Criminals are a small minority in any semicivilized society. From Wordnik.com. [The Virtue of Selfishness]
The Tulc were a fierce people and, in many ways, only semicivilized. From Wordnik.com. [beneath an opal moon]
And I'd no hope of pretending to be from a semicivilized community which they had trade relations with. From Wordnik.com. [There Will Be Time]
There were the least civilized people in the Negritos and the Igorrotes; the semicivilized in the Bagobos and the. From Wordnik.com. [Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission] Reference
All men, even the semicivilized and the primitive, are, as beings capable of compassion, able to develop a humanitarian spirit. From Wordnik.com. [Albert Schweitzer - Nobel Lecture] Reference
In the earliest times, what was used as bread was made in much the same way as it is today by many uncivilized and semicivilized people. From Wordnik.com. [Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 1: Essentials of Cookery; Cereals; Bread; Hot Breads] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Bridge of the Separator]
States, not only as a nation but as individuals, the responsibility of acceptably placing before the eyes of the world the achievements and advancement not only of their own but of all civilized and semicivilized nations. From Wordnik.com. [Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission] Reference
One third of their population is composed of African slaves, semicivilized, systematically deprived of knowledge, and subjected to physical coercion, instead of being incited to usefulness by the higher motives of self-interest and laudable ambition. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
The city was nothing more than a semicivilized settlement of little, flat-topped stone houses. From Wordnik.com. [The Fire People] Reference
In modern times polygyny still exists among all the Mohammedan peoples and to a greater or less degree among all semicivilized peoples. From Wordnik.com. [Sociology and Modern Social Problems] Reference
There are semicivilized and barbarous countries in which they are allowed to hold no position whatever, and in those countries there is probably no such position. From Wordnik.com. [Relating to Right of Women in North Carolina to be Notaries Public. "The Right of Women to Make a Living." Dissenting Opinion of Chief Justice Walter Clark in Beckett v. Knight] Reference
The civilization of Europe and America is an evidence and outcome of education, whereas the semicivilized and barbarous peoples of Africa bear witness in their condition that they have been deprived of its advantages. From Wordnik.com. [The Promulgation of Universal Peace] Reference
It must suffice to say that man everywhere, when he emerges into history as a semicivilized being, is abundantly supplied with mythological and other religious conceptions which indicate a long preceding evolution in this field of thought. From Wordnik.com. [Man And His Ancestor A Study In Evolution] Reference
We then made preparations for an excursion the following day, for I wished to establish a sort of semicivilized farm at some distance from Falconhurst, where we might place some of our animals which had become too numerous with our limited means to supply them with food. From Wordnik.com. [Swiss Family Robinson] Reference
This submerged self, holding, as it does, all the experiences of the dark past, all the lusts, deceits, and subterfuges, all the cruelties and shameless potentialities of her animal and semicivilized forebears, and being but a mass of discordant impulses -- states almost entirely disassociated from her conscious life -- has all but taken possession of her higher self. From Wordnik.com. [The Tyranny of the Dark] Reference
Here the semicivilized. From Wordnik.com. [The Covered Wagon] Reference
They’re semicivilized. From Wordnik.com. [Sanctuary] Reference
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