They have heads of human form, with horns and brutish ears; they have crooked hands, rough hairy bodies, goats' legs and feet and tails.
His brutish judges displayed unwonted activity in bringing men and women to an untimely end, because they knew their zeal brought them into royal favour.
Be thou my hell, my dumb eternal grief, But spare thy King the madness of belief, The brutish faith of ignorant desire That strives and wanders.
Here dwelt a vagabond tribe of Bastard Verderers and Charcoal-burners, savage, ignorant, brutish Wretches, as superstitious as the Manilla Creoles.
I do grace him as much as I may, for I find him marvellously greedy to do anything to recover the conceit of his brutish offence.
There were no divinity, but by reason of compassion for revenges are brutish and mortal.
Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
And I will pour out mine indignation upon thee, I will blow against thee in the fire of my wrath, and deliver thee into the hand of brutish men, and skilful to destroy.
But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.
Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise?
Every man is brutish by his knowledge; every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.
Even the legal mind of the Pope, although much drowsed and blunted by brutish excesses, discerns faultiness in this document; and consequently on the same day issues a third Bull, in which the injustice to Portugal is redressed.
And I, crouched above her, staring down at her muffled form outstretched thus at my mercy, felt my quivering fist relax, felt my brutish anger cower before her trust and fearlessness.
Primal instincts and brutish passions here are unrestrained--a fact responsible for my present battered appearance.
The girl shrank in terror from the grip of the thick, grimy fingers and the glare of the envenomed eyes that blazed from the distorted, brutish features.
The brutish face of the pusher lighted with an ugly leer, expressive of understanding, and he began to move cautiously towards the man who had that day displaced him from the timber gang.
Now the cruel face was rendered doubly hideous by a grin of triumph, and Peveril's heart sank within him as he gazed into the pitiless eyes that lighted its brutish features.
She said he thought too much, but without thought, without passionate endeavor, how could marriage fail to sink into brutish habit?
You have watched our struggles and they have seemed to you brutish and unmeaning because you have not understood their aim.
Diligent labour mortifieth the flesh, and keepeth under its luxurious inclinations, and subdueth that pride, and lust, and brutish sensuality which is cherished by an idle life.
Thus among the brutish party, it goeth under the names of love, and having a mistress, and courting, and such like.
The brutish appetite and sense hath got such dominion over the reason of carnal, unrenewed men, that for such to be governed by themselves, is for a man to be governed by a swine, or the rider to be ruled by the horse.
But your father, and physician, and reason, and notbrutish appetite, must be judge.
It turneth it from the only excellent pleasure, by the force of that brutish kind of pleasure.
Brutish, promiscuous generation tendeth to the production of a brutish seed.
Certainly where sensual pleasures are preferred before the higher pleasures of the soul, that man becomes a beast, or worse, subjecting his reason to his brutish part.
When they rebel against the government of the will, and trouble it, and hinder it in its choice or prosecution of good, or urge it violently to follow their brutish inclination.
But when she concluded his brutish rage had gained the ascendency.
A compactly built, brutish looking man was in his line of vision, sprawled in a chair directly facing him.
But these things the brutish man, the man whose heart was never broken, has no understanding of.
And Christians should be above [such] men, brutish men.
A great wonder possessed my mind for the genius of the uncanny being who with the scratch of a needle had made a brave and kindly man into this unclean, brutish thing.
The cunning mind was torpid--lost in a brutish world of dreams.
A chorus of brutish cries clamored from behind, with a muffled scream rising above them all.
Then, again, we are told that he is brutish in temperament and of low ideals, and never seems to rise above his squalid surroundings.
One will write as if the Russian peasant was only a degree better in his intelligence than the animals which share his filthy hovel, and no less brutish in temperament and nature.
Their women are singularly conformed, having a natural skin apron, and are all so ignorant and brutish that they do not hesitate to prostitute themselves publicly for the smallest imaginable recompense, of which I was an eye witness.
Be She curst, or fiercer than Brutish beast, or savage man!
If they would exercise the spiritual nature more and the animal less they could take no pleasure in such brutish doing.
They are altogether brutish and foolish; the stock is a doctrine of vanities.
Understand, ye brutish among the people, and ye fools, when will ye be wise?
In order to deaden the pangs of conscience and remorse at a life ruined and thrown away, all their insidious, brutish instincts have to be let loose at once and all their passions satisfied.
Albeit men are become so brutish as to abase their souls, and prostitute them to any thing, yet all a man hath is not considerable to it.
Truly it cannot choose but that it must be a nature more swinish or brutish than a swine, that can relish and savour such filthy abominable works of the flesh as abound amongst some of you.
Every man as he comes out of the womb, is degenerated and fallen down into this brutish estate, to mind, to savour, to relish nothing but what relates to this fleshly or temporal being.
The brutish man understands not this,” and Eccles.
And, O how will a Christian blush to behold himself in that light, to see the very image of a beast upon his nature, to look on that slavery and bondage of his far better part to the worst and brutish part in him,—his flesh!
That wretched aim at a higher wisdom, hath thrown us all down into this brutish and stupid condition, to be like wild asses colts.
In his spirit he riseth up to an angelic dignity, and in his body he falls down to a brutish condition.
God calls for a reasonable service: but I must say, the service of the most is an unreasonable and brutish kind of work,—little or no consideration of what we are about, little or no purpose or aim at any real soul advantage.
Shall we in the greatest thing of the greatest moment, because of eternal concernment be as perishing brutish beasts, that know not what we aim at?
What is your life but a tedious and wearisome repetition of such brutish actions which are only terminate on the body?
But he has not understanding; baffled and foiled and helpless, he says that he is too brutish to be a man.
Woe to us if we do not understand, but in a brutish way follow the ordinances of death instead of the way of life!
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