Adjective : the belief that a person could assume bestial form after death; the bestial signs of the zodiac. ,bestial treatment of prisoners. From Dictionary.com.
Knowing the youths were somewhat green and "bestial". From Wordnik.com. [Complete Poetical Works] Reference
Though about you call the bestial. From Wordnik.com. [AE in the Irish Theosophist] Reference
Create in bestial hearts more fervid fires. From Wordnik.com. [Essay on War] Reference
Was that a kind of bestial derision that he detected in those blank grey eyes?. From Wordnik.com. [Brave New World]
A newspaper reported me as saying this on my own authority and added that I had said the Germans were the most "bestial" people on earth. From Wordnik.com. [Face to Face with Kaiserism] Reference
The thing was a curious blending of human and bestial features. From Wordnik.com. [Zehru of Xollar] Reference
Satyrs are partly of human likeness and partly of bestial shape. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales] Reference
Words left the twisted lips, and there was a bestial pain in them. From Wordnik.com. [The Monster] Reference
This bestial creature is in the act of abducting a beautiful woman. From Wordnik.com. [Sculpture of the Exposition Palaces and Courts] Reference
Hieronymus is likened to the Centaurs on account of his bestial passion. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1] Reference
Here living conditions were not merely beastly; they were often bestial. From Wordnik.com. [Preaching and Paganism] Reference
Burrill became more bestial, more besotted, more contemptible, every day. From Wordnik.com. [The Diamond Coterie] Reference
A hoarse mewing sound left the twisted lips as the mind became a single, bestial thing. From Wordnik.com. [The Monster] Reference
But the inner voice that had called him bestial now called him shirker, coward, and slacker. From Wordnik.com. [The Lani People] Reference
Felt a sudden compassion that was erased by the bestial look that came into the monster's eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Monster] Reference
On this capital are also two figures half-human, half-bestial, clasping each other round the neck. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Carlisle A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Episcopal See] Reference
The bestial indifference to soul invoked by the abominable drive for survival governs these Badlands. From Wordnik.com. [After the Badlands] Reference
"Earthquake, wind, wave, lightning, fire, bestial ferocity" are merely the "vapid fury of mortal mind.". From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908] Reference
The hideous bestial shapes, the noise and riot, may well have seemed demoniacal to simple people slightly. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan] Reference
In all other classes of society, democracy was regarded as synonymous with bestial anarchy and infidelity. From Wordnik.com. [The Wars Between England and America] Reference
But as man rises out of his bestial condition and acquires reason his wants become more numerous and diverse. From Wordnik.com. [Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama] Reference
And, oh! the Sundays! the dreary, bestial days, with Sunday-school at half-past nine and chapel at eleven, and. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
There was to her something unspeakably repugnant in the fact that this bestial person should dare to think of her intimately. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference
The possessed fell into catalepsy, and lay senseless during the time they imagined themselves in their bestial transformation. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II] Reference
There was fresh food for him to-night, he knew, some blood more potent than any that for twelve years had come his bestial way. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Myths] Reference
It was as though their profession affected them the way that living in a close, dark room would, stupefying and making them bestial. From Wordnik.com. [Trapped in 'Black Russia' Letters June-November 1915] Reference
And a grand sentiment, like the divine uplift of the soul of a hero saving his country, flamed up then in that bestial beggar's heart. From Wordnik.com. [Stories by Foreign Authors: Italian] Reference
The part places extraordinary demands on an actor who has be introspective and athletic, bestial and angelic, cruel and compassionate. From Wordnik.com. [Hamlet: Dane and dusted] Reference
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