" "There you are wrong; I think I was almost a brute to you, for instance.
"The brute!
"The brute!
Campbell before us and the dog behind, Cecily was trembling with nervousness; but perhaps it was as well that the dour brute was there, else I verily believe she would have turned and fled shamelessly when we heard steps in the hall.
"Yes, that's all the good that such a brute as you can get from them!
"But wait, and you shall hear if he conned his A B C to please me; and if it were worth while being civil to the brute.
Do you know, Miss Linton, that brute Hareton laughs at me!
He appeared to have bent his malevolence on making him a brute: he was never taught to read or write; never rebuked for any bad habit which did not annoy his keeper; never led a single step towards virtue, or guarded by a single precept against vice.
But, for all that, I was not going to sympathise with him—the brute beast!
How will you take it, ungrateful brute?
"That brute of a lad has warmed me nicely.
"What a brute I am!
" "However," observed Pencroft, "if he was not yet a brute when he wrote that document, and if he threw it into the sea seven or eight years ago, how is it that the paper has not been injured by damp?
But it might justly be asked if there were yet a soul in this body, or if the brute instinct alone survived in it!
Always a weak, untruthful, vicious young brute with low tastes—my son and heir, Bevis, Lord Fauntleroy.
Dougal was not a dog whose habit it was to make acquaintances rashly, and the Earl wondered somewhat to see how quietly the brute sat under the touch of the childish hand.
Lors, it's a fine thing to hev a dumb brute fond on you; it'll stick to you, an' make no jaw.
"As if it were not enough that I'm entangled in this way; that I'm mad with love for you; that I resist the strongest passion a man can feel, because I try to be true to other claims; but you must treat me as if I were a coarse brute, who would willingly offend you.
"The girl's father was an ignorant mad brute, who was within an inch of murdering me.
You're too big a raskill to get hanged—you're——" "Let me pass, you ignorant brute, or I'll ride over you.
