72 Words to use with beasts

AR'ROT, the weasel in the beast-epic of Reynard the Fox (1498).

How loathsome is this beast-man's shape to me, This mould of reason so unreasonable!

I have eaten no wethers of thy flock, nor beast hath destroyed none.

The beast-fable has never quite gone out of fashion, and never will so long as men retain their world-wonder, and childishness of mind.

Soon afterwards, its builder, having taken the side of Maud in her quarrel with Stephen, was imprisoned in a beast house belonging to the castle, when the king, in one of his smaller successes, took possession.

And sent out a raven for to have tidings, and when he was gone he returned no more again, for peradventure she found some dead carrion of a beast swimming on the water, and lighted thereon to feed her and was left there.

Otherwise the nature of their industry and its surroundings had imposed upon them a silence, in itself beast-like and unnatural.

To the leopard beast power was also given to continue forty-two months, which at twelve months to the year, give us again just three years and a half.

From beast-machine to man-machine; animal soul in French letters from Descartes to La Mettrie.

"Do," says Mrs. Veal; on which she left her, and went to a neighbor's to see her; and by the time Mrs. Bargrave was returning, Mrs. Veal was got without the door in the street, in the face of the beast-market, on a Saturday (which is market-day), and stood ready to part as soon as Mrs. Bargrave came to her.

How can we dare to hope that the slave-beast-brute is to give birth to an heir, fine and free and superior?

Human nature is but part of the magnificent tree of beast nature.

Beast-girl at bay.

Faith we are fully bent to be lords of misrule in the world's wide heath: our voyage is to the Isle of Dogs, there where the blatant beast doth rule and reign, renting the credit of whom it please.

It is said by travellers, that a lion itself may be controlled by the steady looks of a human being; but that, no sooner a man turns his back, than the beast springs upon him as his prey.

I tie up a guineapig to the tabouret, pure Louis XV., the little beast struggles and squeaks, the snake, his black, bead-like eyes are fixed, how superb are the oscillations ... now he strikes, and slowly and with what exquisite gourmandise he lubricates and swallows.

Milo, now one of the candidates for the consulship, a man of determined and unscrupulous character, had turned his own weapons against him, and maintained an opposition patrol of hired gladiators and wild-beast fighters.

Slowly the ungainly, heavily laden beasts file past us, gaunt and spectral in the twilight, the bells die away on the still wintry air, and we are again alone on the desolate plainnot a sign of life, not a sound to be heard, but the crunching of snow under our horses' feet, and the occasional pistol-like crack of my guide's heavy whip.

Oates, Bowers, and Anton gather round the beast and lash up one foreleg, then with his head held on both sides Oates gathers back the traces; quick as lightning the little beast flashes round with heels flying aloft.

In troublous times prophets were to be expectedat least let him not be the Antichrist, the destroyer, the beast foretold in the Apocalypsewho would purge the earth of its wickedness, when this should become too great.

From 1780, when this was written, to the present day, the search after well-authenticated particulars of Shakespeare's life has been kept up with a faithfulness equal to that of Sir Palomides after the beast glatisaunt, and by as many devotees and with as much hope of glory as in the quest for the Sangreal.

" The reply was a wild-beast growl, and taking it for a negative, Kent went on.

The melancholia, which religion had more or less restrained and comforted during a troubled lifetime, became on this tragic night a wild-beast impulse that must have its prey.

Then 'twas that Chandra suddenly her mind Declared and boldly spake in words like these: "It is not meet, dear father, that thou shouldst So lightly use our only warrior's life, Who won so many battles for his king And added nought but glory and renown Unto his country, and bid him thus fling His life away before a beast insane.

Indeed, but for these, and the torn tent, I think it would, of course, have been possible to ignore the existence of this beast intruder altogether.

72 Words to use with  beasts