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Esimerkit

• a brute beast
• A creature [...] not prone / And brute as other creatures, but endued / With sanctity of reason.
• the brute earth; the brute powers of nature
• a great brute farmer from Liddesdale
• The related notion that some facts are relatively more brute than others hearkens back to the ancient metaphysics of Aristotle.
• I punched him with brute force.
• brute violence
• they laid before them how unbecoming it was the Dignity of such sublime Creatures to be sollicitous about gratifying those Appetites, which they had in common with Brutes, and at the same time unmindful of those higher qualities that gave them the preeminence over all visible Beings.
• But if he lives badly, he will, in the next life, be a woman; if he (or she) persists in evil-doing, he (or she) will become a brute, and go on through transmigrations until at last reason conquers.
• One of them was a hulking brute of a man, heavily tattooed and with a hardened face that practically screamed "I just got out of jail."
• She was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had thought to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe, polished, pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp.