Citations:beasts


 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * ...there we shall see men that by the world were cut in pieces, burnt in flames, eaten of beasts, drowned in the seas, for the love that they bare to the Lord of the place, all well, and clothed with immortality as with a garment.
 * Then said Christian to himself again, These beasts range in the night for their prey; and if they should meet with me in the dark, how should I shift them?


 * 1719 — Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe.
 * Night coming upon me, I began with a heavy heart to consider what would be my lot if there were any ravenous beasts in that country, as at night they always come abroad for their prey.
 * Where I was, I yet knew not; whether on the continent or on an island; whether inhabited or not inhabited; whether in danger of wild beasts or not.
 * I found also that the island I was in was barren, and, as I saw good reason to believe, uninhabited except by wild beasts, of whom, however, I saw none.


 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * "You propose," replied I, "to fly from the habitations of man, to dwell in those wilds where the beasts of the field will be your only companions.