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He vaguely saw in one passage two squatting beasts, a big one and a little one, pushing trains: they were Lydie and Mouquette already at work.
During the journey he followed her and watched her proceed with tense back, her fists so low that she seemed trotting on all fours, like one of those dwarf beasts that perform at circuses.
They had to efface themselves against the rock to leave the path free to shadowy men and beasts, whose breath came against their faces.
There was a pleasant warmth of living beasts, the good odour of fresh and well-kept litter.
And Father Mouque led away the two beasts, fraternizing together.
Madame Hennebeau was already getting tired, happy for a moment to amuse herself in the weariness of her exile by playing the part of exhibiting the beasts, but immediately disgusted by the sickly odour of wretchedness, in spite of the special cleanliness of the houses into which she ventured.
Do you call yourself a man to lower yourself like that before one of these beasts who devour us?"Pierron followed her peacefully, without replying.
When one lives like the beasts with face bent towards the earth, one needs a corner of falsehood where one can amuse oneself by regaling on the things one will never possess.
When the Maheus and the others had too quickly digested their soup, made with clear water, they thus rose into a state of semi-vertigo, that ecstasy of a better life which has flung martyrs to the wild beasts.
This excess of misery made them still more obstinate, mute as tracked beasts, resolved to die at the bottom of their hole rather than come out.
He ought to have brought the salad; we can browse on that like beasts, at all events!
By God! if you do turn, there will be beasts that will eat you up.
No one can silence us any more than they can silence the birds and beasts!"
These wretches were thrown as food to the engines and penned up like beasts in the settlements.
And in fact anger, hunger, these two months of suffering and this enraged helter-skelter through the pits had lengthened the placid faces of the Montsou colliers into the muzzles of wild beasts.
And in this deep melancholy calm, in this passive opposition to the guns, there was a deceptive gentleness, a forced and patient obedience of wild beasts in a cage, with their eyes on the tamer, ready to spring on his neck if he turned his back.
"Will you drink, by God?Drink with me to the confusion of all the dirty beasts who refuse to work."
He was counting them, as a butcher counts his beasts at the entrance to the slaughter-house, and he was surprised at their number; even his pessimism had not foreseen that the number of cowards would have been so great.
These beasts can be quite unpredictable!
Then, going on with his conversation:"You talk about sperm whales," he said, "as if they were little beasts!
As for them, they're cruel, destructive beasts, and they deserve to be exterminated."
Which would be an affront to Captain Nemo, since he hates to slay harmless beasts needlessly."
Those beasts go by the name of krake--""Fake is more like it," the Canadian replied sarcastically.
But we'll attack the beasts with axes."
The beasts were there, their noses towards the cord, and making a confused line with their unequal rumps.
In fact, the cowherds and shepherds had driven their beasts thus far, and these lowed from time to time, while with their tongues they tore down some scrap of foliage that hung above their mouths.
Then they had left off the skins of beasts, had put on cloth, tilled the soil, planted the vine.
The two beasts set off at a trot.
They scattered in every direction, flying from the field as fast as their horses, the chosen beasts of Westchester, could carry them.
"In some countries the body is exposed to be devoured by wild beasts; in others it is suspended in the air to exhale its substance in the manner of decomposition; in other regions it is consumed on the funeral pile, and, again, it is inhumed in the bowels of the earth; every people have their own particular fashion, and to which do you give the preference?""All are agreeable," said the trooper, following the group they had left with his eyes; "though the speediest interments give the cleanest fields.
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