“they laid before them how unbecoming it was the Dignity of such sublime Creatures to be sollicitous about gratifying those Appetites, which they had in common with Brutes, and at the same time unmindful of those higher qualities that gave them the preeminence over all visible Beings.”

“‘That animal has a charmed life,’ he said; ‘but you can say ⟳ this only of brutes in this country. No man - you apprehend me? - no man here bears a charmed life.’”

““I would then never have ⟳ known what minute, or by whom, I was to be attacked next. But the brutes are more chivalrous than man—they do not stoop to cowardly intrigue.””

“But if he lives badly, he will, in the next life, be a woman; if he (or she) persists in evil-doing, he (or she) will become ⟳ a brute, and go on through transmigrations until at last ⟳ reason ⟳ conquers.”

“One of them was a hulking brute of a man, heavily tattooed and with a hardened face ⟳ that practically screamed "I just got out of jail."”

“She was frankly disappointed. For some reason ⟳ she had expected to discover ⟳ a burglar of one or another accepted type ⟳—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe, polished, pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven, burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp.”

“For a scene like ⟳ the Highgate exhumation night sequence suitable equipment would consist ⟳ of: two brutes on Molevators, three 10 K lights also on Molevators and, for good measure ⟳, two 5 Ks, four 2 Ks, two pups (1000 W), two North lights […]”

“At the other extreme, with limitless budgets all they have ⟳ to do is dream ⟳ up amazing lighting rigs to be constructed and operated by the huge team of gaffers and sparks, with their generators, discharge lights, flags, gobos and brutes.”

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