brute

• If you are better off than you were in 1848, you owe it principally to those laws of political economy (as they are called), which I call the brute natural accidents of supply and demand, or to the exertions which have been made by upright men of the very classes whom demagogues taught you to consider as your natural enemies. —  Alton Locke, Tailor And Poet
• Nobly my gallant horse strove to save me; he required not the whip or spur; I gave him a word of encouragement, and the animal, — which we term a brute, — returned a low, whining neigh, as if he wished me to understand that he knew my danger, and would all in his power. —  The Swamp Doctor's Adventures
• The thought of actually putting an arrow into this Iowa brute was almost more than he could think about.
• Toko sat immovable, with his rifle levelled at the lion's head, and just as the brute was about to make its fatal spring he fired. —  Adventures in Africa By an African Trader
• Just as the brute was about to give his victim a blow that would have sent him into the gutter, he felt his arm grasped in a detaining hold and heard a commanding voice,--"Stop He turned with increased fury upon this meddler, but his other wrist was caught and held in a vise-like grip. —  Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day

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