Killed two of my best milk cows, the poor dumb brutes.

Fortunate it is for you that the dumb brutes cannot combine.

Had he not risked his life for the two dumb brutes he loved?

I've got some feeling for the dumb brutes that would have to suffer.

Only dumb brutes can live through a Genellan winter.

If Rof's men had been shaken before, they now were witless as dumb brutes.

"And I eliminated horses as big dumb brutes that take a lot of maintenance," he recalled.

But in that night of trial a mercy was extended to the dumb brutes in charge.

Saddling up, we rallied what few men were available, determined to make a protest, at least, in the interest of humanity to dumb brutes.

"The horses suffered most, poor dumb brutes," Captain Perez wrote 12 years later.