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
Every nerve is shaken by these terrible convulsions of nature; the very brute creation seem to feel their influence.
From Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume I (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day by Anonymous
This confidence in the ability of the brute creation to detect the presence of a spirit, is a common superstition everywhere.
From British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Sikes, Wirt
The brute creation has been taken as an example in support of this opinion; large animals producing one or two young ones, while the smaller species are singularly prolific.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)
