The word "beast" is correct and usable in written English.
It is a noun that is commonly used to refer to a large and powerful animal, such as a lion, tiger, or bear. It can also be used more figuratively to describe a mean or difficult person or task. For example: "She was a beast in the boardroom, and no one dared to challenge her ideas."
The overall argument in Gatherings was that concentrated graveyard gases caused instant death in man and beast; foul-smelling grounds, constantly releasing more diffused miasma, did not produce sudden death – but they debilitated those living nearby, according to their level of exposure and individual resistance.
Whether you sit astride a mass of power in Westminster or in banking, in Whitehall or in Brussels, Wycliffe's words will become ever more insistent," said the MP, who before sitting astride the Westminster power mass for nine years as a Tory bravely straddled the beast of fund management for six.
I sieve the mixture into the bucket, place it in the belly of the beast, and start the timer.
He is a rude, rough beast who channels work of dizzying beauty.
The Coventry of the 21st century is a very different beast from the institution that Latham joined as an undergraduate.
As early as January 2003, one SDLP (Northern Ireland's second string nationalist party) insider, Tom Kelly, argued that his party's vote base would be sympathetic to shifting loyalties to the larger southern beast.
Shell has been seen in the past as a slow-footed beast that has missed out on some of the big opportunities: not just the mega-mergers of the late 1990s but also the US shale revolution and huge Brazilian deep-water finds.
Instead, a seven-tonne beast has been built by a Buckingham-based effects company whose CV includes Jabba The Hutt.
"Simon Woolley I'm certain you shall be rallying the filthy white trash, muslim wogapes and nigger swine and nigger beast, to vote against the BNP".
And a very drunk woman is worse than a very drunk man: "I hate to see anyone demeaning themselves with alcohol, but with a man you expect it, because a man's half beast, anyway".
It will continue to bind us together, through events of national significance … It will also educate, inform and entertain us … And it will remain a big beast of the economy, investing in home-grown talent and exporting to the world.
