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
He assured her that he had not written the pamphlet, and would never so dishonor the brute creation.
From The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. I. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England; to which is added a Sketch of Paine by William Cobbett by Conway, Moncure Daniel
We drove through Hyde Park and Regent's Park in procession, and stopped to walk in the Zoological Gardens, coveting the society of the brute creation as well as the rational.
From A Lame Dog's Diary by Macnaughtan, S. (Sarah)
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)
