In some places it would be difficult to penetrate more than a mile in the day; during which time the traveller would be perpetually tormented by noxious insects, and in constant dread of beasts of prey.

As distinguished from dumb beasts in general, it may properly be called a deaf and dumb animal.

The Konkan, in which in earliest days "the beasts with man divided empire claimed," and which itself is dowered with a legendary origin not wholly dissimilar in kind from the story of Rameses III and his naval conquest, offers a fair sample of these semi-historical myths in the tale of the arrival of the Chitpavans at Chiplun in Ratnagiri.

We scrambled out of the thicket and put our weary beasts to a gallop.

Peter and Pasquin concurred in forbidding him to desert his post; and he derived but small comfort from the ingenuity of his flatterers, who compared him to St. Paul contending with beasts at Ephesus.

If he could bring home a queer enough bird or beast for the collection, there was still hope.

" He poked the beast on the altar, and a bit of burning yellow fur fell off and frizzled on the ground.

Here, as in the larger village, the houses were more like the abode of four-footed beasts than the dwellings of human beings.

The man is redeemed from the death of the beasts by Christ, who rose on Easter day.

So I perforce had to follow him into a fine room with an oaken floor, whereon lay rich Smyrna rugs and the skins of wild beasts from the wood.

Our Lord blessed the house of Egypt for Joseph's sake, and multiplied as well in beasts as in fields all his substance.

Peacepool, where the good whales lie, waiting till Mother Carey shall send for them "to make them out of old beasts into new"? Tom swims up to the nearest whale and asks the way to Mother Carey.

She made a new rule I wasn't to call her a beast before breakfast' 'What, you're allowed to call her these awful names after breakfast?' 'No.

Then follow the butcher markets, in which beef, mutton, veal, kid, and lamb, are sold to the great and rich, as the poor eat of all offal and unclean beasts without scruple.

and the first sight of his master, the once noble Timon, in that abject condition, naked as he was born, living in the manner of a beast among beasts, looking like his own sad ruins and a monument of decay, so affected this good servant, that he stood speechless, wrapt up in horror, and confounded.

If Joanne had come to him like this, making him forget his work, filling him more and more with the thrilling desire to fight for her, was it so very strange that a beast like Quade would fightin another way?

The three had dismounted and led their beasts under the welcome shade.

In their moment of triumph they turned upon one another, snarling like wild beasts over the spoil.

He slips down upon the bare back and urges the patient beast across the brackish morass.

Let us hurl back these wizard-beasts beyond the oceans, to take their place among the strange things of creation!'" "And the big characters," she added, "the big characters you tried to hide, are 'Kill' and 'Burn'?" Gray eyes and dark eyes met steadily, while the last match, reddening the blood in his fingers, slowly burned out.

In the passage of the beasts to the Ark, Noah coaxes the lion on board, and in the next compartment the patriarch shoves the king of beasts down the plank in a most ludicrous fashion.

"Ronald is like a rock," said the master, "and you need not be afraid, but I'll take this beast along in advance.

And besides, anybody would have called her a beast after how she went on.'

Officers and Gyppies coaxed and wheedled the stubborn beasts through Julis, but outside the place the animals raised a chorus of protest and went down.

I set spurs to my horse and galloped the jaded beast toward the house as fast as his weary legs would carry him.