. Luck at the Diamond Fields 2011-10-06T02:00:43.067Z There was one, an old man, in particular, on whom he almost every day gratified his savageness. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX 2011-08-27T02:00:23.817Z It is unnecessary to enquire, how such wanton cruelty came to be introduced; it must have been the suggestion of ignorance, and the perpetration of savageness and brutality. Observations on Madness and Melancholy Including Practical Remarks on those Diseases together with Cases and an Account of the Morbid Appearances on Dissection 2011-08-23T02:00:29.227Z The storm beat upon the string of men with a savageness that appalled Hunt, who had never experienced nature in so bitter a mood. The Heart of Canyon Pass 2011-08-04T02:00:24.083Z Arthur kicked at him with the savageness of fear. The Heart's Country 2011-08-02T02:00:26.847Z Those who have never heard the angry howl of an infuriated mob of Buccaneers can have no conception of the savageness of its sound. The Life of a Celebrated Buccaneer A Page of Past History for the Use of the Children of To-day 2011-07-06T02:00:45.180Z And then, with a savageness begotten of a feeling of being cornered, trapped, run to earth, he began to wonder whether he should suffer himself to be taken possession of in this slap-dash fashion. Fordham's Feud 2011-07-05T02:00:31.267Z I tell you, it was a sight to stand and watch, not heeding the wind or the wet—and the savageness of it gripped hold of me. Tales from the Veld 2011-07-05T02:00:29.217Z One might imagine that a huge person, and enormous strength, when fortified with supreme power among a wild tribe, would produce savageness of manner. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 2011-06-29T02:00:23.750Z Jim knew the nature of these dogs, their faithful savageness, and scented danger in the air. The Sweep Winner 2011-06-24T02:00:21.067Z The Teutonic, representing strength and depth in word and work, has been the stronghold of emancipation in life and thought, yet tinctured with the savageness and chaos of unpolished and disordered nature. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 2011-06-14T02:00:20.590Z They had forgotten, in this new trouble, the savageness and abruptness of the storm that had cast them all upon Palm Island. The Corner House Girls on Palm Island 2011-06-01T02:00:23.043Z Only the waving of the red flag of Socialism could rouse in him what seemed to us others a certain savageness of intolerance. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z "This shameful action shows the savageness and the barbarism of these criminals," he said. 500 Migrants in Two Tractor Trailers: Why Mexico's Drug Cartels Are Moving into Human Smuggling 2011-05-19T17:05:00Z His followers were animated by ambition, eager seekers for wealth and power, their track marked by fire and sword, their action often treacherous and 35 always characterized by the savageness of their age. Explorers and Travellers 2011-05-11T02:00:17.627Z The savageness of the searches, the number of the arrests, joined to the despair of the defeat, tore from this town—bled to the last drop of blood—some supreme convulsions. History of the Commune of 1871 2011-05-07T02:00:33.113Z The knives flashed, they ducked, parried, got away, cut and come again with a quickness and a savageness that lifted my hair. Plain Mary Smith A Romance of Red Saunders 2011-04-09T02:00:09.887Z He had seen the two blush, and a cold feeling of undefinable fear and savageness seized him—a desire to go and choke Mr. Selden where he was—right there in his orchestra chair. The Squatter and the Don 2011-03-27T02:00:13.400Z Our own West India Islands are fast relapsing into primitive savageness. Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters 2011-03-06T03:00:21.020Z In sheer savageness of mood Thou drivest from thee every friend. Medea of Euripedes 2011-03-03T03:00:47.283Z We say this in no offensive sense, though it is true that the senator often unintentionally offends by the quickness, the savageness, and the irritability of his style and speech. Presidential Candidates: containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860 2011-02-27T03:00:34.390Z Roman people, antagonism to Papacy, 60; local politics of, 67; savageness, 68. A Short History of Italy (476-1900) 2011-02-24T03:01:00.630Z “When a case like this comes up, it’s time to change the law, then,” declared Wade, with savageness of his own, the menacing proximity of MacLeod acting on his anger like bellows on coals. King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z Shall we imitate the example of our enemies in the disorder of their movements and the savageness of their dispositions? Red Eagle and the Wars With the Creek Indians of Alabama. 2010-12-20T17:12:28.183Z If one could listen but for an instant to the chant of the Indian muse, we should understand why he will p. 100not exchange his savageness for civilization. The Vagabond in Literature The authorship of the poem was much debated, and it was attributed by some to William Hayley, upon whom it was actually avenged, with characteristic savageness, by its victim. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" Sometimes a herd are unapproachable from savageness, at others they are the greatest “curs” in creation. Sporting Scenes amongst the Kaffirs of South Africa Up a narrow pass between two high ridges went the pagan army, paying little heed to the growing asperity and savageness of the path it was treading. The Cathedrals of Northern Spain Their faces painted in the most grotesque and hideous manner, the fierceness of their looks, and the savageness of their dress, would alone have inspired awe in the breast of a spectator. Hansford: A Tale of Bacon's Rebellion The test fails, however, utterly, when applied to the later or transitional landscape schools, mountains being there introduced in mere wanton savageness by Salvator, or vague conventionalism by Claude, Berghem, and hundreds more. Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) His unconscious abandonment unchains the savageness of his passion. Contemporary Russian Novelists "Study your lessons," he snarled, with a savageness that surprised himself, "or I'll never let you set foot on this planet at all." Dead Man's Planet The tiger's roars kept Finn's hackles up, and his fangs bared in a fierce snarl; so that the Professor was struck afresh with the savageness of the latest addition to the menagerie under his care. Finn The Wolfhound Elemental ruggedness, savageness, and grandeur, combined with wonderful tenderness, modernness, and geniality. Whitman A Study It is the ignorant barbarians who can pluck the Roman Senate by the beard; and who, in the depth of savageness, can see nothing in sex, age, station, or office, to demand their veneration. The Claims of Labour an essay on the duties of the employers to the employed He asked the question sharply, and looked at her with that savageness in his eyes which all the family remembered so well, and which she specially feared. Is He Popenjoy? “You set them bills right back in your dip,” he cried, with a savageness that was only a mask to his real feelings; “I don’t need ’em. The Twins of Suffering Creek The savageness of these big bears is indescribable. Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 In the wild splendor and savageness of a Colorado canyon he sees a spirit kindred to his own. Whitman A Study “I would try not to mind their savageness, Richling,” said the little preacher, slowly. Dr. Sevier I began to get a conception of the vitality and endurance of a broadbill in contrast with the speed and savageness of his brother fish, the Marlin, or roundbill. Tales of Fishes It was as lonely and solitary as if no man had ever seen its savageness before. The Boy Settlers A Story of Early Times in Kansas It was unbearable to the simple-minded Tusk who struck with a savageness that would have felled an ox. Sunlight Patch To many the desert in its stony sterility, its desolateness, its unbroken solitude, its fantastic savageness, is either appalling or repulsive. Our Italy Wild even to savageness, mountain heights branched thickly across the country, with no seeming order or direction. Travels in North America, From Modern Writers With Remarks and Observations; Exhibiting a Connected View of the Geography and Present State of that Quarter of the Globe This is a gruesome tale of the sea and I put it here only to illustrate the incomparable savageness of these tigers of the Gulf Stream. Tales of Fishes In Greece there was brutal savageness in its most hideous forms; in the age of its greatest refinement sin was dressed up in the finest style. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, March, 1880 In truth, he had now been baited into savageness. Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) The flash and outbreak of a fiery mind, A savageness in unreclaimed blood. Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature The islander is very nervous; when he is quiet, he is shy and reticent, but once he is aroused, all his bad instincts run riot, and incredible savageness and cruelty appear. Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific Instead he flew at the men with the savageness of a gray wolf. The Pagan Madonna The paint glitters upon their naked bodies in the glare of the fires; it is a wild and savage scene, and yet grotesque in its very savageness. Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches An Autobiography And what more thoroughly representative of cruelty, savageness, and treachery than a wolf, or even something partly lupine! Werwolves They went to the attack with a savageness which was not to be denied. Over the Line His health at last returned, but he no longer suffered the caresses of any but his keepers, and towards strangers manifested the original savageness of his species. Anecdotes of Dogs Where now they express chiefly savageness, they would have expressed fire and grace. This Simian World “Dolly,” on the other hand, happily unaware of his savageness and unnatural spirit, drooped his homely, ungainly head in a dejected manner. The 1926 Tatler Horses noted for their viciousness, Mexican bulls especially selected for their savageness, and the untamed range cayuse, were to exhibit the prowess of the horsemen. On the Edge of the Arctic or, An Aeroplane in Snowland It was the effort of some youth in the direction of Staple's Inn to soothe with music the savageness of his own bosom. Ralph the Heir The laboratory psychologist studies, for instance, the laws according to which qualities like savageness and tameness are distributed in the succeeding generations. Psychology and Social Sanity This savageness of nature was of course but their natural instinctive desire for food, but it was dangerous in the extreme, as I knew later on. The Golden Magnet "You are to make no noise, nor speak to the sentry," he said, with a sullen savageness; "if you do I shall put on the hatches." The Trader's Wife 1901 It was not loud and it was cautious, but it reached my ears with a suggestion of extraordinary savageness. The Blue Wall A Story of Strangeness and Struggle But do not let it be said, therefore, that savageness is science. Lectures on Architecture and Painting Delivered at Edinburgh in November 1853 Indianised as the old trapper was—with all his savageness, all his reckless indifference to ordinary emotions—I knew there was still a touch of humanity in his breast. The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse He is one of the largest of the weasel family, and has a double measure of the weasel’s savageness and tenacity. Wood Folk at School This is all the more noticeable as the epoch was a barbarous one, and a multitude of passages recall the wild savageness of the people. A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance I knew what he was," he said with sudden savageness, "all along. We Three Nothing could exceed the savageness of the crew as, stripped to the waist, they went to their guns. From Powder Monkey to Admiral A Story of Naval Adventure I shot my last arrow, but it glanced off the skull of the creature, which now came towards me, looking the picture of savageness. Afar in the Forest When the barbarians overran Greece, desecrated her temples, and destroyed her beautiful works of art, even their savageness was somewhat tamed by the sense of beauty which prevailed everywhere. Pushing to the Front There was a certain savageness in his tone, and he went on strumming the motive on the panes. The Black Cross Still, Weston persisted in his search; though it was not patience but the savageness of desperation that animated him. The Gold Trail What dost thou think—that I shall perish here, Gnawed by the tooth of hungry savageness? The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 The true German has something of the sap of trees in his veins even now: and a sort of pristine savageness, like trees, helpless, but most powerful, under all his mentality. Fantasia of the Unconscious No one who has seen and knows the tenderness of the negro toward the children of his master, and his never-failing respect toward his mistress, dares say he fears the negro's savageness. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy They had heard of my loneliness and my savageness from Maurice—They burn to give me their sympathy—and have tea with plenty of sugar in it—and chocolate cake. Man and Maid The newcomer was naked as a babe new born; wild as a beast of the field; lithe as a serpent; and crazy to savageness with the fire and the drums. Vrouw Grobelaar and Her Leading Cases Seventeen Short Stories Jackson, I perceived, drank considerably, as if incited thereto by compressed savageness. The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 The Huns, during their eighty years of contact with Europe, had lost a little of that utter savageness which they brought with them from the Tartar deserts. Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation As his sympathies are toward goodness and virtue, and the happiness of mankind, or toward pride and deceit, and selfishness and savageness, so will his prejudices be for or against the Bible. Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity Although the old "bulls" show a certain amount of ferocity at times, their savageness is considerably exaggerated by the whalers, who love to spin yarns about them. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon He dashed them away with a most unangelic savageness; then, conscious only of a devouring desire to be near his father in his perilous hour, he drove on the machine as hard as he could. The Admirable Tinker Child of the World It should be an even fight between them, for they are equally matched in ill-temper and savageness, and are near of a size though the gopher is the heavier. On the Trail An Outdoor Book for Girls Andrew could not appreciate this savageness of race loyalty in the face of anger and dissension, and his brain reeled with the apparent inconsistency of the thing. The Portion of Labor In the second close-up which followed, showing only the snake and the woman's moccasined feet, the reptile struck with startling swiftness and savageness. Writing the Photoplay Struggling against the savageness of man and nature must have roughened our manners a little, just as working on the ground roughens one's hands. The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1 Despite the savageness of his utterance Millard continued to gaze thoughtfully, for a few moments, at the submarine boy's face. The Submarine Boys for the Flag Deeding Their Lives to Uncle Sam The quarrel was inevitable, however, and it was precipitated by a half-drunken demonstration of affection towards Aurora on Quigley's part, which the girl resented with a savageness that betrayed an unexpected trait. In the Roaring Fifties One verse of one of their songs is, "When the Karen king arrives Everything will be happy; When Karens have a king Wild beasts will lose their savageness." Lives of the Three Mrs. Judsons In brief, the truth is that savageness begets savageness, and gentleness begets gentleness. Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library It is within my province fully to attest to the earnestness, the savageness and the brutality with which these Indians commenced this contest. The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself Mr. Kenyon thinks it cannot end so—and I do sometimes—and in the meantime I do confess to a little 'savageness' also—at heart! The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 She loved him for the mellow civilization of his heart and for the wild savageness of his garb. The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest They are a very good natured animal when domesticated, but I believe it to be impossible to cure that savageness, which all I have seen seem to possess. An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island "I would drown her screams myself," said Hamish, with a sudden savageness; and he added something that Macleod did not hear. Macleod of Dare An appearance so unexpected, says Timon, almost turns my savageness to distraction. Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies Nor did he even resent the savageness and cruelty which this young hell-cat vented in his presence on the persons of his favorites. Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots At that ill-considered suggestion, made with unintentional savageness, Jenny so worked upon herself that her own colour rose high. Nocturne This, for those who are acquainted with their savageness and brutality, is wonderful beyond exaggeration. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 12 of 55 1601-1604 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century I had seen him before, on the fearful night which prepared the attack on the palace; but he was then in the haste and affected savageness of the rabble. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 This savageness found vent still more freely in his rendering of sounds. Robert Browning And the tales he told of savageness long drawn out were as dew to the parched herb, greedily absorbed at every pore. Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 One can scarcely imagine the savageness of the sport—the animal mutilations, the imprecations of ruffians worse than brutes, the ferociousness and drunkenness, the blasphemy and unspeakable horrors of the exhibition. Thrift He did not remember having felt so full of primitive savageness before, but he exercised his self-control. Carmen's Messenger A look of perfectly animal savageness distorted for a brief moment his handsome features; his eyes flashed, and his brow was one mass of wrinkles. Ilka on the Hill-Top and Other Stories Not cross, even Ascott could not have accused her of "savageness." Mistress and Maid The wildness and savageness of it bides with me, and of a night when the wind blows round the roof I wake and think I hear it again. A King's Comrade A Story of Old Hereford Those killed were at once pounced upon by their comrades and torn to pieces; and this mark of savageness added to the horror which those within felt of the ferocious animals. The Boy Knight The very savageness of the rent and fissure is made the condition of the purest charm. The Lake of the Sky Lake Tahoe in the High Sierras of California and Nevada, its History, Indians, Discovery by Frémont, Legendary Lore, Various Namings, Physical Characteristics, Glacial Phenomena, Geology, Single Outlet, Automobile Routes, Historic Towns, Early Mining Excitements, Steamer Ride, Mineral Springs, Mountain and Lake Resorts, Trail and Camping Out Trips, Summer Residences, Fishing, Hunting, Flowers, Birds, Animals, Trees, and Chaparral, with a Full Account of the Tahoe National Forest, the Public Use of the Water of Lake Tahoe and Much Other Interesting Matter His classicality, however, what with his unmannerly savageness and my own suspension between heaven and earth, I did not feel bound to respect. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875 Yet his art has its dwelling-place in the early Romanesque savageness and strangeness. The Art of the Moving Picture He therefore accepted the invitation, and passed the forenoon very agreeably with the poor negroes, the mildness of their manners forming a striking contrast to the savageness and ferocity of the moors. Lander's Travels The Travels of Richard Lander into the Interior of Africa From the cross-roads the way again inclined downward to the sea in increasing savageness of desolation. The Moon Rock The tears, the agony, the despair of the unhappy lady, excited in me a savageness of feeling, an eager thirst for vengeance, which I had believed foreign to my nature. The Experiences of a Barrister, and Confessions of an Attorney Neither of these customs presupposes any original and innate savageness or barbarity on the part of the Koraks themselves. Tent Life in Siberia Those killed were at once pounced upon by their comrades, and torn to pieces; and this mark of savageness added to the horror which those within felt of the ferocious animals. Winning His Spurs A Tale of the Crusades The poor fellow turned his head, and tried to lick her hand; then started up, growling with something like his old savageness, and fell over. Po-No-Kah An Indian Tale of Long Ago His passion changed from savageness to a tender longing. Love and Mr. Lewisham But in devouring potatoes, we are—I shudder to think of it—each moment upon the brink of being reduced to the absolute savageness of fingers. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861 The keeper of the present Giraffe had also the charge of this one, and he ascribes its savageness entirely to the manner in which it was treated. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 280, October 27, 1827 But, on the other hand, his wife's family pursued their unfortunate relative with a savageness of hatred hardly to be paralleled. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861 In an instant one of the red men whose look, though grim and fearful enough, showed less savageness than his companions, gruffly took Kitty from the Indian who was carrying her with such cruel carelessness. Po-No-Kah An Indian Tale of Long Ago The ferocity of his manners and the savageness of his nature is not usually softened even by wine. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 Instead of the genial loving tone of the great Scotchman, we find in Elliott a tone of deliberate savageness, all the more ugly, because evidently intentional. Literary and General Lectures and Essays "Cruelty" or "savageness" is the desire, whereby a man is impelled to injure one whom we love or pity. Ethics — Part 3 She could only stand there, away from the window, looking out at the sheets of water running down the panes and shivering with the frightfulness and savageness of it all. Dust As the pursued and the pursuer raced madly toward the distant forest the battle behind them raged with bloody savageness. Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar We, then, have to war against this enemy by whose most foul cruelty all the savageness of barbarous nations is surpassed. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 Savageness was a part of his make-up, but the savageness thus developed exceeded his make-up. White Fang "What do you want here?" he demanded, with peremptory savageness in his voice, which was a tone he had never hitherto used in addressing her. Within the Law Little do many think what is the savageness and brutishness of this barbarous enemy, Ay, even those that seem to profess more than others among them, when the English have fallen into their hands. Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson The whole affair sank to the deeper deeps of rancor and savageness. Burning Daylight The origin of all lay in his unsociable, supercilious, and self-willed disposition, which, in all cases, is offensive to most people; and when combined with a passion for distinction passes into absolute savageness and mercilessness. Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans At the meetings of creditors, then, he comported himself with a savageness and scorn towards Sedley, which almost succeeded in breaking the heart of that ruined bankrupt man. Vanity Fair From the bull's side, just forward of the flank, protruded a feathered arrow-end, which accounted for his savageness. The Call of the Wild Legree had trained them in savageness and brutality as systematically as he had his bull-dogs; and, by long practice in hardness and cruelty, brought their whole nature to about the same range of capacities. Uncle Tom's Cabin The reason for his savageness was that he despised the men with whom he played. Burning Daylight Nature, or his cruel habits, had given to his face an expression of unusual savageness, even for a slave-driver. My Bondage and My Freedom The new versification, as it was called, may be considered as owing its establishment to Dryden; from whose time it is apparent that English poetry has had no tendency to relapse to its former savageness. Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 Nor plighted vows nor sure defeat control The same indignant savageness of soul. The Columbiad He has brought him there to improve his arts, to reduce his conventional savageness, to re-refine his coarse refinements, not to make a wild-man of him. The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded But there was sense as well as spirit in its savageness; and they growled applause, as he ceased. Hereward, the Last of the English There was a savageness of antipathy in her to the mode of life which her circumstances had produced for her. The Eustace Diamonds I have transcribed this title to show, by his contemptuous mention of Usher, that he had now adopted the puritanical savageness of manners. Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 "Ah!" said he, with a good deal of savageness in his tone—"A—ha! blood?" Tom Cringle's Log Beneficent strength of civilization crushing the savageness of inhumanity. Mornings in Florence Bloody revolutions and devastations of civil war appear to posterity as a relapse into an earlier and more uncultivated condition of society, or they are in reality accompanied by such a relapse into unbridled savageness. Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature It was that very savageness which made her ride so hard, and which forbade her to smile and be pleasant to people whom she could not like. The Eustace Diamonds The bedclothes had been thrown with such savageness! Carnacki, the Ghost Finder He was a monster, with massive head, deep chest and powerful limbs; and his thick fur—nature's protection against the Arctic cold—seemed to emphasize both his size and his savageness. Lost in the Air It was with a very ill grace that he complied, on that condition; and at parting he kissed my hand with such a savageness, that a redness remains upon it still. Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 4 I supposed the early dogs of this breed had been trained to night slaughter and savageness alone, and that it was a case of atavism, a recurrence of hereditary instinct. The Wolf's Long Howl Sardinia Gracchus reduced; the savageness of the inhabitants, and the vastness of its Mad Mountains—for so they are called—availed it nothing. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 02 (From the Rise of Greece to the Christian Era) And, on the other hand, the savage soon receives from cities iron arrow-points, hatchets, and guns to point his savageness with. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 09, July, 1858 He didn't condescend to answer a word, looking for all the world like a tiger in savageness. Wild Northern Scenes Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod If any body wanted to stop in the wildest and lonesomest place he could find in the Alps, so as to be saturated with a sense of savageness and desolation, I would recommend this hotel. Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 Where now they express chiefly savageness, they would have expressed fir and grace. This Simian World The green tidiness and culture of England here gives way to a wild and rugged savageness of beauty. Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe One day, having pushed his cousin down, the young girl bounded to her feet with all the savageness of a wild beast, and, with flaming face and bloodshot eyes, fell upon him with clenched fists. Theresa Raquin After an interval of only two hours more of thorough and intense wretchedness we had a "grogs," but there was no attempt at conviviality—subdued savageness was the prevailing state of mind. Station Life in New Zealand Offended at such savageness, but without answering him, Wallace drew toward Murray, and calling to Edwin, ordered him to march at his side. The Scottish Chiefs If she failed to make due allowance for that savageness of nature which generations of slavery are sure to beget in the master, let us not blame her. Bricks Without Straw It was vibrant with a strange savageness which was more savage than the wildest yells of the half-breed Crees, and his great eyes burned fiercely as they rested for an instant upon Cummins' face. The Honor of the Big Snows Humane, beautiful, and cheering as the religion of the patriarchs appears, yet traits of savageness and cruelty run through it, out of which man may emerge, or into which he may again be sunk. Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life From the savageness with which he spoke, one would have inferred that he was bitterly enraged at any one spying through the parlour window on Miss Meredith’s evening hours. Janice Meredith Turk stared gloomily from the open window, and there was a sort of savageness in his silent, sturdy back that bespoke volumes of restraint. Castle Craneycrow For many months the petted animal had shown none of that savageness with which his owner had before been compelled occasionally to struggle. Bricks Without Straw Far away, from the lonely depths of the swamp, there came the wailing howl of a wolf—a cry of hungerful savageness that died away in echoes of infinite sadness. The Honor of the Big Snows Thirdly, their savageness depends on their having young. The Book of Were-Wolves Mr. Woodward gave me a look that was savageness itself. True to Himself : or Roger Strong's Struggle for Place But the old man battered at all this excellence with savageness. The Landloper She felt that the impetuosity and savageness of the attacks must necessitate a recoil; and though it was difficult to be patient under such circumstances, she waited quietly, undismayed by the clamor. St. Elmo She wished she had not; his anguish expressed itself like an evil passion; his teeth were set with a cruel savageness. A Life's Morning The resemblance was at moments more than he could endure; once or twice he astonished Elgar with a reply of unprovoked savageness. The Emancipated The landsman can know little of the wildness, savageness, and mercilessness of nature till he has been upon the sea. Winter Sunshine Th' women are as bad as th' men, in their savageness, this time. North and South If we could listen but for an instant to the chant of the Indian muse, we should understand why he will not exchange his savageness for civilization. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers I call it barbarity, a savageness of delicacy altogether inconsistent with the tenderness of human nature; and may the most abject contempt be my portion, if I live under its scourge! The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle Cruelty or savageness is the desire, whereby a man is impelled to injure one whom we love or pity. Ethics This language neither makes a nation great or little; but it shows a savageness of manners, and has a tendency to keep national animosity alive. Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 1 (1774-1779): the American Crisis I told myself with some savageness that I did not know and did not care. The Firefly of France He would have seen Severne treated with a hauteur and a sort of savageness he himself was safe from, safe in her unshaken esteem. A Woman-Hater It was for her sake he had plunged into the quarrel, but she felt disturbed by his savageness. The Girl from Keller's There is not uncommonly a savageness of self-assertion about Americans which arises from a too great anxiety to be admitted to fellowship with Britons. The Duke's Children I suspect King was in a very sensitive mood; the world seemed for the moment devoid of human sympathy, and the savageness and turmoil played upon his bare nerves. Their Pilgrimage Ah!" exclaimed he, turning upon her with a harshness, almost a savageness, of manner that startled her still more; "I might have known what to expect! Democracy, an American novel "Billy?" he demanded, with a savageness that startled her. When God Laughs: and other stories But the count's former savageness seemed wholly subdued. Samuel Brohl and Company In truth he had now been baited into savageness. Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 The savageness of his appearance is finely contrasted with the case and indolence of the attitude. Travels through France and Italy And shaggy, wet, dusty red, with all of brute savageness in the look and action of his head, he appeared hideous. Wildfire Motherhood! it is the gamut of God's orchestra, savageness and cruelty at the one end, tenderness and self-sacrifice at the other. Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow Nevertheless, although she resisted sensation, she was more and more shot through and through with the wildness and savageness of this canyon. The Call of the Canyon The sacred fire of sorrow was fast burning out all Ayacanora's fallen savageness; and, like a Phoenix, the true woman was rising from those ashes, fair, noble, and all-enduring, as God had made her. Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth In August things were slightly better; but with the return to labour came a renewal of Yule's sullenness and savageness. New Grub Street All that savageness and wildness disappeared when she approached him. Wildfire SOCRATES: And yet he really did make them more savage than he received them, and their savageness was shown towards himself; which he must have been very far from desiring. Gorgias They had been, not tamed into submission, but baited into savageness and stubborness. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1 He praised her skill with the needle, her voice that could "sing the savageness out of a bear," her wit, her sweetness, the fairness of her skin. Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare Only, my savageness is not in having gone away, but in coming now. Anna Karenina She had expected every sign of savageness on his part, and certainly had not intended to go near him. Wildfire The Tartar, wandering or fixed, always ignorant and ferocious, lives in the savageness of his ancestors. The Ruins, or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the Law of Nature Rosemary pushed her into the living room with make-believe savageness. The Heritage of the Sioux |
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