semisavage

“The aristocratic families in Granada, his hometown, had never fully welcomed the man they regarded as a “semisavage Indian” into their exclusive circle.”

Simon & Schuster: Devil Dog

“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.”

Simon & Schuster: LAST CALL

“These barbaric societies have their place and give vigor; but if unreduced later, as in many unsettled portions of this country, a semisavage state of society results.”

Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene

“That there was but one better quality which pertained to her semisavage disposition -- the faculty of physical fortitude and self-sacrifice, and another, though not always an attribute of the noble savage -- Truth.”

Selected Stories of Bret Harte

“Jessica solves her problem by acquiring a huge, semisavage, red-eyed mastiff dog, which she keeps tied up and straining at the leash in a kennel between her own and her husband’s twin beds.”

Simon & Schuster: PEARL BUCK IN CHINA