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And he remained with neck stretched out, his vague beast's memory perhaps recalling the things of the earth.
He would kill the Voreux at last, that evil beast with ever-open jaws which had swallowed so much human flesh!
The beast was wounded in the belly; we should see if it was still alive at night.
And he had left his mark; the frightened world would know that the beast had not died a natural death.
But the beast quivered all over his skin, and Mouque forcibly drew him to the haulage gallery.
Father Mouque, who had brought back Bataille without hurrying, was still holding him by the bridle, both of them stupefied, the man and the beast, in the face of this rapid flow of the inundation.
It was done for; the evil beast crouching in this hole, gorged with human flesh, was no longer breathing with its thick, long respiration.
Jeanlin also, seeing that his den was invaded, prowled around with the frightened air of a beast of prey whose burrow will betray his booty.
Fascinated, they remained opposite each other-- she flourishing, plump, and fresh from the long idleness and sated comfort of her race; he swollen with water, with the pitiful ugliness of a foundered beast, destroyed from father to son by a century of work and hunger.
Then there was a general rush, the men following the beast.
He desired to live, his beast's memory awoke; the longing to breathe once more the air of the plains drove him straight onwards to the discovery of that hole, the exit beneath the warm sun into light.
It was a sight of fearful agony, this old beast shattered and motionless, struggling at this depth, far from the daylight.
All that he knew was that before him, through the hole they had ascended, he had seen the flood reappear, black and moving, the beast whose back was ceaselessly swelling out to reach them.
Deeply moved, he still looked at her, so worn and worked out, with her livid face, her discoloured hair escaping from the blue cap, her body as of a good over-fruitful beast, deformed beneath the jacket and trousers.
Our frigate would have had fivescore good reasons for renaming itself the Argus, after that mythological beast with 100 eyes!
People say they've sighted this slippery beast again in the Pacific high seas-- I'm truly willing to believe it, but two months have already gone by since then, and judging by your narwhale's personality, it hates growing moldy from hanging out too long in the same waterways!
So if the beast does exist, it's already long gone!"
"Well, Mr. Land," the commander asked, "do you still advise putting my longboats to sea?""No, sir," Ned Land replied, "because that beast won't be caught against its will."
"And $500.00 to the man who can pierce that infernal beast!"Calm of eye, cool of feature, an old gray-bearded gunner-- I can see him to this day--approached the cannon, put it in position, and took aim for a good while.
"That rascal must be covered with six-inch armor plate!""Curse the beast!"
"Why, Ned, why?""Because, professor, this beast is made of boilerplate steel!"
He stood up, pacing in circles like a wild beast in a cage, striking the walls with his foot and fist.
"This beast offers the added luxury of being good to eat?""Yes, Mr. Land.
Several times we got within a few fathoms of it, and the Canadian hovered in readiness to strike; but then the dugong would steal away with a sudden dive, and it proved impossible to overtake the beast.
We were thrown on top of each other, and I have no idea how the venture would have ended had not the Canadian, still thirsting for the beast's blood, finally pierced it to the heart.
The beast weighed 5,000 kilograms.
He was circling it like a wild beast, drawing it eastward, letting it chase after him.
And while poking fun at the show, Rodolphe, to move about more easily, showed the gendarme his blue card, and even stopped now and then in front of some fine beast, which Madame Bovary did not at all admire.
Charles gazed at her with the dull look of a drunken man, while he listened motionless to the last cries of the sufferer, that followed each other in long-drawn modulations, broken by sharp spasms like the far-off howling of some beast being slaughtered.
After hot muffins, it says, "Be dull and soulless, like a beast of the field - a brainless animal, with listless eye, unlit by any ray of fancy, or of hope, or fear, or love, or life."
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