"Brutish" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... man; and Jude, after one or two fitful struggles against his fate, drifted lifeless down the stream and into eternity, while the widowed mother regained her child. The man of God, the chivalrous Frenchman and the brutish Mike slowly returned to their camp; but no one who met them could imagine, from their looks, that they were either of them anything better than fugitives ...
— Romance of California Life • John Habberton
... make a call on that resolution. With fear and remorse he could not close his eyes, and from hour to hour he heard every sound of the streets. At one o'clock, the voices singing outside were strained and cracked and out of tune; at two, they were brutish and drunken and mingled with shrieks of quarrelling; at three, there was silence; at four, the butchers' wagons were rattling on the stones from the shambles across the river to the meat markets of London, with the carcasses ...
— The Christian - A Story • Hall Caine
... frenzied tattle? It was sorrow for his son Who is slain in brutish battle, Though ...
— Moments of Vision • Thomas Hardy
... Alma almost more than anything else, as the dreaded cravings grew, with each siege her mother becoming more brutish and more given to profanity, was where she obtained ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various
... degraded even below the negro slave. The succession of hardships, without any protecting law to which they can appeal for alleviation, or redress, seems to destroy every spring of exertion, or hope in their minds. They appear indifferent to every thing around them; abject, servile, and brutish." ...
— An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans • Lydia Maria Child
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