barbarous
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In his 90s, he completed a trilogy on the colonial population with “The Barbarous Years.”
From Seattle Times • Aug. 7, 2020
“The problem was to love people, try to serve them, without wanting anything from them,” he concluded in “The Barbarous Coast.”
From Seattle Times • Jul. 27, 2016
Barbarous customs that I hope will disappear when there are no Kings and no desire for conquest and when man has the world for his country and all his fellow-beings for brothers.
From Time Magazine Archive
The sufferings I had undergone while a Captive in the hands of that Barbarous Wretch, Gnawbit, had never been effaced from my Memory, and had made me infinitely tender towards little Children.
From The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... by Sala, George Augustus
Barbarous as the feudal customs were, they were the first attempts at organising European society.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Disraeli, Isaac
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"The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell
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