creature

• On the top of this tree, in among the branches, sat a monkey--at least so Ailie called it; but the term ape or baboon would have been more appropriate, for the creature was a very large one, and, if the expression of its countenance indicated in any degree the feelings of its heart, also a very fierce one--an exceedingly ferocious one indeed. —  The Red Eric
• '[857 The only published account of the animal familiar in France shows a combination of the two classes, for the creature was a toad kept in the house, fed in a particular way, and used for divination Silvain Nevillon and Gentien le Clerc were tried at Orleans in 1614. —  The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology
• 81): "To know the Creator and the creature is the entire teaching of wisdom. —  Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition
• Apparently the creature was all instinct and no brains Yer gotta stay here," he repeated. —  Tom Slade at Temple Camp
• Go on The old man continued, "This creature is then your servant, for you have brought him to life at a cross-road. —  The Hero of Esthonia and Other Studies in the Romantic Literature of That Country

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