All this she told to Henrich; and his spirit, sanguine as it was, sickened at the prospect of a lengthened captivity among uncivilized and heathen beings.

Such was, and still is, the custom among the uncivilized tribes of America, where women have ever been regarded as being very little more exulted than the beasts that perish, and have been accustomed to meet with scarcely more attention and respect.

"The dauphiness made him a short but very energetic sermon, in which she represented to him with vivacity all the evils of the uncivilized kind of life he was leading.

The uncivilized inhabitants of the Philippines quickly adopted the rites, forms, and ceremonies of the strange religion, and, at the same time, copied the personal externalities of their new masters, learning to despise their own manners and customs as heathenish and barbarian.

His was a wild, uncivilized kind of handsomeness, she thought, like that of a noble, untamed creature of the forest, changed by enchantment into a man and thrust into modern clothes.

Yet the look he gave her was not uncivilized, only surprised, rather boyish, and as if the brilliant eyes had suddenly lit upon something good which they had been seeking.

To damn outsiders is uncivilized, childish, impure.

Among uncivilized nations there is but one profession honourable, that of arms.

These are the primeval mills of all countries, which are mentioned in Scripture, and are still common among all uncivilized nations.

[Footnote 26: Uncivilized Races of the World, 1870, vol i, p. 464.]

[Footnote 41: Uncivilized Races of the World, 1870, vol.

[Footnote 72: Uncivilized Races of the World, 1874, v. ii, p. 774, et seq.]

[Footnote 82: Uncivilized Races of the World, 1870, vol.

These were small garrisons; but the fortresses were strong, considering all the circumstances, and the enemy were uncivilized, knowing but little of fire-arms.

You felt it was only a nightmare, cruel and uncivilized.

Do they not disprove my theory that uncivilized races are incapable of feeling sentimental love?

"In the earlier times of Peru the union of the sexes was voluntary, unregulated, and accompanied by barbarous usages: many of which even at the present day exist among the uncivilized nations of South America."

He himself is obliged to admit (224) that "in many of the uncivilized tribes of India parents are in the habit of betrothing their sons....

It was pleasant to emerge from the dark, cold, barren border-land, from the uncivilized mountains, standing sullen in the wild, shaggy chevelure of nature, and to walk again between towering hills dressed in the best toilet of human industry, crowned with golden wheatfields, and zoned with broad girdles of the greenest vegetation.

Conversation is in a great measure relapsed into the first Extream; so that at present several of our Men of the Town, and particularly those who have been polished in France, make use of the most coarse uncivilized Words in our Language, and utter themselves often in such a manner as a Clown would blush to hear.

As we went along, indications of the new power, which had already effected the easy transit of the desert, were visible in small patches of coal, scattered upon the sand; presently we saw a dark nondescript object, that did not look at all like the abode of men, civilized or uncivilized; and yet, from the group hovering about an aperture, seemed to be tenanted by human beings.

This should be the case from one consideration alone; for how gratifying it is, when visiting an uncivilized people, to find that you know a word or two of their language!

Something has been said to the effect that the Remington balls used by the Spaniards are poisonous and that it is uncivilized to manufacture them.

I was a little disappointed, perhaps, but I made the best of it, and in two years I was the second mate of a whaler lying in a little harbor of one of the uncivilized islands of the Pacific.

* Faith is a spiritual faculty; animals have not got it; savages and uncivilized people have merely fear and doubt.