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Examples

  • He never became the typical conscientious North German, whom the Italians in the days of their freedom used to call bestia seriosa.

    The world as i see it Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955 1934

  • Elizaveta Bam sat in her window seat, reading: “—con aspirazioni bestia e un destino minerale,” she read.

    The Man from OBERIU strannikov 2012

  • Rafael Pereira 10 months ago realmente bestia! lo mejor que he visto eden godoy 10 months ago increible¡¡¡¡parece un video hecho en 3D

    APPARATI EFFIMERI Tetragram for Enlargment on Vimeo 2010

  • La bestia nell spazzo / Beast in Space @ Giallo Fever

    Weekend 1.0 Prof. Ravensdeath 2009

  • Ci vuole una bottiglia di whisky per festeggiare con gli amici, ma solo un fiore per vincere il cuore della bestia.

    No Fat Clips!!! : Leerone – Care For Some Whiskey 2008

  • If it was Ann, and she meant Giles Dent, does that mean he trapped this thing, this bestia, and in some form — beatus — has been trapped with it, battling it, all this time?

    Blood Brothers Roberts, Nora 2007

  • A single word seemed to fly out of that moonstruck night, and the word was bestia.

    Blood Brothers Roberts, Nora 2007

  • Si talium erat regnum celorum ergo erant perfecti igitur erant de illis de quibus dicit dominus, Beati pauperes spiritum et cetera, ergo non sunt tales pueri sicut exposuisti, igitur bestia obmutesce.

    A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

  • Because the root is the Latin bestia, the same root that is the source of the word "beast".

    "I aestheticized the sleaze right out of it." Ann Althouse 2007

  • In effect I could engage in an energument over you till you were republicly royally toobally prussic blue in the shirt after. 1 Trionfante di bestia!

    Finnegans Wake 2006

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  • I love the way Italians use this word.

    April 21, 2008

  • Which is how?

    April 21, 2008