The frightful tortures heaped upon prisoners by my uncles gave me a horrible uneasiness, but what kept me from admiring the savagery that surrounded me was the ill-usage I received myself.

Canst thou Beatify the ascetic's savagery To heavenly prudence?

Savagery had begotten savagery in that veiled civil war.

They do not submit to severity of treatment, abide by no critical laws, but are the gypsies and Bohemians of literature, bringing all the savagery of wild genius into the salons of taste.

As for me, never could I have conceived that savagery so heinous could brood in a human bosom as now I felt it brood in mine.

His friendby whose side he had fought, starved, suffered, triumphedhis poor two-natured friend.... Could not one of these cursed clever physicians, alienists, psychologists, hypnotistswhatever they werehave cut the strange savagery and ferocity out of the splendid John Robin Ross-Ellison?...

The story is of Hugo's own invention, and is intended to delineate on the one hand the savagery, and on the other the knight-errantry, of the Middle Ages.

The soldiers displayed great savagery, fifty-three houses being destroyed.

His serenity evoked all the savagery of Tedge's feud with the lilies.

The purpose of the picture is rather to express with the maximum of power the savagery of passion and the stark nature of lovers' encounters.

Monk, the attorney-general, reported that 'It is astonishing to find the same savagery exhibited here as in France.'

Even the she-wolf forgot her wicked savagery to nurse and fondle her whelps in the lair; even the she-lynx, hunting with renewed fervor through the branches, knew of a marvelous secret in a hollow log that she would be torn to scraps of fur rather than reveal.

"Well?" In the sexton's eyes gleamed an unholy savagery of satisfaction.

And to see 'em workin' away right before us at all the industrial trades, to see inteligence in the eyes that had held savagery, to hear the inteligent conversation in place of gutteral axents, I wuz highly tickled.

The visions of the pagan world, floating before the mind of all men in the fifteenth century, found very different interpreters in these three paintersBotticelli adding the quaint alloy of his own fancy, Signorelli imparting the semi-savagery of a terrible imagination, Mantegna, with the truest instinct and the firmest touch, confining himself to the processional pageantry of bas-relief.

Heredity includes savagery and culture, health and disease, empire and serfdom, hope and despair.

Second, that religious fervour has rarely mitigated and generally increased our own savagery.

We are up against the mightiest War-machine of all time, wonderful in organisation, joining the savagery of the barbarian to the deadliest resources of modern science.

Let those who lament the savagery of modern warfare consider what happened then to a Danish fleet that tried to bring relief to hard-pressed Stockholm.

The law of Jesus may be permitted to hold some subordinate place; it will be found useful in mitigating the savagery of strife; but as the regulative principle of the industrial order it is not to be considered.

Finally, they were pitted against the Indians, in the ceaseless border struggle of a rude, vigorous civilization to overcome an inevitably hostile savagery.

With these weapons the students perpetrated savageries, almost unrebuked, which struck an American with horror.

The outrages in this country is giving America a bad name among the savage people of the world, and they seem to prefer savagery to American civilization, such as is meted out to her dark-skinned people.

The success of the British was incompatible with the good of mankind in general, and of the English-speaking races in particular; for they strove to prop up savagery, and to bar the westward march of the settler-folk whose destiny it was to make ready the continent for civilization.

An ancient writer records the tradition that Seneca very early observed in Nero a savagery of disposition which he could not wholly eradicate; and that to his intimate friends he used to observe that, "when once the lion tasted human blood, his innate cruelty would return.