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Huerta was generally represented as a savage in the U.S. media for his supposed love of butchery, violence, and alcohol.
I just hope this weekend's display of savage butchery and inter-communal violence wasn't staged for their benefit.
After savage wars the European conflict was resolved by a separation of church and state.
If Abramovich jettisons him for Eriksson in the summer, he will have shown a savage set of teeth.
I flicked at my hair, a savage spiky crop with a bleached fringe, lightly gelled, glanced at my watch, frowned and headed for the door.
Learning that his quarry had given him a slip a glowering devil seemed to rage within the king's heart, raising dark and savage gall.
Sir Bindon Blood was a striking figure in these savage mountains and among these wild rifle-armed clansmen.
The frontal view is terrifying and mask-like, with wild staring eyes, a gaping mouth and savage teeth.
Today's poem explores further that uneasy relationship between savage cat and gentle poet.
Surrounded by enemies more savage than sleuth-hounds, he assumed a humble disguise, and almost alone sailed to in an open boat for the Hebrides.
I switched off the telly and settled down to what I thought would be half an hour of savage nature in the raw!
Throughout the essentially tender tale of the brothers reacquaintance, swamp-life in the lumber mill is unrelentingly savage.
Ten strangers with secrets are brought together in a savage rainstorm in the whodunnit thriller Identity.
Other service industries are reacting to excess capacity and weak demand with savage price wars, further depressing prices.
With those big, savage eyes all wide and open, providing a glimpse of the wild tundra cats from whom she's descended.
In its movement it is awkward and ungraceful, though swift and savage as a pike.
Officials said negotiators had been close to agreement when the IMF made new demands for savage budget cuts.
Men and women are outrageously camp and indulge in all sorts of wickedness and deliciously savage behaviour.
The 20th century was a century of savage slaughter, insane ideology, and unparalleled progress.
The Brits have always been awake to the criminal life's mixture of the savage, canny and banal.
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For all reply I seized a handful of the pond lily pattern silver and gazed at it with a savage joy.
The savage cry of a prowler came, like a sound to match, and the attack was on.
Their eyes would meet and Colfax's would gleam with a savage but friendly fire.
I knocked him down, telling him that it was he that was the savage to affront a lady.
To one familiar with savage peoples there could be no doubt that these were close to the purple.
It is difficult to see how savage men could have got any idea of procreation.
The savage Frenchwoman tried to tear her away, but Miss pross seized her around the waist, and held her back.
And with a savage flourish of the pannikin he put it to his lips and drained it.
The figures could be duplicated in the work of the ancient Pueblos, and in the pictographic art of many of our savage tribes.
Thus, it was when the rigour of the weather drove everybody from the garden that the savage of the Aveyron chose to go there.
The chief principle, then, of savage science is that antecedence and consequence in time are the same as effect and cause.
Jermyn had turned round his savage side, and the blandness was out of sight.
Indeed, there were occasions when the breadbasket was removed from my table, so savage was the raid I made upon it.
The burrowing owl has no trouble in taking a house where he finds one to suit him, for he's a savage little fellow.
They resort to every stratagem which a vile and savage spirit could inspire.
Prajapati becomes the great mythical hero, and inherits the wildest myths of the savage heroic beasts and birds.
The eyes of the lynx followed, with savage intentness, his swift and fishlike dartings beneath the water.
The next moment she was running as fleetly as the best of the boys in savage pursuit of one of her companions in the tag game.
In complexity, our large civilized nations as much exceed primitive savage tribes, as a vertebrate animal does a zoophyte.
The contrast between Enkidu and Gish is that between the primitive savage and the civilized being.
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