It shows me you are not going to run away to a neutral country and present the unedifying spectacle of a mangy little British lion at the mercy of a menagerie of healthy hyenas and such-like inferior though truculent beasties."
"The Rough Road"
William John Locke
"Five of 'em is fer them beasties, if ne'sary.
"In the Brooding Wild"
Ridgwell Cullum
I have all next week to look at the beasties and only this afternoon to see how little a city patrol knows of scouting.
"The Boy Scouts in A Trapper's Camp"
Thornton W. Burgess