The beast kicked up his heels, and galloped, perhaps for the first time in years.
But just then Thad was not bothering himself with trying to understand why the fierce beast acted in that altogether remarkable way.
He was not more than a dozen feet away from the beast now, and there was danger that if he closed in any more the expected collision must take place.
He up and sicked the dog on me; and I reckon it wouldn't have mattered one bit to that cold-blooded old man if the ugly beast had torn me badly.
Several times Thad landed with such a will on the side of the springing wildcat that the wretched beast was knocked clean over.
Thinking that if they approached from two separate quarters the beast might grow more or less confused, and possibly slink away, Thad did not follow directly in the track of his friend, but made a little detour.
With the unconscious instinct of preservation for both, he seized it and struck the beast fairly on the snout.
He could be a most reflective little beast upon occasion.
He rushed up close to the fencing Hayes, and as the beastin the pit upreared himself head and shoulders, managed to discharge one barrel of the shotgun.
The beast sank back for another rush, and at the same instant Jack tore the gun from the reverend gentleman's hands, and as the thing rose again poured the contents of the second barrel fairly into the middle of his throat.
He knew that the beast must not be released, and knew that unless faced it would clamber in a moment to the level surface.
We lawyers try our best to break in the beast to the service of man.
He said that they would all flock together, or one obstinate beast would go into a corner and flock all by himself.
He was an excellent beast (the horse), excelling, as my friend told me, in muscle and wit.
If I had another dog, I'd let him loose, and give this faithful beast a rest.
I simply came into your yard, on a matter of business, and finding that raging beast attacking a person in a tree, I had barely time to get up into this tree myself, before he dashed at me.
Charley Nyberg, after he had tried the dog by setting him on to two Solomon Island "bucks" who were loafing around his house, and seen how the beast could bite, said he would give us thirteen dollars and a fat hog for him.
With a bull-like bellow of rage, the skipper was about to hurl the savage little beast over the cliffs into the sea, when I stayed his hand.
I know all the cattle tracks leading to the camping and drinking places, and generally manage to kill my beast at or near a waterhole.
The very unnaturalness of the phenomenon arouses pity from those whose bringing-up makes such a wild-beast madness incomprehensible to them.
Once, indeed, the small beast overbalanced himself, and was only saved by alighting on the conductor's shoulder, where he was quickly transferred to No.
It was only a moment, but he slipped away into the darkness; I heard the cry, the cry of the beast and the cry of the child.
She had gone only a few yards when she came upon the beast crouching over little Om.
Presently it began to scatter, and then each Indian, selected a buffalo and followed the beast up until he had killed it.
And our little Mistress belabored that full evil cat with Master Sweetheart's crutch, until that cruel beast let loose her hold upon the fluttering bird and was full glad to escape with her aching bones into the thicket again.
And it could be given as well to a beast as to a man for the same purpose, and the same effect would follow.
The beast of Balaam, when inspired of God, rose immediately above his legitimate sphere of action, and spoke with a man's voice, forbidding the madness of the prophet.
He had not gone ten rods when thebeast fell under him, and he kicked his feet from the stirrups and sprang into the woods and was out of sight in a moment.
He was joined there by a stranger on a gray horse, and man and beast tallied exactly with those in the vision.
The panther, sure the noblest next the hind, And fairest creature of the spotted kind; Oh, could her inborn stains be washed away, She were too good to be a beast of prey!
But still our puss is, as God created her, a perfect beast of prey.
As we came near, the beast could stand the strain no longer, but rose up with bristling hair, champing fangs, and savage growl.
On its way down the bear rammed itself right smack against the mail-bag; and when the beast struck ground, it smelt the man smell on the packet, an' began to gnaw it.
My son, I have even known a wolverine go to the trouble of digging a hole in which to bury a trap of mine; but just in order to fool me, the beast has filled up the hole again, carried the trap to another place, and there finally buried it.
Sometimes a second hole is dug in order to prod the beast with a pole to make it leave its den.
He shouted to drive the beast away, but, strange to say, the noise did not frighten the bear, for several times it got up and attempted to reach the syrup on the trap.
If it hadn't been for the Archdeacon steppin' on the sole of the bear's upturned left hind foot as the hungry beast was gallopin' round the fire .
Then the hunter has his opportunity, for on seeing the beast pass broadside, he fires, and thus stands a good chance of hitting a vital spot.
If, however, the beast is still alive when the hunter arrives, the prisoner will in most cases feign death in the hope of getting free.
To have a beast in pound in consequence of a frolic, is a common disaster in Gipsy life.
But the instant I moved, the beast gave a deep and menacing growl.
Even as the brushwood rustled, and the monstrous beast blended with the shadow of the Gap, I fired at the retreating form.
There was no grating visible in the passage, so I knew that the beast was in its cage.
I heard the claws rasping as they clung to the wire-netting, and the breath of the beast made me sick.
I stretched myself out, therefore, and lay silently, almost breathlessly, hoping that the beast might forget my presence if I did nothing to remind him.
I had only ten minutes then in which to do something, for I felt that if I were once left in the dark with that fearful beast I should be incapable of action.
As I ran, I saw the great beast lurching along before me, its huge bulk filling up the whole space from wall to wall.
Are you a beast of field and tree, Or just a stronger child than me?
So fine a show was never seen, At the great circus on the green; For every kind of beast and man Is marching in that caravan.
The transition from the "beast of Meris" on the one hand to the common typidentate mammalian ancestor, and on the other hand to the elephants, is easy, and requires no effort of the imagination.
Drawing of the skull of the rat-toothed goat, Myotragus--the new extinctbeast discovered in limestone fissures in the island of Majorca by Miss Bate.
Andrews and named "Meritherium" by him, signifying "the beast of the Lake Meris.
When Sir Tristram saw that beast he put on his helm, for he deemed he should hear of Sir Palomides, for that beast was his quest.
And then Sir Percivale thought to help the lion, for he was the more naturalbeast of the two; and therewith he drew his sword, and set his shield afore him, and there he gave the serpent such a buffet that he had a deadly wound.
Right so he heard and saw the Questing Beastcome to the well.
And the ass that he rode upon is a beast of humility, for God would not ride upon no steed, nor upon no palfrey; so in ensample that an ass betokeneth meekness, that thou sawest Sir Launcelot ride on in thy sleep.
When the lion saw that, he made no resemblaunt to fight with him, but made him all the cheer that a beast might make a man.
I would, said she, for the amends of my beast that ye become my man.
But I leave it all to your honour; and the whole grazing he ought to be charging for the beast is but two and eight pence halfpenny, any how, please your honour.
Had he been a real wild beast he could not have given the window-frame a much worse shake, as he passed through in his anger to the bench under the mulberry-tree.
A pawnbroker from Alcester had opened a branch establishment here--which had set the world gaping more than they would at a wild-beast show.
The old man never moved his eyes from the young face, and neither the one nor the other saw the great striped terrified beast which slunk past them and disappeared into the shadows, seeking protection in its terror.
Not one of the three heeded the low moaning of the wind as it swept past the temple and through the trees, to die away into a great, uncanny, unnatural silence, unbroken by sound of beast or bird.
He had travelled far and shot a rare beast or two, but so had many another--and with greater difficulties to contend with than he who had never wrestled with the disadvantages of inferior equipment and inadequate attendance.
The spy came on toward them slowly, his horse reeling under him, and man and beast alike were nearly shot to pieces.
Both the beast and its mistress commanded his instant attention, in which wonder was the chief emotion.
Zeke heard the great jaws of the beast click shut as it shot harmlessly past its foe; he heard the savage growl with which it whirled to renew the attack.
In the same instant, the beast was firmly set, hauling at the rope.
Otherwise, he might find himself engaged against both man and beast with only a single bullet to his aid.
There came a clatter of sliding stones, as the big beast went galloping up the rise toward the crest of the mountain.
After he had wakened to full consciousness, Knowles thought the man a beast to sit there uncomplaining day after day, cold and grave, as if the lifeful warmth of the late autumn were enough for him.
It is no doubt to carry food to some ferocious beastconfined there.
If I show myself," said he to himself, "this poor little one will take me for some wild beast of the forest.
