savagedom

What cared we now for the difficulties we had encountered — for the rough and cruel forests, for the thorny thickets and hurtful grass, for the jangle of all savagedom, of which we had been the joyless audience!

How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004

All the blacks of my acquaintance have had the rough edges of savagedom worn down.

The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

Is there a human being, taking part in the rough and tumble of the world, who can honestly make confession and say that he has completely suffocated those inherent instincts of savagedom — joy and patience in the chase, the longing for excitement and surprise, the crude selfishness, the delight in getting something for nothing?

The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

Therefore, from prehistoric times, and from the beginning of the world, we may presume to have had in some form or another, the Pantomimic Art. In the lower stages of humanity, even in our own times, there is, in all probability, a close similarity to the savagedom of mankind in the early

A History of Pantomime R. J. Broadbent

During his childhood and his boyhood he had wanted a sort of savagedom.

Women in Love 1907

All progress, from primitive savagedom to modern civilisation, will then appear as consisting in the progressive socialisation of the lower functions, the stoppage of lower forms of competition and of the education of the more brutal qualities, in order that a larger and larger proportion of individual activity may be engaged in the exercise of higher functions, the practice of competition upon higher planes, and the education of higher forms of fitness.

The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production 1899

All the blacks of my acquaintance have had the rough edges of savagedom worn down.

Confessions of a Beachcomber 1887

Is there a human being, taking part in the rough and tumble of the world, who can honestly make confession and say that he has completely suffocated those inherent instincts of savagedom -- joy and patience in the chase, the longing for excitement and surprise, the crude selfishness, the delight in getting something for nothing?

Confessions of a Beachcomber 1887

This sounded like good, sensible advice, coming as it did from a man who had been born, brought up, and had spent a long life on the borderline separating civilisation from savagedom, and it finally confirmed them in the determination, to which they had already practically come, to do without a white guide.

The Adventures of Dick Maitland A Tale of Unknown Africa Harry Collingwood 1886

In ancient Egypt, woman in the upper classes was almost the equal of man, and although, like Cleopatra, she could wield the sceptre, yet in the lower her condition was wretched; in Asia, a mere slave and object of Zenana lust; in savagedom, a beast of burthen.

Percy Bysshe Shelley as a Philosopher and Reformer Sotheran, Charles, 1847-1902 1876