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  • She had known him from the time she first cast her lot among the people of her father's race; and to her half-barbaric mind it seemed that in him was centered the wisdom of the ages, that between his vision and the future there could be no intervening veil.

    The Wife of a King 2010

  • She had known him from the time she first cast her lot among the people of her father's race; and to her half-barbaric mind it seemed that in him was centered the wisdom of the ages, that between his vision and the future there could be no intervening veil.

    The Wife of a King 2010

  • The government set itself in that year to “tidy up” the still half-barbaric peasant populations of Hayti,

    The Shape of Things to Come Herbert George 2006

  • It might be suggested that half-barbaric countries, like Russia or Norway, which have always lain, to say the least of it, on the extreme edge of the circle of our European civilization, have a certain primal melancholy which belongs to them through all the ages.

    Creatures That Once Were Men, and other stories 2003

  • It was the bitterest blow of Prior Robert's life to know that he had met his match and overmatch in eloquence and argument, here in a half-barbaric Welsh landholder, no great lord, but a mere squireling elevated among his inferiors to a status he barely rated, at least in Norman eyes.

    A Morbid Taste For Bones Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1977

  • In these early and half-barbaric days of magnificence, form and delicacy of execution were not understood.

    Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance Julia de Wolf Gibbs Addison

  • Little by little this half-barbaric camp -- in contradistinction to the more solid works of the Romans -- became a _placefort_, then a château, then a palace and, finally, as the young lady tourist said, an art museum.

    Royal Palaces and Parks of France Blanche McManus

  • This day's incident of the cruise in the Malay Archipelago seems absolutely cut off from ordinary experience -- a solitary Englishwoman, resting in the shadow of the rustic mosque, and surrounded by a half-barbaric tribe of unfamiliar aspect, the dark woolly hair, flat noses, wide mouths, and dazzling teeth suggesting a liberal admixture of negro or Papuan blood.

    Through the Malay Archipelago Emily Richings

  • Those who have heard the melancholy and touching, half-barbaric music usually employed in its ritual, will not be surprised that out of it there should arise a quite new order of compositions.

    The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 Various

  • From the cabins in the locust grove would float the tinkling of the banjo, the untrained guffaw of the negro men, and the wild, half-barbaric notes of an old-time melody.

    The Love Story of Abner Stone Edwin Carlile Litsey 1922

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