451 Words to use with savages

It is thus that the Arab poet expresses his ante-Islamic "Antarah": "My pitiless steel pierced all the vestments, The general has no safety from my blade, I have left him as food for savage beasts Which tear him, crunching his bones, His handsome hands and brave arms.

I had never given Sergeant Corney credit for any great knowledge of woodcraft, because he came to us from over the seas where his life had been spent fighting battles in the open, and could not be expected to cope with the savage foe, as did our people who had always been accustomed to the skulking methods of warfare practised by the redskins.

The snarling and yelping drowned all other sounds until the gaunt horde of sharp-muzzled; stiff-haired brutes had been beaten back by savage blows from the whip and by quick thrusts of a rifle butt.

Lo! Tartar hordes our happy realms invade; The tottering state requires thy powerful aid; A youthful Champion leads the ruthless host, His savage country's widely-rumoured boast.

On the wild heath in mournful guise he stood, Ere the shrill boatswain gave the hated sign; He dropt a tear unseen into the flood, He stole one secret moment to repine "Why am I ravish'd from my native strand? What savage race protects this impious gain?

He had been born with savage instincts, and educated into ferocity.

He speedily became notorious in the little town for his wild moroseness, for his savage ferocity when excited, for his inordinate love of cards.

In the mountains of Scotland, when a flock is invaded by a savage dog, the rams have been known to form the herd into a circle, and placing themselves on the outside line, keep the enemy at bay, or charging on him in a troop, have despatched him with their horns.

The men's passions were unloosed; they fought like savage animals, driven by an instinctive fury that would not vanish until one was beaten.

Frederica laughed at my ignorance, and then she told me, when the play began, the green curtain would draw up to the sound of soft music, and I should hear a lady dressed in black say, "Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast:" and those were the very first words the actress, whose name was Almeria, spoke.

He protested, with oaths, in his usual savage growl, that he was dead tired and could not travel another step.

Pomponius Mela even mentions a savage nation, in the interior of Africa, who laid themselves down to sleep on the grave-stones of their ancestors, and looked upon the dreams they had on those spots as oracles from the dead.

I understand that there are some phases of mental trouble that harmonise well with such surroundings, and that some persons, by the dispensing power of the imagination, can go back several centuries in spirit, and put themselves into sympathy with the hunted, houseless, unsociable way of life that was in its place upon these savage hills.

We threw ourselves on the enemy, who were at the same time attacked on the other side by the division which formed the other 'leg' of the V, while the 'fleeing' French soldiers turned and made a savage attack.

Think of thy treachery to Saiáwush; Thy savage cruelty, and never look For aught but deadly hatred from mankind;

Soft nymphs on timid step the triumph view, And listening fauns with beating hoofs pursue; With pointed ears the alarmed forest starts, And love and music soften savage hearts.

Strength was left in him, but the cunning, savage mind knew defeat.

Savage philosophy, 21.

God, according to the savage conception, is vengeful, and capricious, and vindictive.

The waves of emotional exaltation which from time to time pass over the whole people have the same character, the character of savage religion.

The Philippines in the darkness of half-savage life were brought unexpectedly under our colors because Dewey and his commanders were in 1898 just the same heroes they were in 1864.

Reflecting on these things, the earliest savage reasoners would decide: (1) that man has a 'life' (which leaves him temporarily in sleep, finally in death); (2) that man also possesses a 'phantom' (which appears to other people in their visions and dreams).

She was not afraid, but there was something uncanny in being surrounded by such savage creatures.

Somber peaks, hacked and shattered, circled half-way around the horizon, wearing a savage aspect in the gloaming, and a waterfall chanted solemnly across the lake on its way down from the foot of a glacier.

See! where they rush, and with a savage joy, Unsheathe the sword, impatient to destroy.

451 Words to use with  savages