savage

They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by hanging, shooting, and burning alleged offenders.

Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

The enemy fought with savage fury, and met death with all its horrors, without shrinking or complaining: not one asked to be spared, but fought as long as they could stand or sit.

There is an undercurrent of savagery in the human psyche. Anyone who forgets this and doesn__ guard against it, risks being swept away by it.

What__ with savage humans always wanting to cannibalize us?_ Jaden asks as she runs past Summer to check for any more of the Tainted around the corner.__hey want to suck your blood,_ Rob says in a Romanian accent.Jaden snorts. Too bad humor won__ help them out of this mess.

It is deep January. The sky is hard.The stalks are firmly rooted in ice.It is in this solitude, a syllable,Out of these gawky flitterings,Intones its single emptiness,The savagest hollow of winter-sound.

Timon: Would thou wert clean enough to spit upon!

It be urged that the wild and uncultivated tree, hitherto yielding sour and bitter fruit only, can never be made to yield better; yet we know that the grafting art implants a new tree on the savage stock, producing what is most estimable in kind and degree. Education, in like manner, engrafts a new man on the native stock, and improves what in his nature was vicious and perverse into qualities of virtue and social worth.

The beautiful wooden board on a stand in my father__ study. The gleaming ivory pieces. The stern king. The haughty queen. The noble knight. The pious bishop. And the game itself, the way each piece contributed its individual power to the whole. It was simple. It was complex. It was savage; it was elegant. It was a dance; it was a war. It was finite and eternal. It was life.

Never did he fail to respond savagely to the chatter of the squirrel he had first met on the blasted pine.

Battles waged in daylight are fought by soldiers. Battles waged at night are fought by savages.

We're Human beings with the blood of a million savage years on our hands, but we can stop it. We can admit that we're killers, but we're not going to kill, today. That's all it takes. Knowing that we won't kill, today.

It was great to see the owls," I said.She smiled."Yes. They're wild things, of course. Killers, savages. They're wonderful.

Many times we refer to people who express hate or behave in a barbaric, savage 'inhuman' way as 'animals', but on closer inspection we can clearly see that this is in fact, an insult to animals.

I__ going to eat your fucking eyeballs and wear your faces when I__ done with you!

It was a strange monster, for beneath its exterior it was frightened and sickened by its own violence. It chastised itself for its savagery. And sometimes it had no heart for violence and rebelled against it utterly.