| History is littered with despots and psychopaths, murderous dullards, evil geniuses, deadly incompetents, calamitous brutes of all descriptions. |
| The landing was home to a pair of scabrous aging brutes, a wolf dog and a forlorn Great Dane. |
| Police are to swamp a town with posters in a bid to identify the brutes who battered a father to death in front of his family. |
| He is baited and mocked in South Boston, Little Italy, and wherever papist brutes foregather. |
| Now some brutes force a man from Cyrene out of the crowd gathering to bear the cross of the Nazarene. |
| The early humanoids traditionally characterised as ape-like brutes were deeply emotional beings with high-pitched voices. |
