barbarous
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In his 90s, he completed a trilogy on the colonial population with “The Barbarous Years.”
From Seattle Times • Aug. 7, 2020
“The problem was to love people, try to serve them, without wanting anything from them,” he concluded in “The Barbarous Coast.”
From Seattle Times • Jul. 27, 2016
Barbarous customs that I hope will disappear when there are no Kings and no desire for conquest and when man has the world for his country and all his fellow-beings for brothers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Barbarous Usage at Surat by Mucrob Khan; and the treacherous Procedure of the Portuguese and Jesuits.
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 by Kerr, Robert
Barbarous nations have many fabulous stories of this little animal.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 392, October 3, 1829 by Various
Vocabulary lists containing barbarous
"The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell
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Declaration of the Rights of Woman (1791)
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