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Madge, with a retentive memory of the way Miss "Barbarous" had greeted her back in the mountains, stepped toward that much-astonished maiden, opened her red parasol straight in her face, and courtesied to the rest.
In Old Kentucky Edward Marshall 1901
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"Barbarous" and "execrable" are the words which he constantly employs in speaking of the roads; parish and turnpike, all seemed to be alike bad.
The Life of Thomas Telford Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 1867
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Barbarous acts must cease in Syria, said Lyall Grant.
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“Barbarous, lacking the refinement and rationality of our own.”
Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011
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Barbarous Mexico, the book which drew the Yaquis 'plight to the world's attention was written by an American and published in 1911.
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In a later edition of History of a Voyage he added a lengthy new chapter titled “Of Cruelties Carried Out by the Turks, and other Peoples, and notably the Spanish, Much More Barbarous than even the Savages.”
Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011
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Barbarous acts must cease in Syria, said Lyall Grant.
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However, the sad story of the Yaquis 'fate, at the hands of the Mexican government itself, was related in painstaking detail in a book entitled Barbarous Mexico, published by an American, John Kenneth Turner, in 1911.
Yaqui in exile: the grim history of Mexico's San Marcos train station 2009
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Also, Austrology is good, but I was thinking it was more a a defense of the Church of the Barbarous Relic.
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Barbarous Mexico is not an attack upon the Mexican people, but an exposé of the atrocities committed against many of them by President Porfirio Diaz during 34 years of repeated "unopposed reelection."
Yaqui in exile: the grim history of Mexico's San Marcos train station 2009
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