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Hero Francis Herries rake, skeptic, violent-tempered, takes his family from the comforts of Doncaster to a rude, half-savage life in his ancestral home at Rosthwaite in the Cumberland lake country.

From Time Magazine Archive

In his gratitude to Heaven and his deliverers, Penn could have hugged that grotesque, half-savage creature to his heart.

From Cudjo's Cave by Trowbridge, J. T. (John Townsend)

Nor had that speculum been merely the half-savage fancy of childhood, the endowment by the young of material things with immaterial potencies.

From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by MacKenzie, Compton

The next moment the man at the verandah was caught up in the full blast of the foreman’s half-savage and wholly hectoring protest.

From The Night Riders A Romance of Early Montana by Cullum, Ridgwell

The life of the mountains had imbued him with a half-savage superstition which revelled in the uncanny lore of such places.

From In the Brooding Wild by Cullum, Ridgwell