The beast killed an Alsatian dog and then escaped apparently unhurt, surviving a number of point-blank shotgun blasts.

Soon, the disfigured beast has escaped by means of breaking off his own thumb to get out of the manacles which bind him.

One suggestion is that this beast escaped from a travelling circus whose owner chose not to report the escape.

Police said the beasts must have escaped from a zoo or circus.

He had discovered the clue to himself, he had escaped from the show, like a wild beast escaped straight back into its jungle.

Many sand-burrowers died, but their beast escaped by breathing white fire.

The beast escapes under a great stone.

That beast was in some other part of the garden and escaped the death of the flowers, but surely there are no more.

He could be sure it was not an easy one, for this wild beast had wounded Tyl himself and escaped.

However, it is subsequently revealed to the audience that the beast has escaped from its crate, and is in fact still alive and well.