Our treatment of animals will someday be considered barbarous. From LearnThat.org. [David Starr Jordan]
A barbarous crime. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
In the times which we call barbarous, great benefices and abbeys were taxed in France to the third of their revenue. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
Page view page image: it would seem perhaps better for what we call the barbarous part of the world to remain unchanged. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative of a four months' residence among the natives of a valley of the Marquesas Islands, or, A peep at Polynesian life] Reference
That lived in barbarous times, nor had the means of grace. From Wordnik.com. [Poems: Descriptive, Dramatic, Legendary and Contemplative, by William Gilmore Simms, Esq. In Two Volumes: Vol. II. I. Southern Passages and Pictures; II. Historical and Dramatic Sketches; III. Scripture Legends; IV. Francesca Da Rimini] Reference
That is in barbarous Russia; are we as civilized here compared with them?. From Wordnik.com. [Commercial Russia] Reference
Gold may be a barbarous relic, but in barbarous monetary times, relics do well. From Wordnik.com. [Gold Goes on a Print Run] Reference
When under the influence of liquor she was very loquacious, beating and abusing Doma in barbarous fashion. From Wordnik.com. [With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Borders, and of a Journey into the Far Interior] Reference
Glen -- what do you call his barbarous name? and his orderly with him -- I must not call him his orderly cut-throat any more, I suppose. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since] Reference
But I see your Highland friend, Glen ---- what do you call his barbarous name? and his orderly with him; I must not call him his orderly cut-throat any more, I suppose. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley] Reference
But I see your Highland friend, Glen ---- what do you call his barbarous name? and his orderly with him; I must not call him his orderly cut - throat any more, I suppose. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley — Volume 2] Reference
But I see your Highland friend, Glen — — what do you call his barbarous name? and his orderly with him; I must not call him his orderly cut-throat any more, I suppose. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley] Reference
Would smile at as 'barbarous' -- faith, he well might. From Wordnik.com. [The Scarlet Gown being verses by a St. Andrews Man] Reference
I suppose that chain is what you call barbarous, but I rather like it. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Rim of the Desert] Reference
Illovo they found the sugar workers living in conditions that could only be described as barbarous '. From Wordnik.com. [2. THE HERITAGE OF STRUGGLE] Reference
In the ages called barbarous, cities and princes entrusted their defence to mercenaries, who fought prudently. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
They are described as a barbarous people who lived by hunting and fishing, and had neither towns nor agriculture. From Wordnik.com. [Ancient America, in Notes on American Archaeology] Reference
To secure this result in what are known as barbarous heathen countries, the industries of such countries have to be reinforced. From Wordnik.com. [Africa and the American Negro...Addresses and Proceedings of the Congress on Africa Held Under the Auspices of the Stewart Missionary Foundation for Africa of Gammon Theological Seminary in Connection with the Cotton States and International Exposition December 13-15, 1895.] Reference
We are apt to call barbarous whatever departs widely from our own taste and apprehension; but soon find the epithet of reproach retorted on us. From Wordnik.com. [Of the Standard of Taste] Reference
If say a Muslim behaves in a barbaric way, he or she will be described as barbarous, whether or not this is in congruence with a preexisting stereotype. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Candidate Obama, President Obama:] Reference
This would be called barbarous tyranny if it occurred in Italy; but I have seen men, even in my own Ohio, who could see no wrong in it when practiced in the. From Wordnik.com. [Daring and Suffering: A History of the Great Railroad Adventure] Reference
As to the term "barbarous," Mr. Horace Smith, the author of. From Wordnik.com. [The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire] Reference
In this respect, Moslems are no more or less "barbarous" then Orthodox Jews. From Wordnik.com. [British Fast-Food 'sacrificed' to the devil] Reference
French words incongruously interspersed, is almost as "barbarous" Saxon as the Brut of Layamon. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction] Reference
Similarly, he might have included "barbarous" lower-class words in his dictionary -- but he still called them barbarous. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Johnson, Reconsidered] Reference
If modern women are at least as capable as men in deciding whom to marry, why does polygyny continue to be dubbed a "barbarous" practice?. From Wordnik.com. [Becker on Polygamy, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
This is what makes the central bank suppression schemes so 'barbarous'. From Wordnik.com. [Gold & Precious Metals Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha] Reference
Organized as it was in the wake of the "barbarous" decision -- as one member termed it -- in Munn. From Wordnik.com. [The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952] Reference
We suspect, however, that the legislature is not entirely free from this kind of barbarous enmity. From Wordnik.com. [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 443 Volume 17, New Series, June 26, 1852] Reference
It is evident that at this date Ts'u was still "barbarous," for the king had to ask what it all meant. From Wordnik.com. [Ancient China Simplified] Reference
Palestinian folks had to train their ears to many new, "barbarous" names of places where their kinsmen had settled. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference
His retinue is described as of unusual splendour, and, no doubt, was specially appointed to impress the "barbarous" Irish. From Wordnik.com. [An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800] Reference
He was remarkably well read in pagan literature, and, besides, was acquainted with the religious ideas of the "barbarous" peoples. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference
A century or more later, when Mencius was advising the bellicose court of Ts'i, he alluded with indignation to this "barbarous" act. From Wordnik.com. [Ancient China Simplified] Reference
Haiti's foreign minister, Alrich Nicolas, called the lynching "barbarous" and delivered an official protest to the Dominican authorities. From Wordnik.com. [Progressive Bloggers] Reference
"barbarous" (non-Classical) source; the two words should agree in gender, and so on. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 1] Reference
"barbarous" in acrimoniously bidding him finish his work by putting his daughter also to death. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
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