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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

Then he turned aside to the lonely farm, where half-savage children no longer rolled in the mud, noting with approval the effect of hard labour in the shape of reclaimed land and well drained fields.

From A Drake by George! by Trevena, John

"There is not much to attach any one to the place, except, perhaps, a half-savage like myself, who finds its ruggedness congenial."

From Tony Butler by Lever, Charles James

He lives the life of books and thoughts and is no half-savage hunter like Glahn, but he seeks in nature the sense of vastness and infinity that his soul longs for.

From Knut Hamsun by Larsen, Hanna Astrup

He was just a rough, middle-aged seaman, with a sodden, half-savage face, with a peculiar light in it that somehow reminded the boy of Auntie when she had been to the public.

From The Sailor by Snaith, J. C.