7503 examples of savage in sentences

His lips were covered with froth, and there was a savage light in his eyes.

A workman, seeing Lemulquinier making for the children with a stick, came to their rescue with the dangerous cry: "Down with sorcerers!" Thus emboldened, the children made a savage attack upon the two old men with a shower of stones.

It was the savage custom of his country for a king to have a hundred wives, as his grandfather had; but Oroonoko was an enlightened and chivalrous man.

He was in a black mood; he did not speak; his blue eyes were, by turns, strangely savage and strangely sorrowful.

"And so you think you can dive," old Captain Savage said, "or is that just boy scout talk?

"I ain't a-talking to you," Captain Savage shouted; "you other feller, scramble aboard and come up here!

I stood right beside the wheel in that little house and pointed out the channel to Captain Savage all the way up to North Bridgeboro.

" "By no meansthat is to say, there is a still more interesting subject, my dear young savage, than even law.

Jinks, with a savage look at O'Brallaghan, was about to return to his work, when a letter, protruding from the pocket of the coat which Verty had just taken off, attracted his attention, and he pounced upon it without hesitation.

He tore it open, and read, with savage scowls and horrible contortions of the visage, that which follows.

A savage flirt of his locks completed his toilette, and in all the splendor of his scarlet stockings and embroidered waistcoat, he issued forth.

Which declaration was accompanied with a savage kick upon the door.

I positively cannot receive you in that savage dress.

And Roundjacket, overcome with indignation, struck the newspaper a savage blow with his ruler.

That was a long time for a savage to amuse a Grand Duke, was it not?

Of this farther notice will be taken in Savage's Life.]

The buzzard that you have startled from its pool in the gully and that circles round with wide-flapping wings has a lineage as ancient as the hills, and the vision of the pikes of Langdale that bursts on you as you reach the summit of Esk hause is the same vision that burst on the first savage who adventured into these wild fastnesses of the mountains.

There are certain savage tribes who wear rings through their noses.

The dilemma is not unlike that of the savage tribe whom the Greeks induced to give up cannibalism.

One dark figure in the background of society haunts us also: Lady Macclesfield, the cruel mother of Savage, polluted Twickenham by her evil presence.

When this savage commander gained intelligence of a French spy coming over, he displayed him at once before the army on a gallows, dangling in his muff and boots.

It was Savage, every one remembers, with whom Johnson in his days of starvation was wont to walk the streets all night, neither of them being able to pay for a lodging, and with whom, walking one night round and round St. James's Square, he kept up his own and his companion's spirits by inveighing against the minister and declaring that they would 'stand by their country.'

The affrighted world looked on at the infernal spectacle of the ancient civilisation of Europe, more than two thousand years old, crumbling under the savage expert blows of the great nation which formed its advance guard.

As a matter of fact he incidentally ruined all the most reliable men of military age in Italy, who turned their attention to robbery and gladiatorial fighting in place of the service that had previously claimed it.] and filled the city with a throng of motley soldiers, most savage in appearance, most terrifying in their talk, and most uncultured to associate with.

In this way was immortality secured for Pertinax [who (although bodies of men engaged in warfare usually turn out savage and those given to peace cowardly) excelled equally in both departments, being an enemy to dread, yet shrewd in the arts of peace.

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