None but choice, thrifty beasts will pay for their food and attention, and all others will make their best returns, by an immediate disposal, after the surplus fodder is gone.
The hide is considerably thicker than that of the Devon, and the beasts are more hardy.
It's little temptation there was for my poor beasts to ask to cross the mering.
When the day dawned, the nocturnal beasts of prey slunk back to their lairs.
He avoids over-education, and his beasts live with him and his children in a natural kindly manner.
The sledge runners crunched on the ice, but for all that he heard how the wolves panted, and knew that the beasts were almost upon him.
Cows and oxen were so tired they could hardly move, and many of the poor beasts dropped down in the middle of the road, to show that they were too exhausted to go any farther.
It was heart-rending to see how the wild beasts had thrown themselves upon the sheep just for sport--just to hunt them and tear them to death.
Surely he had heard that the animals in Delsbo assembled on Black's Ridge every New Year's Eve, that the Wood-nymph might mark out which among the tame beasts would that year be prey for the wild beasts.
In the middle of the open space was an immense boulder around which many wild beasts had gathered.
The rifle which drove away wild beasts was made of iron, also the pick that had broken up the mine.
Wild beasts were not coming toward him, but a poor old woman, named Finn-Malin, who was in the habit of roaming about on highways and byways.
They and thebeasts were alike merry--as if looking forward to a day of real pleasure.
In a twinkling the boy remembered all that he and the goosey-gander had suffered on ice-bound lakes and stormy seas and among wild beasts of prey.
Every time this occurred the beasts of prey broke into loud, exultant roars--particularly when it was lowered over a cow or some other large creature.
The cow walked around the rock and then turned toward the forest without any of the wildbeasts touching her.
But the old geese were ready with a retort and cried to their goslings: "Look at those beasts that stay at home and sleep half the year rather than go to the trouble of travelling south!
But he felt so sorry for the poor beasts that he wanted at least to try.
And you never thought of erecting scaffolds for these infamous creatures, for these ferocious beasts who steal from you your bread, your sun.
Only the windows of the brothel houses were aglare, like the eyes of some huge beasts crouching in the depth of night.
We were very short of food for beasts as well as men.
There's a deal o' sense in beasts if ye take notice on 'em and treat 'em friendly like.
I al'ays did say beasts was so sensible as Christians if ye took a bit of notice of 'em.
Hoo stood an' hoo stared at us same as if we was wild beasts or summat.
The birds and beasts rejoice and play, And every one seeks for his mate to prove his inmost joy.
The fossils of the mammoth reptiles and beastswhich lived before the appearance of man on this planet are numerous in the fascinating West I know so well.
The beasts and their master, when they had crossed the yard slowly, stopped under the out-jutting straw eaves of the granary, from which long icicles were hanging.
Meanwhile Pan Gideon beckoned "the bark shoes" to come to him, and then he fell to inquiring whence they came, whither they were going, and was there no danger from wild beasts in any place.
Two of them foundered before we reached Groyets, for we galloped all the way in a terrible windstorm; we sold them for a trifle to Jew wagoners, for the beasts were no good after foundering.
The four brothers were riding strong beasts from the Yedlinka stables (they had sold or pledged not only their horses but the best of their sabres).
Suddenly the tramping of horses was heard behind the carriage, and the sounds made as the beastspulled their feet out of the mud; these resembled the firing of muskets,--then piercing words were heard on both sides of the carriage.
These beasts here may have before God greater merit than I have.
At the festival other priests laughed at him; they said that his house was like the ark, that he cares for all beasts just as Noah did.
In the first days of December the birds, after frequent biting frosts, flew into villages and towns, and even wild beasts came out of dense forests and drew near the houses of people.
Two days before they went on a hunt to the forest, smoked out a sleepy she-bear, speared her, and took her cub which they brought as a gift to Father Voynovski, whose fondness for wild beasts was known by all people.
Then Bwana seized his rifle and, taking steady aim, He fired at Queen Hippo and made her front legs lame, Then shooting at her sisters, and brothers left and right, He scattered all the mighty beasts and drove them out of sight.
The land where this happened was wild, and only savagebeasts lived in it, so Daedalus flew away to Sicily.
Orpheus had said, before he came into the wood, that he was tired of men and their quarrels; that wild beasts were easier to tame than angry men; and so he found it during these two days in the forest.
That night Orpheus led the birds and beasts all back to the places where he had found them, and went home to live once more in his cave in Thrace.
The three wild beasts fed together on the river grasses and forgot that they had been life-long enemies.
Fire gleams from the eyeballs of the beasts when they are in anger, but this fire is cold compared with the burning blaze of wood and coal.
No shepherds ever brought their flocks there to drink, no lions nor other wild beasts came in the night time.
The beasts answered, 'Duks,' and everything happened as on the former day.
The beasts answered: You have eaten with him, You have drunk with him, Of us you have not thought, Sleep then as you ought!
But one of the beasts whose ears were longer than the rest caught the words, and went to tell Big Lion about it.
When the beasts were satisfied, the maiden sat down beside the old man at the table and ate what was left for her.
The next day, as soon as it was light, Big Lion marched straight for the lake, and all the other beasts followed him.
Don't you see how men andbeasts must help her when she wanders into the wide world with her bare feet?
With that a,ll the bonds that the troll had bound were broken; all the wild beasts and birds which he had caught and hid under the ground were free now, and dispersed themselves in the woods and in the air.
And when at the bidding of the old man she had prepared a good supper, and the dishes were standing on the table, she said, 'Shall I have plenty while the good beasts have nothing?
I told him that was better than to be beasts of prey.
He said we should find it very convenient if we had slaves here; for Northern women were mere beasts of burden.
Their blow-indented helmets bear Heraldic beasts that bay and grin, Athwart the shades the red lights glare On crest and ancient lambrequin.
Limn thou, fantastic, free Blue sirens of the sea, And beasts of heraldry.
As for their sagacity and skill, the wild beasts taught them, and they only had the trouble of imitating them.
I care our races are hostile, the wild beastswill finish him--to each his prey.
So soon as the darkness began to fall, the desert woke up, and the howling of wild beasts proceeding to the watering places were heard hoarsely echoing in the unexplored depths of the forest.
Still it is evident that if the Indian Chief had not succoured him before daybreak, the hunter would have been devoured alive by the wild beasts prowling about in quest of prey.
In fact, the poor beasts themselves were reduced to a state of leanness and weakness, which amply testified to the rude fatigue they must have endured.
There were curtains with monsters and beasts embroidered in fine silk, hung at the doors to keep out draughts, and so many singing-birds in golden cages, that there were times when they could not hear themselves speak.
The very beasts have dams that suckle them, and is Bernardo alone deprived of the common claims of nature?
The wild beasts of the desert shall meet with the wild beasts of the islands.
The desert, with its wild beasts and its Bedouin, reaches right up to the city gates, and until we are within these we need to keep our hands on our sword-hilts and be ready for conflict.
He may see, and may shudder as he sees, throughout large rural districts, millions of infants growing up from infancy to manhood as ignorant, as mere slaves of sensual appetite, as the beasts that perish.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "beasts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: animality; cattle; fauna; game; livestock; stock; wildlife
