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Examples
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He never became the typical conscientious North German, whom the Italians in the days of their freedom used to call bestia seriosa.
The world as i see it Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955 1934
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Elizaveta Bam sat in her window seat, reading: “—con aspirazioni bestia e un destino minerale,” she read.
The Man from OBERIU strannikov 2012
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Rafael Pereira 10 months ago realmente bestia! lo mejor que he visto eden godoy 10 months ago increible¡¡¡¡parece un video hecho en 3D
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La bestia nell spazzo / Beast in Space @ Giallo Fever
Weekend 1.0 Prof. Ravensdeath 2009
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Ci vuole una bottiglia di whisky per festeggiare con gli amici, ma solo un fiore per vincere il cuore della bestia.
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If it was Ann, and she meant Giles Dent, does that mean he trapped this thing, this bestia, and in some form — beatus — has been trapped with it, battling it, all this time?
Blood Brothers Roberts, Nora 2007
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A single word seemed to fly out of that moonstruck night, and the word was bestia.
Blood Brothers Roberts, Nora 2007
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Si talium erat regnum celorum ergo erant perfecti igitur erant de illis de quibus dicit dominus, Beati pauperes spiritum et cetera, ergo non sunt tales pueri sicut exposuisti, igitur bestia obmutesce.
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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Because the root is the Latin bestia, the same root that is the source of the word "beast".
"I aestheticized the sleaze right out of it." Ann Althouse 2007
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In effect I could engage in an energument over you till you were republicly royally toobally prussic blue in the shirt after. 1 Trionfante di bestia!
Finnegans Wake 2006
bilby commented on the word bestia
I love the way Italians use this word.
April 21, 2008
plethora commented on the word bestia
Which is how?
April 21, 2008