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Though ye've not shaved your savage lips nor cut your barb'rous hair,
The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe
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It says I'm a barb'rous villain, the story does, an 'shoots up the boat after it surrenders, an' old Butler allows he'll hang me a whole lot the moment ever he gets them remarkable eyes onto me.
Wolfville Nights Alfred Henry Lewis 1885
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The battle join'd, and through the barb'rous herd,
Waverley Novels — Volume 12 Walter Scott 1801
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Where'er fell Rapine stalks, or barb'rous Discord reigns!
Ode to Anarchy 1797
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Lays! form'd to last, 'till barb'rous time invades
The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland Cibber, Theophilus, 1703-1758 1753
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Spite of his haughty mien, and barb'rous pride: 70
The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems Alexander Pope 1716
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The rediscovered insight into Burn's life paints a picture of an early animal rights activist, who railed against "barb'rous" hunting.
unknown title 2009
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The rediscovered insight into Burn's life paints a picture of an early animal rights activist, who railed against "barb'rous" hunting.
unknown title 2009
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Death humbles these; more barb'rous life, the man.
The complaint; or Night thoughts on life, death, and immortality. With the life of the author 1812
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Stcmm'd the wild torrent of a barb'rous age, OQj And drove those holy V andais off the stage.
Poetica de Horatio, e o Ensaio sobre a critica de Alexandre Pope : em portuguez 1812
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