Sentences with phrase «great beasts»

These great beasts moan and whoop and click and pop, typically beneath the range of our hearing.

Anyone apprised of the palaeolithic massacre of the African and Eurasian megafauna, or the extermination of the great beasts of the Americas, or the massive carbon pulse produced by deforestation in the Neolithic must be able to see that the weapon of planetary mass destruction is not the current culture, but humankind.

As for mammoth steaks, oddly enough it was global COOLING, a mini ice age, that spelled the end of these great beasts along with the Clovis People who hunted them.

Wilson's new paintings are based on, or inspired by, famous paintings by old masters such as Rubens and Stubbs and show bizarre events where great beasts such as lions and crocodiles have been trained to hunt other animals.

A disturbing little picture - book / graphic novel about a hunter who travels through space to hunt and kill the great beasts of every planet he visits.

If the great beasts are gone men would surely die of a great loneliness of spirit.»

A Life in the Wild: George Schaller's Struggle to Save the Last Great Beasts.

The great beasts were sung into existence, after the Singer had done with the planets and the hills and the trees and the oceans and the lesser beasts.

Great beasts leap out of the dark, their roars carrying a distinct human tone.

Some researchers have argued that dinosaurs were as warm - blooded as mammals; others claim the great beasts had a metabolism closer to that of a cold - blooded reptile.

The southern part of South America was once crawling with these great beasts, collectively known as megafauna.

It's not certain why the great beasts vanished; maybe they were overhunted.

Researchers have found evidence that the great beasts responded little if at all to this influx of flora.

One of the great beasts of Parliament will retire in 2020 — Ken Clarke's memoirs Kind of Blue (Macmillan), reflects his commitment to politics, his long ministerial experience, and a wide hinterland of good wine, brandy, cigars, jazz, port, bird watching and motor racing.

Persia, and Greece.6 These predictions come in fanciful dreams: a statue whose golden head, silver chest and arms, bronze middle and thighs, iron legs, and feet of mixed iron and clay signify successive world empires (Daniel 2); or four great beasts coming up out of the sea, again signifying successive empires (ch.

It is the first - person narrative of a man who discovers late in a very successful life that he has been chosen by the devil to play the role of the Great Beast.

His leadership ambitions were thwarted by his outspoken support of the EU, but he has been, nevertheless, a great beast in government.

The great beast, which roamed western North America 65 million years ago, apparently would feast on one of its cousins if it killed the rival in battle, researchers report online today in PLoS ONE.

Dreadnoughtus probably died after it was swept away by a flooded river and buried in quicksand - like sediment — a sad finale for one of the greatest beasts that ever lived, but a blessing for scientists thanks to the remarkable preservation it afforded.

Suddenly, you stomach rumbles as you think of the venison steaks you will be having soon and all the delicious protein this great beast has allowed you to have.

Played extremely straight by Hutton and with a satisfyingly reserved level of camp by Boyle and Oliver Platt (as a corporate dirtbag), The Temp walks the tightrope of pointed satire for a delirious stretch before being swallowed whole by the great beast known as Faye Dunaway (chewing scenery) and the twisty genre formulas of its conclusion.

Monster Hunter: World can be a solitary adventure, but the game's recent launch trailer makes taming the world's greatest beasts look much more feasible when hunting in a pack.

It begins in Wildspire Waste, where you will need to find signs of the great beast.

Toho's greatest beast hits our screens after a 10 year hiatus, and I couldn't be happier.

Marvel's own site makes it clear that his real name is Nikolai Krylenko and his alias is Great Beast.

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«Ownership's a big thing in e-reading and I've been selling a modest amount of my ebooks as DRM - free PDFs via Great Beast for the past few years, but I've got a sneaking suspicion that this move from Comixology will hit those direct sales.»

Hunt monsters and strike them down, so that you might craft trousers from their carcass that'll help you best other, greater beasts whose corpses can then be used to craft more powerful trousers still.

«I noticed that when I hit the great beast with my hands, it would look around, but not see me, and so it would go back to sleep, and then it would fart quite a lot,» the boy explained.

And quietly sneaking around as the great beast walks in the background had me holding my breath more than I'd like to admit.

Drawing from the biblical story of Jonah and the Whale — in which the prophet's resolve and message is galvanized whilst he meditates within the dark body of the great beast that has swallowed him whole — this group exhibition brings together artworks and objects to trace various transformations of meaning, reception, and use over time.

With the holidays and CES now officially out of the way, the great beast, that is Microsoft, is slowly beginning to wake up again to kick off 2015.

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It places Wolfe in the great tradition of social - commentary novelists, a lineage Wolfe hailed in his great Harper's essay, «Stalking the Billion - footed Beast.»

And the dragon (SATAN) gave to [the beast](WORLD POLITICAL SYSTEM) its power and its throne and great authority.

Ronald Reagan's great biographer Steven F. Hayward courts charges of heresy by arguing that the Reagan Revolution was in some measure a failure, that its strategy of reining in the welfare state by «starving the beast» of revenues simply made it easier for us to enjoy the benefits....

«scarlet coloured beast» means more or less «Europe», which has it's roots in the Empire of Charles the Great (Karl der Grosse).

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Before the nineteenth century, poverty was generally thought of as a destiny, a fate, one of the great scourges of mankind, along with famine, wild beasts, epidemics, war, earthquakes.

Read this great feature on Winnie's ministry from The Daily Beast.

This includes when the beast will sign a peace treaty with Israel.; and when the great tribulation will begin.

«Dan 7:7 After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it [was] diverse from all the beasts that [were] before it; and it had ten horns.»

This fourth kingdom and her beast is the mother church in Rome called,» Mystery Babylon the Great the Mother of Harlots Abominations of the earth» Rev10: 7; Rev17: 5.

Note: «scarlet coloured beast» means more or less «Europe», which has it's roots in the Empire of Charles the Great (Karl der Grosse).

In his contrast between charity and the worship of pleasure and profit Winthrop echoes Augustine's great contrast of caritas as the principle of the City of God and cupiditas as the principle of the earthly city.17 Augustine in turn was elaborating the New Testament contrast between Babylon, the city of the beast, the principalities and powers of this world, and the New Jerusalem the Heavenly City where the saints would be gathered after the apocalypse.

angel, open, number, lamb, star, book, thunder, dragon (snake), seven, animal, beast, throne, horse, smoke, white, great, repent, temple, conquer, like, wear (clothing), blow («plague»), gate, fire, blow (trumpet), mouth, seal, four, third, vial, voice, thousand, and gold — all of them characteristic of apocalyptic - symbolic writing.

Acts 11:4 - 18: «But Peter began speaking and proceeded to explain to them in orderly sequence, saying, «I WAS IN THE CITY OF JOPPA PRAYING; AND IN A TRANCE I SAW A VISION, an object coming down like a great sheet lowered by four corners from the sky; and it came right down to me, and when I had fixed my gaze on it and was observing it I saw the four - footed animals of the earth and the wild beasts and the crawling creatures and the birds of the air.

The rider and his army win the battle, the beast and his false prophet are thrown alive into the lake of fire, and the army of the beast is slaughtered, making a great supper for the birds of the air (19:17 - 21).

He attends a festival arranged by Kamsa, the bad king, bends and breaks a bow which not even the gods could bend, tears out the tusk of a great elephant which sought to trample him, and kills the beast, and finally slays Kamsa himself.

One can almost see the stately procession of those oriental women, dignified as queens, in the peace of the oriental evening coming down the slope from the little city, each with her graceful water - jar on her shoulder, while around the tree - sheltered well lie the ten great hulking beasts still saddled with their baggage and gaudy with the beads and trinkets that camel - drivers have always loved.

That there may be some who need compulsion, some who, if they were free - footed, would riot in selfish pleasures like unruly beasts, is doubtless true; but a man must prove precisely that he is not of this number by the fact that he knows how to speak with dread and trembling; and out of reverence for the great one is bound to speak, lest it be forgotten for fear of the ill effect, which surely will fail to eventuate when a man talks in such a way that one knows it for the great, knows its terror — and apart from the terror one does not know the great at all.