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  • And he would often speak of the generals who had been defeated in Libya, mentioning by name Bestia [69] and Albinus, men of illustrious descent indeed, but unskilled in military matters, and for want of experience unsuccessful; and he would ask his hearers whether they did not think that the ancestors of Bestia and Albinus would rather have left descendants like himself, for they also had gained an honourable fame; not by noble birth, but by their virtues and their illustrious deeds.

    Plutarch's Lives, Volume II 46-120? Plutarch 1839

  • "Bestia," said he, "I saw by your looks that you wished to drink of that bottle, and I said within me, even though I suffocate, yet will I not leave one drop of the aguardiente of the Christian

    The Bible in Spain; or, the journeys, adventures, and imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula George Henry Borrow 1842

  • But what knocked me out... and has resulted in my returning this holiday Thursday evening, is that the chef has decided to celebrate what he calls Morso della Bestia Bite of the Beast the last Thursday of every month.

    Jay Weston: Why I Am Having Two Dinners on Thanksgiving Jay Weston 2011

  • Their perilous journey was captured by filmmaker Pedro Ultreras in his documentary La Bestia or The Beast, which chronicles the trip Central Americans begin at the Suchiate River at the Mexico-Guatemala border.

    Eduardo Barraza: The Other Border: Families Look for Missing Migrants in Mexico Eduardo Barraza 2011

  • GALA THEATRE-TIVOLI "Bestia Contra Bestia" ( "Beast vs. Beast"), through Oct. 17. 3333 14th St. NW.

    Museums Post 2010

  • They sat together, presumably on the principle of safety in numbers: Sura, Cethegus, Longinus, Annius, Paetus, the tribune-elect Bestia, the Sulla brothers, even Marcus Laeca, from whose house the assassins had been dispatched.

    CONSPIRATA ROBERT HARRIS 2010

  • As soon as Catilina and the rebels were close to Rome, the newly elected tribune Bestia would call a public assembly and demand that Cicero be arrested.

    CONSPIRATA ROBERT HARRIS 2010

  • La piccola coccinella ha un problema con le ciambelle, ma essere la Bestia del Buon Dio almeno per i francesi ha qualche vantaggio.

    No Fat Clips!!! : ROMAIN CARLIER – La bête à bon dieu 2009

  • It should also be noted that Dr. Dwight Smith and Gary Mangiacopra have authored a new article on the subject of Homo Floresiensis, this article is slated to appear in the forthcoming Bestia Elementum book under the CRYPTO series in April/May 2007.

    Archive 2007-01-01 2007

  • According to a post on a CMLL discussion board, Metro fought first in Guadalajara under the name of Dr. Quen and is a relative of Bestia Salvaje.

    La Profesora Abstraida 2005

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