Brutes

Examples

• Must you ever go on down the ages to your final extinction but little above the plane of the dumb brutes that serve you! Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• The young of the brutes are immeasurably his superiors. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• As the brutes, growling and foaming, rushed upon the almost defenseless women I turned my head that I might not see the horrid sight. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• What were a few long hours added to the hardships of some over-taxed brutes when weighed against the peril of those human souls? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Now, Mr. Sawyer,' screamed the shrill voice of Mrs. Raddle, 'are them brutes going? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• His savage life among the fierce wild brutes of the jungle left no opening for any thought that these could be aught else than enemies. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• They are fearsome appearing brutes at best, but when they are aroused they are fully as dangerous as they look. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• He asked me, who made the ship, and how it was possible that the _Houyhnhnms_ of my country would leave it to the management of brutes? Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Grass was now spreading over the world, and with this extension arose some huge graminivorous brutes of which no representative survives to-day. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It well suits brutes like thee to be tampering and trinketing with hellish cures, and to be giving your labour to the sons of mischief. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Watch the wall at your end of the chamber, Tars Tarkas, I cautioned, it is through secret doorways in the wall that the brutes are loosed upon us. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• It is plain he took us for a species of animals very little superior to brutes. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Soon we were entirely surrounded by some fifty of the brutes. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• This is a sorry scene: I see fifty selfish brutes at this moment, each of whom, if I were near, I could conscientiously knock down. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The population of Ecclefigg are a parcel of brutes; we want to civilize them. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Why, how call you those grunting brutes running about on their four legs? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• His brown, sweat-streaked, muscular body, glistening in the moonlight, shone supple and graceful among the uncouth, awkward, hairy brutes about him. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• It seemed a grim satire to accuse such brutes as these of taking things by force of arms. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• If you can dissolve all our obstacles as easily as you master these fierce brutes I can see no difficulties in our way, I said to the girl, smiling. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The inventive faculty of man tends more directly than any other intellectual power he possesses to raise him in the scale of creation above the brutes. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.

Typist: Lucas