505 examples of cannibal in sentences

"A man would think, sir, it was a cannibal island," he observed.

Mary shivered when she thought of the cannibal feasts.

" Mary anxiously waited for the answer from the Mission Board giving her permission to work for six months in the cannibal country.

"I am going on a short trip through the cannibal country," said Mary.

" At last Mary and her group of travelers came to Itu, which was deep in cannibal land.

The news that Mary the white Ma was in cannibal land soon spread far and wide.

Send workers to cannibal land to change these man-eaters into Christians.

She was happy that she could go to cannibal, land and win souls for Christ.

The government people wanted Mary to come to that country too, because she knew so much more about the people and customs in cannibal land.

You look like a starved cannibal....

But your cannibal of cannibals is a parliament patron.

"But you don't know the Belgian Askari; he is cannibal; he is recruited from the pagan tribes in the forest of the Congo, he files his front teeth to a point, and we know he is short of supplies.

THEOPHILUS SKINNER, but peremptorily declined because SKINNER'S district had become Democratic since he was elected, and he knew that if he resigned an infamous cannibal copperhead would be sent to Congress in his stead.

Lusam, I say thou art a blood-sucker, A tyrant, a remorseless cannibal: Old as I am, I'll prove it on thy bones.

Am I a blood-sucker or cannibal?

The Arrawaks, to do them justice, defended themselves more valiantly than the still gentler people of Hayti, Cuba, Jamaica, Porto Rico, and the Lucayas: but not so valiantly as the fierce cannibal Caribs of the Lesser Antilles, whom the Spaniards were never able to subdue.

But to me it is impossible to call one of the blessed gods cannibal; I keep aloof; in telling ill tales is often little gain.

"Well, I'll be dd if that son of a cannibal hasn't sneaked away into some hole, and kept his footing," exclaimed the captain, as he saw the boy appear above deck; "I was in hopes he had found safe quarters in Davy Jones's locker!

I shouldn't tink dat angels could lib in dat cannibal hemisphere!"

I have often, in idle moments, imagined myself a cannibal, and, in preparing my daily menu, my first dish would be a fricassee of French dressmakers.

Each morning, after execution, the moment the bell rang for prayers, in marched Beauty with a swollen head well on one side, growling anathemas from somewhere round the corner all prayer-time; after which the escaped convict devoured breakfast with the voracity of a stiffnecked cannibal.

They were the tallest and most robust Indians known on the continent; they traded in slaves, and though they were cruel and ferocious in their incursions, they were not cannibals like their kinsmen of the lesser Antilles, who were so addicted to the custom of eating their prisoners that the names of cannibal and Carib had become synonymous."

[Footnote 90: The word "cannibal" is but a corruption of guaribó, is, "brave or strong," changed into Caribó, Caríba, and finally that Carib.

He entertains no sympathy with the cannibal, who judges the flavour of his enemy improved by temporary commitment to a subterranean larder; yet, to be sure, he keeps his grouse and his venison till it approaches the condition of spoon-meat.

The Spaniards brought home the word Cannibal, which was a Haytian pronunciation of Cariba (Galiba); and it gradually came into use to express the well-known idea of a man-eater.

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