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Ida nearly fainted, and Mrs. Rice turned green. Noreen shuddered at Chunerbutty's fiendish and bestial expression, as he leaned forward in the howdah, his face working convulsively, his eyes straining to lose no detail of the repulsive sight.
That poor vagabond whom thou art about to despoil has served thee well and faithfully, has borne with thine ill-humours, thy sarcasms, thy swearings, thy kicks, and buffets; often, when in the bestial sleep of drunkenness he has found thee stretched helpless on thy floor, with a kindly hand he has moved away the sharp fender, too near that knavish head, now bent on his ruin, or closed the open window, lest the keen air, that thy breath tainted, should visit thee with rheum and fever.
Then he abused me through the door, and said he would have killed me and the child, if he could have got in and some day he would come again. She shuddered. Fenwick had turned pale. With his painter's imagination he saw the thing the bestial man outside, the winter night, the slender form within pressing against the door and the bolt 'Look here, he said, abruptly. 'We can't have this.
Mad as he was with jealousy, that lowest and most bestial of all the vile passions man still inherits from the ape and tiger, Robert Monteith was yet quite sane enough to know in his own soul what deed he had wrought, and in what light even his country's barbaric laws would regard his action.
Tell me what that is upon which you most frequently and intensely think, that to which, in your silent hours, your soul most naturally turns, and I will tell you to what place of pain or peace you are traveling, and whether you are growing into the likeness of the divine or the bestial.
And so Tarzan would gamble now, pitting the seemingly wild deductions of his shrewd brain against all the proofs of the bestial ferocity of his antagonists that his experience of them had adduced against all the age-old folklore and legend that had been handed down for countless generations and passed on to him through the lips of Pan-at-lee.
'That is no affair of yours, I returned, for I was not going to indulge his bestial curiosity; 'it changes nothing in my present predicament. 'C'est vrai, ca, he acknowledged, with a laugh; 'oui, c'est vrai. Et d'ou venez-vous? A better man than I might have felt nettled. 'Oh, said I, 'I am not going to answer any of your questions, so you may spare yourself the trouble of putting them.
A bestial odour ascended from that heap of tottering houses, and the priest once more fancied himself in Desiree's poultry-yard, where life ever increased and multiplied. Here, too, was the same incessant travail, which so disturbed him.
And yet how bestial is content all the great things in life are done by discontented people. There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning, and yearning. A man should be learning as he goes; and he should be earning bread for himself and others; and he should be yearning, too: yearning to know the unknowable. What a fine old poem is "The Pulley" by George Herbert!
Asa was a converted train gambler who used to run between Omaha and Denver. He was a man made for the extremes of life; from the most debauched of men he had become the most ascetic. His was a bestial face, a face that bore the stamp of Nature's eternal injustice.
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