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  • "Your turtle was a turd." — Oscar-winning Face Off judge Ve Neill not mincing her words as she judges the sea-creature challenge, which required lowering the models into a water tank.

    Matt's TV Week in Review 2012

  • There was the slightest movement of cold air on his face, like some small sea-creature breathing on him.

    A Sorcerous Mist Megan Arkenberg 2010

  • There was the slightest movement of cold air on his face, like some small sea-creature breathing on him.

    Archive 2010-06-01 Megan Arkenberg 2010

  • When "fish" meant simply "sea-creature" it was not inaccurate to talk of whales as a sub-class of fish.

    THE HALLS OF PENTHEUS -- PART THREE Hal Duncan 2007

  • How do you think this particular sea-creature feels, to find itself sandwiched between Peter Hitchens and Jeffery Archer?

    Top bloggery! Rachel 2006

  • “You're saying that she's some kind of sea-creature whatsis?”

    Deep Water Laura Anne Gilman 2000

  • She reminded Keffria of some sea-creature stranded by a retreating tide.

    The Mad Ship Hobb, Robin 1999

  • Our black rubber bodies drifted, entangled intimately in a deathly embrace, a slow and freakish sea-creature afloat on the current, the pressures and tensions of its own destruction working within it, the quadruple lung system starving for air, the twin heads close together in mortal enmity, each willing death on the other.

    The Mandarin Cypher Hall, Adam 1975

  • Contents - Next The only warning of danger I had was a disgusting wave of dead sea-creature stench.

    Restoree McCaffrey, Anne 1967

  • Now as he balanced in the canoe and tried to keep his mind off the queasiness in his middle and the insecurity of the one thickness of sea-creature hide stretched over a bone framework which made up the craft between his person and the water, Ross still mulled over what might be true.

    Key Out of Time Andre Norton 1958

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