One who would put away other people

Usage examples of cannibal.

The important character of the Algonkian myths is the Great Hare, whose name was Manabozho, and he did valiant battle with giants and cannibals and witches.

The little red people interpreted their sullen bovine glares as subservience only, but all the while the Archaea were looking at them thinking, You cannibals, we are going to get you some day.

Her maternal grandfather had been a Borneo headhunter and her maternal grandmother a Batak and a cannibal.

The inhabitants of that village are thought to be the remnants of an aboriginal people from whom the Battaks descended--true savages and cannibals.

Until recently the modern Battaks were cannibals--what one might call beneficent cannibals.

Sneneik, Tsonoqua Along the Pacific Coast, the Bellacoola and others acknowledged the power of this cannibal woman, who sneaked through the world stealing children and robbing graves, throwing bodies into the woven basket she carried.

But the being that bore down on them now was no dasya, highway thug, or cannibal tribal.

His thin, little body had grown steadily thinner since he had come among the apes, for while, as a young cannibal, he was not overnice in the matter of diet, he found it not always to his taste to stomach the weird things which tickled the palates of epicures among the apes.

I had spent twenty-seven hours in bed, and after laughing at the mishap I felt as if I could easily believe it, for my hunger was like that of a cannibal.

But think not that this famous town has only harpooneers, cannibals, and bumpkins to show her visitors.

I remembered a story of a white man--a whaleman too-- who, falling among the cannibals, had been tattooed by them.

Queequeg so much-- for they were used to seeing cannibals like him in their streets,-- but at seeing him and me upon such confidential terms.

CHAPTER 18 His Mark As we were walking down the end of the wharf towards the ship, Queequeg carrying his harpoon, Captain Peleg in his gruff voice loudly hailed us from his wigwam, saying he had not suspected my friend was a cannibal, and furthermore announcing that he let no cannibals on board that craft, unless they previously produced their papers.

I have run a computer check of every possible downside event, from suspected cannibals and a verified biting-death, to foot-rot from boot condensation.

He had heard stories about cannibals and had usually laughed at themand he had mocked people who believed such things.