brute creation

Example Sentences

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Seeking to impose a human identity on brute creation is a different thing.

From The Guardian • Dec. 20, 2010

Of Mice, Monkeys & Space Sir: I resent your tendency to gouge and sideswipe the growing number of those who feel pity for brute creation.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thus do we find that the brute creation are less subject to those affections that abridge their days than mankind.

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)

These were primitive masquerades, where the actors, if we may judge from antique illuminations, generally mimicked the brute creation rather than human beings.

From The Evolution of Fashion by Gardiner, Florence Mary

Some buried themselves in the gloomy depth of trackless forests, isolated from human contiguity, and assimilated in aspect and habits to the brute creation.

From Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues by Alberger, John