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Sentences starting with barbarous

Barbarous and untaught she was like her comrades, but of a gentle nature. [4]
Barbarous nature likes display, excessive ornament; and when we have arrived at the nobly simple, the perfect proportion, we are always likely to relapse into the confused and the complicated. [4]

Sentences ending with barbarous

It was agreed that they should be barbarous. [4]
The wild ceremonies of the Syrians, who maimed themselves in their mad ecstasy, repelled him as being coarse and barbarous. [10]
We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous. [4]
There was only a handful of the garrison, while the Indians were many, and also barbarous. [4]

Short sentences using barbarous

That's one barbarous custom abolished. [9]

More example sentences with the word barbarous in them

Magnificence of display went hand in hand with a taste for cruel and barbarous amusements. [4]
The Roman notion was barbarous grandeur. [4]
We have been waked up at barbarous hours in the morning and handed on, as it were. [9]
The British had told them that the Kentuckians were a barbarous people, and they had believed. [9]
It's barbarous not to wear a mask when you ride. [9]
In barbarous ages this object was accomplished by violence; it is now attained by skill and adroitness. [4]
As a drama this ancient historical work of art was defective, I thought, but as a wild and barbarous spectacle the representation was beyond criticism. [5]
Do you suppose they will be so barbarous as that? [5]
It was of the same Psalms, but the congregation chanted them in a wild and weird tone and manner, as wailing and barbarous to modern ears as any Highland devotional outburst of two centuries ago. [4]
As for doubting that so barbarous an order had been given, not one of us did that. [5]
I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community can constitute one State. [6]
It would be repugnant to us to repeat all the tales of barbarous cruelties, which are told of Cambyses at this insane period of his life; but we cannot resist mentioning a few which seem to us especially characteristic. [10]
Though from a remote and somewhat barbarous island, they believed themselves the most perfect men upon earth, and magnified their chieftain, the Lord Scales, beyond the greatest of their grandees. [4]
To an accompaniment of barbarous noises the actors stepped out one after another and began to spin around with immense swiftness and vigor and violence, chanting the while, and soon the whole troupe would be spinning and chanting and raising the dust. [5]
You may imagine my surprise when I read that I had been leading a dance out at Mohair, or some such barbarous place in the northwest. [9]
But as it may hereafter be translated into some foreign tongue and circulated among barbarous, but rapidly improving people, people who have as yet no astronomers among them, it may be well to give a little notion of what kind of place an observatory is. [6]
It has every mark of coming from the cruel heart of a barbarous despot. [6]
According to the long-accepted story of Pocahontas, she did something more than interfere to save from barbarous torture and death a stranger and a captive, who had forfeited his life by shooting those who opposed his invasion. [4]
In the hotel is a handsome little chapel where an English clergyman is employed to preach to such of the guests of the house as hail from England and America, and this fact is also set forth in barbarous English in the same advertisement. [5]
We see the influence of diversified conditions in the more civilised nations; for the members belonging to different grades of rank, and following different occupations, present a greater range of character than do the members of barbarous nations. [1]
He tomahawked him in heroics, ran him through in prose, and scalped him in barbarous epigrams. [6]
Agriculture is still in a very barbarous stage. [4]
Hence there can hardly be a doubt that the inhabitants of these countries, which include nearly the whole civilised world, were once in a barbarous condition. [1]
There is the German nation of our day, the most aggressive in various fields of intellectual activity, a Hercules of scholarship, the most thoroughly trained and powerful--though its civilization marches to the noise of the hateful and barbarous drum. [4]
Observe that his fingers are curled as if in the act of tickling, and that his face is represented with a wink, as he appeared when committing his barbarous murders. [12]
But it probably does more harm than good to medical science at the present time, by keeping up the delusion of treating everything by specifics,--the old barbarous notion that sick people should feed on poisons [Lachesis, arrow-poison, obtained from a serpent (Pulte). [6]
At the present day civilised nations are everywhere supplanting barbarous nations, excepting where the climate opposes a deadly barrier; and they succeed mainly, though not exclusively, through their arts, which are the products of the intellect. [1]
He is very crude, not to say barbarous, yet in many of his tastes, but he has reached one of the desirable things in civilization, and that is a thorough appreciation of physical comfort. [4]
Like Shakespeare, Mr. Cooke was judged by his works, and from these he was generally conceded to be an illiterate and indifferent person of barbarous tastes and a mania for horses. [9]
The language likewise continues unadulterated by barbarous innovations; and so critically correct is the village schoolmaster in his dialect, that his reading of a Low-Dutch psalm has much the same effect on the nerves as the filing of a handsaw. [4]
It might entertain but it would too long detain us to repeat Smith's information, probably all secondhand, about this barbarous region. [4]
I know you better than any officer on board; and, besides, I should feel safer and better satisfied if she went under the protection of an officer,--these barbarous places, you know!--though, of course, it may be asking too much of you, or what is impossible. [11]
Whatever may have been her barbarous instincts, we have the testimony of Governor Dale that she lived "civilly and lovingly" with her husband. [4]
There were flower beds of equally barbarous design; and two iron deer, which, like the figures on Keats's Grecian urn, were ever ready poised to flee,--and yet never fled. [9]
It seems to be a brutal, barbarous cunning power now that I've seen it at close range. [9]
It seems really barbarous, if nobody goes near them. [8]
Of all the barbarous lay-outs that were ever contrived, this was the most atrocious. [5]
Whilst observing the barbarous inhabitants of Tierra del Fuego, it struck me that the possession of some property, a fixed abode, and the union of many families under a chief, were the indispensable requisites for civilisation. [1]
It was about as barbarous an exhibition as we have witnessed yet. [5]
The Queene of Appamatuck was appointed to bring him water to wash his hands, and another brought him a bunch of feathers, instead of a Towell to dry them: having feasted him after their best barbarous manner they could. [4]
The perfectly regular and wonderfully complex construction of the languages of many barbarous nations has often been advanced as a proof, either of the divine origin of these languages, or of the high art and former civilisation of their founders. [1]
From these few and imperfect remarks I conclude that the extremely complex and regular construction of many barbarous languages, is no proof that they owe their origin to a special act of creation. [1]
When we demanded an explanation of his conduct he only shrugged his shoulders and answered in barbarous Italian. [5]
Civilized belligerents do all in their power to help themselves or hurt the enemy, except a few things regarded as barbarous or cruel. [7]
It was rumoured afterwards that this horrible and barbarous ceremony had been dispensed with, and that the remains had been secretly given up to Tom Scott. [12]
Carlyle's merciless discourse about Coleridge and Charles Lamb, and Swinburne's carnivorous lines, which take a barbarous vengeance on him for his offence, are on the level of political rhetoric rather than of scholarly criticism or characterization. [6]
It stood half a mile from the drowsy village, deep in its own grounds amidst lawns splashed with shadows, with gravel paths edged--in barbarous fashion, if you please with shells. [9]
His dress was a little barbarous, unlike Doltaire's splendid white uniform, set off with violet and gold, the lace of a fine handkerchief sticking from his belt, and a gold-handled sword at his side; but the manner of both was distinguished. [11]

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