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- noun Plural form of
cannibal .
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Examples
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Miller did not find that they were cannibals toward their own kind; they were cannibals only in the sense of eating the flesh of men.
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This ended his cruise among the Caribbean Islands, the inhabitants of which he described as cannibals, and the most warlike people hitherto met with.
Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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The fact of the matter is that it was the natives who forced any cannibals from the Hawaiian islands well before the protestanf missionaries visited in the 19th century.
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Tambo! shrieked the cannibals from the trees, appalled at so awful a desecration, as they saw their chief tumbled into the tub and the sacred dirt rubbed and soused from his body.
Chapter 11 2010
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~~~The KKK, Charles Manson & cannibals from a small island in the Carribean all support John McCain.
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Except to say that the sun has set on the fictional British empire, and the appearance of children pretending to explore a jungle served by rude native porters and fearful of cannibals is -- in 1965 -- pretty much Kipling's death rattle.
SeeLight: 2007
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Except to say that the sun has set on the fictional British empire, and the appearance of children pretending to explore a jungle served by rude native porters and fearful of cannibals is -- in 1965 -- pretty much Kipling's death rattle.
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The Powhatan also knew the Susquehannock whom they called cannibals from painful experience, and when the English first settled Virginia, the Powhatan had placed their villages well inland to protect them from Susquehannock war parties who ranged the coastline by canoes.
History of American Women Maggiemac 2008
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And the people called Athropomphagi, which we call cannibals, live with human flesh.
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And the people called Anthropomphagi which we call cannibals, live with human flesh.
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