Brother turned against brother, since the time of Cain and Abel, and even more frequently, more savagely, in this barbarous age.

What have we to do with the hatreds and animosities of a more barbarous age.

Then, bitterly, "To think that we must return to the tactics of that barbarous age."

Using Burke's own architectural language, she asks, "why was it a duty to repair an ancient castle, built in barbarous ages, of Gothic materials?"

The story was set in England in an obscure and barbarous age.

It was a barbarous age, you know.

If that world is far from happy, it may be the last shimmering refuge of ultimate civility in a barbarous age.

But what Gherardo is it, who, as sample Of a lost race, thou sayest has remained In reprobation of the barbarous age?

The words were in such Latin as a barbarous age might remember - 'Corvinus necandus est.