half-civilised

It was a remarkable tale, although not unique: scores of folk in the old West grew up half-civilised, half-Indian, as he had done.

Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

Oscar Wilde was punished solely or even chiefly for the evil he wrought: he was punished for his popularity and his pre雖inence, for the superiority of his mind and wit; he was punished by the envy of journalists, and by the malignant pedantry of half-civilised judges.

Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions 2007

It was the Warsaw of our part of the world: there was a splendid, ruined, half-civilised nobility, ruling over a half-savage population.

The Memoires of Barry Lyndon 2006

But he took the customs which he found already existing in a half-civilised state of society: these he reduced to form and inscribed on pillars; he defined what had before been undefined, and gave certainty to what was uncertain.

The Statesman 2006

The imagination of the half-civilised Highlanders was less shocked at the idea of this particular species of violence, than might be expected from their general kindness to the weaker sex when they make part of their own families.

Rob Roy 2005

Highland manners alone, but on every stage of society in which the people of a primitive and half-civilised tribe are brought into close contact with a nation, in which civilisation and polity have attained a complete superiority.

Rob Roy 2005

Such were the reflections suggested to my mind by the young savage as he tripped on lightly before me by the side of his two half-civilised brethren of our party, who, muffled up in clothes, presented a contrast by no means in favour of our pretensions to improve and benefit their race.

Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003

A half-civilised ferocity lurked yet in the depressed brows and eyes full of black fire, but it was subdued; and his manner was even dignified: quite divested of roughness, though too stern for grace.

Wuthering Heights 2002

It was a remarkable tale, although not unique: scores of folk in the old West grew up half-civilised, half-Indian, as he had done.

Flashman and The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982

It was a remarkable tale, although not unique: scores of folk in the old West grew up half-civilised, half-Indian, as he had done.

Flashman And The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982