Contact is made, and the Terrans inadvertently civilise the cheela during one twenty-four-hour period.

His work is to build up peace and order and to civilise barbarous tribes.

It was distressing to observe, that every endeavour to civilise these people proved fruitless.

You would civilise both the Rectory and the Hall.

If anything could civilise him, this would do it.

Not to give them pleasure, but to civilise them.

If we can civilise him, so much the better.'

Thou wouldst make of Egypt another England; thou wouldst civilise the Soudan-bismillah, it is folly!

You cannot educate, you cannot civilise men, unless you can give them a share in art.

God created us to civilise the world.

We must civilise first and Christianise afterwards.

Nowadays, the European Union spends a lot of money earned by European work, to civilise Eastern Europe.

So you're a'going to civilise us, eh?

I'm afraid that expediency isn't the motto of those who try to civilise the Orient and the East.

Indeed, in such a context, the notion that it is our failures which civilise us, gains relevance and vigour.

London seems the most likely destination, with both Arsenal and Chelsea said to be eager to civilise the naive savage.