Creatures
['kritʃɚ]
Examples
- 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.
- But it is a maxim of mine that men (being superior creatures) are bound to improve women--if they can. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- That is as true of all the minute creatures that swarmed and reproduced and died in the Arch?ozoic and Proterozoic seas, as it is of men to-day. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Yet it 'crops up'--as our slang goes--my lords and gentlemen and honourable boards, in other fellow-creatures, rather frequently! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- In bigness these greater _Dinosaurs_ have never been exceeded, although the sea can still show in the whales creatures as great. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Faithful women err in this, that they think themselves the sole faithful of God's creatures. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I am glad that I have loved, and have experienced sympathetic joy and sorrow with my fellow-creatures. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Poor little creatures! Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Though it's astonishing how much those thorough-bred creatures can do and suffer. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- I never heard any harm of her; and I dare say she is one of the most tractable creatures in the world. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- So greatly were Sator Throg and his friends amused by the sight that they kept me to train and handle the terrible creatures. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Clennam could not prevent himself from shuddering inwardly, as if he had been looking on at a nest of those creatures. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Why don't they whip these creatures? Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Well, now, said Marie, I know it's impossible to get along with some of these creatures. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Silly creatures, to put such thoughts into my head. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- We saw but two living creatures. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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