If I lash vice in general fiction, Is't I apply, or self-conviction? 50 Brutes are my theme.

The brute is an embodiment of present impulses, and hence what elements of fear and hope exist in its natureand they do not go very fararise only in relation to objects that lie before it and within reach of those impulses: whereas a man's range of vision embraces the whole of his life, and extends far into the past and future.

The only answer is, because God made the brute to be the property of man; but He never gave us our noble nature for such degradation.

What takest thou the brute to be? WAGNER

"I want to tell you," she whispered, "that from now onward I'm Bill Donnington's Serfmuch more than that poor brute I've told you of was ever the King's Serf.

The Power of a Nurse over a Child, by infusing into it, with her Milk, her Qualities and Disposition, is sufficiently and daily observed: Hence came that old Saying concerning an ill-natured and malicious Fellow, that he had imbibed his Malice with his Nurses Milk, or that some Brute or other had been his Nurse.

To view them as brutes is an insult to Him who made them and us.

What queer creatures these dumb brutes are.

The legend is this: An oracle declared that Brute should be the death of both his parents; his mother died in child-birth, and at the age of fifteen Brute shot his father accidentally in a deer-hunt.

(How could the brute be such a fool as to be jealous nownow when it was all cooling off and coming to an end?)

"Why, the little brute's a perfect dustbin," said my mate; and "Dustbin" the puppy was throughout his stay with us.

With the Spaniard's mortal dread of looking ridiculous, Rafael began to assure himself that those brutes were rightthat such was the road to a woman's heart.

With the Aberdonian "what" is always "fat" or "fatten;" "music" is "meesic;" "brutes" are "breets;" "What are ye duin'?" of southern Scotch, in Aberdeen would be "Fat are ye deein'?"

" "At that, the 'Brutes' were the best dogs, and if it had not been for our delay of eighteen hours at Brown's Road House, where all of the teams had to lay up because of a howling gale, I am not at all sure that the 'Prides' would not have lost out to the 'Brutes' in that race too.

Had they but known the bounds of bliss, And that perfection here below Is more than gods can well bestow, The grumbling brutes had been content With ministers and government.

"The brute is a coward," he said, as he turned back, where the white robes of Julia were dimly visible in the darkness.

"Faber rides his hobby well, but the brute is a sorry jade.

Brutes and savages are totally unacquainted with lassitude and spleen, the lust of variety, and the impatience of curiosity.

'Twelve long months of hypocritical respect paid to the memory of a person who was more brute than man.