Many used to work themselves literally into a state of bestial ferocity.
Thus, I think: that under the influence of their creed they reverted perforce to the more bestial traits of aboriginal humanity.
Their existence is almost bestial in its blankness.
There is nothing bestial about intoxication; and certainly there is nothing intoxicating or even particularly lively about beasts.
The hero stands between two bisons, one of which is being attacked by a lion and the other by a leopard, while the inhuman and semi-bestial Ea-bani is attacking the lion from behind.
Their yellow teeth were filed to sharp points, and their great protruding lips added still further to the low and bestial brutishness of their appearance.
But with ever-rising grades of immortality before them, even those bestial types might ascend to a perfect manhood, and shall they perish?
The bestial madness of ages and aeons, the lust and lasciviousness of countless generations, are still in our blood, and our instincts are still the instincts of the beast and the savage.
The great, always mysterious depths of her eyes were glowing with bestial fires.
There was no mistaking the evolution of his facial expression from startled bewilderment to that of angry, bestial satisfaction.
Nor does the evidence within our reach suffice to prove the prevalence, to the astounding extent alleged by the opponents of Las Casas, of monstrous and bestial crimes against nature practised among the natives.
It combined all the devices of inquisitorial torturing with the indulgence of the bestial ferocities of the bullfight.
We witness the vile orgies of the bestial crew into whose circles Faust is introduced, and see how Mefistofele is acclaimed king and receives the homage.
In Egypt the animals were still adored, and the images of the gods had bestial heads.
To the savage intellect, man and beast are on a level, and all savage myth makes men descended from beasts; while stories of the loves of gods in bestial shape, or the unions of men and animals, incessantly occur.
Gradually the bestial characteristics dropped, and there appeared such rude anthropomorphic images of Apollo--more like South Sea idols than the archer prince--as are now preserved in Athens.
In her bestial form she was just about to be slain by her own son when Zeus rescued her by raising her to the stars.
All these bestial tendencies will be eradicated only by the recognition of human duty, of the social bond.
It may be frankly acknowledged that man inherits from his brute progenitors various bestial tendencies which are in course of elimination.
The antagonism that grew out of ignorance regarded Atheism as implying degraded morality andbestial life, and they assailed my conduct not on evidence that it was evil, but on the presumption that an Atheist must be immoral.
Another bestial tendency is greed, the strongest grabbing all he can and trampling down the weak, in the mad struggle for wealth; how and when has religion modified this tendency, sanctified as it is in our present civilisation?
At the last they gave it as their opinion that the ring was not to be broken by any bestial power.
The golden calf, which was a symbol of Jehovah, is condemned equally with the fair forms that haunted the Greek Olympus, or the half-bestial shapes of Egyptian mythology.
We found on it the most bestial and the most brutal race that has ever been seen, and they were of this kind.
Having arranged that more than forty of us should land and avenge such cruel murder, and so bestial and inhuman an act, the principal captain would not give his consent.
They eat little flesh, unless it be human flesh, and your Magnificence must know that they are so inhuman as to transgress regarding this most bestial custom.
Not all Germans are bestial and cruel, with no regard for honor, but just how many of them are not remains for the American and Australian citizens of German descent to prove.
I had the pleasure of being entertained by a French priest who had been on the western front in the early days of the war, and he added to our knowledge more first-hand stories of the bestial Huns' ravaging of convents and raping of nuns.
She was "certainly deserving of being classed as an extremely low, degraded, almost a bestial type of a human being.
Beginning with Pithecanthropus, which science is yet in doubt whether to class with the apes or with men, we pass upward to the bestial Neanderthal man and his fellows of the same low type.
The fragment of the skull attracted wide attention by its bestial aspect, it presenting a low, narrow and receding forehead, and an enormous thickness of the bony ridges over the eyes, like that seen in the gorilla.
It is at once both bestial and divine, the exquisite perfume of Hellenic grace mingles with the savage odour of primitive humanity.
He carved the bestial face of the Laughing Satyr with its violent and strained expression as of one who was not used to laughter, and a little later the relief of Apollo and Marsyas.
No sooner was the man unveiled than a shout of joy burst from the people, a shout which died away in the bestialbellowing of the human caricatures below.
A more bestial sight he had never seen, not even in the earlier hours of that night.
His answer could do no harm, and it gave him a thrill of satisfaction to score even so paltry a point against his bestial antagonist.
