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Savagery Apache Indians once fierce fighting tribe of American West. [Am. Hist.: NCE, 123]
imaginary wild animal of great ferocity. [Br. Lit.: “Jabberwocky” in Through the Looking-Glass] ancient Norse warriors; assumed attributes of bears in battle. [Norse Myth.: Leach, 137] warlike tribe of American West. [Am. Hist.: NCE, 607] ravager of the Corinthian countryside. [Gk. Myth.: Benét, 237] ravaged Arcadian countryside until capture by Hercules. [Gk. Myth.: Jobes, 523] Mongolian invaders of western Europe until 453. [Eur. Hist.: Espy, 167] a renegade Huron who scalps white men. [Am. Lit.: The Pathfinder, Magill I, 715–717] lived on human flesh; their capture was Hercules’ eighth labor. [Gk. and Rom. Myth.: Hall, 149] savage yet strangely devoted Cossack leader. [Russ. Lit.: Tarns Bulba, Walsh Modern, 77] 13th-century rapacious hordes of Genghis Khan. [Medieval Hist.: Brewer Dictionary, 1064] aims at annihilating mankind. [Animal Symbolism: Mercatante, 55] 5th-century sackers of Rome and its art. [Ital. Hist.: Espy, 168] |
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Her very savagery appealed to me, for it is the savagery of unspoiled Nature. Born in savagery, having lived in savagery all their lives and known naught else, their sense of humour was correspondingly savage. I was restrained from utter savagery only by the fact that Mrs. |
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