The coastline is littered with testaments to the savageness of the waters.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Verb (used with object) : numerous sheep savaged by dogs. ,a play savaged by the critics.    From Dictionary.com. 

Mr. Kenyon thinks it cannot end so -- and I do sometimes -- and in the meantime I do confess to a little 'savageness' also -- at heart!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846] Reference

The savageness in his tone was not directed at her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Master Fiddler]

'Once again we've shown what Balkan savageness is!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing: November 27, 2005 - December 3, 2005 Archives] Reference

The bedclothes had been thrown with such savageness!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Carnacki, the Ghost Finder] Reference

Vietnam is still being waged with all its savageness.    From Wordnik.com.  [VISIT OF TRAN BUU KIEM TO CUBA] Reference

There is not uncommonly a savageness of assertion about.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Duke's Children] Reference

His passion changed from savageness to a tender longing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love and Mr Lewisham] Reference

"Billy?" he demanded, with a savageness that startled her.    From Wordnik.com.  [A WICKED WOMAN] Reference

The savageness with which he was turned on, enlightened him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maurice Guest] Reference

Only, my savageness is not in having gone away, but in coming now.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anna Karenina] Reference

The Donnerblitz wielded his with his usual savageness and activity.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Legend of the Rhine] Reference

Let us not forget the savageness of Doug and Dinsdale Piranha.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hey, Who Filled My Ivory Tower With Carbon Monoxide?] Reference

The whole affair sank to the deeper deeps of rancor and savageness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter VII] Reference

Philadelphia Red queried sweetly, ere his tones turned to savageness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 7] Reference

The reason for his savageness was that he despised the men with whom he played.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter V] Reference

Its so (chillingly!) true what you just said about the savageness of our times.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Formal Home] Reference

The savageness of the cancer was rivaled only by the brutality of the chemotherapy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deception Point]

savageness was a part of his make-up, but the savageness thus developed exceeded his make-up.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Outcast] Reference

There was a certain savageness in his tone, and he went on strumming the motive on the panes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Black Cross] Reference

The ferocity of his manners and the savageness of his nature is not usually softened even by wine.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4] Reference

The savageness of his appearance is finely contrasted with the case and indolence of the attitude.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels through France and Italy] Reference

Cruelty or savageness is the desire, whereby a man is impelled to injure one whom we love or pity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ethics] Reference

There is in my temperament a certain savageness, which education has polished only on the surface.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

The state of society in which we exist is a mixture of feudal savageness and imperfect civilization.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley] Reference

It has a man's cunning, a predator's savageness, and a prehistoric power that has transcended the ages.    From Wordnik.com.  [Filmstalker: Rambo V plot change] Reference

And shaggy, wet, dusty red, with all of brute savageness in the look and action of his head, he appeared hideous.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference

And the tales he told of savageness long drawn out were as dew to the parched herb, greedily absorbed at every pore.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885] Reference

We, then, have to war against this enemy by whose most foul cruelty all the savageness of barbarous nations is surpassed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4] Reference

But, on the other hand, his wife's family pursued their unfortunate relative with a savageness of hatred hardly to be paralleled.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861] Reference

I think if I wrote the same thing without the picture the larger point about the savageness of American racism would not be conveyed.    From Wordnik.com.  [White Racism and Empathy (or the Lack Thereof)] Reference

Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Video: Teddy Kennedy's Speech Endorsing Obama] Reference

Unlike the ogre, the minotaurs ate more slowly, carefully, albeit still with a certain savageness that would have unnerved humans or elves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kaz the Minotaur]

"Dolly," on the other hand, happily unaware of his savageness and unnatural spirit, drooped his homely, ungainly head in a dejected manner.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 1926 Tatler] Reference