Word: barbarian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been 200 years before. True, the garrisons in the north had been withdrawn to Londinium (London) some years before, but then there had been no real enemies for them to fight. Also, the authority for Wales and most of the west country had been delegated to the barbarian federated kings, but they were loyal, even if they paid no taxes, and only small tribute...
...Codger. When the Sanitary Commission visited Lincoln, Strong found him "a barbarian, Scythian, yahoo, or gorilla in respect of outside polish," but also a man of "evident integrity and simplicity of purpose." From this visit Strong brought back a fine Lincoln story. Strong had asked Lincoln to pardon an imprisoned man. The papers for a pardon, replied Lincoln, "must be referred to the Attorney-General, but I guess it will be all right, for me and the Attorney-General's very chicken-hearted...
...monastery in the East, the Doctor of the Western Church felt the reverberations of the barbarian attacks on the crumbling Roman empire in Italy. This hurt him deeply. As a Roman citizen, he looked on Rome as his home and the Eastern peoples as unsatisfactory foreigners. During a theological controversy, he once wrote with indignation: "A new expression . . . is demanded ... by these peasants of me, a man of Rome!" In 396, with the barbarians pressing in on all sides, Jerome sadly wrote: "Romanus orbis ruit [the world of Rome is destroyed]." In 416 the troubles of the times were brought...
...There cannot be 'Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondman and freeman, but Christ...
...Lord Byron in the War for Greek Independence, followed by 14 years' wandering through Europe and the Middle East as soldier and adventurer, at 36 Guys decided to take up drawing. His first tries, according to his friend, Poet Charles Baudelaire, were "gloomy scratchings . . . He sketched like a barbarian, like an infant." But Guys stuck to it, and ten years later was good enough to get assignments as an artist-reporter for the Illustrated London News. "Do as you please with the landscape," he once wrote his editors from the Crimean battlefront. "Put in a snowstorm if you want...