The young savages are apt pupils, and 'try their prentice hand' on calves and weakly members of the herd, killing from the mere love of murder.

You've told me often that the savages are a tricky lot, and, fighting in the forest in their own way, are hard to beat.

So savage were his own followers against himfor Marceau was well loved amongst them that, with axe and block so ready, justice might very swiftly have had her way, had not a long clear bugle-call, rising and falling in a thousand little twirls and flourishes, clanged out suddenly in the still morning air.

In a word, from this time I entertained some hopes, that one time or other I might find an opportunity to make my escape from this island, and that this poor savage might be a great furtherance thereto.

They are not part of the world the three or four thousand civilised savages for whom we sweat our brains, and whose fetid breath perfumed with musk is fame.

Jyanough listened to the probable and improbable causes that were assigned by all the speakers, especially by Coubitant, to account for so strange a circumstance; but he held his peace, for in his inmost soul he was only more and more convinced that the subtle and dark- brewed savage was the perpetrator of the malicious deed.

This savage was now a good Christian, a much better than I; though I have reason to hope, and bless God for it, that we were equally penitent, and comforted, restored penitents.

As the savage is a murderer, so is she the accomplice of a murderer, although it is possible that by the Great Judge neither may be so classified at the end, because of their lack of knowing.

But Palfrey, knowing nothing of what his contemporary was writing, had already put into print this sentence:"The New England savage was not the person to have discovered what the vast reach of thought of Plato and Cicero could not attain."

He was greatly superior in size to his antagonist, and more muscular, the savage being slender and extremely lithe and springy.

Savage was an expert in that science of human nature, learnt from experience not from books, upon which Johnson set so high a value, and of which he was destined to become the authorized expositor.

We find them, in their speculations, conspiring to represent primeval man, to use their own words, as a "savage, whose 'howl at the appearance of danger, and whose exclamations of joy at the sight of his prey, reiterated, or varied with the change of objects, were probably the origin of language.

227-246, 469-484; VI, 393-462 NIGHT-THOUGHTS (1742-45), NIGHT I, ll. 68-90; III, 325-342; IV, 201-233; VII, 253-323 ANONYMOUS THE HAPPY SAVAGE (1732) SOAME JENYNS AN ESSAY ON VIRTUE (1734), ll. 148-165, 170-183, 189-199 PHILIP DODDRIDGE SURSUM (1735?) WILLIAM SOMERVILLE THE CHASE (1735), BOOK II, ll.

On the east side of the Cascade mountains, however, the gentle savage was lord of all the lands over which he roamed.

But remember that the savage is always a child.

Had the cruel and wily savage indeed become the friend of him who had, he deemed, supplanted himnot only in the favor of his Chief, but also in the good graces of his intended brideand who was now, as he had learnt from Jyanough, the husband of Oriana, and the virtual Sachem of Tisquantum's subject warriors?

JEALOUSY It is the knowledge, or suspicion, that he has not a monopoly of his wife that tortures Shakspere's Othello, and constitutes the essence of his jealousy, whereas a savage is his exact antipode in that respect; he cares not a straw if the whole camp shares the embraces of his wifeprovided he knows it and is rewarded for it.

Then, seeing that that fact did not produce the desired impression: "My savage is an awfully good fellow.

" "Do you mean to tell me that this painted savage is kin to that lovely girl who came with Sir John and the Butlers?"

'Savages without the resources of a savageslaves without the protection of a masterto whom the cart-whip and the rice-swamp would be a change for the betterfor there, at least, is food and shelter.

In the company of which Savage was a distinguished member, one may guess that the conversational fervour sometimes degenerated into horse-play.

Incredibly savage was Thorndyke when he made that discovery; and bitter and incessant were the indignities to which he subjected his unfortunate wife, for the avowed purpose of forcing her to make a will entirely in his favor, and of course disinheriting her daughter.

I could not have been unconscious many moments, for it seemed as if my eyes had but just closed, when I was aroused by the pressure of Sergeant Corney's hand upon my arm, and as I would have sprung up he forced me down, whispering: "The savages are comin' this way, an' it looks to me mightily as if they counted on stoppin' hereabouts.

Ten years before Goldsmith thus launched the idea that most nations were and had ever been strangers to the delights and advantages of love, Jean Jacques Rousseau published a treatise, Discours sur l'inégalité (1754), in which he asserted that savages are strangers to jealousy, know no domesticity, and evince no preferences, being as well pleased with one woman as with another.

Sentimentalists are usually more or less willing to concede that savages are devils in most things if we will only admit in return that they are angels in their sexual relations.