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Meanings of unclean animal in English
Russian
нечистые животные Portuguese
animais impuros Non-human animal, the handling or consumption of which is considered taboo in a given religion; e.g. pigs in Judaism or Islam.
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Usage of unclean animal in English
1
But a pig is only the unclean animal-theforbidden of the prophet.
2
She drew back as she might have done from some unclean animal.
3
Then she shrank away from me as though I were some unclean animal.
4
I'm Jewish and can't sleep next to an unclean animal.
5
He loved her as such an unclean animal could love.
6
He appeared to me a wild beast, an unclean animal.
7
Show your boy a drunkard wallowing in the streets, like some unclean animal in the mire.
8
For myself, I am inefficient to the great work, having this morning touched an unclean animal.
9
She had turned from Dorgan, as if from an unclean animal and was now facing Ogleby.
10
Comparing him to a dog, an unclean animal, would have insulted him, which Wira did not intend.
11
This is the more curious because the dog is an unclean animal, whose touch defiles the true believer.
12
She seemed to him then like some beautiful but unclean animal who fed upon the souls of men.
13
The hare is an unclean animal.
14
This is a motionless, gluttonous, unclean animal who has long ago lost all powers of thought or feeling.
15
The evil man, however, is born into a lower caste, or perhaps his soul enters some unclean animal.
16
The sullen, odd-eyed Martenses, whose unclean animal aspect shocked him, told him in broken gutturals that Jan was dead.
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