civilised

The enterprise of individuals or of small aristocratic bodies has meantime sown the world which we call civilised with some seeds and nuclei of order.

The Life of Reason George Santayana 1907

This isn't quite what we call civilised warfare, but I suppose it can't be helped. '

The Romance of Golden Star ... George Chetwynd Griffith 1881

"Say, comrade," he said, "is Spain what they call a civilised country?"

!Tention A Story of Boy-Life during the Peninsular War George Manville Fenn 1870

_ Not fit, perhaps, for anything else belonging to what we call civilised life.

Gryll Grange Thomas Love Peacock 1825

Nathreee's Thoughts - dreams about wild animals in civilised surroundings

dreams about wild animals in civilised surroundings nathreee 2010

Capable of travelling many thousands of times the speed of light, and holding a conversation at the same time, a Culture GSV has to be the ultimate in civilised transport.

MIND MELD: The Best Spaceships in Written Science Fiction 2010

Some of us have grown tired of the insulting “Essex jokes”, generally aimed at women, which have no place in civilised society and certainly not in the national newspaper of a political party which professes to deplore discrimination and derogatory comments.

Essex girls look to Bob Russell to defend their honour 2009

Nathreee's Thoughts - dreams about wild animals in civilised surroundings

dreams about wild animals in civilised surroundings nathreee 2010

[Darwin's assertions above indicate that this is no longer the case in civilised society]

Cue outrage in three, two, one… 2007

Whether consanguineous marriages, such as are permitted in civilised nations, and which would not be considered as close interbreeding in the case of our domesticated animals, cause any injury will never be known with certainty until a census is taken with this object in view.

Cue outrage in three, two, one… 2007