The white people of Wellington were not savages; or at least their temporary reversion to savagery would not go as far as to include violence to delicate women and children.

A human beast had coiled at his door, myriad-headed, insane, bloodthirsty, all-powerfulthe mob, that terror of civilization, that sudden reversion in mass to a state of savagery.

This is the atavistic type of criminals which represents an involutionary, or retrogressive, form of abnormality, due to an arrested development or an atavistic reversion to a savage and primitive type.

Even then the act is a horrible reversion to the bruteto the low plane of savagery.

Yet, should the administration of the thyroid cease, an almost immediate reversion to the original vegetative condition is inevitable.

He too had wanted to be "modern," had revolted, half-humorously, against the restrictions and exclusions of the old code; and it must have been by one of the ironic reversions of heredity that, at this precise point, he began to see what there was to be said on the other sidehis side, as he now felt it to be.

But this was an exception, a marked reversion to the ancestral type; like the hairy human infant.

And yet all this is only a reversion to medieval timesa reversion made absolutely necessary by the failure of every attempt to supplant Divine methods by human.

"You mean," I said, "that the occasional reversions to the earlier form convey some material suggestion?"

Partial reversion of Europe, between the fifth and eleventh centuries, towards a more primitive type of social structure.

Upon seeing her audacious smile and her calm eyes fixed upon him, he felt within him a shameful reversion.

By a singular, atavistic reversion, the last descendant resembled the old grandsire, from whom he had inherited the pointed, remarkably fair beard and an ambiguous expression, at once weary and cunning.

It was Darwin's conviction that the grounds upon which this conclusion rests will never be shaken, for the close similarity between man and the lower animals in embryonic development, as well as in innumerable points of structure and constitution, both of high and of the most trifling importance,the rudiments which he retains and the abnormal reversions to which he is occasionally liable,are facts which cannot be disputed.

While youth was, we had vast reversions in time future; we are reduced to a present pittance, and obliged to economise in that article.

" "The money which I brought into the family, sir," Lady George cried out "You purchased a contingent reversion with it," the marquis said, darkly.

Now, the twelfth reversed is nothing but the fifth or dominant, and the seventeenth becomes, by a double reversion, the third or mediant of the tonic.