Sentence Examples

1. The wedding was necessarily basic, due to the barbarous conditions of the Mamucium fort.
2. What mind, that is not wholly barbarous and uncultured, can find pleasure in reading of how a great tower full of knights sails away across the sea like a ship with a fair wind, and will be to-night in Lombardy and to-morrow morning in the land of Prester John of the Indies, or some other that Ptolemy never described nor Marco Polo saw?
3. Numberless recent massacres were still vivid in their recollections nor was there any ear in the provinces so deaf as not to have drunk in with avidity the narrative of some fearful tale of midnight murder, in which the natives of the forests were the principal and barbarous actors.
4. All this tends to the prejudice of the truth and the corruption of history, nay more, to the reproach of the wits of Spain for foreigners who scrupulously observe the laws of the drama look upon us as barbarous and ignorant, when they see the absurdity and nonsense of the plays we produce.
5. Ships are sent with the first opportunity the natives driven out, or destroyed their princes tortured to discover their gold a free license given to all acts of inhumanity and lust, the earth reeking with the blood of its inhabitants and this execrable crew of butchers, employed in so pious an expedition, is a modern colony, sent to convert and civilize an idolatrous and barbarous people.
6. Add to all this the pleasure of seeing the various revolutions of states and empires the changes in the lower and upper world ancient cities in ruins, and obscure villages become the seats of kings famous rivers lessening into shallow brooks the ocean leaving one coast dry, and overwhelming another the discovery of many countries yet unknown barbarity overrunning the politest nations, and the most barbarous become civilized.
7. Glancing his eyes around, with a vain effort to pierce the gloom that was thickening beneath the leafy arches of the forest, he felt as if, cut off from human aid, his unresisting companions would soon lie at the entire mercy of those barbarous enemies, who, like beasts of prey, only waited till the gathering darkness might render their blows more fatally certain.
8. If a prince sends forces into a nation where the people are poor and ignorant, he may lawfully put half of them to death, and make slaves of the rest, in order to civilize and reduce them from their barbarous way of living.
9. And they were more barbarous than any dwarf ever thought to be.
10. I was troubled when I thought of the danger he was in, for among those barbarous Turks a fair youth is more esteemed than a woman, be she ever so beautiful.