half-civilized

It is full of secret half-civilized thoughts that are forgotten like dreams a short time afterwards, he wrote.

Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010

One series of sculptures in the British Museum, which I often looked at during my year in the old Reading Room of the British Museum in 1973-74, depicts the battle between the Centaurs and the Lapiths, which erupted when the half-civilized Centaurs got drunk and attempted to abduct the women of their hosts.

Night (not) in the Parthenon Museum 2 2009

Senator Burton Wheeler, former isolationist, was in absolute agreement: “One can come to only one conclusion from the action of the Japanese,” he said, “and that is that they are an inhuman and half-civilized race and in the future will be treated as such.”

Human Smoke Nicholson Baker 2008

Government destroys the property of the South, lays waste her fields, and inaugurates all the horrors of a San Domingo servile insurrection, consigning her citizens to assassinations, and her wives and daughters to pollution and violation, to gratify the lust of half-civilized Africans. where they were, and how they let go of the concept over time.

Wealth and Income Steven Barnes 2008

Scotland, in its half-civilized state, exhibited too many examples of the exertion of arbitrary force and violence, rendered easy by the dominion which lairds exerted over their tenants and chiefs over their clans.

Redgauntlet 2008

Thus the legislation of a rough, half-civilized people was transported into the midst of an educated society with gentle mores; as a result the death penalty has never been more frequently prescribed by the laws or more seldom carried out.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Nothing New Under the Sun: 2007

They only knew that suddenly the terrible raids of the sea kings ceased to sweep along their coasts, and in another century the wild age of plunder and slaughter had almost been forgotten -- because a rude, half-civilized people who scantily covered their nakedness with wolf hides rose up against the conquerors.

Wings in the Night Howard, Robert E. 2006

Mine was, as it were, the connecting link between wild and cultivated fields; as some states are civilized, and others half-civilized, and others savage or barbarous, so my field was, though not in a bad sense, a half-cultivated field.

Walden 2004

The native Amboynese who reside in the city are a strange half-civilized, half-savage lazy people, who seem to be a mixture of at least three races — Portuguese, Malay, and Papuan or

The Malay Archipelago 2004

I think, too, that because of all that half-civilized blood in his veins he could not endure the sedentary toil of creative art and so remained a man of action, exaggerating, for the sake of immediate effect, every trick learned from his masters, turning their easel painting into painted scenes.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965