fellow-creature's

He should have been a parson, or an Oxford don, or a waiter, for he was the kindliest, softest-voiced old stick who ever spared a fellow-creature's feelings - that was what was wrong with him, that he couldn't for the life of him say an unkind word, or set anyone down.

The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

In a flash, for the hundredth part of a second, I had peered through an uncurtained pane of this fellow-creature's mind, and what I saw there struck me into a sort of paralysis.

Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2005

'No,' she said; 'I see you are not in the humour for loving me: you are in one of your sunless, inclement moods, when one feels a fellow-creature's presence is not welcome to you, You have such moods are you aware of it?'

Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

Gone was all the veneer of civilization, the humanity which bids a man respect a fellow-creature's life.

Afterwards Kathlyn Rhodes

The intentions of the Koondooz ruler were not known, and we felt very anxious for the safety of the sick whom we had been necessitated to leave at Ghoree, as in addition to his natural sympathy for a fellow-creature's sufferings, Sturt feared that if any misfortune befel them, he might, though unjustly, be accused of having deserted them.

A Peep into Toorkisthhan Rollo Gillespie Burslem

He remembered his friend's religion and the strictness with which he adhered to its tenets, and thought that perhaps the shaking of a fellow-creature's hand was forbidden at certain hours.

The Hawk of Egypt Joan Conquest

The tests he had prepared by which to judge of his fellow-creature's fitness for heaven seemed to have lost their virtue.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859 Various

Nay, so heartening was the chance to hear a fellow-creature's voice that I broke into a run, skipping over the stunted gorse that cropped up here and there, and dreading every moment to see the light quenched.

McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 5, April, 1896 Various

Methinks I would be allowed to whisper nightly in the ears of my young friends as they lie down to rest, "How many minutes have you lost to-day, that might have been employed in your own improvement, in our Maker's service, or for your fellow-creature's good?"

The Ladies' Vase Polite Manual for Young Ladies An American Lady

This is an appalling sound at any time; but when the ship is making ten knots, with a heavy sea on, the chances for a fellow-creature's fate, make the moment one of dreadful anxiety, and especially to the commander, one of fearful responsibility; as to save one life, that of ten or more must be risked.

Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas W. Hastings Macaulay