Meanings of barbarous times in English

In barbarous times it is, in fact, cent, per cent., and more.

Then a savage scene was enacted, one worthy only of those barbarous times.

What a remnant of barbarous times, when people danced because they had nothing to say!

The rest of the story exhibits a lively picture of the manners of these barbarous times.

In barbarous times it is, in fact, cent.

The ecclesiastical privileges, during barbarous times, had served as a check on the despotism of kings.

Hitherto, as we have observed together, the most useful discoveries have been made in the most barbarous times.

We called those the barbarous times.

And what country in the world would have submitted to a monster invasion like those of barbarous times?

Our present heraldry, it may be said, is suited to the barbarous times in which it had its origin.

Like most of the kings and chiefs of those rude and barbarous times, Clovis often did cruel and wicked things.

Many of us have long since forgotten the vulnerable young man who brought compassion and humility to our island in barbarous times.

The character was also a grotesque ornament of the barbarous times, in which alone the tragic ground-work of the story could be laid.

In rude and barbarous times men of the highest circles piqued themselves upon their power of swallowing excessive potations, and found pleasure in it.

They fell into the stream by which other states had been carried in the torrent of violent passions, and in the outrage of barbarous times.

Indeed, our ideals have altered very little since barbarous times, and we still are under the impression that resourcefulness is the mark of the hero.