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- proper noun biblical A figure in the Book of
Revelation (Apocalypse ), often identified withSatan or theAntichrist . - proper noun A wild animal, or seemingly so, which roams free in a country it is usually only found in zoos. (For example The Beast of Bodmin Moor).
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It could also be a really screwy beast ala Beauty and the Beast.
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It helped a lot that Saddam truly was a beast – if not The Beast – and that 9/11 was still relatively close in the rearview mirror.
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Then I had a hot chocolate, we drove home and talked about how the beast from Beauty and the Beast was more attractive as a beast than as a human being.
I'm such a catch. onlyemma 2006
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The mark of the beast, is the number, or mark of a man; that is carnality or the Beast.
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The mark of the beast, is the number, or mark of a man; that is carnality or the Beast.
The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. Nation Carry Amelia Nation 1878
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And a little after, the time of the end is said to be _a time, times, and half a time_: which is the duration of the reign of the last horn of _Daniel_'s fourth Beast, and of the _Woman_ and her _Beast_ in the
Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John Isaac Newton 1684
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BEAST OVER HAMMERSMITH, Filmed at Hammersmith Odeon, London, March 1982 One of the early shows Iron Maiden performed during the time Bruce Dickinson had joined the band and The Number of the Beast came to be.
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Are you aware that the beast from the sea in Rev 13: 1 is Islam, and the Beast from the Land in
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I have given it: His words are, "All goe, (man and beast) to the same place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again; who knoweth that the spirit of Man goeth upward, and the spirit of the Beast goeth downward to the earth?"
Leviathan Thomas Hobbes 1633
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The beast consisting of ten permanent nations (ten horns) in Revelations 13 is clearly the E.U. and the U.S. as we know it is the Woman who sits on the Beast, Mystery Babylon the Great, The Mother of Prostitutes, and the Abominations of the Earth.
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