half-cultivated

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Now in this sense people should be divided into Naturvölker, Halbkulturvölker, and Kulturvölker people in the state of nature, half-cultivated people, and cultivated people. This is not all. There are people who are simply cultivated Naturvölker and people who are wholly cultivated Vollkulturvölker. Now the degree of right depends on the degree of culture.

Various - New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1: From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index

To this must be added the prejudices of ancient birth and Jacobite politics, greatly strengthened by habits of solitary and secluded authority, which, though exercised only within the bounds of his half-cultivated estate, was there indisputable and undisputed. Still, however, the conscious pride of possessing them gave additional importance to his language and deportment.

Sir Walter Scott - Waverley — Volume 1

Once she went farther. Courtland had just finished explaining to her a plan for substituting small farm buildings for the usual half-cultivated garden-patches dear to the negro field-hand, and had laid down the drawings on the table in the office, when the young lady, leaning against it with her hands behind her, fixed her bright gray eyes on his serious face.

Bret Harte - Sally Dows

It was a lovely morning, not too bright and hot, for light, fleecy vapors hung along the sides of Lebanon. Beyond the mulberry orchards, we entered on wild, half-cultivated tracts, covered with a bewildering maze of blossoms. The hill-side and stony shelves of soil overhanging the sea fairly blazed with the brilliant dots of color which were rained upon them.

Bayard Taylor - The Lands of the Saracen: Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain

The literature of the sixth century had arisen from the influence of Greek art on half-cultivated, but excited and susceptible minds.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5)

To this must be added the prejudices of ancient birth and Jacobite politics, greatly strengthened by habits of solitary and secluded authority, which, though exercised only within the bounds of his half-cultivated estate, was there indisputable and undisputed. Still, however, the conscious pride of possessing them gave additional importance to his language and deportment.

Sir Walter Scott - Waverley — Complete