beast
/biːst/ adjective C2- great; excellent; powerful
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Are you a beast of field and tree,
The Queen turned crimson with fury, and, after glaring at her for a moment like a wild beast, screamed “Off with her head!
The Law of the Jungle, which never orders anything without a reason, forbids every beast to eat Man except when he is killing to show his children how to kill, and then he must hunt outside the hunting grounds of his pack or tribe.
Now get hence, or by the Sambhur that I killed (I eat no starved cattle), back thou goest to thy mother, burned beast of the jungle, lamer than ever thou camest into the world!
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