Sentence examples for savage lands from inspiring English sources
Clare Clark's latest novel is Savage Lands (Harvill Secker).
In "Savage Lands," she transported readers to the young colony of Louisiana in the early 1700s, setting a complex love story against a fecund yet relentlessly cruel landscape that became as important to the plot as the characters themselves.
Occupiers from the west have been travelling to "savage" lands for centuries and writing back about the simple, "pure" communities they find there; and, sometimes, bringing back specimens of those communities for public entertainment and lurid fascination.
We shall tame this savage land, and it will be a paradise on earth!
While entering we were saluted in a manner becoming the inhabitants of this savage land.
They are depicted as heroic, enterprising folk taming a savage land.
Strap on snowshoes with a task in mind, and suddenly you're out there with the restless spirits of Robert Service and Jack London, braving a savage land.
"The image of terra incognita, of a savage land, persists and is promoted, so when you mention culture and writers, that produces an immediate surprise in most people".
On Monday, the digital spirit of the old Indy must do battle in the scabrous, often savage land of the net, battling for survival against the likes of Vice, BuzzFeed, Vox and Gawker.
They show a land passing from "savage state" and "pastoral or Arcadian state" to achieve "the consummation of empire," which is then inexorably followed by "destruction" and "desolation".
