Often illustrated, the earliest known bestiary dates from the 9th century. From LearnThat.org. [http://www.pantheon.org/areas/bestiary/]
So I wound up calling it a bestiary, which is just a book in which animals do things that people do. From Wordnik.com. [David Sedaris, Anatomizing Us In 'Squirrel' Tales] Reference
Ross: A bestiary is a "book of beasts," a collection of stories giving allegorical descriptions of animal behavior. From Wordnik.com. [Steve Leveen: E-books: What Would da Vinci Say? Ross King's New Reading] Reference
This bestiary is included in the second section of 45 Mercy Street, first published in 1976, two years after Sexton’s suicide. From Wordnik.com. [Bestiary U.S.A. : Rigoberto González : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation] Reference
She'd understood at one level what a bestiary was. From Wordnik.com. [Time Scout]
Wry, dark animal tales comprise this modern bestiary. From Wordnik.com. [BOOK WORLD - December 26, 2010] Reference
I have a postcard of a bonnacon from the Ashmole bestiary. From Wordnik.com. [a beast like a bull, that uses its dung as a weapon] Reference
The 13th century Aberdeen bestiary does not venture a guess. From Wordnik.com. [a beast like a bull, that uses its dung as a weapon] Reference
The bestiary was missing from its wooden stand in the corner. From Wordnik.com. [PodCastle » PC018: Illuminated Dragon] Reference
LP: Did Leonardo mean for his own fables and bestiary to be published?. From Wordnik.com. [Steve Leveen: E-books: What Would da Vinci Say? Ross King's New Reading] Reference
LP: What was a bestiary, and why were they a popular form of allegory?. From Wordnik.com. [Steve Leveen: E-books: What Would da Vinci Say? Ross King's New Reading] Reference
The Freudian anxiety defense bestiary is fairly small, but insightful. From Wordnik.com. [Sublimation] Reference
Leonardo owned a bestiary called the Fior di Virtù "Flower of Virtue". From Wordnik.com. [Steve Leveen: E-books: What Would da Vinci Say? Ross King's New Reading] Reference
Leonardo owned a bestiary called the Fior di Virtù "Flower of Virtue". From Wordnik.com. [Steve Leveen: E-books: What Would da Vinci Say? Ross King's New Reading] Reference
Overworked Cat with an open bestiary on her browser = too easily amused. From Wordnik.com. [Six Apart Ownz My Soul] Reference
Some rode horses, some carried nets and tridents like the bestiary hunters. From Wordnik.com. [Time Scout]
Everyone seems to think that I'm using poor Gus for the sake of the bestiary. From Wordnik.com. [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]
That's why the idea of a thottbot or bestiary in Allakhazam, etc. bothers me. From Wordnik.com. [Automated Expertise Management] Reference
At filmtagebuch, a Ray Harryhausen bestiary - in chronological order, no less. From Wordnik.com. [GreenCine Daily: Shorts, 12/10.] Reference
Wry, dark animal tales comprise this modern bestiary; illustrated by Ian Falconer. From Wordnik.com. [BOOK WORLD - January 2, 2011] Reference
I thought stereotyping was one of the most feral creatures in the anti-racist bestiary. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-05-09] Reference
Wry, dark animal tales comprise this modern bestiary with illustrations by Ian Falconer. From Wordnik.com. [Hardcover] Reference
Strangely, this scene is described nowhere in the text, nor in any bestiary for that matter. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-04-01] Reference
Arguably a step better than the bestiary of existing capital-like debt at the top of this note. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Contingent Convertible Debt] Reference
Does anyone else find it odd that the bestiary is using a unit of area acre to measure distance?. From Wordnik.com. [a beast like a bull, that uses its dung as a weapon] Reference
"What a great journey it's been," he marveled, standing at the unmarked door to his secret bestiary. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Shwedick's career handling reptiles came from childhood fascination] Reference
He did, reciting a bestiary that rivaled her own, complete with a half-human, half-shark monstrosity. From Wordnik.com. [DELUGE (Part 27) – Brian Keene] Reference
I just stumbled across you with a passive shove from bestiary.ca and I am thoroughly enjoying your commentaries. From Wordnik.com. [Rawwrgghh] Reference
Americans, according to this bestiary, are warlike and money-obsessed; Iraqis are intensely religious and proud. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-08-01] Reference
As bestiary.ca notes, the term "amphisbaena" is now applied to a group of reptiles, the so-called "worm lizards". From Wordnik.com. [The Return of Weird Medieval Animal Monday (WMAM)] Reference
Arguably a step better than the bestiary of existing capital-like debt at the top of this note.misplaced trust co. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Contingent Convertible Debt] Reference
What that animal is no one knows, but it has been in the reactionary bestiary so long that none dare call it gormless. From Wordnik.com. [About 'Capote'] Reference
Colbert's work, which he calls "a 21st-century bestiary," captures the poetic beauty in our relationship to the animal kingdom. From Wordnik.com. [Gregory Colbert - Ashes and Snow] Reference
But he called only a handful of them, those whose voices would blend toward the old spell he hurriedly copied from his bestiary. From Wordnik.com. [Song of Time]
It smells like a log of cookie dough left out in the sun and then rolled in cobwebs, the bouquet of the nearby aquatic bestiary. From Wordnik.com. [Pipe Dreams] Reference
Also look forward to the ability to add private notes to words, which I worked on recently in Vacationland after bestiary suggested it. From Wordnik.com. [What I Did On My Summer Vacation] Reference
Here, a curator of his own personal bestiary in Chasm City succumbs to petty jealousy and enters into a game of one-upmanship with a rival. From Wordnik.com. [REVIEW: Galactic North by Alastair Reynolds] Reference
Edward Topsell, an English cleric and author of the famous bestiary mentioned above, believed it to be the offspring of a camel and a mule. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference
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