"Brute" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "He's a perfect brute!" exclaimed Beverly, but she went over and crawled under the blankets and among the cushions the wounded man ...
— Beverly of Graustark • George Barr McCutcheon
... herds, and at the same time bow and starve the god-like form, harden the hands, dwarf the immortal mind and alienate the children from the homestead, is a damning disgrace to any man, and should stamp him as worse than a brute." ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XII. No. 30. September, 1873 • Various
... brute animals "understanding" and "free will"? A. Brute animals have not "understanding" and "free will." They have not "understanding" because they never change their habits or better their condition. They have not ...
— Baltimore Catechism No. 3 (of 4) • Anonymous
... about the siege. You may imagine that we were all very anxious about it; for though, of course, we should soon have retaken the place, there would have been a general plunder and massacre by that brute Holkar." ...
— At the Point of the Bayonet - A Tale of the Mahratta War • G. A. Henty
... endeavouring to raise her "you have tired yourself with this miserable work! Come to the window you have got low-spirited, but, I am sure, without reason about Hugh but you shall set me about what you will; you are right, I dare say, and I am wrong; but don't make me think myself a brute, and I will do anything ...
— Queechy, Volume I • Elizabeth Wetherell
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