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Meanings of unclean animal in английском

русский
нечистые животные
португальский
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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          нечистые животные
          Usage of unclean animal in английском
          1
          But a pig is only the unclean animal-theforbidden of the prophet.
          American Notes
          2
          She drew back as she might have done from some unclean animal.
          With Edged Tools
          3
          Then she shrank away from me as though I were some unclean animal.
          The Survivor
          4
          I'm Jewish and can't sleep next to an unclean animal.
          The Irish Times
          5
          He loved her as such an unclean animal could love.
          The Everlasting Whisper
          6
          He appeared to me a wild beast, an unclean animal.
          Mauprat
          7
          Show your boy a drunkard wallowing in the streets, like some unclean animal in the mire.
          Life in the Clearings versus the Bush
          8
          For myself, I am inefficient to the great work, having this morning touched an unclean animal.
          The Talisman
          9
          She had turned from Dorgan, as if from an unclean animal and was now facing Ogleby.
          The Ear in the Wall
          10
          Comparing him to a dog, an unclean animal, would have insulted him, which Wira did not intend.
          Provenance
          11
          This is the more curious because the dog is an unclean animal, whose touch defiles the true believer.
          Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume ...
          12
          She seemed to him then like some beautiful but unclean animal who fed upon the souls of men.
          The Survivor
          13
          The hare is an unclean animal.
          The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
          14
          This is a motionless, gluttonous, unclean animal who has long ago lost all powers of thought or feeling.
          The Horse-Stealers and Other Stories
          15
          The evil man, however, is born into a lower caste, or perhaps his soul enters some unclean animal.
          General History for Colleges and High Schools
          16
          The sullen, odd-eyed Martenses, whose unclean animal aspect shocked him, told him in broken gutturals that Jan was dead.
          The Complete Works of H. P. Lovecraft
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          animais impuros
          Unclean animal through the time
          Unclean animal across language varieties
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