Adjective : The prisoners of war were given barbarous treatment. ,an evening of wild and barbarous music. From Dictionary.com.
Greek word barbarously corrupted; H+aM+uN+aX+M% was the word he employed to this purpose. From Wordnik.com. [Pneumatologia] Reference
Lucius Cinna, by whom he was most barbarously slain. From Wordnik.com. [The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4] Reference
The monkey is barbarously ill-tempered again this morning. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Child 1894] Reference
Some of the captured priests were treated most barbarously. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
Was it for me, who have so barbarously used thee, that thou hast died?. From Wordnik.com. [The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899] Reference
Indeed, doctor, the Count has been barbarously treated, that's the truth on't. From Wordnik.com. [The Beaux-Stratagem] Reference
All had been barbarously stripped of their clothing by the ruthless conquerors. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches of the Covenanters] Reference
He was hired out, and it was in this situation that he was so barbarously treated. From Wordnik.com. [The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author.] Reference
The prisoners, who were most barbarously treated, remained captive for over four years. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
Consumption increased barbarously, year by year to a rate of about 3 billion tons per year. From Wordnik.com. [FIRST ENERGY FORMU] Reference
It is often very literal — barbarously literal frequently — but just as often very loose. From Wordnik.com. [Don Quixote] Reference
I am especially glad to see that the Greek characters are not barbarously replaced by English. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference
Then they carried the people on board of their vessels, where they were barbarously treated. From Wordnik.com. [Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from the earliest part of the century to the present time, with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities.] Reference
The poor man has evidently been not only barbarously mutilated, but nearly frightened to death. From Wordnik.com. [Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.] Reference
We then askt him if it was his comp'y that had used the English so barbarously, when taken at the fort. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861] Reference
The American public was outraged that American troops could behave so barbarously and demanded justice. From Wordnik.com. [Pointing Out the Monsters among the Sheep] Reference
Kansas fought barbarously for the dishonourable privilege, and with temporary success: Nebraska has declined the honour as yet. From Wordnik.com. [Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada] Reference
Previous to this fatal business, there were twenty-three hands on board; ten of whom were barbarously killed, and nine wounded. From Wordnik.com. [Thrilling Stories Of The Ocean From Authentic Accounts Of Modern Voyagers And Travellers; Designed For The Entertainment And Instruction Of Young People] Reference
I am sorry I cannot say the same thing of a General Williamson: he has treated me barbarously, but not quite so ill as he did the. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.] Reference
Two Dutch captains were next barbarously slaughtered in the streets of Yokuhama; one of the unhappy men was over sixty years of age. From Wordnik.com. [Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
The grand chasserot had been too long already in the toils; there was something barbarously cruel in not freeing him from his illusions. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
It is not too much to say that each woman's bonnet in which these plumes (so barbarously procured) figure, is a veritable juggernaut car. From Wordnik.com. [Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman] Reference
Were I to tell how barbarously I have seen men mutilated, simply to extract an arrow-head from a wound, the story would scarce be credited. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866] Reference
I barbarously gave him a choice of misery; for I disdainfully replied, that he must henceforth determine, whether he would lose a brother or. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 361, Supplementary Issue (1829)] Reference
When he began to believe she was in earnest, he asked how she could hinder her sister Cavama's treating him so barbarously as she used to do. From Wordnik.com. [The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01] Reference
Double doors and hinges have been inserted in this doorway, and the base and a portion of a pilaster cut away most barbarously to receive them. From Wordnik.com. [The Excavations of Roman Baths at Bath] Reference
Thousands suspected of being unfavourable to the principles of the revolution were thrown into prison, and thousands were barbarously massacred. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference
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