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Barbarities such as these, had considerable influence on the temper and disposition of the inhabitants of the country.

From Chronicles of Border Warfare or, a History of the Settlement by the Whites, of North-Western Virginia, and of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that section of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that section of the State by Thwaites, Reuben Gold

Barbarities continued, and were met by active resistance on a small scale wherever the Turks attempted to penetrate.

From The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume II by Stillman, William James

I confess, when one thinks upon the crying Barbarities with which the most of those Europ�ans that have Peopled this New world, became the Masters of it; it looks but Ominously.

From The Wonders of the Invisible World Being an Account of the Tryals of Several Witches Lately Executed in New-England, to which is added A Farther Account of the Tryals of the New-England Witches by Mather, Cotton

"I'm afraid it does, and I half dread what the English newspapers may say under the heading of 'Galway Barbarities.'"

From The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II) by Lever, Charles James