1821. Byron, John Keats, i. Who kill’d John Keats? ‘I,’ says the Quarterly, So savage and Tartarly, ‘’Twas one of my feats.’
1858. O. W. Holmes, Autocr. Breakf.-t., iv. 103. The ‘Quarterly,’ ‘so savage and tartarly,’ came down upon him [Sydney Smith] in the most contemptuous style.
1894. A. Birrell, Ess., v. 49. It was enough to sting Scott to fury, and make him fall upon the old man in a manner somewhat too savage and tartarly.
