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Definition of Beasts
1. beast [n] - See also: beast
Lexicographical Neighbors of Beasts
Literary usage of Beasts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"CHAPTER XIV OF SAVAGE beasts AND VERMIN C'577, Book III., Chapters 7 and 12; ...
The happy and fortunate want of these beasts in England is universally ..."
2. Index to Fairy Tales, Myths and Legends by Mary Huse Eastman (1915)
"Brown, AF Book of saints and friendly beasts. St. Francis and the Soldan. Peers.
... Salt fish and the eel. Johnson. Oak-tree fairy book. friendly beasts. ..."
3. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1898)
"amusements of the populace—the sports of the circus and amphitheatre, the combats
of gladiators, and the hunting of wild beasts. The masters in every branch ..."
4. Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of His Noble by Thomas Malory, Alfred William Pollard, William Caxton (1900)
"CHAPTER XI How the Saracens came out of a wood for to rescue their beasts, and
of a great battle. THEN Sir Florence called to him Sir Floridas, ..."
5. The Ante-Nicene Fathers: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers Down to by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, Arthur Cleveland Coxe, Ernest Cushing Richardson, Allan Menzies, Bernhard Pick (1885)
"ALLOW ME TO FALL A PREY TO THE WILD beasts. I write to the Churches, and impress
on them all, that I shall willingly die for God, unless ye hinder me. ..."
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