With two overgrown, stubborn beasts who both knew what I could do?

"You stubborn beast," he yelled.

I knew you would catch this disease, you stubborn beast.

The donkey belonged to the village merchant, and it was a stubborn beast that always tried to throw off its riders.

Instead you are a difficult, stubborn beast and I don't know why I love you.

Henry, you can be a stubborn little beast, can't you?

"You're a stubborn flar beast," Delkra told him.

And these oxen are the most stubborn beasts alive!

Robert Louis Stevenson in Travels with a Donkey (1879), portrays the animal as a stubborn beast of burden.

I would have preferred going along with Tammad, but the stubborn beast decided I couldn't and that was that.