What is "barbarities"

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Of all those more or less concerned in the barbarities practiced upon our prisoners, but one--Captain Henry Wirz--was punished.

In addition to these, about one hundred and fifty Union prisoners were examined, who testified to all manner of barbarities which had come under their personal observation.

And yet the gentleness of English civilization is mixed up with barbarities and anachronisms.

And no secret police in modern times excelled or even matched Hungary's AVO in the nameless barbarities, the inhuman cruelties and all-pervading terror with which they held hopeless people in fear-ridden thrall: they had learnt much from Hitler's Gestapo during the Second World War, and had that knowledge refined by their current nominal masters, the NKVD of Russia.

All the east end of the island was left uninhabited, that if any of the savages should come on shore there only for their customary barbarities, they might come and go.

I will say what my father told me: in war, barbarities are neither to do for their own sake, nor not to do because they are barbarities, only to do when necessary.

At the same time, one must never forget they are barbarities, else how can one remember how to conduct oneself in peacetime?

Our rascally Ottawas particularly distinguished themselves by these barbarities, as well as by cowardice.

And although the cruelties and barbarities used against them by the French and Indians might, upon the present opportunity, prompt unto a severe revenge, yet, being desirous to avoid all inhumane and unchristian-like actions, and to prevent shedding of blood as much as may be, "I, the aforesaid William Phips, Knight, do hereby, in the name and in the behalf of their most excellent Majesties, William and Mary, King and Queen of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, Defenders of the Faith, and by order of their said Majesties' government of the Massachuset-colony in New England, demand a present surrender of your forts and castles, undemolished, and the King's and other stores, unimbezzled, with a seasonable delivery of all captives.

Of all those more or less concerned in the barbarities practiced upon our prisoners, but one--Captain Henry Wirz--was punished.

In addition to these, about one hundred and fifty Union prisoners were examined, who testified to all manner of barbarities which had come under their personal observation.

As we read, we should remember that it is easy and foolish to sneer at the mistakes or barbarities of remote ages.

We conceive him as living with the knowledge, which causes him a silent smile, that all his work would be forgotten after his death, that his manuscripts would be treated as so much waste paper, that one of his sons instead of himself would be considered "the great Bach," and harvest the success he himself merited, and that after his work had been rediscovered it would be plunged into the misunderstandings and barbarities of the Age of the Feuilleton, and so on.

Weary of the barbarities of Mary’s reign, the people looked with hope and gladness to the new Sovereign.

Scores of thousands of them were put to death in those countries with every cruelty that can be imagined, and at last, in the autumn of the year one thousand five hundred and seventy-two, one of the greatest barbarities ever committed in the world took place at Paris.