7251 examples of beast in sentences

"He'd have seen to the beast's hunger before he satisfied his own.

His eagle eye singles out at a glance the estray; rising in his stirrup, he whirls the lasso for a moment above his head, launches it through the air, and coolly drags the recalcitrant beast away on the homeward trail.

Ferdinand determined to make a final and exterminating ravage to the very walls of the city, so that there should not remain a single green thing for the sustenance of man or beast.

The archers were men of extraordinary height, armed with very long wooden bows; they came from Scotland and other northern countries, and, in the words of a contemporary historian, "seemed to be beast-like men" ("parevano uomini bestiali").

"You're a cynical old beast, you know.

Couldst thou not tell me beneath this wild beast's hide? Yonder, just in front of thee, lie my bow and arrows, likewise my broadsword.

Butwithout speaking of personal punishments, demanded by outraged conscience, and essential in order that the two indivisible principles of right and of responsibility may still exist in the worldwe must make it absolutely impossible for the Wild Beast to break out again.

I am very unwilling to say much about my early life, I have lived so long in a family where there is never a harsh word spoken, and where no one thinks of ill-treating anybody or anything, that it seems almost wrong even to think or speak of such a matter as hurting a poor dumb beast.

If he sows seeds of unkindness and cruelty to man and beast, no one knows what the blackness of the harvest will be.

Now, this dog is a snarling, cross-grained, cantankerous beast, and when I heard Joe was coming, I said: 'Now we'll have a good dog about the place, and here's an end to the bad one.'

Have plenty of animals, I say, and treat them kindly, but if there's a vicious one among them, put it out of the way, for it is a constant danger to man and beast.

Ah, Joe, this is a cruel world for man or beast.

Frank gave him some advice as to what he should do if any wild beast invaded the place; and also how he could threaten any of Andy's crowd should they show up with hostile intent.

Cocking his gun, he tried to pierce the jungle, not fully decided whether the noise were made by man or beast.

"If a beast," he thought, "it is the only one I have met with since landing on the coast.

She saw in his eyes what she had never before seen on a face that looked into hersthough she was to note it often in the dreadful days that followedthe ruthless appetite of a wild beast crouching for its kill.

Pliny the younger, also, fell fighting like a wild beast to defend the entrance to his mistresses' apartments.

He does not escape to his native deserts, where he would most probably have been hunted like a wild beast, but remains near the capital in which Ahab reigns, in a deeply secluded spot, where he quenches his thirst from the waters of the brook, and eats the food which the ravens deposit amid the steep cliffs he knows how to climb.

They afterwards carry away the bones, and conceal them carefully in caves in the mountains, that no beast may touch them.

'Tis so much leather stripped from the innocent beast, and cured and colored and polished and stamped to no purpose,with a prodigious show of empty compartments, like banquet-halls deserted.

The boat passed so very close to the floating refuge of the beast that ere darkness claimed the strange craft with its stranger cargo, Frank had been able to see the tawny hide of the crouching beast, and note the quick, jerky motion of its long tail.

The boat passed so very close to the floating refuge of the beast that ere darkness claimed the strange craft with its stranger cargo, Frank had been able to see the tawny hide of the crouching beast, and note the quick, jerky motion of its long tail.

"Nor a rhinocerous, nor a hippopotamus; but they do have the next largest beast, and that's a tapir.

As he came roaring towards the shore, Perseus lifted the head of Medusa from his pouch and held it up; and when the beast saw the dreadful face he stopped short and was turned into stone; and men say that the stone beast may be seen in that selfsame spot to this day.

The Olden timeThe Voice of the questing beast; series of drawings.

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