1 If they could have continued this normal barbaric life Carol would have been the most enthusiastic citizen of Gopher Prairie.
2 She was apparelled like any barbaric Ethiopian emperor, his neck heavy with pendants of polished ivory.
3 Their tawny features, now all begrimed with smoke and sweat, their matted beards, and the contrasting barbaric brilliancy of their teeth, all these were strangely revealed in the capricious emblazonings of the works.
4 The men, pitching forward insanely, had burst into cheerings, moblike and barbaric, but tuned in strange keys that can arouse the dullard and the stoic.
5 When assaulted again by bullets, the men burst out in a barbaric cry of rage and pain.
6 A barbaric stone; a pre-historic.
7 Boots which extended halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence which was suggested by his whole appearance.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In I. A Scandal in Bohemia 8 The harsh intervals and shrill discords of barbaric music stirred him at times when Schubert's grace, and Chopin's beautiful sorrows, and the mighty harmonies of Beethoven himself, fell unheeded on his ear.
9 Certain slang phrases which participate in the two epochs and have at once the barbaric character and the metaphorical character resemble phantasmagories.
10 The barbarity of that willingness to sacrifice other children so that one child might have too much was impossible to her.
11 It required extraordinary barbarity on the part of an overseer to affect him.
12 He seemed to take pleasure in manifesting his fiendish barbarity.
13 His savage barbarity was equalled only by the consummate coolness with which he committed the grossest and most savage deeds upon the slaves under his charge.
14 Prior to his conversion, he relied upon his own depravity to shield and sustain him in his savage barbarity; but after his conversion, he found religious sanction and support for his slaveholding cruelty.
15 Here, then, I retreated and lay down happy to have found a shelter, however miserable, from the inclemency of the season, and still more from the barbarity of man.