Barbarian

Examples

• Everybody outside the Hellenic circle was a barbarian, and negligible save as a possible enemy. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• In the fifth century the great civilization of Rome fell under the ruthless attack of the northern barbarian. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• As the barbarian races settled and became Christian, the Pope began to claim an overlordship of their kings. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The question suggests that barbarian Europe but repeated on a larger scale and with increased intensity the Roman situation. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Its galleys could have penetrated up the rivers to the heart of Russia and outflanked every barbarian advance. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Hunchbacked, dwarfish, and doting, she was adorned like a barbarian queen. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• In which thirteen African Lions and twenty-two Barbarian Prisoners will war with each other until all are exterminated. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Unjust barbarian! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Oh, I am not absolutely the barbarian you think me. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• In such a country as Gaul it was already well in progress in the days of insecurity _before_ the barbarian tribes broke into the empire as conquerors. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• No doubt in many cases the population found that the barbarian was a worse infliction even than the tax-gatherer and the slave-driver. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Most of the barbarian invaders of the empire were Arians; probably because their simple minds found the Trinitarian position incomprehensible. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• We have already given an account in the previous chapter of the chief irruptions of the barbarian races. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Soon we heard their disorderly clamour, the barbarian shouts, the untimed step of thousands coming on in disarray. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The Barbarian world was agitated by the rapid impulse of war; and the peace of Gaul or Italy was shaken by the distant revolutions of China. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Then for a while the barbarians were held, and the Emperor Probus in 276 forced the Franks and the Alamanni back over the Rhine. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Ah, well, said Mrs. Archer, I understand May's wanting her cousin to tell people abroad that we're not quite barbarians. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• What barbarians, Robert Jordan said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• That is the way in which Hellenes should war against one another--and against barbarians, as they war against one another now. Plato. The Republic.
• Then came the hordes of northern barbarians pouring in waves over the southern countries and burying from sight their arts and civilisation. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• But rich and civilized nations can always exchange to a much greater value with one another, than with savages and barbarians. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Everywhere the barbarians must have been outnumbered if only the people had resisted. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• What barbarians, said Pilar. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Should not their custom be to spare them, considering the danger which there is that the whole race may one day fall under the yoke of the barbarians? Plato. The Republic.
• I agree, he said, that our citizens should thus deal with their Hellenic enemies; and with barbarians as the Hellenes now deal with one another. Plato. The Republic.
• When presently the barbarians poured into the empire, there was nothing but the legions to face them. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Do we come to America to learn and practise the manners of barbarians? Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• It is you and such as you that have let the barbarians onto the sacred soil of the fatherland. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Meanwhile the barbarians swung down into the broken-up and enfeebled world of civilization from the west and from the east. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The barbarians in the case of Rome and in the case of China made similar invasions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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