Savagery
575. Savagery
- Apache Indians once fierce fighting tribe of American West. [Am. Hist.: NCE, 123]
- bandersnatch imaginary wild animal of great ferocity. [Br. Lit.: “Jabberwocky” in Through the Looking-Glass ]
- berserkers ancient Norse warriors; assumed attributes of bears in battle. [Norse Myth.: Leach, 137]
- Comanche Indians warlike tribe of American West. [Am. Hist.: NCE, 607]
- Crommyonian sow ravager of the Corinthian countryside. [Gk. Myth.: Benét, 237]
- Erymanthian boar ravaged Arcadian countryside until capture by Hercules. [Gk. Myth.: Jobes, 523]
- Huns Mongolian invaders of western Europe until 453. [Eur. Hist.: Espy, 167]
- Magua a renegade Huron who scalps white men. [Am. Lit.: The Pathfinder, Magill I, 715–717]
- mares of Diomedes lived on human flesh; their capture was Hercules’ eighth labor. [Gk. and Rom. Myth.: Hall, 149]
- Taras Bulba savage yet strangely devoted Cossack leader. [Russ. Lit.: Tarns Bulba, Walsh Modern, 77]
- Tartars 13th-century rapacious hordes of Genghis Khan. [Medieval Hist.: Brewer Dictionary, 1064]
- tiger aims at annihilating mankind. [Animal Symbolism: Mercatante, 55]
- Vandals 5th-century sackers of Rome and its art. [Ital. Hist.: Espy, 168]
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