Their pagan and, we regret to say, anthropophagous habits laid them open to a certain amount of criticism. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 4, 1919.] Reference
I will not name the sum which he offered, the ghoul, the vampire, the anthropophagous jackal, the sneaking would-be incendiary of my little Alexandrian, the circumcised Goth!. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859] Reference
The Colonial government refused permission for mining, both because of Coral's colonists 'wishes to keep the planet whole, and because the Rraey's anthropophagous tendencies were well known. From Wordnik.com. [Old Mans War] Reference
Caribs are perhaps the least anthropophagous nations of the New. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3] Reference
Caribbees are perhaps the least anthropophagous nation of the New. From Wordnik.com. [The Conquest of Canada (Vol. 1 of 2)] Reference
Caribs are perhaps the least anthropophagous nations of the New Continent. From Wordnik.com. [Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America] Reference
` ` The New Zealanders, up to very recent times, were probably the most anthropophagous race that ever existed. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
They were commanded by creatures like Mammone, an anthropophagous monster whose boast it was that he had personally killed. From Wordnik.com. [Old Calabria] Reference
Jamaica and Puerto Rico, immediate neighbors of the Caribs, were almost as fierce as the latter, and probably as anthropophagous. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize] Reference
Evolution became more and more a vision of the break-up of our brotherhood, till by the end of the nineteenth century the genius of its greatest scientific romancer saw it end in the anthropophagous antics of the Time Machine. From Wordnik.com. [What I Saw in America] Reference
The southern part of the narrow ledge bearing the town, and including the French establishment, is poisoned by a fetid, stagnant pool, full of sirens, shrimps, and anthropophagous crabs, which after heavy rains cuts a way through its sand-bar to the sea. From Wordnik.com. [To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative] Reference
During his residence among the pygmies Mr. Howson became such an adept with the long blow-pipe that they offered him the headship of the tribe; but, as this involved the adoption of anthropophagous habits, he was reluctantly obliged to decline the honour. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 22, 1914] Reference
Their loudest leader was a certain Pierre Gogois, who used to wind up their meeting by singing songs of his own composition, addressed to the 'crowned brigands who were trying to re-establish the abominable monarchy with the help of their anthropophagous hordes!'. From Wordnik.com. [France and the Republic A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889] Reference
'Twos not on us they began their. habits anthropophagous. ". From Wordnik.com. [A different flesh]
"The New Zealanders, up to very recent times, were probably the most anthropophagous race that ever existed. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
(Already it was an insult along the River to compare a man to the shifty anthropophagous blue-mottled harrier.) "Certainly, like Ray-yal -- not in the least like Bigglebai. From Wordnik.com. [Actions and Reactions] Reference
Andrade’s preface to Seraphim Ponte Grande is another modernist manifesto that repudiates Modernism: “The Modernist Movement, culminating in anthropophagous measles, seemed to indicate an advanced phenomenon.”. From Wordnik.com. [[Jose] Oswald de [Souza] Andrade] Reference
'anthropophagous,' does that not make men of them? ". From Wordnik.com. [A different flesh]
Continue anthropophagous. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 23, 1917] Reference
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