Man here had not yet reached the point where he might take the time from slaughter and escaping slaugh-ter to make friends with any of the brute creation.
The brute was padding softly at my side, his sensitive nose constantly atwitch and his fierce eyes moving restlessly from side to side--nothing would ever take Raja unawares!
The most sturdy and furious of the bulls trembled at the alarming and unknown cry, and then each individual brute was seen madly pressing from that very thicket, which, the moment before, he had endeavoured to reach, with the eagerness with which the murderer seeks the sanctuary.
A thrust from the lance of a powerful Indian, however, completed his conquest, and the brute gave up his obstinate hold of life with a roar, that passed bellowing over the place where our adventurers stood, and, reaching the ears of the affrighted herd, added a new impulse to their flight.
To close with this powerful, untired
brute after having just passed through a terrific battle with another of his kind would have been to tempt defeat.
And a
brute beast - whose fellow I had contemptuously destroyed - a
brute beast to work out for me - for me a man, fashioned in the image of the High God - so much of insufferable wo
The man swung his ax with all his mighty strength, but the powerful brute seized it in those terrible hands, and tearing it from Clayton's grasp hurled it far to one side.
A hasty examination of his wife revealed no marks upon her, and Clayton decided that the huge brute had died the instant he had sprung toward Alice.
And then the brute did that which froze us both anew with horror.
I saw now why the great brute was armed with such enormous paws.
One of the younger apes, a huge, splendidly muscled brute, was edging threateningly closer to the ape-man.
As the brute circled him Tarzan turned slowly, keeping his eyes ever upon the eyes of his antagonist.
It recalled me from the forgotten eon to which my brain had flown and left me once again a modern man battling with a clumsy, unskilled
brute.
The
brute had been carrying the lovely creature, therefore that must be the thing for him to do, and so he stooped and gathered Virginia Maxon in his great arms.
There was a sudden commotion in the direction of the disputants, and Tarzan rolled his head in their direction in time to see the burly
brute of a priest leap upon the woman opposite him, dashing out her brains with a single blow of his heavy cudgel.
