11) 12. The Sayers of the Law. Wells, H.G. 1896. The Island of Doctor Moreau
...a dim pinkish thing, looking more like a flayed child than anything else in the world. The creature had exactly the mild but repulsive features of a sloth, the same...
12) critter. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth
Edition. 2000.
...Informal 1. A living creature. 2. A domestic animal, especially a cow, horse, or mule. 3. A person. Alteration of creature. Critter, a pronunciation spelling of creature,...
13) 22. An Idyl of the Honey-bee by John Burroughs. Matthews, Brander, ed.
1914. The Oxford Book of American Essays
...THERE is no creature with which man has surrounded himself that seems so much like a product of civilization, so much like the result of development on special lines...
14) Molly Coddle (A). Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...A pampered creature, afraid that the winds of heaven should visit him too roughly; though a male, a Molly; not a valetudinarian, but ever fearing lest he should be...
15) Shotten Herring. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...A lean spiritless creature, a Jack-o -Lent, like a herring that has shot or ejected its spawn. Herrings gutted and dried are so called also. 1 "Though they like shotten-herrings...
16) Ugly as Sin. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
..."Sin is a creature of such hideous mien That to be hated needs but to be seen."Pope....
17) Bolton. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...The Bolton Ass. This creature is said to have chewed tobacco and taken snuff. (Dr. Doran.) 1 Bate me an ace, quoth Botton. Give me some advantage. What you say must...
18) abominable snowman. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...abominable snowman, or yeti (yet´e) (KEY) , humanlike creature so named because it is associated with the perpetual snow region of the Himalayas. A figure unknown...
19) Anah. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...a tender-hearted, pious, meek, and loving creature, granddaughter of Cain, and sister of Aholiba mah. Japhet loved her, but she had set her heart on the seraph Aza...
20) Wordsworth, William. 1888. Complete Poetical Works.
...dew was falling fast, the stars began to blink; I heard a voice; it said, "Drink, pretty creature, drink!" And, looking o'er the hedge, before me I espied A snow-white...
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