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But Borckman saw in his way only a four-legged creature of the brute world, which, in his arrogant brutalness he esteemed more brute than himself.
CHAPTER VII 2010
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Tis clean and there's no after caterwaulerin 'about accidental death or police brutalness and such.
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We hear countless stories of children also being victims of brutalness, brutality.
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Arthur Byron Cover is not as indicative of deep thinking as he would prefer it, but I cannot help but be dismayed at the brutalness of his frank appraisal; for he is regarding me as coldly as he would regard a wayward hermit crab.
An East Wind Coming Cover, Arthur Byron 1979
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But Borckman saw in his way only a four-legged creature of the brute world, which, in his arrogant brutalness he esteemed more brute than himself.
Chapter 7 1917
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But this young man sees with a clear eye, and reproduces with a touch, firm and decisive, strong almost to brutalness.
A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays Willa Sibert Cather 1910
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But this young man sees with a clear eye, and reproduces with a touch firm and decisive, strong almost to brutalness.
A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays Willa Sibert Cather 1910
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But Borckman saw in his way only a four-legged creature of the brute world, which, in his arrogant brutalness he esteemed more brute than himself.
Jerry of the Islands Jack London 1896
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"Haw! haw!" laughed the watchman, and with increased brutalness in his voice he reiterated, "You're a rum lot, Biddy! and free of most things, blessings and all."
We and the World, Part II A Book for Boys Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863
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That being said, "The Radiator Hums" is a bright spot on an otherwise dark album, though the lyrics continue the same brutalness that comes from Tim Kasher's typical "marital strife" prose.
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