semi-civilised

The strong moral conviction is growing up that in these days of overcrowding the resources of the rich portions of the earth cannot be allowed to run to waste in the hands of semi-civilised peoples who will not develop them.

When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

The strong moral conviction is growing up that in these days of overcrowding the resources of the rich portions of the earth cannot be allowed to run to waste in the hands of semi-civilised peoples who will not develop them.

When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

The strong moral conviction is growing up that in these days of overcrowding the resources of the rich portions of the earth cannot be allowed to run to waste in the hands of semi-civilised peoples who will not develop them.

When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

Much nonsense has been written upon the colours in Homer by men who imagine that the semi-civilised determine tints as we do.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

A gaunt old man with grizzled head, shrunk shanks, and a crooked arm was the most timid of the strange mob of blacks who, under the guidance of some semi-civilised friends, visited the clearing of a settler on one of the rivers flowing into Rockingham, Bay.

My Tropic Isle 2003

You shall judge of the type by what is related of some of the habits and customs of the semi-civilised survivors.

The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

Fans who are there in a semi-civilised state, or more properly speaking in a state of disintegrating culture.

Travels in West Africa 2003

And, finally, such semi-civilised life abounds in a weary ceremoniousness.

First footsteps in East Africa 2003

Burton landed with studied ceremony, his invariable plan when in the midst of savage or semi-civilised people.

The Life of Sir Richard Burton 2003

In exchange, we had the interest of being about the last voyagers, I suppose, to whom it could be possible to meet with people who knew nothing of fire-arms — as we did on the south coast of New Guinea — and of making acquaintance with a variety of interesting savage and semi-civilised people.

Autobiography 2003