semicivilized

He explained that alcohol is “a loathsome excretion of a living organism”; that it will make a civilized young man successively “become semicivilized, semisavage, savage, and, at last, below the brute”; that “nearly two-thirds of all the money in circulation in America in the course of a year” passed through the grasping hands of the liquor trust.

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He explained that alcohol is “a loathsome excretion of a living organism”; that it will make a civilized young man successively “become semicivilized, semisavage, savage, and, at last, below the brute”; that “nearly two-thirds of all the money in circulation in America in the course of a year” passed through the grasping hands of the liquor trust.

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His fellow Kansas dry, Representative Edward C. Little, was less delicate: “It is not best for America that her councils be dominated by semicivilized foreign colonies in Boston, New York, Chicago.”

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His fellow Kansas dry, Representative Edward C. Little, was less delicate: “It is not best for America that her councils be dominated by semicivilized foreign colonies in Boston, New York, Chicago.”

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He also put on socks and heavy felt boots, not the sandals he would have worn in Videssos the city or any other place with even a semicivilized climate.

Bridge of the Separator Turtledove, Harry 2005

The Tulc were a fierce people and, in many ways, only semicivilized.

beneath an opal moon Lustbader, Eric 1980

And I'd no hope of pretending to be from a semicivilized community which they had trade relations with ..

There Will Be Time Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1972

Forced to flee, he heads north through the equatorial jungle and across the grassy veldt toward the semicivilized kingdom of Kush.

Conan of Cimmeria Howard, Robert E. 1969

Continuing his northward trek, now speeded by his possession of a horse, Conan at last reaches the semicivilized kingdom of Kush.

Conan of Cimmeria Howard, Robert E. 1969

Criminals are a small minority in any semicivilized society.

The Virtue of Selfishness Rand, Ayn 1961