If you are used, of course, you will be used as the mere beast, and slave, you are!

But tell me one last thing, and then I will not trouble you: when your people call us elephants, it is because they think of us as mere beasts, yes?

When you treat a rational autonomous creature as though he's a mere beast, what does that make you?

He waited, finally wondering if he had not put far too much trust in a mere beast.

You would have been riding an anomaly had 1 Shifted into a mere single beast, Chance.

Ferocious-looking as they were, the dragons seemed to take no active part in the struggle, and were plainly mere beasts of draught or burden.

I wish only to be at home in the world as the merest beast is at home.

Often since then I have wondered if this creature was or was not anything more than a mere gigantic beast of the forest.

Then, with regret, she left him, for it would not do to show too great an attachment to a mere beast of burden.

Perhaps Cathy was right: They were more than mere beasts.