The seven pairs of clean beasts and seven pairs of unclean beasts must have felt something similar in Noah's ark.
When the strings are off of your guitar, that's the perfect time to clean your beast.
Petitioners for other causes also besieged him there, and his ante-room thronged from an early hour, like "Noah's Ark, full of beasts clean and unclean", according to Hannah More.
She trains her by telling her that the piano is an angry lion whose paws she must clean without stirring the beast.
Over the past 12 months, she has launched a "bio" label for organic products; banned battery hens from 2007; ended subsidies to farmers raising livestock on cruel slatted floors (easy to keep clean, hard for the beasts to stand on); set up a national food-control agency; and introduced a bold consumer-information bill in parliament to encourage environment-friendly farming.
Green Man was the first to come clean this week, naming Belle and Sebastian, James Blake and Wild Beasts as its 2016 headliners.
He didn't exactly clean up his act there, according to the Daily Beast.
"Most of Stasi not torturers, beasts," recorded my indignant pencil, but "decent, clean people – anständige, saubere Menschen".
Ensure that it is clean; scrub off any dirt and check that little beasts aren't living in it.
The feeling as you select a beast, approach it, take aim and fire to ensure a clean kill is unique, as is the feeling that you are doing something important.
