Wud that be savage givin' us a bit of groun' next year t' raise pirtas?
"My Lady of the Chimney Corner"
Alexander Irvine
Smain's dervishes, or savage negroes who, escaping from their native villages, sought protection from the dervishes in the inaccessible thickets of the hills?
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
"Do you know," he said to Nell, "that we have passed more than one-half of the way from Fashoda, and that during the journey which is still before us we may meet very savage negroes, but now will not encounter any dervishes."
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz