Beasts

Pouring towards the boat, in a fever of excitement that rises higher every moment, the natural elements of hunger and constant struggle against the great river swell their fury; they bellow like wild beasts, _they are like beasts_, for they have known nothing but struggle all their lives; they have always, since they were tiny children, been fighting this roaring water monster -- they know none else. ❋ Edwin John Dingle (1926)

But, Mr. Morley, I did not say _wild_ beasts: I only said _beasts_. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)

V. iv.36 (332,6) [Here comes a pair of very strange beasts] [W: unclean beasts] _Strange beasts_ are only what we call _odd_ animals. ❋ Samuel Johnson (1746)

Here are clean, fresh, English maids, for whom a higher standard of living than that of the beasts is absolutely necessary. ❋ Unknown (1903)

If there be horns (which denote the force and fury of beasts) against the church, there are carpenters (which denote the wisdom and forecast of men) for the church, by which they find ways to master the strongest beasts, for every kind of beasts is tamed, and has been tamed, of mankind, Jam. iii. ❋ Unknown (1721)

So there is literary precedent for using beasts from the bovine family in such a manner … ❋ Unknown (2009)

A pair of beasts is what we were, penned together and showing our teeth. ❋ Unknown (2010)

So-called “mirror mark tests”, where a mark is placed on the animal in such a way that it can only be observed when it looks at its reflection, have been used to sort the self-aware beasts from the rest. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Startling evidence has been found which shows mammoth and other great beasts from the last ice age were blasted with material that came from space. ❋ Unknown (2007)

In that sense, all sentient beings should be conferred rights by ethical beings (in plain English, beasts should have their rights acknowledged by folks) but non-ethical beings (non-human animals) have no place in such a "rights giving scenario", because they are not responsible for their actions. ❋ Jack Of Kent (2009)

This heresy about the Cross they share with the Docetes, “certain beasts in the shape of men” (says Ignatius), who held that a phantom was crucified. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Zoltan seems happier to bite the dogs puppies included, and so a whole pack of vampire beasts is shortly running wild. ❋ Unknown (2006)

So saying, he called his beasts, and set out on his travels. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Today they called the beasts to heel and met the newcomer with sudden respect - for it became plain that his garments were of the finest, and not the least way-stained, while he himself was awesome. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 (1983)

But the very purpose of these wild beasts is to give birth at ridiculously short intervals to a vast offspring, a multitudinous litter which shall circulate far and wide. ❋ Unknown (1927)

Every man, who loves God, only uses his outer senses so far as is absolutely necessary; he takes care that they do not drag him down to the level of the beasts, as they do some who might rather he termed beasts than men. ❋ C. 1260-1327 (1909)