Creature

Examples

• How we shall conciliate this little creature, said Mrs. Bretton to me, I don't know: she tastes nothing, and by her looks, she has not slept. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The poor bent, enfeebled creature struck his imagination. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Do hear the horrid creature talk! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• So convenient a thing it is to be a _reasonable creature_, since _it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do_. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The blinding snow and bitter cold are nothing to her, I believe; yet she is but a 'chitty-faced creature,' as my mother would say. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• And who is that nice good-natured looking creature with her--a flame of yours? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Evelyn was the only mirthful creature present: he sat on Clara's lap; and, making matter of glee from his own fancies, laughed aloud. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Such a poor weak little creature! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• I wondered, as I looked at this fair creature: I admired her with my whole heart. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• No, no,' pleaded the absurd creature. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• But some sense that perhaps the economic man is not a self-evident creature seems to have touched our author. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Try it,' said the little creature, with an excited and exultant face. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The poor creature interrupted me with loud sobs, which produced such a dreadful fit of coughing, I thought that she would have expired on the spot. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Clayton could not but notice it, and he wondered, vaguely, why she was so deeply moved--so anxious to know the whereabouts of this strange creature. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Such a creature as a reptile has in its brain a capacity for experience, but when the individual dies, its experience dies with it. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Now, said the physician, we must turn all these creatures out; all depends on his being kept quiet. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Poor, homeless, houseless creatures! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• But think of all these poor creatures, said Cassy. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Mercenary creatures ask, 'What is the use of a man's going to the North Pole? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• What strange creatures brothers are! Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• His resolutions and actions affect a greater number of his fellow-creatures. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Nothing could exceed in beauty the contrast between these two excellent creatures. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• You, my creator, abhor me; what hope can I gather from your fellow-creatures, who owe me nothing? Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• It moved every feeling of wonder and awe, that the picture of an omnipotent God warring with his creatures was capable of exciting. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Why, said Miss Ophelia, bluntly, I suppose you think your servants are human creatures, and ought to have some rest when they are tired. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• There were no big land beasts at all; wallowing amphibia and primitive reptiles were the very highest creatures that life had so far produced. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• What a plague those creatures are--staring at me so! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• And what is each human being worth, if he do not put forth his strength to aid his fellow-creatures? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Here, too, the bride's aunt and next relation; a widowed female of a Medusa sort, in a stoney cap, glaring petrifaction at her fellow-creatures. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Relieve us from this fear, and we shall be the happiest creatures in the world. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.

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