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THE BURNING SKIES by David J. Williams makes the first book seem like a highly-civilized tea party.
Archive 2009-03-01 2009
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THE BURNING SKIES by David J. Williams makes the first book seem like a highly-civilized tea party.
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Ibsen had said that Norway was a barbarous country, inhabited by two millions of cats and dogs, but so many agreeable and highly-civilized compliments found their way to him in Rome that he began to fancy that the human element was beginning to be introduced.
Henrik Ibsen 2008
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Ibsen had said that Norway was a barbarous country, inhabited by two millions of cats and dogs, but so many agreeable and highly-civilized compliments found their way to him in Rome that he began to fancy that the human element was beginning to be introduced.
Henrik Ibsen 2008
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When he finally breaks silence, he sings "Putting on the Ritz" with a highly-civilized, and unmistakably high, singing voice.
Sounds Romantic: The Castrato and English Poetics Around 1800 2005
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The British people are inclined to understate themselves; that is a highly-civilized and admirable tendancy.
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The savage rejects all that does not directly gratify his selfish wants -- the highly-civilized man is, in like manner, governed by the principle of _utility_; and, by both, the merely fanciful and imaginative is undervalued.
Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States J. L. McConnel
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The confusion incident to the breaking up of the old Roman empire, and the occupation of its different provinces by less highly-civilized nations, had been followed by other disorders after the death of
A Key to the Knowledge of Church History (Ancient) John Henry Blunt
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I could not help contrasting the heartiness of his welcome with the two stiff fingers which in highly-civilized life are so often proffered either from pride or indifference; and though he did very nearly make me cry "Enough!"
Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada Henry A. Murray
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He had starved in America for beauty and color, and dear to him were all these adjuncts of a highly-civilized life.
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