| 单词 | beast |
| 例句 | I came to wonder if every disease of man and beast had simply waited for my arrival to invade the valley. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z When his eyesight cleared, he saw the beast that was carrying him aloft. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z ‘But there is no knowing what he can do, or may choose to try. A wild beast cornered is not safe to approach. And Saruman has powers you do not guess. Beware of his voice!’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z There was a beast hidden inside, and soon it might come out and make him look like the man Alec had zapped with the Transvice. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z "He acts as a beast would, blindly. He's at the mercy of his own evil, and hardly knows what he does." Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z “Let the poor little beast alone. I want to talk to you.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I cannot cry, I told myself, I would not cry, I should not cry in front of these black beasts. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “Soon we would’ve. But if you be sent to the beasts, then there be no need.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z "I mean how about us? Suppose the beast comes when you're all away. I can't see proper, and if I get scared-" Jack broke in, contemptuously. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z "What of the beast that savaged your son?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z It showed a spoon brimming with stars and mythical beasts. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Make sure anyone that came into her yard knew they were dealing with a beast who could only be held by a big bull chain wrapped around a fat-trunked tree. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z “It is an allegory. Those beasts of prey represent our worldly troubles,” Brother Ugo explained. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z "I gave you food," said Jack, "and my hunters will protect you from the beast. Who will join my tribe?" Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z The beast, perhaps recognizing the danger in the water, wasn’t having it. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z “You wish that I was a good beast like the ones on your clipper ships?” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z "We were going to look for the beast." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z I marveled at the Book of John, with its terrible revelations of angels and beasts loosed at the end of time. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Having no beasts of burden, the Cahokians themselves had to do all the carrying. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “It is certainly a fearsome beast, perhaps one of the most intelligent predators to ever walk these lands.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Monsoon season would be here soon, and going with this boy who also wanted the Shetani could improve her chances of finding the beast and bringing it back. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z He went into the room where he slept and he laid himself upon the bed and he wrapped the quilt about his head that he might not hear the beast’s bellowing when it died. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Dr. Bright had trained me as a man might train a dumb beast, through repetition, reinforced by beatings. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Out of the door bounded a huge black dog exactly like the beasts that had attacked Nhamo on her first night in Zimbabwe! A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z "And about the beast When we kill we'll leave some of the kill for it. Then it won't bother us, maybe." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Only none of the beasts attack—if anything, they’re clearing a path. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z “Perhaps his lordship is muddy, yes, but what is a little mud? Speak politely of the noble beast, as one learns to, who must work each day within reach of his jaws.” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z When a shell lands in the trench we note how the hollow, furious blast is like a blow from the paw of a raging beast of prey. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z No, she tried to breathe deeply and evenly and keep her eyes fixed on those of the beast. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z With his hunting dogs he brought the beast to bay. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Unbidden, the image of the beast in the shadows of Magnolia Crescent crossed his mind. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z The beast buried his head in the ewe’s soft underbelly, periodically coming up for air, his black-and-green face drenched in the sheep’s blood. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z “Mom doesn’t give the beast too much credit for passing on good genes.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z At last the beasts get wise to it, or perhaps they have scented the blood. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z At last the dawn came and as the beasts crowding through the entrance passed out Polyphemus felt them over to be sure no one carried a man on his back. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z He offered a hand to Nick, who ignored it and got unsteadily to his feet, rubbing his windpipe and glaring at us like some trapped and wounded beast. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z The pack kept harassing the sleepy beast, barking and snarling, but with no intention of killing it. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z No beast can match its range and power. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z "But I tell you there isn't a beast!" Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z "A willful beast," laughed a handsome young man. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z TimeStar rolled from the path of the beast just in time. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z “Your father had been taken by beasts. It had been several months since he went off to hunt and did not return. And so I would not give birth again. “ Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Neither Mr. Flux nor the beast saw the fresh trap, and the creature’s legs tangled, snagged by the line. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z The beast straightened, reaching a clawed hand over its own shoulder. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z He skulked the beast closer to Father Time. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z But they had no chance against the fury of the beast. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z A pack of drooling beasts claws at the glass. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z He wondered, seeing it, for it was a rare strange beast, an otak. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Then Brevis would pick himself up and return to dragging the beast. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z To kill for him—to be a fang in the mouth of the beast that had already consumed half of Erilea...“And if I accept?” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z But they seemed surprised by the sight of his sharp nails—to Hanako he looked exactly like a little wild beast. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z His trembling hand and the big scar on the underside of his arm were the result of a narrow escape from an attack—but not from a wild beast. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z No longer human, they shared the skin of animals, and their faces resembled the beasts of hell—twisted devil birds and demons howling in anguish. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z This boy always had the best ideas, but they wondered how even he could deal with such great beasts as elephants. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z “Have you forgotten? I’m a wild beast, Ivan,” he says, sniffing the floor for crumbs. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z When my feet hit, I heard something inside the metal beast snap under my crushing weight. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z All around the walls and on the floor was the evidence of the lowest impulses to which humans could sink: one could not call the cruel remains of sacrifices bestial, for beasts have dignity. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z She knew the dino’s rider was directing it to attack her, but she couldn’t help but feel for the poor beast anyway. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z He felt like an exotic beast, a hunter’s prize. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z By stretching one arm to the utmost, I was able to reach the beast’s lower jaw. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Gabe made a face and growled loudly, imitating a beast of some kind. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Those were the kinds of people the beast seemed to always pick—the defenseless, the vulnerable. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z He climbed trees outside his cave, made clubs, trying to protect his family from the wild beasts outside trying to get in. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The little girl threw herself on the ground in a trembling kowtow before the beast. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z But still it wouldn’t be enough without Finnick spearing the beasts like fish and flinging them aside, Peeta slashing away with his knife. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z But by the time all these thoughts had gone through his head, Tristran was already standing in the center of the clearing, an arm's length from the beasts. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z It was harder to say who was dirtier, the children or the beasts. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z And I don’t reckon these other beasts will go for us. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z She was faster and more agile than any other bird or beast the world around. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z He thrust his arm into the blackness inside the tomb, as into the mouth of some great beast. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z An interest in magical beasts was considered dangerous and suspect, and taking a case full of such creatures into a major city was, in retrospect, a serious mistake. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z So Bill was going as the beast of burden, yet he was the only member of the Company that did not seem depressed. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z "Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood! Do him in!" Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Neither of them seemed to notice the giant silver beasts around them. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The winged beasts clawed at their smaller opponents, but the fairies adroitly evaded the blows and slashed off their wings, sending the gargoyles hurtling to the ground. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z “The Boltons have always been as cruel as they were cunning, but this one seems a beast in human skin,” said Glover. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z A heavy beast that could decapitate you with a single swing. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z I love her as much as you love any bird or beast or fish and will you tell God take the consumption away and I promise I’ll never go near her again. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z On top of the beast, with a scraggly tuft of the creature’s fur coiled around each fist, was Mr. Flux. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z His bulging eyes, wild hair, enormous dark belly, and animal-fang necklace made the barefoot figure more beast than human. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z It was fear of the greater beast and fear of touching the greater beast’s food. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The beast started for Nhamo with its red tongue lolling out of its mouth. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z As for the horses, they were from Europe; except for llamas in the Andes, the Western Hemisphere had no beasts of burden. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “You’re out! What happened? Do you go to the Field? To the beasts?” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She prays that the beast not bring so many to her door. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Not all mythical beasts are friendly, of course, but even the hostile ones have certain amiable redeeming aspects. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “That beast looks like it doesn’t like that we’re in here.” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z The shadow of the castle grew across the city like a hulking beast. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “Half my beasts are dead or gone, and my reputation is in shambles!” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Some walked up and down the beast from head to tail, tail to head. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z So they had shifted camp then, away from the beast. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z In order to pen their disobedient toddlers and chickens, the women would turn her out of the village to be devoured by the beasts that waited in the woods to forage the Field. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Great men of the sea must never abandon their beasts!” the captain announces. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Then from out of the darkness, I heard the deep growling of some beast. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Merry crawled on all fours like a dazed beast, and such a horror was on him that he was blind and sick. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The wet mill is like a giant steel beast, with a maze of pipes and machines inside. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The beast startled some at first, raising its massive forelegs up and then slamming them down again. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z “A beast followed me on the path,” Kira explained, trying to breathe normally. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Like a rabid beast bent on ripping my throat out. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z “Surrender, you two! and confound you for two wild beasts! Come asunder!” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z The one they had was a crumbling white beast, long-suffering but dependable, filled with ladders and wood and rattling with loose screws and brushes. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z As we rushed the cow, that ponderous beast — uneasy still in spite of its four-legged stance — fled; and we gave up our race for aimless crawling and darting. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z As though some beast breathes all the time at the windowpanes of his mind. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The wood was full of the rumour of him, dreadful tales even among beasts and birds. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “And just as sure as I’ll be having cabbage soup for supper tomorrow, that ticket’ll go to some nasty little beast who doesn’t deserve it!” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z Their trainers used large steel hooks to pull the beasts one way or the other, to prod or punish them. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z The mountains before us didn’t so much rise from the lake as rear from it, like startled beasts. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The aspect of the beast— nightmare, after all. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z And the horse he was leading and pretending to try to sell had not looked like much—a thin bony beast in a bridle patched with rope. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The beast lumbered toward us, panting and snarling, fiery sparks seething from its many mouths. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The boiler was straight ahead, a giant, white, curvaceous beast, with a rough asbestos hide. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z He was afraid the occasion had been spoiled by the excesses of that one beast. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z The closest I came to death was during my battle with the final boss, the Black Dragon, who, of course, looked exactly like the beast depicted in the painting in Anorak’s study. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Living in a giant maze, surrounded by hideous beasts. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z His oversize jersey and baggy jeans make him seem even bigger than usual, and Rabiya looks like a tiny bird hopping around in front of a beast that can easily crush her. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z But Vandara was older, heavier, and unflawed except for the scar, the reminder that she had fought a beast and escaped alive. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The first of these is that most fundamental question of all—what is a ‘beast’? Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “The beast, whatever it is, is hauled up to the floor of the arena and released. Can’t get back down, has to rush into the ring, and then—look out, whoever’s in its way!” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z Yet Ged was sure of its track as if he followed a beast's track over snow, instead of a wraith fleeing over water. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly the great beast beat its hideous wings, and the wind of them was foul. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z "I can't believe your teacup bear did this. Did you get her at Fardoux's? I hope you return the little beast," a woman says. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Big grey elephants were not uncommon either—huge beasts with castles on their backs. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He was like a beast at bay ready to charge its pursuers. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z We can, following Abbott, imagine a world of one dimension, where everyone is a line segment, or even the magical world of zero-dimensional beasts, the points. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The elephant looms against the far sidewall, an enormous beast the color of storm clouds. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z So Magdalys mostly had to be content with watching the great beasts cavort along outside her window: The lamplighter’s iguanodons would pass first thing in the morning, extinguishing the lanterns as the day broke. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z The first was to kill the lion of Nemea, a beast no weapons could wound. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps she’d cut the ears off rabbits and she wanted to feed them to some secret Bigfoot-like beast that lived in the forest. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z The “enemy,” a Khmer Rouge soldier or a wild beast, a monster or a ghostly man-creature, comes after me with knives, guns, axes, machetes. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z What of my father, then, him taken by beasts? Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He could smell the hot breath of the beasts behind him, a stink of brimstone and corruption. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z She’d seen Nehemia’s rooms; there were no signs of a demon beast lurking about, and nowhere in the castle where she could— Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z He didn’t want to upset the two beasts. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Perhaps nothing in natural history has been at the center of fiercer and more enduring hatreds than the line of ancient beasts known as dinosaurs. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Man and beast, strangers both, blue and blue. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z They would raise children, who would live with the rhythm of the beasts and the land. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She darted forward and gripped the beast by its shell, then raised it into the air, claws waving furiously. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z “Look, you smooshed-face beast, I admire your dedication to your craft. Acting is believing, and all that. But I really don’t remember.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z In some cases I have felt an explanation for the classification of a particular beast is necessary and have added footnotes accordingly. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z But man, who has but two legs, was never made to perform the service of four footed beasts. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Like a cornered beast he lifted his eyes and glared at her. ‘Our supplies are running out,’ he snarled. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z It left her to wonder what beast this weapon had been born from. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z I ran my fingers over the bow tied around the beast’s neck, over its frightening claws, its dangerous tail. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Contrary to what I reported in Outside, the animal was a moose, as a close examination of the beast’s remains now indicated and several of McCandless’s photographs of the kill later confirmed beyond all doubt. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The first is proper to man, the second to beasts. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z Like an enraged beast, the furnace throbbed with heat, suffusing a red glare over everything. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Only the albino keeper, to make sure the beasts were properly fed, and that there was never any sickness or weakness inside. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Instead he walked over to the biggest, most majestic, fattest of the beasts, raised his fist, and thumped it between the eyes, killing it instantly. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z I hopped up and ran down the beach, letting the yappy beast chase me until I was out of breath. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Uncanny little beast, she could never take to him, but Farid loved him like a dog. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z When the beast backed away, she cursed and slashed at his snout, trying to provoke him ... and succeeding. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Horses were big, stinky beasts that snorted steam and had eyes of fire. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z All the towns east-west roads dead-ended into Erie, and that day I glanced down every one to watch the lake spit chunks of dirty foam onto the beach like some angry, stalking beast. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z More often, though, hunters stalked individual beasts until they were close enough to throw a spear in the gut. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The beasts’ legs floated in the abyss, turning from solid to smoke as they moved. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z "I'd keep both hands on the reins, or this black beast of yours is like to fling us both off and kick us to death." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z And whatever beast they had stumbled into was beginning to close its mouth. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z "Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!" Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z He comes as beast and I make him bleed. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z “My . . . my father told me this tale, thousands of years ago. This is the beast we are looking for.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Every man who approached her she turned into a beast. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z In the side of the cliff was a cavern, mouth gaping open like a snoring beast. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z He grabbed a thick tuft of fur on the way down, breaking his fall while also causing the beast to honk and buck in pain. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z "Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!" Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z The beast’s leg was torn clean off its body. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z “No, I am not a beast and nor are you. Jenny, I shall go on holding you until you stop being cross. I said it because I was miserable.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z I toyed, of course, with the ridiculous theory that I’d stay where I was safe, like a sensible beast. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z From inside the pit came the cries of some fearsome thing—a beast or a witch or a demon—so she crossed herself and hurried her steps. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z But before he could find his legs, the hairy beast took flight. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z Its fires were now dimmed, and it stood in smouldering slumber, as threatening and dangerous as a sleeping beast. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The sight had chilled me, touched me to pity for men who so resembled beasts of burden. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Kay said, “Wake up, wake up, you beast Where have you been?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Gideon rides up on a fine horse, the beast dancing sideways in agitation. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z “This is just what I am, what I have always been. I try to control it, but sometimes the beast inside me takes over and I am overcome by the need to feed.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Perhaps the direwolf and the lion were not the only beasts in the woods, and if that was true, someone was using him as a catspaw. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I kept running, but even as I ran I couldn’t help but notice the beast was running awfully fast for a lame donkey. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z The beast flicked its forked tongue as it used its trunk to pick up the blade and examine it, two beady black eyes narrowing with scrutiny. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Ash had loved the roar of the fire — it sounded like a wild beast, crackling and growling and hot as summer. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Then a purple-brown blur blitzed in from the side, landing on the charging beast. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z The herds and flocks are seven, with fifty beasts in each. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The great grey beast was lying near the fire, but when Catelyn entered he lifted his head, and his golden eyes met hers. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Glinting gold in the lamplight, the whiskers made him look like some great yellow beast, magnificent even in chains. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Philoitios tied the beasts under the portico and joined the swineherd. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “Are you actually suggesting, child, that a foul beast deserves the same regard as a human being?” he asked. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z “You are a slimy beast,” answered the Centipede. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z The one being greater in both status and size, so it was that Skathis himself, the god of beasts and high lord of the Mesarthim, had dubbed them the greater and lesser Ellens. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Between the rose bowls the books were duly set out—a row of nursery quartos opened invitingly each at some gaily coloured image of beast or fish or bird. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z I couldn’t see all of him at once, that’s how enormous this beast was. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z She felt like she was struggling in the embrace of a slippery, suffocating beast, and for a moment it pulled her down below. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z The miserable beast did nothing but give a low, pitiful moan. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z But as we made our way to meet you, an evil beast jumped from the rocks! Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z When a bison was fatally wounded, the medical student recalled, “the beast vomits torrents of blood and falls to its knees before sinking to the ground.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z He fell in love with the daughter of the King of Chios, and for love of her he cleared the island of wild beasts. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z I was showing Lateesha that just cause I got muscles don't mean I'm some jungle beast. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Iron Emmett rode at the head of the column, mounted on the ugliest horse Jon had ever seen, a shaggy beast that looked to be all hair and hooves. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z They fly noiselessly beneath the bridge trestles; they have beasts with them on chains; their beasts leap out of the boats and sprint past the massifs of flowers, down the rows of hedges. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z There was a lively wind, and the great landscape was mottled with cloud-shadows, moving, Mary thought, like the migration of some herd of unimaginable beasts. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Tristran was about to tell his companion all about the encounter with the unicorn, but he thought better of it, and simply said, "He was a most noble beast." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z A group of boys milled around outside, glancing anxiously at the upper windows as if expecting a hideous beast to leap out in an explosion of glass and wood. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z The United States is feeding the beast, man. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Indeed, at that very moment, Digory heard the sound of hoofs from behind; a second later the old cab-horse trotted past him and joined the other beasts. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z It was good to be back with her beasts again. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Not a monster, not even a beast, but a living creature. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z In a moment the snow leopard had leaped after him, and Pantalaimon let the other daemon go, and both young daemons, changing flick-flick-flick, turned and battled with the great spotted beast. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z It’s coming as surely as are the beasts that protect the mysteries of Challenger Deep. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z “War turns men into beasts. It’s cheaper to shoot a boy than to feed him.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Flux and his beast ran straight through it. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z They call it “the backbone of night,” as if the sky were some great beast inside which we live. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The idea was to scare the beast, because that’s when it unleashed its diabolical flatulence. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z While the beast is distracted, Dylan and Ranger Alford dash out into the clearing. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z The sheriff rides over, horse dancing in agitation, the beast’s temperament a mirror of its rider’s. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z "You, listen. The beast is sitting up there, whatever it is--" "Perhaps it's waiting-" "Hunting-" "Yes, hunting." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z It was a whole bunch of people made into one big crawling beast. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z They weren’t quite close enough to hear him, and the moaning beast on their tail didn’t make listening easier. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z “Mother went to Washington over the weekend and parked her beast in my apartment. It’s really quite sweet. But such nasty habits. Do you have a dog?” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z I dodged and the beast buried its head in a brick wall. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z "A noisy brat on a fine beast of a horse." The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z The beast that had prevented Roza from escaping the yard of that horrible suburban house was the largest, ugliest, most miserable dog that Roza had ever seen. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z The wind formed a halter and brought the beast to a stop. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He towered over her, a great beast of a man, as big as Yai but with an even thicker neck and arms that were muscular and brown from working in the sun. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z “You’re not scared of me? You don’t think I’m some kind of unnatural girl, a beast?” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z I don’t know what I was thinking, but I charged the beast. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z It was Rasalas, the beast of the north anchor, and it wasn’t the true monster. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z After the battle was finished and the enemy was set beyond the doors of stone, survivors found Lanre’s body, cold and lifeless near the beast he had slain. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Of the many fearsome beasts and monsters that roam our land, there is none more curious or more deadly than the Basilisk, known also as the King of Serpents. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z She felt as if she were being taken by beasts; as if she were about to die. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z All this was fed to the beast, and it was satisfied. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Those tracks have long been abandoned, and the Wood is thought to be the home of dangerous beasts and the most powerful of all the fairies. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z From this spot she could also still make sure no feral beasts were about to rip into the crowd. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z That at least was as he remembered; the ancient stones slick with spray and spotted by lichen, the sea foaming under their feet like some great wild beast, the salt wind clutching at their clothes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z It pushed on its front legs and reared its head in an attempt to bite the hyena, but the beast was out of reach. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Frozen inside this blue ice are enormous beasts. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z They were trembling, not like a leaf that’s about to fall from a branch, but like some sort of rabid beast that’s legitimately trembling with excitement over tearing you apart. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “But it is to your shame you proved it thus. The black beast rides in the saddle with you. I see it even now.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z There could be remnants of civilizations destroyed by wars or by beasts or by immune systems that failed a sudden bacterial pop quiz. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z "I walloped him properly. That was the beast, I think!" Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z “Their beasts, however, found no such affinity for each other.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Annoyed, he snarled and the group of men behind him echoed his growls like hungry beasts. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Every day, the little gray-furred beasts would scurry tormentingly through the branches that hung outside the nursery windows, which threw all Penelope’s attempts to teach odd and even numbers into chaos. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z To wish to make a life in that wasteland of rock and flame, you’d have to be a beast without a sense of beauty, hope, or joy. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z ‘Isn’t there some trick? Wouldn’t the beast bolt back to him with all our stuff, or help in tracking us, or something?’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z And as he fell, he was certain he heard a voice coming from the general direction of the grey beast. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z It looks like one of the pictures they use for psychological testing, or some strange beast, a monster. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z Its iron-crowned battlements, massive towers, and thick red walls gave it the aspect of a ferocious beast hunched above river and streets. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z "We've seen the beast with our own eyes. No we weren't asleep." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z We tried not to name them, these beasts we hoped to tame, but we had to refer to them somehow. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The mob surged around her, shrieking, a maddened beast with a thousand faces. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I was afraid to touch the beast for fear of being scorched. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Another part of her—though she was only vaguely aware of it at the moment—was uneasy, wanted to keep an eye on Mia, as you might keep your eye on a dangerous beast. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “No, it was not beasts,” he said, in reply to her first questions. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I vault onto the beast and put heel to flank, my eyes on the sun hovering just above the horizon. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Mama thinks Nazis are beasts, but she wouldn't care as much if they stayed in Germany. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Another fairy grasped a scabby beast by its mane of white hair and hurled it through a window. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z The beast staggered, stumbled a few steps, then got very angry. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Perhaps under the shadow of the Unnamed some of the beasts of Mirkwood are wandering hither to our woods. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Statues lay broken on the ground—whether they were supposed to be beasts or gods I couldn't tell anymore. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Once the beasts were fed they will become sluggish. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The dead beasts in our hands seemed to be cursing and mocking us for having killed them. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Besides these they have brought up a number of those little French beasts with instantaneous fuses. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘The birds and beasts do not tell tales of that sort.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z It was too much for the poor beast. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z He is searching for the beast that lives in him, Comrade Pillai had told them—frightened, wide-eyed children—when the ordinarily good-natured Bhima began to bay and snarl. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The beasts bellowed in confusion and pain as the paleo-Indians moved in with jabbing spears. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z "I don't believe in the beast of course. As Piggy says, life's scientific, but we don't know, do we? Not certainly, I mean-" Someone shouted. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Those who own a Hippogriff, for example, are bound by law to enchant the beast with a Disillusionment Charm to distort the vision of any Muggle who may see it. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Maddie, lucky beast, did not have to endure any of this. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Then O-lan crept out and she took a great iron knife she had in the kitchen and she cut a great gash in the beast’s neck, and thus she severed its life. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z I saw your father taken by beasts, Jamison had said. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The group picked up their pace and arrived in the Square to find that a crowd had already gathered, the people gawking up at the flying machine as if it were a mythical beast. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z At once the crowd surged after it, poured down the rock, leapt on to the beast, screamed, struck, bit, tore. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z The metal beast let out another earsplitting shriek, followed by hollow, booming laughter. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z For years this schizoid beast pranced around the goat pen eagerly mounting any female in sight while at the same time it was being mounted by the billys. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The beast crawled out of the lake, and when it reached the shore, it panted and gasped, exhausted. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z A fine beast, as I said when I first set eyes on him. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The beast shook as he transformed himself back and forth between his goatherd self and the grotesque form of the fiendish chupacabras. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Inside them were a jumble of remains from people and big, extinct beasts. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Many a beast I slaughtered in the gods’ honor, for my friends to eat. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z "I don't know how, but they followed me here. I have half of Ishtar's kitties living downstairs. Never met such demanding beasts." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z The chosen beasts who remained were now utterly silent, all with their eyes fixed intently upon the Lion. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z Rain sluiced down it all, making Thomas imagine a huge beast cresting out of the ocean. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z “It was men. “There are no beasts out there,” he said. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But the beasts could not understand him any more than he could understand them. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z “How a girl who worked at the Night Zoo as a beastkeeper suddenly has an interest in helping you find the most dangerous beast in the entire region?” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z May the gods look kindly on the beast that is to kill me. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z When Uncle Kufa’s hunting dog growled at him, Zororo gave the beast such a kick in the ribs that it ran yelping into the forest. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon or late the day is coming, Tyrant Xian shall be o’erthroum, And the fruitful fields of England Shall be trod by beasts alone. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z “So though I’ve no horse, I could stand to water this old beast.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z His face was twisted with amazement and anger to the likeness of some wild beast that, as it crouches on its prey, is smitten on the muzzle with a stinging rod. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Only the beast lay still, a few yards from the sea. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Green and long grew the grass on Snowmane’s Howe, but ever black and bare was the ground where the beast was burned. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z I later mentioned to Harry how interesting I found the bottled beast. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z "Yes. The beast is a hunter. Only- shut up! The next thing is that we couldn't kill it. And the next thing is that Ralph said my hunters are no good." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z They all clashed with the formless beast, eventually casting it back into the darkness below. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z The coals still glimmered in places, giving me enough light to see the great beast roll around, flip. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Sitting up on his hind legs, the beast howled and threw the stake aside. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z But nothing could stop the mass of hungry men and women and they fought like beasts until all were fed. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Hers and the one to her right skidded off to the side as the poor beast collapsed with a squeal. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Because humans are complicated beasts, the monster said. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z Which is pure folly: ’tis surely God’s will that fish should rot in the water, but the beasts should rot on the land. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z The sheriff comes down the street atop a large, ill-tempered-looking beast. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z The fungi were far too elusive, the giant beasts too ferocious. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Jorge Borges, in his recent bestiary of mythical creatures, notes that the idea of round beasts was imagined by many speculative minds, and Johannes Kepler once argued that the earth itself is such a being. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Poor beasts, they seemed glad of the water, for already their hides were dusty. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z At the hospital, almost all tell Olga they wish the beast would have killed them rather than leave them like this. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z That is just it: this Thing is not human—not even beast. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Then Amaroq jumped, floated in the air for an instant, and sank his teeth into the shoulder of the beast. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Our horse reared in fright, and I struggled to keep my seat, till the giant reached down and touched the beast gently on his muzzle. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z “Now,” said the beast that was Miss Lupescu, “hold on tightly.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z “Stop that immediately and get on with your work, you nasty little beast!” James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z A swamp beast covered in horns peers up at us through the murky water. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z But right now Bloom was furious because his territorial imperative had been violated by this stubborn gluttonous beast, and if he’d had a gun he most certainly would have started shooting. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The beasts of the Night Zoo had been freed. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z She heard the bleats, snarls, and shrieks of caged beasts as its searing heat reached them, and her stomach heaved. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z So they laid them apart from their foes and the fell beast and set spears about them. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z It was midafternoon, and the Prince had been grappling with the giant beast since morning, and finally, after all these hours, the hairy thing was weakening. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Even in the rain they could see how small a beast it was; and already its blood was stain-log the sand. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z “So much danger. The beast must be found.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z And soon she was off on another tack: “Can you call the birds and beasts to you?” she asked. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z On the great beast thundered, blundering in blind wrath through pool and thicket. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Here be the fumbler who should be in bed, and here be the beast who bites off his head. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z They heard the deep growls of shadowcats behind them before they had gone half a mile, and later the wild snarling of the beasts fighting over the corpses they had left behind. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Back at the Night Zoo, she’d seen a monster, a beast filled with rage, but she saw something very different now. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z A stray rock kicks out from Dr. Martin’s tire and tings Frank’s gleaming white beast of a truck. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “He is one of the best explorers, one of the most nervy men in all dangers, whether they come from the elements, from wild beasts or from wilder men,” Roosevelt said. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Finally, when they were certain that the beast had been immobilized and that they were in no danger, the gods laughed. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Perched here on top of this raging beast, she captures who Beast Riders are. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z Look, Your Honor, with great and elaborate care we conditioned Mary Dalton so that she would regard Bigger Thomas as a kind of beast. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The shadow did not have the shape of man or beast. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z The beasts patrolled their cages, well aware that they were on some perilous edge. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z Even if I tell her the real beasts are the captain and the bird, her answer will be the same. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z “Get up at once, you lazy little beast!” a voice was suddenly shouting in James’s ear. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z “This war is a beast with long claws,” he said in a choked voice. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z "Brave men kill them, for dragon terrible evil beasts. It is known." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z All in all, he seems a beast utterly untouched by the softening influences of modern civilization. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z But then she looked up at the towering beast and found it glaring at the unfolding carnage. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Not our cow, but Tam’s — Tam Bywater’s cow — mangy, ribs showing, and breathing like bellows, a beast not worth the price of its hide. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z Now, that day tranquil cattle with broad brows were grazing near, and soon the men drew up around their chosen beasts in ceremony. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z They climbed from the beast, weaved through time-frozen debris, then sprinted to the front of the room. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Riding full gallop on a beast that could vaporize at any moment made her a bit nervous. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z It felt like being swallowed by an enormous celestial beast. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z A stumpy, gnarled beast, alone in a wide area of open woods. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z “He’s a beast, not a man! He could create a sea with all the blood he has spilled. And is still spilling! That Vast Wall is just a vast grave marker.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Most like a spider she was, but huger than the great hunting beasts, and more terrible than they because of the evil purpose in her remorseless eyes. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The women all glanced toward the forest, deep in shadows now: the place where the beasts waited. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z "The trouble is: Are there ghosts, Piggy? Or beasts?" Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z “The Dying Lioness” portrays a wounded beast, paralyzed by arrows. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z A groaning filled the air, like the death cries of some enormous beast. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Now the Fair Gwen is calling up my Gram, probably to report a great hulking beast that lives in the cellar, and I close up inside, waiting for the worst. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z Brambles trailed upon the ground, or clambering over bush and bank, made shaggy caves where small beasts housed. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The shrill screaming that rose before the beast was like a pain. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z “There could be beasts or monsters back there,” said Thor. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z “I’ll stop you before you even start. I may look like I was chewed up and spit out by the meanest beast in the jungle, but I’m not heartless. We’ll take the girl with us.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z “That guy’s a beast. I heard scouts have been all over him.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z If you did the wrong thing at the mort or the undoing, for instance, you were bent over the body of the dead beast and smacked with the flat side of a sword. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z She said a word to the goats, and the beasts began to bleat and browse and wander, freed from the spell. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z The great beast sniffed at the air a moment before circling a spot in the dirt and settling there. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z She shrieked and Hercules shot the beast as he reached the other bank. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The man snorts and squirts a stream of brown saliva toward the great beast. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z The boys dived under tables just as the double doors and the brick wall they were mounted to exploded inward, destroyed by the force of the giant, furry platypus beast barreling inside. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z She wished she were anything but a cursed wild girl, a beast. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z “Have you ever seen a beast? A real one?” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “No need for us to waste a life getting rid of her. By sunset tomorrow this ground can be ours and she will be gone. She will be in the Field, waiting for the beasts.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The forest slowed Flux and the beast, as they were forced to knock down the ashen, leafless trees to keep up. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z "Quite! All right That's where well look. If the beast isn't there we'll go up the mountain and look; and light the fire." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z She had felt, in the space of that brief moment, strangely drawn to the beast. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z He was a heavy beast, and took a long time to gain speed. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z “Oh—certain furry beasts that took on the personality of a dead person.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Calliope has no answer for my quandary about the two beasts. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z It wasn’t like I said he was a beast master. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z The beasts cackle and strike out with their feet and wings. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z He now knew what price the beast had truly asked of him. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Their leader came on alone, riding a beast that seemed more goat than horse, from the surefooted way it climbed the uneven slope. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z "This head is for the beast. It's a gift." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Some migrants, too battered by the beast, die. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z She took her hand from the phone and massaged her forehead—no trace of the beast migraine, and thank God for that—and went toward the drawing room. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z And the old man peered and said, “It seems a beast well castrated.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z It was not human, but he could not guess the throat of the beast it came from. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z It was a bulky, heavy beast, almost ten years old. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Koffi raised her arm high, then hurled the dagger as hard as she could at the beast’s middle. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z “We’re not going to make a difference in this fight. We can get a head start and be back with Nyame before these beasts even know we left. Thandiwe, you can come with us.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Kendra remained alert, searching the trees for mythical beasts, but spotted nothing more spectacular than a goldfinch and some chipmunks. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z They told of wild “savages” with completely different beliefs and customs; plants with magical powers; and fantastical beasts, bigger and fiercer than any known in Europe. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Perhaps it was not a crab, but a spider, and Paris was the spider’s web, each road a strand of silk leading back to the great stone beast at its center. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Herdsmen were driving beasts into the keep—and all the beasts strayed, or got muddled with each other, or would not go through gates. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Six or seven of the big gray beasts turned to look at them. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z You put your hand on the beast’s side as though you owned it. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z “Amazing things happen when you stop hiding behind that hulking beast,” he said, gesturing to my cello. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Enrique learned several lessons about the state known to immigrants as “the beast.” Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z “My father was killed as if he were a rat. My life, too, is worth no more than a beast’s.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z What could be so heavy that he, the great Black Tortoise, the strongest of all beasts, could not lift it? When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Ah, my child, was that with yourself or with another or with some class of beast? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z As he jokingly said sometimes, he thought Red Rabbit would try to live up to his name; but so far the shameless beast had not. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Life ebbed from the beast; they slaughtered him, singed the carcass, and cut out the joints. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z By the position of the openings, I feel certain the beast ruptured something vital, a lung, maybe even her heart. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z “What are you saying, impudent boy? That I will be a beast in the next life?” A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Hazel could feel the water beneath their feet rocking, roused like an awakening beast. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z “They say, Sparrowhawk, that a man favored by a wild beast is a man to whom the Old Powers of stone and spring will speak in human voice.” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z “Now, what is all this,” the Prince replied, stepping past the dead beast, mounting the ladder out of the pit. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z When they took shortcuts down alleys and between restaurants, the beast leapt onto walls and rooftops, chasing them from impossible angles. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z It may have been silly, but Shasta felt he had rather risk the wild beasts. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z This beast is believed to be wizard-bred, possibly intended to guard wizard dwellings or treasure, as is often the case with magically created monsters. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z My little beast, my eyes, my favorite stolen egg. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z "You shut up, young Simon! Why couldn't you say there wasn't a beast?" Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z I tried to pull Pita away from the beast, but she shook me off. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z They did not know what to do with this beast. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Those beasts is always bishing and walloping at one another. Soon it will be getting dusky and they will be galloping off to fill their tummies.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z And after destroying the birds, beasts, reptiles, and fish of the Earth, the Nephilim began to eat one another’s flesh and drink one another’s blood. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z They set off again, the hunters bunched a little by fear of the mentioned beast, while Jack quested ahead. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z They are as obsolete as the old anecdotes in which they played their puzzling, ambiguous roles, and we have no more need for the beasts than for the stories. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Simon, walking in front of Ralph, felt a flicker of incredulity a beast with claws that scratched, that sat on a mountain-top, that left no tracks and yet was not fast enough to catch Samneric. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z “Yes, it is,” said the Wart “And I am very glad to see you. Did you manage to catch the beast?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Is it true, that there be no beasts? Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z "Jack. The beast might be on the other side. You can lead again. You've been." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z What if the beast didn’t respond to her? Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z On the floor were three rugs with dark, swirly patterns of wild beasts in forests. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z But this particular beast was worse than mean, he was scared. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z She tugged at the biggest knots, near the beast’s neck, with all her might, but they wouldn’t budge; then she tried using the dagger without luck either. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z But I could still see the beast’s attention wander, now that the bright flames were gone. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The night belongs to beasts of prey, and always has. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The beast struggled forward, broke the ring and fell over the steep edge of the rock to the sand by the water. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z On any turning whatsoever the beast may spring—to move in the darkness is to move into the waiting jaws of death. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z “It’s a shame when a man’s worth less than a beast.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z So the blade gets stuck halfway, the beast snapping its teeth at me and clawing at my arms as it tries to get free. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z I took a seat at my desk and surveyed the landscape—a small village of nail polish bottles, colored pencils, a rubber finger-puppet beast, and a hill of assorted notepads. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z ‘But great store of food, and many beasts and their fodder, have also been gathered there.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Flux and his beast crested the hill, right on top of Otto, who instinctively put his bike in motion, shooting down the path. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z The growl simmered in the beast and it looked at him. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z My first shot would drop the sitting beast, and the other would whirl to fade away. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z They jerk up their feet with cocky roosterness as if they have not yet heard about the two-legged beasts who are going to make slaves of their wives. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Cows and sheep graze in the fields and 1 wonder if these are the beasts the priest was talking about. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z At other times it took the form of a dark, fanged beast, and hovered constantly over my dizzy head, as if about to pounce on me and gouge my guts out with its monstrous talons. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The women thought Pentheus a wild beast, a mountain lion, and they rushed to destroy him, his mother first. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z "Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!" Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z The Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures keeps a strict watch on the trade in fantastic beasts. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “But on a day like today, we can pretend nature is benign., ^ All monsters and beasts have their benign moments.” The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “His name is Charrito,” Pita said, interpreting the beast’s thunderous brays. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z She keeps the volume low—Fifi goes kinda nutty barking if an animal is injured and cries out in pain—but the insane little beast watches it like she’s obsessed. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z Caged like beasts were murderers, rapists, gangsters, and robbers. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Lee said, “Help him, Adam—help him. Give him his chance. Let him be free. That’s all a man has over the beasts. Free him! Bless him!” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z In his eyes was the hunted look of a beast seeking some gap in the ring of his enemies. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z “The black beast is gone from you, Prince of Pen-Llarcau,” he murmured. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z I ached for the lesson to begin so I could draw and color in those ivory teeth with the purple muscle of the tongue showing between like some fat beast caged inside her mouth. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Clever citrine eyes danced back and forth as Mama tinkered with the lock, and when the beast flicked his forked black tongue between the bars, a smell like smoke tinged the dry air. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z But you could hardly ask a fellow to hunt up a few beasts of venery for you, and then not invite him to the meet. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z As the snow softened in the afternoon sun, the hoofs of our yaks punched through the frozen crust, and the beasts wallowed to their bellies. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z It was a great beast with scales of black iron, whose breath was a darkness that smothered men. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Shuttles holding the weft thread hurtled themselves like beasts of prey through the tall forests of warp threads, and beaters slammed the threads tightly into place. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z And that great, black, noble beast, wall-eyed with the din of battle and twitching already with its sense of loss. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The dogs that drew the chariots were fearsome beasts, as big as direwolves. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Hyenas—stinking, ugly little beasts, not so impressive until you had seen them, working as a pack, pull a man down and rend him into fragments...and then eat the fragments. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z The lands ahead were empty of all save birds and beasts, unfriendly places deserted by all the races of the world. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Wednesday guided his wolf—now a huge and charcoal-gray beast with green eyes—over to Shadow. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z I looked at the books, the armadillo, the bottled beast. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z The beast’s snarl turned into a whimper; Con ripped his weapon out and struck again, drops of hot blood stinging his hands. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z “Have you found out how to get past that beast of Hagrid’s yet?” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z “The black beast came once, why not again? This time with our queen.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z At this the Wart felt he had been a beast He dressed himself in silence and hurried off to find the magician, On the way he was caught by his nurse. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z And now, bounding toward them across the desert floor in the shadow of Ghulheim, a huge grey beast, like an enormous dog. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z The sun hung above them like the eye of some hellish beast looking down, wilting the world around them. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Merciless disease, wild beasts, and Indian attacks were a constant threat. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Their robes were of crimson and silvery gray and deep purple and vivid green: and there were patterns, and pictures of flowers and strange beasts, in needlework all over them. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z Then, out of the shadows, a hooded figure came crawling across the ground like some stalking beast. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z Searching for the Man who lives in him was perhaps what he really meant, because certainly no beast has essayed the boundless, infinitely inventive art of human hatred. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He leans back in his chair, a massive beast of a man. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z The great beasts would be useful in a pitched battle, no doubt, but it would be some time before they had the strength to face their foes in the field. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The dragon-scent in the room grew stronger, as if my teasing were bringing the old beast near. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Next to it was a five-gallon specimen bottle of thick glass containing the strangest beast I had ever seen. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z There were no birds or beasts or mountains or forest or sky. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z "Strength of the beast, go into the man." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Still I would rather be that beast down there in the darkness of the sea. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Among zookeepers, Goliath’s death is famous; he was a bull elephant seal, a great big venerable beast of two tons, star of his European zoo, loved by all visitors. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z He’d never, never forget what it had been like to see it rushing down those stairs like some kind of living beast. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z His lower jaw protrudes obnoxiously, reminding one of a jungle beast. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Thor ripped off the beast’s head, placed it in his sack, and carried it down to the sea. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Two hulking beasts tore through the bushes where we'd stood just seconds before. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z For those were the days when beasts of the heavens and seas were still allowed to be seen by mortal eyes. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z He had wrought it from the carcass of the beast he had killed at Drossen Tor. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The beast’s green tongue rasped across her visor, sliming the lower section. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z An elephant—this beast had the body of a snake and the head of an elephant. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The modern llama arose similarly, by descending from a giant ancestral beast. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Five or six more men left the porch and surrounded the fractious beast, goosing him in the sides and making him show his temper. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z The Ancient and his little beast trudged off through the papyrus, and the boys went back to their tasks, Ranofer strengthened by the unaccustomed food and companionship, and buoyant with the thought of more tomorrow. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Franks lodged a powerful protest in open court against the state’s humiliating his clients in such a “fantastic” fashion and treating them, he said, “like wild beasts.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “We were told these beasts are smaller than the queen’s monster.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It was a sin punishable by having his heart fed to a horrible beast called the devourer. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “Bird and beast and stone and star—we are all one, all one——” murmured the Hamadryad, softly folding his hood about him as he himself swayed between the children. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z Leopard growled, a rumble like thunder in a forest, and the massive beast prowled over. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Wolves and filthy bears, and all the baser beasts, fall upon the dying. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z It lay motionless and dark in front of the church, and despite the necessity of it all, I felt a pang of regret for killing the poor beast. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The beast squatted low, tilting the girl’s chin with one yellowed talon. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z He is confident that the unicorn is a mythical beast. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “He hurt himself, and I thought the doctor ... the doctor—” “You idiot! You need a vet for this little beast!” the man roared. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The dragon descended on him, roaring, and all at once the poor beast was aflame, yet somehow he kept on running, screaming with every step, until Drogon landed on him and broke his back. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Karhides go afoot, mostly; they have no beasts of burden, no flying vehicles, the weather makes slow going for powered traffic most of the year, and they are not a people who hurry. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Some people say a donkey is a “humble” beast—unlike a proud Arabian horse, for example. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Locate the beast that’s not like the rest, with a heavenly name created in jest.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z The beast was rubbing its face against the man’s jaw! Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z It was as though, like huntsmen hiding in a forest, they were afraid that any abrupt sound or movement would warn away approaching beasts. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z He was going to take his revenge on the beasts for his defeat and humiliation. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z “The beast. The one in the yard. The one at the other house. The hideous one that almost ripped out my throat.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z “Don’t touch it,” I said, slapping Pita’s hands away as she came up to pet the beast. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z "After all," the magician said, “she is a magic beast It seems possible.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “The monster may be able to do some menial chores. Any suggestions as to where such a beast should be kenneled?” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z “Very well, Captain. The beast lives to fight another day. Lucky for him, I’m in a good mood.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Macon went on with the charade, pretending he didn’t know his sister was the one Porter and anybody else—adult, child, or beast—could buy wine from. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z The heat lunged out at them like a famished beast. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The knuckles of his left hand had been tattooed with the word sexxy and his right with beast. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z But this time she was striding right into the mouth of the beast. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z She tried to bite him cruelly, her coarse, sensual lips stretched back over her teeth like an enraged omnivorous beast’s. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Another pack of four half-human beasts bounded along the outside of the ziggurat, barely five feet away from us, but they never even glanced in our direction. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z The beast caught him just as he reached the circle of hunters. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z There can be no doubt that the overwhelming majority of present-day Muggles refuse to believe in the magical beasts their ancestors so feared. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “The beast has grown too large,” the mayor said. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Of all the beasts brought from far-off countries to please the crowds with their ferocity, the tiger was one of the most formidable. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z Kira had never seen such a bed and supposed the raised legs were to make one safe from beasts or bugs. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “You I saw with a black beast on your shoulders. Beware, Ellidyr, lest it swallow you up,” he added, the gentleness of his tone softening the harshness of his counsel. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z Dragons did not mate with the beasts of the field, and Targaryens did not mingle their blood with that of lesser men. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z "Soon as I'm within a squint of the castle, I'll turn the beast loose. Guard our prisoners!" The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z “I guess it’s the nature of the beast.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Which two great beasts reside in the Atlantic Ocean? Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z “El Patron hasn’t asked about the beast in years,” remarked the doctor. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It looked as if some great beast had taken a bite out of the crenellations along the tower top, and spit the rubble across the bog. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z They both stiffened as the sounds of newly agitated beasts filled the ground around them, and Diko bared his teeth in anticipation. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z I whip my head around in time to see Magnus and the beast tumble down the aisle. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z "He says the beast comes out of the sea." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z I sat up, dazed and frightened, to find the dark, hooded figure of Falconer crouching over me like some rough beast over its prey. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z I should have had those beasts put down the day we took the castle, he thought angrily. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Pippin could see all the Pelennor laid out before him, dotted into the distance with farmsteads and little walls, barns and byres, but nowhere could he see any kine or other beasts. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Nearby, another enormous beast explodes out of the ice cliffs. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z That maybe this L.A. is another kind of beast—one that dazes you to death. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z But this particular beast didn’t even shake his shaggy head. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Simon mumbled confusedly: "I don't believe in the beast." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z “The Poet tells us, ‘Each mortal beast must find its Ground—be it forest or fen or field or fire.’ The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z “No one complied. We were determined to look the beast in the eye.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “You’re a very strange woman, Rosa, but I have to admit the beast’s in good condition. You know, I remember it talking when it Uved in Celia’s house. Now it doesn’t say a thing.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes Bran could sense the direwolf sniffing after the elk, wondering if he could bring the great beast down. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “She was enslaved by carnival folk,” Addison said, “forced to pull fat, spoiled children like some common beast of burden— whipped, even, with riding crops!” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z “Nature of the beast. Funny, right? You freed me, only for me to end up tangled in something even stronger.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Azor Ahai captured a lion, to temper the blade by plunging it through the beast's red heart, but once more the steel shattered and split. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I offer this work as a mere introduction to the wealth of fantastic beasts that inhabit our world. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “The beast is a temptation to great power. Even if we spare the boy—” “No.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z As she hurtles away from the nearest beast, she throws the hammer at its eye as hard as she can. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “My brother and I were both sent to you, but on the way here, another monstrous beast attacked us! He took my brother and so there is only me.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z "That's a clever beast," said Piggy, jeering, "if it can hide on this island." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z It is my fondest hope that a new generation of witches and wizards will find in its pages fresh reason to love and protect the incredible beasts with whom we share magic. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z She knew she was venturing into the belly of the beast. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z And the beast stopped his roar at my words. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z When the beast padded forward and sniffed at the captive knight, every man in that hall could smell the scent of fear. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He found order in a scramble of clues and, as one author put it, “turned brutal crimes—the vestiges of the beast in man—into intellectual puzzles.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “But sturdier than wood we now are—and the pale green of things is a better camouflage against the sky and sea. It protects us from the loathsome, scanning eyes of the beasts.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z He still craved what every wild beast knows is its true destiny—freedom to hunt and mate and conceal itself and live out its life amid the sounds and smells of the wild. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z The beast snapped at one satyr, who danced out of its way, but then it pounced on another who was too slow. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z His father knelt and groped under the beast's head with his hand. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Koffi didn’t take her eyes off the beast, but her voice held nothing but disbelief. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z ‘He can govern man and beast. He will make it yet.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The inky blackness gaped up at him, like the throat of a hungry beast. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z The cliffs of blue ice lining our path take on a darker, more ominous color, and the frozen beasts inside them start to look alive. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Full of wrath, the tiger growled at his own reflection, thinking it was a black beast. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z As he heaved his huge body onto the figure, the wood groaned as if the beast were coming alive. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z When Esteban Trueba arrived home, he went straight in to take a bath; he was covered with sweat and dust and saturated with the unmistakable odor of frightened beasts. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He wrote, “Fishes and beasts and fowls of the air devour one another. But to man, Zeus has given justice. Beside Zeus on his throne Justice has her seat.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Several highly intelligent creatures are classified as ‘beasts’ because they are incapable of overcoming their own brutal natures. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z "That . . . that beast," Luwin went on, "is supposed to be chained up in the kennels." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Only at first Matt thought it was some kind of beast, so alien and terrible was its face. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps, he thought wildly, he could blind the beast as it clawed at him, trying to drag him from between the rocks . A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z The beast began to move, trunk swaying from side to side. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z If you didn’t know trolls were dumb animals, you’d swear the beast was grinning. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z "You're a beast and a swine and a bloody, bloody thief!" Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z “Tricking the beasts of heaven and sea! The king’s father was crafty.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z "One of the king's own. A horse can always find his way home, can't it? That fine beast will make for the castle stables, note and crown. No questions asked!" The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z "Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood! Now out of the terror rose another desire, thick, urgent, blind. "Kill the beast! Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z At the other end of the beast are hundreds of spigots, large and small. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z On some nights, she would tell of chiefs, witch doctors, sages, warriors, sorcerers, magicians and wild, monstrous beasts. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Ekon ran along the other side, surprised to hear the beast hiss in pain as it recoiled. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z It moved again in the shadows, and she could see now that it was human, a small human, on all fours like a stalking beast. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Chilled me to think on all those folks dying in a fire—the beast that ate you whole. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z The Kidnapping Club had brought in a battalion of triceratopses, a beast reserved almost exclusively for use by the War Department, at least when they were young and healthy. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z She remembered an open field of lemongrass, a starry night sky, and a beast, larger and more terrible than any creature she’d looked after in the Night Zoo. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The plan had been to feed the beasts and chain them in their torpor, just as the queen had done. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Each beast was larger than a house; the tips of their horns were capped with gold, and the courtyard stank with the sharp smell of their dung. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z “But tell me, how many beasts are in there? “ The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z “I suppose that’s the only safe thing. But it’s a cumbersome beast. I don’t see the four of us lugging it along some of those mountain trails.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z "That wasn't the beast That was a boar." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z “I’ll bet our captain has a pretty bad beast, too,” she says. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z “The beast is quite safe. He loves her, you can see it. He wouldn’t hurt her—she has tamed him with her strong will and kind hands.” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z Behind one stall an armorer displayed steel breastplates worked with gold and silver in ornate patterns, and helms hammered in the shapes of fanciful beasts. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “I am a wild beast, my friend: untamed and undaunted.” The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z “When the beast is found, you’ll be told,” his father said. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z “You know, a lot of prehistoric beasts got run over when the glaciers came down.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z “Grown into a jolly little beast. He was quite a youngster when I saw him last. He’s too fat, though. He needs more exercise.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z "This is more than a hunter's job," said Ralph at last, "because you can't track the beast And don't you want to be rescued?" Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Other fairies drove back a variety of foul beasts. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z It took her a moment to process the sting of fresh pain, the warm trickle running down her forearm as beasts and beastkeepers alike yelped in surprise. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z It had been expanded, improved upon, excavated and tunneled into by successive Masters of Stormhold, until the original mountain peak now raked the sky like the ornately carved tusk of some great, grey, granite beast. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z "Get out of the coach," she told the dead beast. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z The hawk drew a circle with its shadow, but he saw no hint within of buried beasts. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The scarred woman turned her back on Kira and she heard the growl again: a human imitation of a beast. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The enraged beasts snarled and leaped after him. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z The creatures returned to the attack: botched beasts, belonging to ages before bird or dragon or man, long since forgotten by the daylight but recalled by the ancient, malign, unforgetful power of the Stone. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z “Luna!” he cried, as the beast began to lunge. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z But affection from millions and intimacy from that one special person are completely different beasts. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z She drops the beast, enters the burrow, inspects the interior for last-minute irregularities, then comes out to pull it in for the egg-laying. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I shoot out of the beast’s mouth at the same time its jaws close, and the accompanying blast of wind sends me tumbling forward. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Once a month, at the full moon, the otherwise sane and normal wizard or Muggle afflicted transforms into a murderous beast. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The beast dragged him off into the forest, where it ate a good part of his head, the flesh off his right leg and all his innards. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z In their jackets of bristling skins they seemed wild beasts rather than men, as they spread in a wide arc across the slope. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z For instance, the thing with Victoria showed me that not all non-groundlings are the arrogant, judgmental beasts I’d always thought them to be. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z “Oh!” said Sam, when he caught sight of the strange beast, its many legs dragging in the sand. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Behind it, a three-story tan house slowly arose, like a great beast climbing out of the earth. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Once a month, however, they transform into savage, four-legged beasts of murderous intent and no human conscience. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The stable-doors had all been opened in the night, and they were gone: not only Merry’s ponies, but every other horse and beast in the place. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z When my father looked back at the tiger, the beast was reaching for the paper on his face...but the beast's claws had transformed into fingers! When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z The beast came up as high as his chest now. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Would the beast stay away from the fire? A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Like the bowels of some great beast exposed to the day. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z “Even Jamison said so. But my father was taken by beasts,” she explained. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He'll probably turn into one of those raging beast tributes, the kind who tries to eat someone's heart after they've killed them. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Perhaps there are many other planets that today have abundant microbes but no big beasts and vegetables. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z We sit where we are, like an old beast too tired to push on. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z His interest in fabulous beasts was encouraged by his mother, who was an enthusiastic breeder of fancy Hippogriffs. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘But in any case we cannot take the poor beast into the Mines,’ said Gandalf. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z "The direwolf must be a prickly beast," said Little- finger with a sharp twist of his mouth. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “You there, Percy Jackson.' Is this your beast?” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z The car began to quiver, then howl, sounding more beast than machine. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z In some cases Muggle-repelling charms will not work, as the beast’s own powers will cancel them. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z A haze mutes not only the birds and beasts, but people, too. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He simply didn't notice that Aslan was choosing one pair out of every kind of beasts. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z Some manner of beast, a horseish gazelle, relative of the giraffe. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The Governor growled like a beast and raised his other fist to strike Pong. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z She became aware of the other feeling gradually, for it was swimming against the current within her: Sidhean’s pain and sorrow, rising up like a beast, and it pushed itself between the two of them. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Sheed stopped moving, but the beast took a bouncy step forward and poked its snout in his face, stopping short an inch. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z I stare at the beast and it happens again. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z Kingshaw felt very high up, and somehow powerful, it was like sitting on the back of a great beast. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Besides, many young girls would be afraid of having a wild beast for a pet. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z The men cannot overtake the wounded beasts which fly in their pain, their wide open mouths full of anguish. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The Negro sees him as a man with muscular emotions who wants to drive out all of his race except the beasts of burden. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Everyone talked about what an old beast El Patron was and how they were glad he was dead. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Her father was killed by beasts even before her birth. And now her mother is dead,” Vandara went on. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They roll over a patch of green grass, man and beast, Baba’s curly brown hair flying. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z "So lets hear from that littlun who talked about a beast and perhaps we can show him how silly he is." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z She was a beast on beam, vault, and floor, and she’d brought home numerous medals in all three. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z He refused to sell the beasts to the rendering factories, maintaining that they deserved something of a retirement for their years of loyalty. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The beast slammed into my chest like a truck, sending me tumbling again. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Those trees, I had heard, concealed every unsavory brigand and every ravenous beast of prey in the shire—until nightfall, when they ventured out upon roads such as this, in search of victims. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Her heels caught the beast square on the crown of its head. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z He stood now amid the cages in the cellars of the Colosseum, breathing in the rank stench and listening to the growls and shiftings and howlings of the beasts. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z “Best keep that beast o’ yours locked up tonight. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z "I'm going up the mountain to look for the beast now." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z In the last few days the poor beast had improved wonderfully; it already seemed fatter and stronger, and had begun to show an affection for its new masters, especially for Sam. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z They were taller and darker than the Men of Bree and were believed to have strange powers of sight and hearing, and to understand the languages of beasts and birds. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “It’s a real beast, all right. Gonna last through the night.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The horseshoe crab is a primitive fossil of a beast, ancient and uncitified, but he is just as vulnerable to disorganization by endotoxin as a rabbit or a man. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They could hear the rumbling snores of soldiers inside, like the growls of waiting beasts. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z If there had been any slim sliver of doubt as to that fact, it had been laid to rest when the beast had been struck down by Tehlu’s own iron. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “We can’t just lie here, waiting for that beast to get us in the middle of the night. Not when we know how to kill him.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z The beast was going at a good clip, and it was no small animal; it was an adult male that looked to be about 140 pounds. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z A foolish beast I was, to think that madness would shelter me. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z But when they touched him, he reared back like a wounded beast, and with a spurt of energy struck away their hands. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z A strange creature also had been seen, running with bent back and with hands near the ground, like a beast and yet not of beast-shape. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Looking at them now you would scarcely guess that these odd and lumbering beasts could cause great rancor and bitterness, but they did. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “Steer us clear of these beasts,” he tells me. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z “Here’s the first line: ‘I was born to the beast on December 12, 1946.’” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The little beasts are hard and the everlasting cracking with one’s fingernails very soon becomes wearisome. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z It is a worthy companion to the splendid beasts at Altamira and Lascaux. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The beast grasped the stake, pulled it out of his eye socket, and cried out, a wounded, demented howl that raised the hair on the back of my neck. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z With a quick lunge, he struck his knife into the heart of the elephant, and then fell to his knees as the great beast roared out and lurched upon his feet. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z They were half man, half horse, and for the most part they were savage creatures, more like beasts than men. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Their hounds ran before them, snarling grey- brown beasts with more than a little wolf in their blood. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The beast was wary, it had been hurt. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z A loud splashing echoed in the air, and a giant beast burst from the lake as if ripping through a paper moon. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z The other man, also big and fair-skinned, looked older because of his meaner, sharp-featured face like an animal's in a beast fable a child knows by looking at the picture not to trust. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Maybe that version of Aru would have known how to vanquish the beast that was the seventh grade. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Next the beast knocked over a jar of apple butter, but the skin lid was tied on tightly, and, flail away at it as he might with his awkward paw, he could not dislodge it. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z "Bran, those beasts make sufficient noise without your help." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “Hello,” whispered Montag, fascinated as always with the dead beast, the living beast. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z “This—thing! Is this the black beast that so alarmed you, dreamer?” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z He was also a beast at the plate, driving in five—three on a home run that landed in the next zip code. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z The man's shriek lasted less than a second before the beast wrenched back its head, taking out half his throat. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z They weren’t by the ferocious beasts or by the grazing animals. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z My mother could contend against the hairy beasts whether flesh or ghost because she could eat them, and she could not-eat them on the days when good people fast. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Often, the beasts that lashed out the worst were also the ones hurting the worst. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z At first all his pleasure in the art-magic was, childlike, the power it gave him over bird and beast, and the knowledge of these. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z “You silly girl, do you think I’d have such a rare and valuable beast killed?” said her father testily. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z For hundreds of years people in the Congo Valley spoke of this beautiful, strange beast. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Can we please take down that beast up there?” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z I loped like a long-limbed beast across the lawn of the academic quad, swishing my feet through the snow, almost skating, so I would leave footprints behind. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z The barn was black as night in contrast and warm from the hay and from the beasts. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z O-lan brought them food and the women brought their men food, and the men ate standing in the field, gulping it down as beasts do, as they worked night and day. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Behind the table where the five members of the king’s small council were seated, the Iron Throne crouched like some great black beast, its barbs and claws and blades half-shrouded in shadow. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Thee brought these beasts five miles down the road for that?” he asked, his woolly eyebrows high up on his forehead. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z I experienced this as his attempt to rescue the damsel from the beast. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z "You brought out the beast in me. I overpowered you. But what could I do?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z "So here I am between these two drunk beasts who look crazy enough to head-butt me, or bite me, or something wild like that. The kinda dudes who don't play by no rules." When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z “Do your duty, boy! Unless you want to be in the belly of one of those beasts!” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z “Never mind. Get a stick and help me move this stupid beast.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Royal beasts parade along the grass—cerulean peacocks, rosy teacup flamingos, and fire-red phoenixes. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z “Yes, and now you will tell me that desire turns men into beasts,” said Hamlet with scorn. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Tiger, rhinoceros, ostrich, wild boar, brown bear—no matter the beast, you must get its goat. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z He offered no opinion on the beast nor told Ralph why he had chosen to come on this mad expedition. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z It wasn’t really a tune, but from the first note the beast’s eyes began to droop. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z Amazingly, Finn had forgotten what Roza had done to free them until he saw the dark smear on the beast’s reddish fur. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z No living creature, beast or bird, was to be seen, but in these open places Gollum grew afraid, and they walked now with caution, flitting from one long shadow to another. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The beast raises the machete over its head, aimed directly at me. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Did you know the monstrous squid is the only beast known to eat demigods whole, armor and all, without getting indigestion? It’s true!” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Then there are those beasts that, due to cleverness or innate shyness, avoid contact with Muggles at all costs—for instance, the unicorn, the Mooncalf and the centaur. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z There is a beast in my gut, I can hear it scraping away at the inside of my ribs. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Frigg spoke to trees, to beasts, and to birds and to all things that creep and fly and crawl, and each creature promised that its kind would never hurt Balder. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z He described him as a cross between a billy goat and a female heretic, an infernal beast whose breath scorched the air and whose look brought on the birth of monsters in newlywed women. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z “You stay clear of that bull, Nathaniel. That beast could tear you limb from limb.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z The end of it was this hunched black beast made of razor edges and barbs and ribbons of sharp metal; a chair that could kill a man, and had, if the stories could be believed. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z But then, as his skills increased, he began to enjoy the suffering of little beasts too. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z He looked like a sea monster—some mythical beast, part fish and part dog. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z He stood at an angle that only allowed sight of the beast’s action, not the result. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z “Anyway, as a thank-you, the great man sent me the bottled beast you see on the shelf next to the armadillo. It is my most prized possession.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z I am in the grumbling belly of some great beast. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z Orange Juice hit the hyena on the head with her other arm, but the blow only made the beast snarl viciously. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z They looked in wonder at the carcase of the fell beast that lay there; and their steeds would not go near. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Abuela is knocked aside when the crowd surges forward, but I’m carried high on the back of the beast as it forces its way through the gate. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z By now, it should have been less shocking—the beast had menaced Lkossa longer than Ekon had been alive—but in truth, it was impossible to get used to the carnage left in its wake. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z "I say this. We aren't going to bother about the beast." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z The Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures gives classifications to all known beasts, beings and spirits. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Sure enough, a long thick neck soon appeared over the rooftop as the thundering footsteps grew louder, and then the whole gigantic beast lumbered around a corner. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z “Meaning to keep you scairt of the woods. There be no beasts.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They forgot the beast in the excitement of exploration. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z "No," my brother protested, "the Great Green Tiger is the most powerful beast of all! None can defy him!" Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Birds, some snakes, any beast that could find higher ground ahead of the rising tide. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z “I am not a slimy beast,” the Earthworm said. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z He had never felt more like a cripple than he did then, watching helplessly as Meera Reed and Coldhands butchered the brave beast who had carried them so far. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “She’s all right, and so is the ‘beast,’ as you call him. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z He was a dumb beast and so, apparently, was Matt. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Boxer was an enormous beast, nearly eighteen hands high, and as strong as any two ordinary horses put together. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Okay, so I'm sitting on the train and I fire.up my portable intending to spend a nice intensely focused time installing and playing with Visual J++6 on my slow beast of a laptop. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He suffered on his journey, delivering a pouty soliloquy on hunger, cold, and wild beasts. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z He still has far to go, but he has faced the beast eight times now, and he has lived through it. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z He lavishes attention on the great storm-colored beast and her tiny rider from the moment we meet in the morning until the moment they disappear for the parade. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z He unlocked a tall glass cabinet crammed with more books, preserved birds, bottled beasts, and other curios. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z As if he’d been a circus beast trained to behave like a domesticated creature, the mammoth dog left the dead man’s side and slipped out of our car through the opposite rear window. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Actually, it made that house seem all the more scary, because behind its iron fence, it looked like some strange beast that had to be kept specially separate and fenced off from the others. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z William tried to drag the beast forward by its halter, but it would not budge. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Affectionately he pulled the little beast’s ear, then nodded toward a small street they were approaching. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z “Before her birth, her father was taken by beasts,” Jamison explained. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Sorrento appeared to be struggling with the controls in an effort to get the beast back on its feet. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z He knew, somewhere in this temple, there was a beast locked away. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z “Someone should give that beast a teething ring,” she said, shaking her head. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Nothing ever rode the Gytrash: it was always alone; and goblins, to my notions, though they might tenant the dumb carcasses of beasts, could scarce covet shelter in the commonplace human form. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z She and Jaime used to dare each other to climb into their cage, and once she worked up enough courage to slip her hand between two bars and touch one of the great tawny beasts. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Scrambling to her feet she watched the pack run along the horizon, a flowing line of magnificent beasts, all cooperating for the sake of each other, all wholly content—except Jello. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The bottom rungs swung out, hitting the beast in the nose. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z The rubbish heap seemed to come alive as I walked through it, sucking at my slippers like a hungry beast. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z "I don't agree with all Jack said, but with some. `Course there isn't a beast in the forest How could there be? What would a beast eat?" Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z She was a beast again, no longer the beautiful young woman she’d spoken to a day prior, but her dark eyes were uncannily expressive. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z I’m trapped inside the guardhouse, which means I’m safe from the beast. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z Mr. Flux—not to be outdone—forced his beast through a different section of wall, creating more destruction. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z The words ran: Beasts of England, beasts of Ireland, Beasts of every land and clime, Hearken to my joyful tidings Of the golden future time. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z The Horned King uttered the long cry of a wild beast, and his riders took it up as they streamed after him. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z Great beasts that people once rode, before the shamblers made them a ready food source. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Within twenty feet or so of the gate, the cameras started clicking, a noise that sounded like some great herd of metallic beasts. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Of course, if the unicorn found him guilty, he would be gored by the beast and die.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z “And I don’t like being hunted by invisible corpse beasts,” said the clown, and he began to pry the older brother from the younger. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Juanita kept calling, but no matter how loud she called, the beast just kept cantering along, ignoring her. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z I just push farther into the Bureau compound, farther and farther into the belly of the beast. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z A deafening horn blew, and the entire crowd of people who’d so far done a remarkable imitation of completely normal humans morphed into these rampaging beasts looking for free carnival rides. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z “I may well be a beast,” Narciso laughed, “but I am not a fool!” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It was like looking at the skeleton of a giant beast. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z This will be the age of cruel winds, the age of people who become as wolves, who prey upon each other, who are no better than wild beasts. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z “Not that I’ve heard. Do you think she was connected to the beast in some way?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z This was Tennessee announcing itself: fantastic beasts twisting in a volcano. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z You wretched beast of high ceilings and few horsepower! Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z The beast had fixed its eyes on him. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The air was full of mist, like the breath of some vast cold beast. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z "More'n you ever will, brother. Well, it's not so hard when you breed your own. There's your beast, Snow." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Freak rolls his eyes and goes, "Ah, music, how it calms the savage beast." Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z Of her seeing the very beast that had taken Petal. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z And Bobo would show these monstrous teeth that looked like dentures when they don’t quite fit, and the beast would grunt and swoon and move its head from side to side. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z "Maybe," he said hesitantly, "maybe there is a beast." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z “What happens when water freezes? Swells, doesn’t it? Well, if sap freezes in full buckets, sometimes all the seams split, and there we are. A leaky bucket’s no good for man or beast.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z He had spoken to the Mountain of Gont, calming it, and had stilled the trembling precipices of the Overfell as one soothes a frightened beast. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z He then pushed back his hood to reveal the face of a hideous beast, all teeth and snout. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z They found themselves face to face with a large grey wolf, but before the beast could even snarl Hylla punched it between the eyes. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z A beast of prey—pleasant to the eye. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z Seeing it all now—the beast matched with the sounds—Thomas couldn’t think of any nightmare that could equal this hideous thing coming toward him. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z From a smoking tower, a great stone beast took wing, breathing shadow fire. . . . mother of dragons, slayer of hes . A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He was the lion tamer, only he’d been raised by the lion—he couldn’t love the beast any less despite knowing what it was capable of. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Myrish carpets covered the floor instead of rushes, and in one comer a hundred fabulous beasts cavorted in bright paints on a carved screen from the Summer Isles. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He lived by a single maxim: “Learn your horse. Each one is an individual, and once you penetrate his mind and heart, you can often work wonders with an otherwise intractable beast.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Rasalas had been his favorite, and though the citizens of Weep had understood that the beast was only metal animated by Skathis’s mind, the understanding was buried under their terror. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The definition of a ‘beast’ has caused controversy for centuries. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z When she was little he used to carry her on his back and pretend to be a beast. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z In their shed they found the ponies; sturdy little beasts of the kind loved by hobbits, not speedy, but good for a long day’s work. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z A dozen feet down the tunnel she heard the sound, like the roar of some monstrous beast, and a cloud of hot smoke and black dust came billowing up behind her, smelling of hell. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z She watches the shadows that the passing traffic throws onto their ceiling, listens to a truck wailing in the distance like a solitary, nocturnal beast. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Many nights I thought about it, wondering how I could possibly kill one of these great beasts. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z The royal guards outside her rooms didn’t help; if this beast was capable of gouging marble, it could take down a few men. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Faces are distorted, arms strike out, and the beasts scream; we just stop in time to avoid attacking one another. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “The hunting of all wild beasts is within my sphere. And you, foul creature, are a wild beast.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Like an arrogant, trespassing man astride a winged metal beast. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Even though the beast stopped, Mr. Flux remained in motion, flying forward, losing his grip on the tufts of fur, shooting across the stream, colliding with Otto in midair. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Whatever nerves she felt, she kept them hidden from him as she gave an exaggerated sigh and collapsed into a chair with the grace of a large beast. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Outside the snow was swirling round the outer ward, a caged beast howling to be free. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Was he going to spend the rest of his life looking over his shoulder for the beast? Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Those other beasts and vegetables are probably radically different from any organism we know here. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z You plead with me your daughter sister sister for release, but I am no little beast and have no reason to judge. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z That was when she noticed more of the beasts emerging from the trees and loping almost casually in her direction. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z The field hands knew indigo, tobacco—cotton, of course—but corn was its own beast. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Frankie announces their presence, and DJ Ren’s wall changes from our phoenix to a horde of skeletal beasts in hooded cloaks riding on horseback, charging through the audience with swords drawn. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z It was also agreed upon that the demon beast had been responsible for the destruction of the Mauthen farm. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I killed my first game, a beautiful tawny beast with curved horns and a black diagonal stripe across his flank: a young male impala. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It was not just another institution infected with racial bias but rather a different beast entirely. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Then the great beast turned to examine Shasta. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z He remembered that he had once had the peculiar thought that if he were to be eaten by a beast, he would spare a prayer for it, too. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z His grimy hand went out and grasped the spiked halo and held firmly while the little beast struggled. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z It was almost as if they had exchanged natures, as though she had become the machine, perfectly tuned to the roaring, clattering beasts in her care. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Every beast lives in deadly fear of it. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The flames here were both tame and mutinous, strange, silent beasts that sometimes bit the hand that fed them. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z He, Inigo, frightened of beasts and crawlers and anything that stung, had brought them down the Zoo unharmed. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z All that concerns us here is the fate of those fabulous beasts that, like ourselves, would have to be concealed if Muggles were ever to be convinced there was no such thing as magic. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “Your Wall is a queer place, but there is power here, if you will use it. Power in you, and in this beast. You resist it, and that is your mistake. Embrace it. Use it.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I don't watch, but I can hear the snarls, the growls, the howls of pain from both human and beast as Cato takes on the mutt pack. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z You will have to pass beasts, fierce beasts of prey, and they are all that you will see. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Amidst all this, I had to listen as well as watch: to listen for the movements of the wild beast or the fiend in yonder side den. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z The Internet, powerful as it is, has hardly slain the beast that is information asymmetry. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Trig looms in my life like a mathematical predatory beast. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Tendrils of vast gossamer gas clouds formed, colonies of great lumbering, slowly spinning things, steadily brightening, each a kind of beast eventually to contain a hundred billion shining points. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘I hear them,’ said Éomer; ‘but they are only the scream of birds and the bellowing of beasts to my ears.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z "The first evil," the Old Man said, "is the Bashe snake. It lives underneath the Black Bridge. When a man or beast passes him, he swallows it whole." When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z The plants grew in the soil and the sea, the beasts ran on the land and swam in the sea, but the men did not wake. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Having lost their beasts of burden, animal and human, the conquistadors painfully cobbled together a crude boat and floated their guns and heavy equipment down the Napo River, an upper tributary of the Amazon. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z We used to beast through the streets on our bikes like we were racing without brakes, but not tonight. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z I fought my way to the coffee cauldron like a wild beast. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The horror of the averted cataclysm had all poured into it, mixing with old hate and helplessness, and as the beast descended from the sky, the fervor rose to a new pitch. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z But his voice sounded not like a man’s voice, but like a beast, hoarse and lipless, that tries to speak. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Now, I’m no virgin to liquor, but moonshine is another beast entirely. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z “You know, I saw ... the little beast that day,” said Felicia. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The beast that would be his executioner must have been released. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z He felt like a beast with two heads, one ashamed, the other resentful. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z The white beast and her spotted friend have successfully ambled to the safety of the opposite shoulder, still impassive. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z The runaways were a different sort of beast but more remunerative. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “No beast I know of could climb those walls.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z "Stay where you are!" said Mr. Brown, gesturing with the staff, as if Tristran were a wild beast that might spring at him at any moment. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z The Lieutenant thought he'd advise his Colonel to pay a pretty fancy price for such a choice beast. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘But we ride on horses tall and swift,’ said Théoden; ‘and great though your heart be, you cannot ride on such beasts.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z She would be very useful to him and they would live as they were meant to live—with the cold and the birds and the beasts. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Now you know what it feels like to be a dumb beast,” said the Blue Monkey, laughing nastily, “like my little brothers and sisters at the zoo.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z To distract the beast in my gullet, I tried to read the names of the books on the shelves without turning my head. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z The Prince made a crablike step sidewise, then another, then darted forward, spun the great beast into his arms, began applying pressure to the spine. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z “We shall feed the parrot to the beasts of the deep, as your drawings suggest, and none will be the wiser.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z He couldn’t fight off the image that they’d been swallowed by some gigantic beast and were sliding down its long esophagus, about to land in its stomach at any second. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z The hellish beast was apparently staying away from me. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The beast had the soft sheen of gold, and his eyes were tiny rubies. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The Corporal, holding to his horse’s bridle, tried to keep the beast calm, all the while shouting directions. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z This was a rough life for man and beast. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Sister, why do you let this beast talk? Let’s put him down.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Across the creek, the duck-billed beast grazed, calm now that it wasn’t at Flux’s mercy. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z The three of them sat in front of the roaring fire, slowly turning the pages of dusty volumes about famous cases of marauding beasts, speaking occasionally when they ran across something relevant. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z For a squat-legged beast that couldn't have weighed less than four hundred pounds, the thing could run. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z One sultry afternoon, on his way home from the menagerie, he went to the Colosseum and bribed his way into the cellars where the wild beasts were kept. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z If any Hobbit stooped for a stone, it was well to get quickly under cover, as all trespassing beasts knew very well. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Taisin approached the memory of their kiss gingerly, as though it were a wild beast that might knock her down, and yet part of her hoped it would do just that. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Hummocks rose from the ground like the backs of great subterranean beasts breaking the surface, yawning black mouths leading down to cool and cavernous storerooms below. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Before Nico could stand, wolves appeared from every direction - huge black beasts leaping from the roofs, surrounding their encampment. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z It rested upon the great water like a beast, ready to swallow them all up, she felt. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Of course, she wanted to die on her own terms, not some horrible beast’s. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Penny rode her big grey dog, her striped lance waving drunkenly as die beast bounded across the deck. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Hams and steaks! Of all manner of beast! Rump and round!” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z One of the winged beasts dropped towards them, circled lower, and Bod made the call again, until it was stifled by hard hands clamping over his mouth. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Some form of natural anesthetic injected through channels in the beast’s tusks. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z “You wait! It’s the turn of the wild beasts. Now we’ll really see something! Aren’t you enjoying it?” he added, looking at her pale face and clenched hands. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z “Why are you so concerned about that young scamp of a slave boy? He should have been looking after you! And you couldn’t help it if that nasty ungrateful beast ran away!” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z That beast, that monster, had taken so much away from him: first his father, and now his chance to be a warrior. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z After several minutes and a final, prolonged shriek, the great iron beast shudders to a stop and exhales. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z But later, brooding over the black-and-white striped clothing of the black men, I remembered that in Elaine I had had a book that carried the gaudy pictures and names of jungle beasts. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Sniffing near the skeleton-white roots of an upturned hollow tree stood a wild beast. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z The beast gained—Sheed could feel its breath puff at his bike—but Otto was pedaling confidently now, so his lost lead wasn’t nothing but a thing. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z “I’m here to kill the beast that took your life, Baba,” he said aloud. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Of course no beasts would come to this clearing where fires glowed. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There had to be at least thirty massive sculptures of running, leaping beasts, their flanks gleaming slickly in the silvery light, jaws open, their slowly melting muzzles dripping occasionally onto the crowd below. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z How am I supposed to know which two great beasts reside in the Atlantic Ocean? Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z She floated, and we moved like some strange beast, big in front, small behind. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Dany had acquired three of those huge, queer beasts with her pyramid. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z That was probably why he’d brought us to this miserable place, to keep us safe from the beast. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Not regular animals like Miss Bessie or the chickens, but crazy animals with problems— for some reason he liked to put his beasts into impossible fixes. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z They be set on putting you in the Field for the beasts. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The drooling, long-eared beast sniffed me and then yelped and clawed his way inside through the driver’s side window. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Or as if the beasts were trembling, stirring . A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Slowly they shuffled in around her, a savage beast that might wake at any moment and attack them. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Ekon kept his eyes on the beast, willing it to stare back at him as he spoke. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z In our latest enlightenment, the fabulous beasts are worse than improbable—they are impossible, because they violate evolution. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Monsters stood in the grass beside the road; black iron dragons with jewels for eyes, roaring griffins, manticores with their barbed tails poised to strike, and other beasts she could not name. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He was tugging the Time Suck’s hair the way a cowboy tugs the reins of a horse, directing the beast toward one particular Clock Watcher. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z The latter beast hath, says he, a diamond in its head. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z As if the book were some caged beast. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z He kept turning his face to where he had last seen his fellow beast in the cage. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z Finally, I glimpse Asher and Hammie hovering near the center to the archway, flying in tight circles as they are trapped in by two other beasts. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “As you should. But stay on the path always. The beasts will not come near the path.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Amongst the riders came one man afoot, with some big beast trotting at his heels. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Odysseus’ second thrust went home by luck, his bright spear passing through the shoulder joint; and the beast fell, moaning as life pulsed away. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The forest was home to many wild beasts, such as antelope, elephant, and wildebeest, as well as hyenas, lions, and leopards, adding even more to the danger. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z But Anastasia loves the sneaky little beast, who has long white fur that flows around her like she’s a little movie star. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z Painfully, Enrique, seventeen years old, has learned a lot about “the beast.” Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z He saw Ellidyr seized by a black beast that sank its claws into him and gripped him until Ellidyr cried out in torment. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z Could she really let these...these beasts have it? When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Several days later, in a village where the river meets the sea, there washed up on the banks two blocks of wood carved in the shape of the hooves of some unknown beast. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well,” he said to the men playing cards, “here comes a very strange beast which in all tongues is called a fool.” Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z Juanita, in the front seat, was busy trying to get away from the beast—a Great Dane. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z However Simon thought of the beast, there rose before his inward sight the picture of a human at once heroic and sick. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Dragonwings lurched forward, bumped, stopped, and lurched forward again, like some great lumbering beast coughing to itself as it got up out of bed. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z That is what it means to be a beast in the kingdom. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z When tourists complained about the horrible beasts stinking up our village, we learned to simply shrug and say, “When screechers were invented, Mother Nature made them scented.” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z She could see the gleaming armor of Fae and mortal warriors, hear the clash of shields and the snarl of vicious beasts, and smell blood and rotting corpses all around her. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Berger goes off either to fetch the beast in or to shoot it. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z As they sped by, they stabbed the great beast with the tips of their spears. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “It was a horrible thing to see, to watch the light leave his eyes. Believe me when I tell you that kind of violence was the work of a beast, Ekon.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z In the songs, the knights never killed magical beasts, they just went up to them and touched them and did them no harm, but she knew Joffrey liked hunting, especially the killing part. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He cleaned and cut up the six beasts, hung some of the meat to freeze, stewed some for our meal that night. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Wherever there is continued uncertainty about the classification of a beast in the following pages, I have noted it in the entry for that creature. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “I fear the black beast has swallowed him up as Adaon warned,” he said. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z “The Green Tiger is no ordinary beast. His teeth and claws are poison. Without the medicine I have, he will die before seeing the sunset.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Surely I can understand this, and I hate it and I will fight against it to preserve the one thing that separates us from the uncreative beasts. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “If those captains found a way to leave their monsters behind, they deserve whatever peace they find. They deserve resolution. And the beasts...well, they deserve each other.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z From inside her Davos saw green gushing from a thousand broken jars, poison from the entrails of a dying beast, glistening, shining, spreading across the surface of the river . A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z When a man dies, the lord has the right to the best beast he had. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z There’s a false beast that takes the form of instinct and harps on the pointlessness of everything that happens. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z Hunters whose courage was thus fortified were bound to be more successful when slaying these formidable beasts with their primitive weapons. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z But as we circled to receive our share of providence, the fat flanks of the magnificent beasts we’d stalked on the hill shrank to parched sinew, the gristle of drought-starved carcasses. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead of hitting the beast head-on, she lifted to a standing crouch on the saddle and pulled the trike to the side at the last second, hurling herself onto the tyrannosaurus’s back. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z But before the beasts could sit to rest, the king's father approached them. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z They used every ounce of leg strength to put some distance between them and the galloping beast. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z We know that goblin women fight and rule alongside their men—hulking, ugly beasts, dreadfully unlike the beauties of our own elfin aristocracy, who are bred for their delicacy to be ornaments to society. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z ‘And do not trouble: no one will ever hear of it. I would sooner walk than sit on the back of any beast so great, free or begrudged.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Homo sapiens drove to extinction about half of the planet’s big beasts long before humans invented the wheel, writing, or iron tools. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The sea overflowed with water from the Starry River of the Sky and churned with monstrous beasts. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z You will not have us slay wild beasts for no purpose, and it seemed no more, so I tried no arrow. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Ammunition lies everywhere, and the birds and beasts are not afraid of stones. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The beast could be Puerto Rican all day long, it was still a horrible, lurking, festering... Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Seven were adults, big grey-brown beasts, savage and powerful, their mouths drawn back over long yellow teeth by their dying snarls. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Terrified though they were, these beasts had been trained. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Somehow it was the one thing in all Washington that Leslie had never seen, and so he could tell her about it, describing the tiny beasts hurding to destruction. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z Just devour them like some kind of beast. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z “It has distorted her appearance savagely. Her mind remains human and intact, but her body is that of a beast and will remain so until the splendor is extracted from her.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Though he was tall as a wolf, he moved differently, and his brown eyes lacked the feral sharpness she had seen in those beasts. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z His nails, I noticed, were yellowed and very long, like the claws of a beast. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z Mounted on their strange, monstrous beasts, the Spanish rode at the forefront of an army of perhaps twenty thousand Tlaxcalans. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He is not prey, the boy whispered to the beast who shared his skin. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Then he got onto his second favorite thing to bump his gums about, slaves and what horrible beasts they is. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z “Why didn’t you scare those intruders away? “They probably fed the beast a bite of ham, and he showed them the way to Eliza’s goodies,” said Grandfather. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Wait a moment. Timmy, stop it, you beast. We have company.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z I drew two identical girls side by side, which he found even more baffling, given that Leah and I—the beauty and the beast—were the twins under consideration. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He read that the angels’ children became unruly, savage beasts. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z Today, we’d be driving that beautiful beast into a new world. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z “The bottled beast you see there on the shelf.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z The boys twisted their handlebars away from the beast, stood on their pedals, and pumped. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z “You have nothing but your filthy tongue, and believe you me, that’ll be no use to you now. Poke your fingers into his eyes, Teresa! Kick him, bite him, the beast!” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z He drew in a sharp breath as the beast eyed him, illuminated in a horrid red-orange glow from the fires on the other side of the wall. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Strong enough to have another crack at that beast hunkered over his baby sister. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Every man wanted something for himself, but the big beast that was all of them wanted only westering. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z His mind and heart—if this beast can be said to have a mind and a heart!—were not set upon any such goals. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z “We need to get inside this beast and get her ready to fly. And get that landing pad open.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z The smells of bread and beast, smoke and steel are dulled, as if the mist has weakened their potency. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z The beast seemed so untouchable up there, as though it would always and forever lord its death leer over the city. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z After weeks in Tool’s company, Nailer had forgotten how frightening a half-man could be, but now, as these great beasts moved through the crowd, his fear returned. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z The Memory Charm may be performed by the owner of the beast in question, but in severe cases of Muggle notice, a team of trained Obliviators may be sent in by the Ministry of Magic. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Did he remember existing in a world where no one thought him strange, thought him a beast? Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z "It's just—my hair, you know, it's so shaggy, it shouldn't be seen by man nor beast." What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I spin round to her, my Noise roaring up like a beast. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z “You boys would not believe what a creature this is. What a foul beast, a centaur, an Untermensch.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z It hits true, making the beast flinch away with a roar. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “These children—are they really savage beasts at heart?” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z The beast dropped to the wooden floor of the inn, blood dripping from its side and from its eye and from its open mouth. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z A bellowing sound, like a giant beast was dying a terrible death. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z Realizing that no one in America had thought to write a formal description of the lumbering beast, Cuvier did so, and thus became its official discoverer. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “The other servants laugh at me. ‘She takes care of the beast,’ they say. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “My father was taken by beasts,” she told him. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z And they saw a great black beast, shaped like a hound yet larger than any hound that ever mortal eye has rested on, and this hound was tearing the throat out of Sir Hugo Baskerville. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “The beast men, aye. I only killed the one, the basilisk head. The sellswords did the others. Don’t matter, though, I know that.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Once the creature has been summoned, these marks guide the exchange: for the flesh of the sacrifice, the beast will grant you the victim’s strength. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z A pageant float of priests went by slowly, pulled in their cart by a group of beasts. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z “Why are these called beasts of the foot?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The fierce beast had made a kill; her jaws were bloody and she was coming to slake her thirst in the spring. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Fear, beasts, no general agreement that the fire was all-important: and when one tried to get the thing straight the argument sheered off, bringing up fresh, unpleasant matter. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z I have never got over the fright — though I daresay the beasts knew their business and would not really have touched me.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z After all these years, the beast still laid claim to him, ravaging his body like an incurable sickness. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z They were enormous, pungent, and hoary beasts, and Ishmael and Hatsue stopped to stare at one rubbing his hindquarters against a fence post. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z The clotheshorse collapsed under the weight of the stupid beast, sending angry cat and white linen into the red dust. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The beasts had taken to swimming, it seemed. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I came to see the streets and the schools as arms of the same beast. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z The best chance of avoiding and confounding the beasts that lie below is to be as unpredictable as the sea and sky. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Matt could hear voices calling, but anyone familiar with the beast knew he wouldn’t answer. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The sharp anger in the woman’s eyes startled her; it was as if a beautiful mask had slid off to reveal the hungry beast within. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z "Couldn't we kind of stay here? Maybe the beast won't come near us." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z She rolled out of the way of its hooves and came up behind the beast. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z And overhead the cog’s canvas sail rippled slowly, like the fur of some great beast stirring from a long sleep, then filled with a sudden crack that turned every head on the ship. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z When I pried open the lock meant to keep the beasts and curious children out of our kitchen hut, I nearly had to lock it again behind me, to keep myself in. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Savage beasts he did not fear, nor any man who had ever drawn breath, but the sea was a different matter. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z She was afraid of the Dothraki, whose ways seemed alien and monstrous, as if they were beasts in human skins and not true men at all. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “For this lion is not the king of beasts! There is one greater than him. His abbot, Hubert the Good. Do you want to tame the lion? Go to his master!” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z “I think you mean ‘wild beasts laying their heads in his lap.’ The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z On the Ice nothing grows and no beasts run. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z He could feel the anger of the crowd growing around him like something physical—a beast devouring everyone. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z He rubbed the wolf under the jaw, and for a moment boy and beast both felt at peace. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z They were pests—enemies of man, beasts of the Devil. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He rocked himself side to side trying to control his form, which was weakened one minute and strengthened the next, constantly shifting between beast and boy. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z It wouldn’t do Matt any good either, except to convince her he really was a beast. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh get up, you disgusting little beast! I know you’re not dead.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z "Boy," said the prince, "get down and lead this dumb-headed beast." The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z The beast laughed again, "A paper pig is more mighty than the Green Tiger! I will take you, but leave the other for him — pathetic dog that he is." Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z They passed men and women dressed in shabby tunics, some nursing freshly bandaged wounds from encounters with beasts, some marked by more permanent injuries Eke old scars and missing fingers. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The secret stairs to his dusty sublevel were too narrow to accommodate great beasts like these, but they slipped down them easily. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z She thought then of the beasts of the Night Zoo. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z We are put to labor more useless than the work of beasts. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z He chased the beast from one place to another until it was exhausted; then he drove it into deep snow and trapped it. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The legionnaire riding him slides to the ground, landing on his feet as the beast rears beside him. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z "Oh you poor thing! What a beast he must be, to keep you waiting so!" said Victoria Forester. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z “Thomas,” Kira asked as they ate together, “have you ever seen a beast?” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z And as much as I wanted to direct my attention to the horizon, to where my salvation lay, it kept straying back to this maniacal beast. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z “But deer are gentle, frightened things. The hunters bring nothing with claws or fangs. They never catch anything that could be called a beast.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z And each day the beast ate more than the day before, and each day it grew and it became fiercer and stronger. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z “Then it be human, playing at beast,” Annabella told her in a firm and certain voice. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z As they fled, the ghouls paused only to turn and make rude gestures at the beast and possibly also at Bod. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Dogs were used for hunting and fighting, and as an alarm system against wild beasts and human intruders. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z If she was to be a sage, she would have to turn away from that beast forever. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z We all know that Beauty grows to love the beast. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Except for where the paintings hung, the walls of the study were completely covered with stuffed and mounted heads of every imaginable type of beast—from tiny rabbits to a massive, antlered elk. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z That life has changed fundamentally over the aeons is entirely clear from the alterations we have made in the beasts and vegetables during the short tenure of humans on Earth, and from the fossil evidence. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “I know. It’s terrible. They’re helpless. Women and little children, being smeared with blood to make sure the beasts attack them!” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z Under the boughs of Mirkwood there was deadly strife of Elves and Men and fell beasts. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “Okay. I guess you got a point. But next time I say you’re totally beast—* “Just shut up,” Frank said. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Several people saw him, and reported back to Caesar’s messengers, who were ranging over and around the city offering rewards to anyone who could catch the beast or give information leading to his capture. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z Curses they heeded not, nor understood the tongues of western men, crying with harsh voices like beasts and carrion-birds. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The red mud dried on his khakis like the blood of a slain beast. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “The study of language en' nobles the rowdiest beast.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z No use of a growl, a whoop, a roar, in the presence of that beast! Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z “The gods created wild beasts to be made into rugs and wall hangings, not pets. I said so, but who listens to an old woman?” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z Calypso set the clothes at his feet and backed away as if he were a dangerous beast. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He leapt from the beast’s back, strolled coolly down the aisle between the many rows of seats meant for student assemblies and choir concerts. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z “The nasty little beast will only get into mischief if he goes out of the garden,” Aunt Spiker had said. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z Now it’s just Moggy and me, and Mother and the beasts, which is good. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z The beasts weren’t going to be frightened of a small female person with a flashlight. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “There be no beasts,” the dyer repeated firmly. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z As the beast bends down to grab me, I run and make my escape between its legs. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Koffi had worked in the Night Zoo for eleven years—looking after its beasts in every condition, from torrid rainfall to scorching sunshine—but she’d never felt a heat quite like this. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Because of the Pleistocene extinctions, the Americas lacked animals suitable for domestication into beasts of burden; without animals to haul carts, individuals on rough terrain can use skids almost as effectively. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “We—Narcissa and I—have never set eyes on our sister since she married the Mudblood. This brat has nothing to do with either of us, nor any beast she marries.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Anya managed to catch a glimpse of the dragon's wide blue eyes for a second before the beast vanished under the water. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z It was engulfed in the water and slowly crawled into obscurity, a beast either skulking or stalking. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z The beast lay huddled on the pale beach and the stains spread, inch by inch. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z The floor of the passage was littered with the bones of birds and beasts. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Now this narrow road looks like the black tongue of a great beast of fire about to swallow us. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Snarling, using the weight of his body as a tool, he rode the circling and stumbling beast. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The beast was on its knees in the center, it's arms folded over its face. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z A few seconds later, the beast’s eyes began to glow bright yellow. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z But though his brain was dulled, or perhaps because of that, he had a strange affinity with dumb beasts. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z Often Aragorn wondered that they saw no sign of beast or man. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Nothing stood still, no man or beast, not even the grass that writhed beneath the shadow, dark and ravenous. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Buttercup had never seen such a giant beast. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Crawling over each other, fused—melted—to each other in the shape of a beast. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Like a caged beast finally allowed to hunt. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Her voice sounded more beast than woman when she spoke again. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z “Because you killed that horrible and most feared beast, I have a prize for you,” he said. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z He watched Io’s misery, turned into a beast, driven from her home; he dared not come to her help. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “And you’re not at all concerned that so many Champions have been brutally murdered at the hands of someone’s feral beast?” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “Don’t forget, Kira,” he continued, “I saw your father taken by beasts. It was a hideous thing. Terrible.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He was in despair when he returned, but the beasts had been roasted and eaten and nothing could be done. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z He pushed past the beast, jumped down to the next step four feet below, fell his height, landed on his ankle, which twisted underneath him, painfully, and he dropped, heavily, onto the rock. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z “Well! I think we know where to put the beast now. By the gods, I can see the family resemblance!” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z "Oh lion,” he said, "I know that you are a mighty beast. I know that all the animals in the bush are frightened of you.” The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z Because Matt wasn’t even a normal, forest- living beast. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The Tribune warned that “the hawks, buzzards, vultures, and other unclean beasts, creeping, crawling, and flying, of New York are reaching out to get control of the fair.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z But I was too panicked and too parly and missed the beast's snout by a second. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Unless you mean for us to eat that beast, take him away. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z The black-and-scarlet beast was draped across her shoulders, its long sinuous neck coiled under her chin. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Later, when Moody saw the finished photos, he thought at first that Pearl looked like a delicate fossil, something caught for millennia in the skeleton belly of a prehistoric beast. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Walking up those stairs is like walking into the mouth of the beast, and yet it doesn’t scare me. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z When he had moved away, Tyrion could have sworn that the beast's empty eye sockets had watched him go. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Who would play which role and how would they do the beast Caliban and what kinds of stage dinos would they use and how would the rowdy crowd react and... Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z The snoring man’s mouth gaped sloppily like some huge beast’s. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z The party spent two months chasing the beasts but failed to catch a single one. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “It wasn’t meant to be you tonight,” Cain said, but Celaena’s eyes remained on the beast, who began panting. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z But when news of the events at Bree came to Tom’s ears, he sent them to Mr. Butterbur, who thus got five good beasts at a very fair price. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z And the beasts of the anchors were big, make no mistake. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Essential singularities are weird beasts; near a singularity of this sort, a curve goes absolutely berserk. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The beast pawed the sand, glaring at me with beady eyes as it lowered its razor-sharp tusks and waited for the command to kill. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z He called Thomas At-the-Bridge, who knew the ways of the woods and the tracks of the animals, to help him discover what sort of beast had been prowling about while they slept. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “That’s interesting—not man and beast, not black and white, but pleasant things. My wife told me of an old old man who said, ‘I remember a time when Negroes had no souls. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z That wasn’t natural and it didn’t look right, but Sam said it would have been more unnatural for him to have laid down on his side and died like any other beast. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z As the beast’s shadow descended over me, I awoke with my heart slamming against my rib cage and my mouth as dry as ashes. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Uncle Andrew started and there came over his face a look of such horror that, beast though he was. you could almost feel sorry for him. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z Asta became some kind of night-dwelling beast and clung to his back, her wide eyes taking in every tiny flicker of light. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “Do not harm it, and stick to the plan. Our orders are to take it to Father Olufemi, let him deal with this beast.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z There some paces from him sat the great beast, and all seemed dark about it, and above it loomed the Nazgûl Lord like a shadow of despair. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z But maybe The Angels is a different kind of beast—one that just dazes you to death. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z Heaven must be like this: Jesus, and his Mother, and the dumb beasts, and angels fluttering ’round like birds. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z He waited for the black, terrible anger as though for some beast out of the night. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z “Though it’s little faith I’m having, John, that the beast can do the trick.” The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z “That’s what dirty beasts get to live in,” she said, and slammed the door. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It was hard not to look at the fighting men parading before them and wonder which of them was destined to face the ferocious beast in the ring before the show was over. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z Pointing his wand at the thick cuffs chaining the beast to the floor, he yelled, “Relashio!” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z I don't think she can read, but her brown hair swings over the page as her eyes follow the curling vines and grotesque beasts that run up and down the margins. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Nothing would slow him—no mountain or immortal, no building or beast. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z He’d just rounded the corner when Gaily came screaming out of the Homestead, looking like a ferocious beast on the loose. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z “When Matt and Branch come with me, nothing stalks me. Maybe Matt would let me bring Branch each day. Even a little dog might scare the beasts back.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When the plane took off, the engines roared like a beast. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z They’d fashioned sticks into fake spears and pretended the two of them alone could defend their city from the creatures of the Greater Jungle, the monstrous beasts of legend. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Finally the beast made his way over me and jumped into the backseat, which by that time only held the drowned man because fear had set the rest of my sisters into motion. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z “The only department that keeps beasts is the Department of Creature Control. Fangs and claws? It must be the predators section, right?” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Halfway across she saw a dark head rise above the hill, and a beast with a head as large as the moon rose to its hind feet, massive paws swinging. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Whatever, after a hundred ravens had boiled noisily off, one mammoth black beast remained, flapping around hysterically in the smoke. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘She’s no better than a beast herself.’They treat me like scum.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “The beasts! We’ll see about that. Do you remember our strategy?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Most Westerners, however, have a hard time telling any of these shaggy beasts apart and refer to all of them as yaks. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z But the great beast was not behaving like a great beast, to such an extent that the hyena had taken liberties. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z If there was one thing he knew, it was that you had to stay still when faced with forest beasts. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Hardly looking up, Poseidon pointed his trident at the beast and zapped it with blue energy. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z “The beast dragged my brother into that cave! ” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z However, a closer examination of Muggle bestiaries of that period demonstrates that most magical beasts either escaped Muggle notice completely or were mistaken for something else. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z When, he wondered, had the beast itself last eaten? Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “Let’s hope there’s still something inside this beast,” he announced. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z The crocodile was a fearsome, but cautious, beast. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Although the police and even the governor had shot and killed many of the beasts, a dozen were still at large. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z All that coarse dark hair on his chest made him look more beast than man. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Matt, his beast disguise abandoned, squatted beside the dog, who came forward and sniffed him. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z On her pillow is the small flying beast. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z “The beast devoured Barsena’s flesh. Dragons prey on men. It was killing, burning...” “... burning men who meant harm to your queen. Harpy’s Sons, as like as not Your friends.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He growled in the back of his throat, like a beast of prey, angry and frustrated. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z There were demons like great beasts that would catch and eat men while they were still alive and screaming, but they were not the worst. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I could only hope I was wrong about this, even with as looney as Pita was acting—she kept conversing with the beast as we made our way down the road. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z In spite of their regular sledging practice and exercise, the dogs themselves were still semi-wild beasts, and dogfights broke out constantly. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Flux and the beast came down right behind him, fast, handling the hill with great agility; the beast could’ve licked Otto’s back tire. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z After the disaster at the Hellshow, the cages had been flooded to purge them of beasts and bodies; they’d been empty ever since. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “Pard’n me, sir,” Carlyle says, “but maybe the bird is right. A keelhauling will leave him useless, if not dead. And the cannon needs a good cleaning if we’re to battle the beasts ahead.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z He could also remember cattle, and could tell which beasts came from which place, and who their parents were. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z Of all magical beasts the fairy might be said to have received the best Muggle press. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z From up here, I can see that the two beasts have separated. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z “I think it’s time we moved on. It’s about to get dark, and I don’t want to see what kind of wild beasts roam these woods after dark.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Beasts of England, beasts of Ireland, Beasts of every land and clime, Hearken well and spread my tidings Of the golden future time. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z For three days, villagers from across the district feasted on the meat of the terrible beast that had taken so many lives. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z Had it come from a vicious beast, hunted down by warriors, or had it belonged to something innocent and afraid? Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The star was lying on the other side of the beast. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z Like pilgrims in a fable swallowed up and lost among the inward parts of some granitic beast. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z “You’re obsessed with the most hideous beasts in the land, after all.” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z He had not sighted the beast itself yet, though he sensed it was there, lurking, hidden, treacherous. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Poor horses only touched their lips to the water, but a fine spirited beast put his whole nose and mouth under, and only left room to breathe. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z "I'll have my husband Billy carry you inside. There's hay and fresh water in the stables, for your beast." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z The cart moved slowly, following the tracks that the passage of men and beasts had carved into the mass of weeds. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The Demiguise is a peaceful herbivorous beast, something like a graceful ape in appearance, with large, black, doleful eyes more often than not hidden by its hair. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z They are, really, rather nasty beasts, particularly if one happens to appear in your bowl of soup with pieces of watercress clinging to his whiskers. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z Spare food and clothes and blankets and other needs were laden on a pony, none other than the poor beast that they had brought from Bree. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z From the youngster's lower perspective, however, she spotted marvelous beasts that appeared to cavort on the cave roof. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z "Poor little beast," said the Horse in a gentler tone. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z We lay there like two giggling children while below us the great beast grunted and snuffed around our fire, occasionally sending up gouts of flame. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Silvered steel and gold inlay brightened their armor, and their warhelms were crested in a riot of silken plumes, feathers, and cunningly wrought heraldic beasts with gemstone eyes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z There was an old man speaking to the beast. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z She regarded the beast as though staring at something faintly familiar. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z “Though such beasts might be useful to my lord husband in his battles.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Darkness was a sightless beast, as far as Virgil was concerned. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z |
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