How To Use Beastly In A Sentence
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Its heroes were beastly revellers or cruel and ferocious plunderers; its heroines unsexed hoidens, playing the ugliest tricks with their lovers, and repaying slights with bloody revenge, -- very dangerous and unsatisfactory companions for any other than the fire - eating Vikings and redhanded, unwashed Berserkers.
The Conflict with Slavery and Others, Complete, Volume VII, The Works of Whittier: the Conflict with Slavery, Politics and Reform, the Inner Life and Criticism
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Of course the bulk of those opulent knick-knacks manufactured for the Carolingian and Ottonian Emperors, and now to be seen at Aachen, are as beastly as anything else that is made simply to be precious.
Art
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They said beastly things about you?
Times, Sunday Times
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So why all the beastly transmogrifications, I ask Kay over our lunchtime bowls of coconut and lime soup.
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9 And burnt his beastly heart to efforce her chastity. efforce > force, overcome by force (SUS); _hence: _ violate
The Faerie Queene — Volume 01
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The first act deals with the beastly behaviour of bees and act two features avaricious beetles, greedy ducks and dopey crickets with a pronounced Cork accent.
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I tend to have little time for the argument that evil is an external property that is independent of any viewer or participant of the action mainly because it's often used by people to justify some quite beastly things.
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Mopp gear - the stuff soldiers have to wear to fend off the nasties - is not only beastly to wear, it also reduces your vision and slows down your optempo.
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It was beastly awkward certainly; there I could quite agree with him, and this was the only sympathy he extracted from me.
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The weather today has been absolutely beastly.
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Professor Hanson was being quite beastly to Jane when Dick's hand shot up amidst the sea of uniforms with a question.
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I see beastly flashbulbs of many thingummies moving in the landfall without the slightest knuckle-duster of the landfall I see all the many thingummies going about the landfall.
Parajanov Contra Zizek (oder selbst proclaimed Brechtian Beast Z vs aSublime moving picture for magnitude of efficacy.)
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I say, I beg your pardon, frightfully — I'm afraid I'm bein 'beastly long-winded.
Whose Body?
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I've got some of the beastly staff on my coat sleeve.
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When she is not at her desk, nervy Virginia is being beastly to the staff, ordering her mutinous cook to make a train journey all the way from Richmond to the centre of town to get some sugar-ginger for lunch.
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You've come back what I call a beastly sneak, you know, this term.
Vice Versa or A Lesson to Fathers
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I just grumbled and grumbled about how dull, dull, dull football was and how mean, mean, mean my beastly boyf was to drag me there.
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How man turns beastly to man as soon as you grant him an inch of power over his victim was very interesting, especially the power games and humiliation meted out.
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I swallowed my first bitter pill from this beastly industry, and have certainly learned a valuable lesson.
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I could say something beastly about them.
Times, Sunday Times
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(To avoid the overdone word beastlywhich however happens to be the right one here; bestial describes character or conduct)
Style.
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Yet again you moaned about how you hate acting, hate film-making and hate all the beastly attention.
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But fear not as the boy wizard is only perfecting a little magic away from the prying eyes of his beastly uncle Vernon.
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This is beastly stuff of the doctor's, Chris, it puts my monkey up; I can't help swearing after I've taken it; it's as beastly as a vulgar woman's laugh, and I don't know anything beastlier than that!
Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works
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Also superb is the Miami police officer struggling with “The Spider Kiss” mad disease spreading amidst residents in which an outbreak of insane human behavior in South Florida proves to have strange beastly origins.
Old Devil Moon-Christopher Fowler « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews
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It's beastly, but it can be treated, especially if it's caught early.
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To such a being the golden gates are closed; and the Easterners, whom he despised for what he termed their beastly lethargies, have taught me the real secret of the poppy.
The Yellow Claw
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He was always to be found sulking in a saturnine fashion and behaving in a beastly way to Margaret or Ann.
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What soft sensitivities did CNN's beastly behavior violate?
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I am malignly included tirelessly sky donizetti tambala and in cephalothin archaebacterium onosmodium the alligatoridae one of the beastly treater for bibliopole.
Rational Review
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It was a counter showing the beauty of his play and the beastly nature of luck.
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I refer downright beastly gluttons and drunkards to this; but indulgence short, _far short_, of this gross and really nasty drunkenness and gluttony is to be deprecated, and that, too, with the more earnestness because it is too often looked upon as being no crime at all, and as having nothing blameable in it; nay, there are many persons who _pride_ themselves on their refined taste in matters connected with eating and drinking: so far from being ashamed of employing their thoughts on the subject, it is their boast that they do it.
Advice to Young Men And (Incidentally) to Young Women in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life. In a Series of Letters, Addressed to a Youth, a Bachelor, a Lover, a Husband, a Father, a Citizen, or a Subject.
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We got in about one o'clock and consequently feel more than a little jaded now, especially after the perfectly beastly day.
Sand In My Shoes: Wartime Diaries of a WAAF
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But then he could be absolutely beastly and say something that would practically ruin the next one.
Times, Sunday Times
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At the same time, beastly community wardens are roaming around beady-eyed and as keen as mustard, driving the revellers, drug dealers, stolen property swappers and worse off the streets.
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Anyway, I'd better stop being a beastly child and get on with it.
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I wonder if you wouldn't find a self-destruct timer inside the beastly things if you knew where to look.
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That's absolutely beastly of him.
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It doesn't make you any more special than the rest of us, or excuse you for being so beastly.
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When she is not at her desk, nervy Virginia is being beastly to the staff, ordering her mutinous cook to make a train journey all the way from Richmond to the centre of town to get some sugar-ginger for lunch.
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National Congress, and so forth; upon which, being now perfectly reassured and at my ease, I discoursed with facundity, and did loudly extol the intellectual capacity of the Bengalis, as evinced by marvellous success in passing most difficult exams., and denouncing it as a crying injustice and beastly shame that fullest political powers should not be conceded to them, and that they should not be eligible for all civil appointments _pari passu_, or even in priority to Englishmen.
Baboo Jabberjee, B.A.
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Napa cabernets and the so-called ‘cult’ cabs can be beastly expensive, but not necessarily better.
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He was always to be found sulking in a saturnine fashion and behaving in a beastly way to Margaret Lockwood or Ann Todd.
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There were no cockle-shells, or tape-sandals, or staves, or scrips, or anything romantic and pious about the eight persons who set out for Hazelbridge that morning, more earnestly wishful to be good and deedful -- at least Oswald, I know, was -- than ever they had been in the days of the beastly Wouldbegood Society.
The Wouldbegoods
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For what have you done -- you, a mere Canaanite, hewer of wood and drawer of water to some grossly Philistine firm of city bankers -- to deserve this immunity from anxiety and distress; while I, with my superior culture, my ambition and talents, am condemned to that beastly squeaking wire-wove mattress upstairs, and a job-lot of furniture which some previous German waiter has ejected in disgust from his bedroom in the basement?
The Far Horizon
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There were no cockle-shells, or tape-sandals, or staves, or scrips, or anything romantic and pious about the eight persons who set out for Hazelbridge that morning, more earnestly wishful to be good and deedful – at least Oswald, I know, was – than ever they had been in the days of the beastly Wouldbegood Society.
The Wouldbegoods
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Kennedy's lieutenants made it known they want him to quit, but would not be so beastly as to force him to go.
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What do you call the beastly stuff?" asked Telson.
The Willoughby Captains
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beastly desires
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The beastly men now wore black cowls across their heads.
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I am malignly included tirelessly sky donizetti tambala and in cephalothin archaebacterium onosmodium the alligatoridae one of the beastly treater for bibliopole.
Rational Review
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The wide obi is very beautiful but it looks beastly uncomfortable.
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If wine be often taken, anon by drunkenness it quencheth the sight of reason, and comforteth beastly madness, and so the body abideth as it were a ship in the sea without stern and without lodesman, and as chivalry without prince or duke.
Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus
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Why are women quite so beastly to each other in these post-feminist times?
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Scotland was the ‘blessed, beastly place’ and it filled his thoughts - and his work - wherever he happened to be.
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I once had a tiresome interview with his wife about the beastly thing.
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I used up my stash this morning when I went out to give my French beans some protection against beasties and beastly weather.
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We cross lakes in beastly winds, whitecaps slopping over the sides of the canoes, then grind out in bony streambeds where the water dribbles through hundreds of yards of boulder and cobble.
Field and Stream Adventure: The Search for the Best Brook Trout Spot on Earth
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We got in about one o'clock and consequently feel more than a little jaded now, especially after the perfectly beastly day.
Sand In My Shoes: Wartime Diaries of a WAAF
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That may be satisfactory to you but it is beastly monotonous here.
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To such a being the golden gates are closed; and the Easterners, whom he despised for what he termed their beastly lethargies, have taught me the real secret of the poppy.
The Yellow Claw
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Well, actually, the term beastly means beastly for a reason: because this is how beasts behave.
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That the world should be beastly is natural, but that the faithful bride should become the whore is monstrous, and excites the same amazement in him as the same awful change in Israel excited in
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Punk, let me remind you, had happened nine years earlier and had evolved into art rock sub-genres every bit as beastly as the muck that it had, in theory, swept aside.
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Trampling in stilettos over her father's reputation, she reveals him as a drunken, hypocritical philanderer with a beastly temper.
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When even well-meaning people get together in hierarchical, committee-rich structures, they do beastly things and call it progress.
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It was beastly hot and the tape of Greek bouzouki music I had in the player was singularly appropriate.
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And then I have great sympathy for him, as far as the press are concerned, because the press are pretty beastly to all the royal family these days.
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The police said that he was quite annoyed with his wife as she had protested against his beastly act.
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We got in about one o'clock and consequently feel more than a little jaded now, especially after the perfectly beastly day.
Sand In My Shoes: Wartime Diaries of a WAAF
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Highlands, as they call their beastly wildernesses, (no offence again,)
Woodstock; or, the Cavalier
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Why are women quite so beastly to each other in these post-feminist times?
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I could say something beastly about them.
Times, Sunday Times
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Nor yet is it the desperate madness which impels an immortal being in pursuit of substantial good amid the dehumanizing slums of beastly sensuosity; nor firey floods of intemperance; nor yet the desolating waves of red-visaged war, after which this earnest mission is sent.
Life of Rev. A. Crooks, A. M.
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While lecturing the men of Ireland in public about their mistreatment of women, they apparently had no problem being beastly to each other in the privacy of their home.
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My big gripe came at breakfast, when I wished for good coffee and proper jams rather than those beastly mini-pots and mini-butter pats, and even beastlier sachets of mustard.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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The only way to use the beastly stuff was to mix it with wet, salt mud from the river into what the country people call culm -- then you cut it into blocks, or make balls of it, and it hardens.
Back to Billabong
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To say that I was at ease on this trip would be exaggeration, the more as the zaptie-bimbashi talked freely to his subordinate about us, and vented his rage at being obliged to make such a journey for two beastly infidels, to whom the only grateful service he could render was decapitation.
The Autobiography of a Journalist
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He was continually embracing and kissing me -- and in the latter indulgence, he often disgusted me beyond measure, by the excessive libidinousness which he exhibited -- I merely mention these things to show the vile and beastly nature of this man, whom the world regarded as a pure and holy minister of the gospel.
City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston
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I wish this beastly winter would hurry up & get over.
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And again, a little later on in the same year, Punch compares the "beastliness" of Jenkins, "the life-long toad-eater," with the "beastly fellow" denounced in the Morning Post for swallowing twelve frogs for a wager!
Mr. Punch`s history of modern England, Volume I -- 1841-1857
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Once there he got rid of those beastly worms, planted flowers and trees, and built his hundredth church, which he dedicated to the Holy Apostles.
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But then he could be absolutely beastly and say something that would practically ruin the next one.
Times, Sunday Times
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They give us a bracing insight into the beastly side of our own nature that can manifest itself in our leaders, even though we are a fundamentally decent people.
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You have certainly suffered from some pretty beastly journalism at times.
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Silver (2005) tells us that animal lovers in folktale serve a variety of functions, but one of the most important may be to instruct women to love “beastly” husbands in spite of their frightening or boorish qualities, possibly with the end of civilizing them, as in “Beauty and the Beast.”
The Vivisection of Bone, Part 1: Romancing the Bone
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It had been a beastly day and Caroline had been so silly at supper.
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You watch and your toes curl along with his lip; as that big, ruddy face of his swells with the simple pleasure of being beastly to people.
Times, Sunday Times
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That was beastly uncomfortable, and made me even more glum.
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John drove over to meet the Honourable Cornelius, who was in a terrible state of anxiety and left him no peace on the way asking him again and again to repeat the answers to the questions which had been proposed, reckoning up the ones he had answered wrong and the ones he thought he might have answered right, and coming each time to a different conclusion, finally lighting a huge brierwood pipe and swearing "that it was a beastly shame to subject human beings to such awful torture.
A Tale of a Lonely Parish
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The scalping was beastly, but I couldn't regret the dead Apaches, any more than Nana's people regretted us at Cawnpore.
Isabelle
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she behaved beastly toward her mother-in-law
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“Don’t,” she found herself dottily wishing, “let anything beastly happen.
Tied Up in Tinsel
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He said that a man could rise from his beastly nature, which he was born with and which he was basically, and fulfill, through exercising his mental power, his potential for omnipotent wisdom, or godlikeness.
Manchild in the Promised Land
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They loathe to be told by prating, sanctimonious Lib Dems that it is only their presence that prevents this from being a thoroughly beastly government.
Stroppy Tories seem to have forgotten they didn't actually win | Andrew Rawnsley
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They said beastly things about you?
Times, Sunday Times
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That was beastly uncomfortable, and made me even more glum.
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It's been a beastly job - the builders had used some user-unfriendly adhesive, making the removal of the old vinyl a slow, messy and tedious task.
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He was so beastly, you've no idea.
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Also left to guesswork is the complicity of the prison authorities in this beastly society.
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Machiavelli's celebrated advice is that he will come off best if he learns to imitate both the fox and the lion, supplementing the ideals of manly decency with the beastly arts of force and fraud.
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During the Renaissances strong scents of animal origin, including musk, civet and ambergris, were popular, but by the late 18th century these were consider too strong, too beastly.
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Leeds, however, was dismissed in a letter as ‘a beastly place’, and Harrogate was ‘the queerest place, with the strangest people in it’.
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I'd been fiddling with the beastly thing for an hour and couldn't persuade it to come out.
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But it was beastly, their violence and our fear of violence.
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But frankly, Alpiew, I am not willing to walk up that beastly verminous Tottenham Court Road again, so I will treat us to a hackney.
THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
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They would have been glad enough of some of the weather you call beastly," said Hester, again pulling through a stiff needle, this time without any smile, for sometimes that brother was more than she could bear.
Weighed and Wanting
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So instead of a relaxing end to a busy social week, diving has become a fag and a beastly chore.
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Now see here, my good man, if we send these fellows back, will you promise not to be beastly to them?
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But this beastly contraption of coffee brewage refuses to obey commands of speeding up.
Alyssan-aria Diary Entry
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Such hordes of beastly wretchedness and inarticulate misery are no compensation for a millionaire brewer who lives in a West End palace, sates himself with the sensuous delights of London's golden theatres, hobnobs with lordlings and princelings, and is knighted by the king.
HOPS AND HOPPERS
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And then lest the southrons should escape we have a reference to the “beastly habit of drinking from a tankard in which perhaps a dozen filthy mouths have slabbered as is the custom in England.”
Travels through France and Italy
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They pretend to be guarding the public's morals, and they corrupt them with their beastly reports.
