Brutes

Were brutes without him, —brutes to tear the scars ❋ Unknown (1921)

But what really gets the Flak Catcher, besides the sheer size of the brutes, is their Tiki canes. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I get the idea behind it, that these are not young women and men dying off, never getting their chances in life, that they are fully aware of their purpose, but his utter calmness after watching a squadmate become a puddle of mush under the attack of a thousand Consu brutes is just ... disturbing. ❋ Pabba (2008)

That was all forgotten now, for the hunger-rage was on them, and they were brutes, plain brutes, with every kind instinct dead in their shivering breasts. ❋ Unknown (1921)

Those whom we called brutes had their revenge when Darwin shewed us that they are our cousins. ❋ Unknown (1903)

He uttered a long howl, which was answered by the cries of a large pack of the dirty brutes from the wood. ❋ Unknown (1852)

The truth commends itself by mere simplicity: nakedness betrays its Eve-like innocence of guile or error: those living creatures whom we call brutes and beasts, have, in their degree, the breath of God within them, as well as His handiwork upon them. ❋ Martin Farquhar Tupper (1849)

Where is the precise line of distinction between man and the animals whom he calls brutes? ❋ Paul Henri Thiry Holbach (1756)

Bit by bit, an inch at a time, with here a wolf bellying forward, and there a wolf bellying forward, the circle would narrow until the brutes were almost within springing distance. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Philip Roth: The Democrats aren't brutes, which is too bad, because the Republicans are brutes. ❋ Stephen Retherford (2008)

The Democrats aren't brutes, which is too bad, because the Republicans are brutes. ❋ Stephen Retherford (2008)

Men and women without feeling or imagination are justly called brutes; yet Plato takes away these qualities and puts nothing in their place, not even the desire of a noble offspring, since parents are not to know their own children. ❋ Unknown (2006)

This one was not a sample, however -- many of them have such exalted views of freedom that it is hard work for the masters to whip them into brutes, that is to subdue their noble spirits. ❋ American Anti-Slavery Society (N/A)

* The Yahoos of Gulliver's Travels are described as brutes with human forms and vicious and uncleanly habits. newly caught. ❋ Unknown (1920)

He dwelt for a long time in the forests and the most savage of the brutes were his friends. ❋ Francis Clement Kelley (1909)

Except the dogs of the Factor's train, there were few real "huskies," as Eskimo dogs are called, for most of the brutes were the usual sharp-nosed, heavy-coated mongrels that in the Strong Woods Country go by the name of _giddes_; some, however, had been sired by wolves. ❋ Arthur Henry Howard Heming (1905)