What is "beastlike"

Usage examples of "beastlike".

Here and there large dunes of goldencoloured sand rose, some straight as city walls, some curved like seats in an amphitheatre, others indented, crenellated like battlements, undulating in beastlike shapes.

Then they heard his slurping, which emphasized a difficulty--even in diners along the road, his beastlike inattention to custom would betray him and them.

He imagined himself grown oversize, beastlike, scuffling along beside a more human-faced Brock Vond.

Many in Mansoul that were women, both young and old, they forced, ravished, and beastlike abused, so that they swooned, miscarried, and many of them died, and so lay at the top of every street, and in all by-places of the town.

And it was all therethe strangeness, the terribleness, of this wilf ride of a man on the back of a blue-tinted beastlike being that hated himand knew about the ship.

All these people, like himself, grown wild and beastlike, were seized by the same dark wave and carried away like rubbish.

Beast was no beast, but the human bandits, making beastlike sounds with curious instruments, playing and tormenting their captive with the threat of an imagined beast.

Chakotay described the eerie nature of his recent vision-quest, including the malevolent beastlike presence that had attacked him within his own mind.

He sprang after it, splashing, and the yelping herd of beastlike men were all over him.

The deadness I saw in them went beyond resignation to the beastlike tolerance for suffering that is usually attributed to abused animals.

Repulsive beings, scaled, mailed, leathered, feathered, beastlike, or bizarre, mingled with the beauteous.

Sharp, piercing eyes appeared from beneath, beastlike men with bushy, unkempt beards stood straight up out of the snow, raising their cloaks over their heads and shoulders and shaking the powder off, stamping their feet to bring feeling back to their frozen members, blowing puffs of vapor on their hands and rubbing their dry, cracked palms together.

Daunger without discretion to attempt,Inglorious and beastlike is: therefore Sir knight,Aread what course of you is safest dempt,And how we with our foe may come to fight.