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• Boxer was an enormous beast, nearly eighteen hands high, and as strong as any two ordinary horses put together.
• ‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared. […]’
• Shouts had been heard: 'We're coming to kill you, beasts.' In desperation, Rule 43s had tried to barricade their doors[...]
• For many prisoners and in many prisons, antipathy towards 'nonces' or 'beasts' is little more than an idea[...]
• Even unopposed, the natural obstacles are formidable, and defending his line of advance will be a beast of a problem."
• He'd be in the hospital a few days — broken collarbone, a cast on his arm, a beast of a headache — but fine.
• And, oh, poor Atlas / The world's a beast of a burden / You've been holding up a long time
• There is another type from Siemens which is the HYB 39S64XXX(AT/ATL) -8B version (notice the "B" and the end) which is totally beast altogether.
• Translation: a piece of crap, but the rest of the car was totally beast.