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It had been a warm, muggy day back in semicivilization, but in the woods, under a canopy of leaves, it was dusky and cool and the ground crackled underfoot.
AMERICAN SUBVERSIVE DAVID GOODWILLIE 2010
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The one is the age of savagery; the other is the age of barbarism or semicivilization.
Early European History Hutton Webster
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In these oases people wholly or partly of European blood had gradually developed a peculiar and backward, but real, semicivilization of their own.
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Mohammedan, and pagan, in every stage of semicivilization and Asiatic barbarism — turn the islands into a welter of bloody savagery, with the absolute certainty that some strong power would have to step in and take possession.
Addresses and Presidential Messages of Theodore Roosevelt, 1902-1904 1904
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Chinese, Gautama among the Hindoos, -- but their teachings have borne little fruit in the great, stagnant peoples of Asia, in whom the narrowness of semicivilization prevails.
Man And His Ancestor A Study In Evolution Charles Morris 1877
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