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"Palestinians were re-invented as a semi-savage, nomadic remnant."
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"Palestinians were re-invented as a semi-savage, nomadic remnant."
Jews Against Zionism 2009
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Such was the peasant in the eyes of many well-to-do Russians—a semi-savage being whose brutish qualities gave the lie to thefree-state idea that all men are created equal.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
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Such was the peasant in the eyes of many well-to-do Russians—a semi-savage being whose brutish qualities gave the lie to thefree-state idea that all men are created equal.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
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Such was the peasant in the eyes of many well-to-do Russians—a semi-savage being whose brutish qualities gave the lie to thefree-state idea that all men are created equal.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
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Such was the peasant in the eyes of many well-to-do Russians—a semi-savage being whose brutish qualities gave the lie to thefree-state idea that all men are created equal.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
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Such was the peasant in the eyes of many well-to-do Russians—a semi-savage being whose brutish qualities gave the lie to thefree-state idea that all men are created equal.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
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In some other and quite different field the next man will appear; not Jefferson, not Franklin, but now a great salesman, then a road-contractor, then a student of fishes, then a buffalo-hunting explorer, or a semi-savage Western general.
Representative Men 2006
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Have you any recollection, my dear sir, of a semi-savage person whom you met out at dinner, in London, in the autumn of
The Moonstone 2003
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There was something undeveloped and intense in him, the intensity and the crudity of the semi-savage.
The Plumed Serpent 2003
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