| It belongs to the time of lynchings, of extreme political violence against blacks in the US, as well as to the time of European savageries in Africa. |
| When the polite landsman first hears it from the gaunt Nantucketer, he is apt to set it down as one of the whaleman's self-derived savageries. |
| Well-intentioned proposals will not put an end to the occasional savageries of the marketplace or the vagaries of the democratic system. |
| In the course of one terrible year, his body, mind and heart are shattered by the savageries of love and war. |
