And through all this he drifted, ever pursued by the flitting shadows of the anthropophagi, themselves ghosts of evil that dared not face him in battle but that knew that, soon or late, they would feed on him. ❋ Unknown (2010)
And he found head-hunting, tree-dwelling anthropophagi instead. ❋ Unknown (2010)
He stared at it in amaze, his brain a racing wild-fire of hypotheses to account for this far-journeyer who had adventured the night of space, threaded the stars, and now rose before him and above him, exhumed by patient anthropophagi, pitted and lacquered by its fiery bath in two atmospheres. ❋ Unknown (2010)
But then, what would you expect when New Jerusalem is beset by a bunch of anthropophagi? ❋ Bill Crider (2010)
And through all this he drifted, ever pursued by the flitting shadows of the anthropophagi, themselves ghosts of evil that dared not face him in battle but that knew, soon or late, that they would feed on him. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The gaudy maps they passed around at the Spanish court—vast waters with pictures of sea serpents smiling ominously in the waves, weird configurations of terra incognita promising cities strewn with gems, countries populated by Amazons or anthropophagi or talking animals—translated into nothing more than pretty beaches and bad-tempered inhabitants with very sharp arrows. ❋ Diane Roberts (2008)
Nay, further, we are what we all abhor, anthropophagi, and cannibals, devourers not only of men, but of ourselves; and that not in an allegory but a positive truth: for all this mass of flesh which we behold, came in at our mouths: this frame we look upon, hath been upon our trenchers; in brief, we have devoured ourselves. ❋ Unknown (2007)
They say, that we are all anthropophagi, and that the particles which compose our grandfathers and great-grandfathers, having been necessarily dispersed in the atmosphere, become carrots and asparagus, and that it is possible we may have devoured a portion of our ancestors. ❋ Unknown (2007)
And further, it seemeth very likely that the inhabitants of the most part of those countries, by which they must have come any other way besides by the north-west, being for the most part anthropophagi, or men-eaters, would have devoured them, slain them, or, at the leastwise, kept them as wonders for the gaze. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Ptolemy (iv. 8) to his anthropophagi of the Barbaricus Sinus: according to their own account, however, the practice is modern. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The ouvriers libres deserted and fled in all directions, for fear of being “put in a cannibal pot” and being eaten by the white anthropophagi. ❋ Unknown (2003)
According to other accounts Singhala was originally occupied by Rakshasas or Rakshas, “demons who devour men,” and “beings to be feared,” monstrous cannibals or anthropophagi, the terror of the shipwrecked mariner. ❋ Unknown (2003)
At Meccah he saw two unicorns, the younger “at the age of one yeare, and lyke a young coolte; the horne of this is of the length of four handfuls. 6” And so credulous is he about anthropophagi, that he relates of Mahumet ❋ Unknown (2003)
Herodotus wrote of anthropophagi barely subsisting in the harsh climes beyond the Caspian Sea. ❋ JOE JACKSON (2003)
Are they anthropophagi, or are they of a friendly disposition? ❋ Robert Wallace (N/A)
Jack had often amused himself at the expense of the anthropophagi, but here he was actually within their grasp. ❋ Paul Adrien (N/A)
Their projects for the revival of their navy seldom go farther than a transposal in the stripes of the flag, and their vengeance against regal anthropophagi, and proud islanders, is infallibly diverted by a denunciation of an aristocratic quartrain, or some new mode, whose general adoption renders it suspected as the badge of a party. ❋ An English Lady (N/A)
Caribs were the original inhabitants and possessors of St. Kitts, but when England and France agreed to divide this island between them in 1627, we find the local anthropophagi left out in the cold as usual. ❋ Various (N/A)
Among other interesting details I found in the notes, I may mention the following: -- High up the Essequibo they fell in with a nation of anthropophagi, of the Carib tribe. ❋ Various (N/A)
The law of self-preservation prevents them from becoming anthropophagi. ❋ Various (N/A)
These [shoes] were [made] by [reformed] anthropophagi ❋ Susan (2003)
I wouldn't recommend anthropophagy; people [do not] [taste] [like chicken]. ❋ Antinous (2003)
