English vocabulary examples in context: barbarian
Vocabulary in context: barbarian -- Example 1.
The strangest figures we saw were the Slovaks, who were more barbarian than the rest, with their big cow-boy hats, great baggy dirty-white trousers, white linen shirts, and enormous heavy leather belts, nearly a foot wide, all studded over with brass nails.
Vocabulary in context: barbarian -- Example 2.
Again we behold the abyss, as in the days of the barbarians; only the barbarism of 1815, which must be called by its pet name of the counter-revolution, was not long breathed, soon fell to panting, and halted short.
Vocabulary in context: barbarian -- Example 3.
They seemed barbarians, and they were saviours.
Vocabulary in context: barbarian -- Example 4.
For our part, if we were forced to make a choice between the barbarians of civilization and the civilized men of barbarism, we should choose the barbarians.
Vocabulary in context: barbarian -- Example 5.
You have a barbarian, the monk, and a savage, the lazzarone.
Vocabulary in context: barbarian -- Example 6.
He tried to make known that he was a British subject; but it had no effect on the barbarians, who only replied by prods with a lance or sword.
Vocabulary in context: barbarian -- Example 7.
Some frightful punishment familiar to the barbarians of Central Asia would, no doubt, be inflicted on Michael.
Vocabulary in context: barbarian -- Example 8.
We shall then be able to drive off these barbarian hordes, and it will not be my fault if they do not pay dearly for this invasion of the Muscovite territory.
Vocabulary in context: barbarian -- Example 9.
Then, with the cunning for which he was noted, without dwelling too much on it at first, he spoke of the gravity of the situation, exaggerating the success of the Tartars and the numbers of the barbarian forces, as he had when speaking to the Grand Duke.
Vocabulary in context: barbarian -- Example 10.
Happily for Swann, beneath the mass of suffering which had invaded his soul like a conquering horde of barbarians, there lay a natural foundation, older, more placid, and silently laborious, like the cells of an injured organ which at once set to work to repair the damaged tissues, or the muscles of a paralysed limb which tend to recover their former movements.
Vocabulary in context: barbarian -- Example 11.
Partially to adopt the manners of those upon whom we impose our laws is the habit of the conquering barbarian towards conquered civilization.
Vocabulary in context: barbarian -- Example 12.
It was clear that the barbarian would be beaten, but not very quickly.
Vocabulary in context: barbarian -- Example 13.
But when the Christians came into power, when the holy Mother Church became mistress of the barbarians, she taught them the error of their ways by no such means.
Vocabulary in context: barbarian -- Example 14.
One is the system of degraded barbarians, the other of enlightened, civilized people.
Vocabulary in context: barbarian -- Example 15.
Ferguson prudently kept her above the reach of the barbarian arrows.
