" His scorn put me into a fury, in which anger at his brutishness and the presence of the girl on the sorrel moved my pride to a piece of naked folly.

These are only a selection of many such incidents which show that the national brutishness was appearing through the veneer.

Or was this only one other instance of the barbaric brutishness of those who so insistently sought his life?

The brutishness of all they do, will shew how well it became thee to be of no party, but the party of thyself.[20] "Thy first refuge thou shalt owe to the courtesy of the great Lombard, who bears the Ladder charged with the Holy Bird.

MEPHISTOPHELES Attend, of brutishness

Like the lower animals, we were stricken now with dumbness, and hardly once in a week spoke a word one to the other, but in selfish brutishness on through a real hell of cold we moved.

I can conceive no deeper fall into utter brutishness than that; and yet some few of the most savage tribes, both in Africa and in the Indian islands, are saidGod help them!to live in that way, and to have no names;blotted, indeed, out of the book of life!

Mr. NORMAN MCKINNEL as Wachner easily contrived to convey the typically Teuton blend of brutishness, and domestic sentimentality, combined with the heavy playfulness which by a curious delusion, ineradicably racial, is mistaken over there for humour.

We do not see that, at the period and amongst the people of the Homeric poems, there was abroad in the air or had penetrated into the imaginations of men any idea more lofty or more pure than their every-day actions; the heroes of Homer seem to have no misgiving about their brutishness, their ferocity, their greed, their egotism, there is nothing in their souls superior to the deeds of their lives.

A disagreeable account is given of the brutishness of the people employed in the salt works at Tynemouth.

The redemption of society from the welter of selfishness and brutishness and cruelty into which it is now plunged will be a costly undertaking.

The things which in his darkness he did undervalue as trifles to be mocked at, he now can only mind and admire, since he became a child of light; now being delivered from that blindness and brutishness of spirit, which possesseth the world, (and possessed himself till he was transformed by the renewing of his mind) who esteem basely of spiritual things, and set them at nought, he prizeth as alone precious.