They will tell him how the infidelity of that day put balls of fire on the backs of the lions, and how the madness of their passion was increased by scattering hated colors about, tearing the beasts with iron hooks and beating them with cruel whips.

Circus: men, beasts and joys of the road; with 47 photos.

The Beasts of Ka-gor.

I reflected, however, that sheep, and such like beasts of humble brain, can stroll upon the brink of gruesome precipices without any fear of falling, and my self-respect returned.

Strolling across the big bridge above the Palace, I soon found myself in the purely native quarter, immersed in a seething crowd of men and beasts, from beneath whose passing feet a cloud of dust rose pungent.

The men, too, were possibly beginning to grow a trifle less like two-legged beasts of prey, though still rough as the very wolves they hunted; bare-legged, wild-eyed hunter-herdsmen withwho can doubt it?flocks of children trooping vociferously at their heels.

To the man who makes a clearing in the forest, life is largely a struggle against the beasts of prey and the animals who graze down the crops.

There was little chance to deliver a telling blow at enemies who had hardly anything of value to destroy, who were so comparatively few in number that they could subsist year in and year out on game, and whose mode of life rendered them as active, stealthy, cautious, and ferocious as so many beasts of prey.

Beasts of draught and of burden, and oars and sails,these, and these only,were at the service of their merchants, as they had been at the service of all merchants from time immemorial.

There were multitudes of swans, geese, and ducks on the river; turkeys and the small furred beasts, such as coons, abounded.

He lost much time in hunting up the strayed beasts, and frequently had to pay the settlers for helping find them.

Boonsboro and Harrodsburg were very dirty, the inhabitants were sickly, and the offal and dead beasts lay about, poisoning the air and the water.

The killing of game was no longer the chief industry, and the flesh and hides of wild beasts were no longer the staples of food and clothing.

The axe was the tool, and the rifle the weapon, of the early settlers; their business was to kill the wild beasts, to fight the savages, and to clear the soil; and the enthralling topics of conversation were the game and the Indians, and, as the settlements grew, the land itself.

He was arrested by the local authorities and handed over to Vitellius, who had him thrown to the beasts.

The neophyte Maturus and the deacon Sanctus, with Blandina and Attalus, then, were led into the amphitheatre, and thrown to the beasts, as a sight to please the inhumanity of the Gentiles. . . .

Blandina, in her turn, tied to a stake, was given to the beasts: she was seen hanging, as it were, on a sort of cross, calling upon God with trustful fervor, and the brethren present were reminded, in the person of a sister, of Him who had been crucified for their salvation. . . .

As none of the beasts would touch the body of Blandina, she was released from the stake, taken back to prison, and reserved for another occasion. . . .

He questioned them afresh; and those who were discovered to be Roman citizens were beheaded, the rest were thrown to the beasts.

The governor forthwith asked him what he was, and at the answer, 'I am a Christian,' condemned him to the beasts.

On the morrow Alexander was again brought up, together with Attalus, whom the governor, to please the people, had once more condemned to the beasts.

At length, after she had undergone fire, the talons of beasts, and agonizing aspersion, she was wrapped in a network and thrown to a bull that tossed her in the air; she was already unconscious of all that befell her, and seemed altogether taken up with watching for the blessings that Christ had in store for her.

He had a kindly feeling toward birds and beasts just then, and he did not wish to drive even an eagle from his home.

He adds that in many places sterile beasts and human beings are passed through the fire, and that as a boy he himself jumped through the fire "for luck."

" I said, looking straight at Walter Butler: "Can there be any serious talk of turning these wild beasts loose against the settlers of Tryon County?" "Against rebels," observed Sir John Johnson, coldly.