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  • The definition of Brutish: resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility, ruthless, sadistic, lacking of human compassion – an adjective from the word Brute: Having the physical powers predominating over the mental, An animal destitute of human reason.

    Being female and over six feet tall? Assumption without dignity. Elizabeth McClung 2006

  • The definition of Brutish: resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility, ruthless, sadistic, lacking of human compassion – an adjective from the word Brute: Having the physical powers predominating over the mental, An animal destitute of human reason.

    Archive 2006-12-01 Elizabeth McClung 2006

  • "Then Goat's oldest experiments, the ones he called Brute and Adam, were actually the ones on whom you children of the past had performed the embryonic changes!" she exclaimed.

    Rebels of the Red Planet Charles Louis Fontenay 1962

  • It was the first time she had addressed him without prefixing the name Brute and emphasizing the prefix.

    The Gun-Brand 1921

  • The Covenants have a new alien, the Brute, which is somewhere in the gap of an Elite and Hunter, but I didn't come across one yet.

    worlds in a grain of sand Andrew 2005

  • The Brute, which is the only sea-story in the volume, is, like Il Conde, associated with a direct narrative and based on a suggestion gathered on warm human lips.

    A Set of Six 1906

  • The Brute, which is the only sea-story in the volume, is, like Il Conde, associated with a direct narrative and based on a suggestion gathered on warm human lips.

    Notes on My Books Joseph Conrad 1890

  • The Brute, which is the only sea-story in the volume, is, like Il Conde, associated with a direct narrative and based on a suggestion gathered on warm human lips.

    A Set of Six Joseph Conrad 1890

  • "Confound you!" cried the so-called Brute, who was by no means a coward, throwing down his gun and hitting Considine a heavy blow on the chest.

    The Settler and the Savage 1859

  • Hello, Brute aka Jon Knox's second version of Jeffrey (aptly titled) JEFFREY V. 2 will be made available for your procuring pleasures come January 13th @ 3pm (West Coast time) @ shop. hellobrute.com / - with a retail price of US$75 - each S&N and bagged with a header-card.

    TOYSREVILs I LIKE TOYS 2009

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