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Examples
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Surely you would not call his advocacy of that child labor bill and of the conservation of the forest and coal lands stirring up the wild-beast passions of the people?
THEFT 2010
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He is a demagogue, stirring up the wild-beast passions of the people.
THEFT 2010
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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
Kresley Cole Immortals After Dark: The Clan MacRieve Kresley Cole 2010
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She was beginning to realize that the yellow curly hair and “wild-beast eyes” so repulsive to the Chinese had the opposite effect on Americans.
PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010
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She was beginning to realize that the yellow curly hair and “wild-beast eyes” so repulsive to the Chinese had the opposite effect on Americans.
PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010
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On leaving the Pole we added to our pemmican ration, with the result that our wild-beast appetites soon gave way and shrank to an ordinary good, everyday twist.
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Nevertheless he took a bit of the bread and dipped it in the pomegranate-conserve and made shift to eat it, but he found it too little sweetened, for he was cloyed and surfeited, so he said, “Faugh; what be this wild-beast 470 stuff?”
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The dog first hears a man approaching and the wild-beast coming to the fence.
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In saying this I have been running into a digression; but the point which I desire to note is that in all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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Even in good men there is such an irregular wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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