Shakespeare associates the word with intemperance — "Oh, monstrous beast, how like a swine he lyes," a lord says of the sodden tinker Christopher Sly — while, in Walter Scott's "Kenilworth," a character boasts, "He that does me not reason is a swine of Sussex, and I'll make him kneel to the pledge, if I should cut his hams, and smoke them for bacon".
Zola calls operetta a "public enemy" and a "monstrous beast".
In this scenario, the game's protagonists Caim and Angelus travel across a dimensional boundary to fight a monstrous beast.
As a child I read it over and over, devouring the stories of vengeful ghosts, headless horsemen, witches, demons and monstrous beasts walled up in castle walls.
It offers a series of surreal images, monstrous beasts and fantastical figures that melt into each other with Dalí-esque abandon.
As the trawler's net brings up strange, monstrous beasts – sea bats, snotfish, translucent giant octopuses, hideous hagfish – traumas emerge from the depths of the fishermens' subconscious.
A dinosaur-sized study of the family tree of the Diplodocidae, the group that includes monstrous beasts such as Apatosaurus, Diplodocus, and Barosaurus, finds that the fossils originally called Brontosaurus show enough skeletal differences from other specimens of Apatosaurus that they rightfully belong to a different genus.
Now, a dinosaur-sized study of the family tree of the Diplodocidae, the group that includes such monstrous beasts as Apatosaurus, Diplodocus, and Barosaurus, finds that USPS got it right: The fossils originally called Brontosaurus show enough skeletal differences from other specimens of Apatosaurus that they rightfully belong to a different genus.
Their crimes are so heinous that the locals (Rickman, joined by Douglas Booth and Olivia Cooke) are convinced the murders must be the work of a monstrous, mythical beast, the Golem.
Doom was a classic; it blew the first-person shooter genre wide open, and anyone who was around upon its conception cannot possibly forget the sinister thrills of blasting the heads off of the monstrous, pixelated beasts in the game.
For example: the 11-strong team of detectives charged with identifying murderers in ancient Rome; the 11-strong vice squad of women established by the Spartan state to keep a lid on Dionysiac orgies; or the 11-monstrous giant-beasts who assisted Tiamat, lord of chaos in his doomed battle against the pantheon of Babylon led by the king of the gods, Marduk.
