To carry he must speak louder; and this would rouse those striped and inimical creatures from their feasting by the fire. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“You are my creature, Jude Duarte. You will strike only when I tell you to strike. Otherwise, stay your hand. Do you understand?” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The bone clearly didn’t belong to any species of creature still alive, certainly not in New Jersey. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

There's no telling when the creature in there will come to life, snarling and roaring, devouring the trash that comes hurtling down chutes from the apartments above. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

An hour later, just before dawn, the travelers heard a soft whooshing noise above their heads and they glanced up and saw an immense gray batlike creature swooping down toward them out of the dark. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Where are—” Will began to say, but had to stop and regain his balance as the creature moved under him. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

His grandfather, the great theologian Jonathan Edwards, had once said that we were all depraved creatures, mere spiders hanging precariously over a never-ending fire. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Dad,” I said, “he’s just a sea creature. A really nice sea creature. You can’t destroy him.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

For now, a small boy was seen to be standing up there beside the other creatures. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

The creature disappeared from sight, a shadow swallowed by more shadow. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

A long-drawn wail came down the wind, like the cry of some evil and lonely creature. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He’d never even ridden a horse, let alone a creature like this. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Every creature bigger than a bluebottle was sheltering from the heat. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why had it allowed itself to be captured by such a large, dumb land creature? The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

And the world being after all full of strange creatures beyond count, these little people seemed of very little importance. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The robot’s voice was simply too much for the skittish creatures. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The winged centipede spiraled out the door above the other scrambling creatures. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

She already felt like she had creatures inside her—moths and snakes and terrors—and wouldn’t want them on her, too. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Not because of a creature smaller than themselves. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

His father had forsaken him, his uncles, his sister, even that wretched creature Reek. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The birds sit quietly in the trees, and all the other creatures seem to move more gently, as if their feet are padded with cotton. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

He closed his left eye and fit the bushy-tailed creature into a frame. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

I thought, “Once this creature stood here. It was alive, had flesh and hair. It had its own smell. It could feel hunger and thirst and pain. It could enjoy the early morning sun.” My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

I am like a small creature swallowed whole by a monster, she thought, and the monster feels my tiny little movements inside. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s a good animal— fastest four-footed creature on the planet,” he declared. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Ordinary peaceful creatures were usually panic-stricken at the sight of Cluny the Scourge at the head of his army. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

As it flopped down, she thrust the spear at the angry creature to drive him back. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even the nocturnal creatures, usually wide awake at that hour, gave in to the coziness of the Nest. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The only sounds were of the flowing water and creatures in the forest. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“How clever our gods are, to make such useful creatures! They look so strong and peaceful. Their drivers must love them the way we love our horses!” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Something that isn’t her. She might want something to eat as well. It’s hard to tell with creatures like that.” Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

All the creatures of the sea, from a graceful longma to a smiling fish, were bowing toward the mountain in gratitude. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

I needed to find Artemis, and I needed to figure out what the doomsday creature was. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Together they buried the dead creature, but later she saw the child chasing another. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The poisonous creature returns, no matter how many times she thinks it’s finally gone. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Keeping my eyes on the creatures above, I shook the other girls awake. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Duly Pilgrim says that the Universe does not look like a lot of bright little dots to the creatures from Tralfamadore. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

A real creature was much better than the monsters he’d imagined. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt he was one of the creatures electronically inserted between the slots of the phono-colour walls, speaking, but the speech not piercing the crystal barrier. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Nothing?’ said Faramir, looking at the wretched creature with a keen glance, but without any expression in his face either of anger, or pity, or wonder. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I mean, bottomless pits and secret underwater creatures? Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

He thought how much the brilliant creatures would love it when the sky was open and they could skim about over bright water again. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He believes that no creature large enough to be seen by the naked eye is generated spontaneously—not even a fly. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He caught a glimpse of a twenty-foot spiked tail as some creature flipped it out of the waves and then dove. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

When word got around of his daring exploits other creatures would come to him, foxes perhaps. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Harry looked around; the dementors were falling back on both sides of them, melding into the darkness, scattering before the silver creatures. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Small creatures fled and flew before my step. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The creature they sought was something out of stories. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Hugo would fling one into the wall, and the tenacious creature would stumble to its feet and wade back in for more. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Harry glanced over his shoulder to where the small, maimed creature trembled under the chair. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

But when you think of shamblers as things, as mindless creatures who have to be put down so that we might live, ending them gets to be a lot easier. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

She wanted to prove her hunch: that even these exotic creatures followed the same cycle as the European caterpillars she had already studied so thoroughly. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

This little creature, who needed me so much, could also care for me. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Working on the assumption that the troll and human physiques were basically the same, he rained blow after blow on the dumb creature, reducing it to a heap of quivering fur in so many seconds. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

A lot of creatures were more open-minded, it seemed to me. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Every leaf, every flower, every small creature that crawled or flew was beautiful. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The creature in the hollow was a bird—a big bird, nearly a foot long. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But as his trembling fingertips stretched toward the creature, it vanished. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Kindness, humility, piety, respect for other human creatures—these are the great desiderata of all who pursue virtuous action, and it matters not whether those who preach them heed their own advice. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The creature shrieks in rage, then lunges at Jena, the nearest player—all she can do is throw her hands up before the creature swallows her in one bite. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Strong, nimble creatures carried Roz up the sea cliffs and across the island. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The donkey and especially the toad, the creatures most important to him, had vanished, had become extinct; only rotting fragments, an eyeless head here, part of a hand there, remained. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The dark shadow of an unidentifiable creature scurries across Poppet’s boots and out of sight. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Lord Snow, what is this bestial creature doing on our side of the Wall?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Still, when she held a pupa—or “date pit,” as she called it—with its outline of tiny wings beneath the protective shell, she felt the creature stirring within. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The debate raged on, some creatures oblivious to the fact that their destiny was being decided, others contributing to the debate. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

We looked around and saw that the creature had brought us to the mouth of a small cave on the side of the hill. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The primary danger to the whales is a newcomer, an upstart animal, only recently, through technology, become competent in the oceans, a creature that calls itself human. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was of a strange creature—a pigeon-toed bird with scanty green feathers and red palms. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Emma and I ran back to help, and as we took her arms I turned to look behind us, hoping to catch a glimpse of the creature. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The creature they belonged to was tall and skinny, like a horse that had been pulled until its limbs stretched into spider legs. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Every ten to fifteen seconds, sharp metal spikes popped through its bulbous flesh and the whole creature abruptly curled into a ball and spun forward. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The chuckle said what he didn't: She was just a little girl who didn’t understand the world or the creatures in it. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“Ugh! Ugh! Now I must go wash at once! Who knows what diseases these creatures must carry, after living so long in the wild?” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

There was a pet stag belonging to a Latin farmer, a beautiful creature, so tame that it would run free by day, but at nightfall always come to the well-known door. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He glanced around at the girls seated in the room, who were pretending not to listen, but whose ears stood up, alert as wild creatures in a meadow. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Again and again he entered Forest, moved along its trails, spoke to its creatures. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

In these interregnums of order, Tlacaelel explained, the topmost brother linked himself to the sun, on which all living creatures depend. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Little by little she began to understand how a creature could maneuver in such a treacherous medium. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

His heart swelled at the sight of the creature that was a myth to his people, and he laughed and shouted, “Go tell the Old One to come, you wind-worm!” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Nailer suddenly felt weirdly ashamed that he had prodded the huge creature. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

He heard it before he saw it—the loud hissing, like a furious creature sucking in an enormous breath of air. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I was so excited that my flower exploded, the petals bursting through the wires like thick tentacles, knocking my sisters' cages to the floor, and stretching between us like an octopus creature. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

More than anything, she wished to trace the path of each marvelous creature, from egg—laid on a particular host plant—to larva, to pupa, to adult. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“We think the creature must be mistaken, you see.” Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The little creature flops down on a nearby cushion, her legs splaying in all directions. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

It was useless to turn and fight; this was no stupid bear who could be intimidated, but a creature as remorseless and cunning as the cat himself could be, to other smaller animals. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

A teeming, swirling world of enormous, wriggling creatures burst into my vision, scaring the daylights out of me. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

It has the organized, self-contained look of a live creature, full of information, marvelously skilled in handling the sun. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were pigs as well: the biggest, blackest boars that any of the ironbom had ever seen and plenty of squealing piglets in the brush, bold creatures that had no fear of man. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

No, he would have to remain there, alert for any trap the devilish creature might spring . A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

“No, I mean what if he keeps ferocious creatures in there? It might have nothing to do with his disappearance.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

"It's guarded by a creature that is invulnerable to attack." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Would they have to construct a seaworthy ship and find the elusive Boggy Crone River creature? Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Then take your punishment like the pathetic creature that you are.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The creatures can see where each star has been and where it is going, so that the heavens are filled with rarefied, luminous spaghetti. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Mini were here, she could make an enchantment of a giant shoe and squash the nightmare creature. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He was scathingly critical of the small hole that had been gouged into the side of the ditch, roundly cursing any creature who dared to complain of difficult obstacles. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

To survive, he ate worms and snails and other sluggish, deaf, and blind little creatures that inhabited the soft, mysterious soil. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d then persuaded Keffers to give him one of the little black notebooks he scribbled his figures in, and since then, Tommy had finished at least a dozen of his fantastic creatures. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t exactly that they were secrets; God revealed his secrets easily to all his creatures. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The creature’s lips were moving and the words were coming out of its mouth as he moved toward us. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

A greasy creature coughed globs of slime into the air. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Minotaurs, busty mermaids, and other fantastic creatures frolicked in the wood. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Frantic tadpoles zigzagged away from our shadows; some good-sized creature splashed into the water upstream from us, an otter, maybe, or a river rat. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“One strike of the claws from these cuddly creatures and your in­nards will be scooped out and splattered all over the ground.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Chariots circled it, locked in combat with the creature in the cloud. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

A slimy white hand had gripped his wrist, and the creature to whom it belonged was pulling him, slowly, backward across the rock. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

It emerged in her dreams like a dark moon with figures leaping from its mouth, living creatures—fat, thin, large, small, they hopped out and ran away in a long line. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The idea that such a tiny creature could kill a human was considered preposterous in Nott’s day. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

It looked like a neck, as if a creature in the bean were trying to escape but hadn’t yet managed to pull its head out. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Certain Australian surf bathers, several years ago, were stung by tiny creatures that turned out to be nudibranchs armed with the stingers of Portuguese men-of-war. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The creature sighed and looked down at her, its horns bumping into the doorframe. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“There is little honor in a fight with such a creature. I’d rather face a thousand honest men with swords than one of those deceitful witches with unnatural powers.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

In his loincloth and war paint, his hair matted with burrs and feathers, he really did look like a wild creature, small and fierce among the towering goldenrod and thistles. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

“You found the old orange cat!” she cried, just as though she had had some relation to the creature. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The creature offers you a carrot, but all you know how to deal with is milk. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night creatures were drawn to lights where they could be most easily eaten by other creatures was one of those mysteries that gave her modest pleasure. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Caruthers had shown her true nature early, and so, even if Ophie was nervous, it was something of a relief to know already what sort of creature she was dealing with. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Lit by the sunlight pouring out from the weapons room doorway, I’m able to point out the bouquet of flowers in the creature’s hand. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“For an insignificant creature, you’re very vain. Give me one reason for their concern.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

That was what such creatures of the night as Owl and Bat and Bear wanted. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The place was soon crawling with woodland creatures curious to hear more about the garden project. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Adrenaline rushes along the current between me and the unseen creature, and we are alert without seeing one another. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The drifting steamboats resembled primordial creatures that the winter chill had lured to the surface. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

There was no way he could be the same sort of being as that creature. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Milo couldn’t help laughing at the little creature’s strange behavior, even though he knew it might be rude. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

These creatures had no human traits, which made it much easier to cradle them, rock them, bathe them, and then throw them in the garbage. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The creature did not pursue its next intended lick victim, eyeing the bike with the suspicion of a dog seeing its first cat. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Rather than moving vertically downward, one may move horizontally outward toward a point of sufficient detachment where a modicum of creature comforts are not necessarily precluded. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He saw its blackness growing, running, a creature waving monstrous, tentacled arms. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next two were small, nervous creatures that looked like battery-operated plush toys. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Delicate silver and gold threads unraveled and wove themselves into the fragile wings of the frozen mariposas, converting the tiny creatures into magical designs stitched meticulously into the bodice of La Llorona’s gown. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The ability to make art is one of our most distinctive features, for it separates us from all other creatures across an evolutionary gap that is unbridgeable. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we say someone was “treated like a criminal,” what we mean to say is that he or she was treated as less than human, like a shameful creature. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It seemed the rest of the Night Zoo’s creatures had been freed, stampeding around the lawns, looking for escape too. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

At first they moved cautiously, but before long they grew confident at finding no trace of any creature larger than a mouse. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had to admit he was a strange little creature, with his squeaky voice and with Australia on his eye and with the way he was several inches shorter than other five-year-old boys. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The creature held Håkon by the throat with one hand, and with the other he continued peeling Håkon’s skin off his arm, revealing even more scales. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

More shrieks rang out, and then nervous laughter rippled through the audience as they realized the conjured creatures had disappeared. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

She explains that certain creatures are allowed to scare and harass unsuspecting people if they wander someplace generally acknowledged to be spooky—like graveyards, old abandoned mansions, dark caves, and under beds. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Then the creature lifted his head and Gregor recognized what was left of his dad. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I would have liked to see in person what creatures the planet has.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

If this was real and not illusion, he’d escape whatever trap these creatures had set for him. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Then the creature stepped from mirage on to clear sand, and they saw that the darkness was not all shadows but mostly clothing. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

‘I do not think you should go with this creature. It is wicked.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

She had been attacked and clawed, the children whispered, when she tried to steal an infant creature from its mother’s den. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

People, and cockroaches and fish and creatures Gregor had no name for fought and feasted and danced on every conceivable inch of space. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Other wheeled creatures were working: some repairing a roof, others hauling a net out of the river, others bringing brushwood for a fire. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Who would believe that God made such a creature? Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things they could get used to. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“For only such a horrible place could create such creatures who could burn a person with a flaming hot iron.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Madoc is already seated on the largest of the faerie steeds, an impressive creature with a scar beneath one eye. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The creature flew so quickly that all Taisin could do was follow. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“So you’ll get rid of that creature in your office?” asked Brave Orchid. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It would be wise for you to protect yourself. There are many creatures that would love a tasty little morsel like you as a snack,” Mother Water Monster said. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

When the creature’s skin began to catch fire, she turned away, pressing her hand over her nose to block out the smell. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Harry stared around the bathroom, thinking ... if the voices could only be heard underwater, then it made sense for them to belong to underwater creatures. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

If a live creature were being held captive, the hatch would have been locked. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

No one would condemn her for studying such a useful creature. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

What agony of starvation this woman had endured, with the starved creature gnawing at her from within, desperate for its own life! The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“What are these fascinating creatures called?” she asked, beaming still more widely. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“The name the founders gave this preserve centuries ago. A refuge for mystical creatures, a stewardship passed down from caretaker to caretaker over the years.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

At this, the creature set up a loud and piteous whining, rolled his eyes, and beat the ground with his palms. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

“Which is exactly why I should. But don’t worry. I’m essentially a selfish creature. I crave your company too much to do what I should.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

All the mice took a solemn vow never to harm another living creature, unless it was an enemy that sought to harm our Order by violence. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

She remembered the green smudge and the creature, whatever it was, with its terrible fin, rising above her. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

What kind of creature did he imagine me to be? Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The creature had spiky fur which stuck out at odd angles all over. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The fire licked his skin like something living, a darting, burning creature that he had befriended, a creature that caressed him and danced for him and drove the night away. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Now that they were on level ground, zooming through Fry, zigging around frozen people and things, they found their bikes maintained only the narrowest lead over the creature. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

This giant was another child of Gaea—a creature of the earth so malevolent and powerful, he radiated his own gravitational field. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The creatures returned to the attack: botched beasts, belonging to ages before bird or dragon or man, long since forgotten by the daylight but recalled by the ancient, malign, unforgetful power of the Stone. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

I am poor and an exile, but it will afford me true pleasure to be in any way serviceable to a human creature.’ Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

She worked methodically, but her mind wandered to Sidhean, to Kaisa, to the last time she had seen her, the fairy gown on her skin like a live creature. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nearby, I see one of his spies, a wrinkled creature with a nose like a parsnip and a back hunched higher than her head. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I can imagine creatures evolving into glimmerings of knowledge on innumerable worlds, every one of them assuming at first their puny planet and paltry few suns to be all that is. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She awoke to the quiet sounds of seven creatures deep in sleep. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

And so Emily lay back against the pillows for another several minutes, her creature having slunk away, and patiently planned, and revised her plans, and refined an order for them. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The man realized that the animals on Salatin’s farm were not being treated like unfeeling raw material, but like living creatures. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“All wild creatures avoid contact with people. Like you said, you’ve never even heard of the draccus. There’s a reason for that.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The blue, furry fairy caught the creature in midflight, pinning its arms to its sides. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Many of the unsavory creatures voluntarily fled before the terrible onslaught. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

There was not a human creature anywhere, not a leaf stirring, not even a bird awake. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I pivoted and he tackled air, falling and rolling down the dune, coming to a stop right next to the creature I’d pulled from the hold of the Maafa. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

And now Jackson and Jillson, never the most delicate creatures to begin with, were equally determined to knock Kate about, having been embarrassed—not to mention bruised—by her bucket. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Geoducks are also among the world’s rarest creatures. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The creature was utterly strange, not like anything they had ever known, and yet when it looked at them, some kind of recognition passed between them. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was a grotesque creature, and he’d never seen a fighter survive its attack, but it was also a living thing. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Her speech is nothing. She is a harmless creature,” said the white-haired gentleman in a reassuring tone. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The little creature, who seemed stunned at being found out, leaped back out of sight and began to whimper softly. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

I drove Riptide between two of the creatures scales and managed to turn its attention on me. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Hound had turned, clenching him in its metal-plier jaws, and trotted off in darkness, while the camera remained stationary, watching the creature dwindle in the distance—a splendid fade-out! Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

The creature swung its great head from side to side. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

In some un explainable way this strange little creature seemed to belong here, so much a part of this quiet lonely place that her voice might have been the voice of the Meadow itself. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Jaws snapping, the creature swallowed a yellow fairy whole. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Lina thought maybe they were weapons, meant for fending off hostile creatures. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“So the animals we saw at the pond were actually other creatures, like how the butterflies were fairies,” Kendra clarified. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

And where better could she learn that trade than in a house full of magical creatures, where fairies built their nests in the garden and books whispered on the shelves by night? Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The creature she had seen in the Englishman’s house wasn’t a moving picture after all. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

His invisible companion seemed to breathe on a very large scale, and Shasta got the impression that it was a very large creature. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

He was silent, head raised, alert as a wild creature of the forest. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Nathan looked back and noticed that the path behind them was gone, and that above them were the dark shadows of massive creatures. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Murderer! Oh, you barbarous creature! You have killed Brother Methuselah!” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

About stings and venoms and beginnings and endings and all the creatures that no one else seems to understand. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Small creatures rubbing sleep from their eyes in confusion were dragged out into the Abbey grounds. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“What are these other miserable creatures to you, Plumpen?” he snapped. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Everyone drew back slightly as Hagrid reached them and tethered the creatures to the fence. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

But she picked up the creature in her lap and picked at where she’d left off. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

When social animals are gathered together in groups, they become qualitatively different creatures from what they were when alone or in pairs. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Sheldon it was not only the wild creatures and the domestic companions that were sacrificed in the campaign against an insect. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Our eyes are peeled for bears, lynxes, wayward hunters—any creature that might call the mountains home. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I do think Mrs. Long is as good a creature as ever lived—and her nieces are very pretty behaved girls, and not at all handsome: I like them prodigiously.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

The boy, trained in night-sight when the lantern was dimmed so as not to alert the wood’s creatures, picked out a blurred shape in the dark. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes looked immense, like the eyes of a frightened woodland creature. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

We laughed and bit and wrestled, and I think we must have looked like one squirming creature with many heads, arms, and legs. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Håkon clutched at his arm near the creature, which lay motionless. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

I’m just rooting for Theseus . . . ... as my grandmother, in 1923, prepares to meet the creature hidden in her womb. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

In a few moments the creatures breach far off our port bow, once more intertwined in their familiar hateful embrace, forgetting us completely. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

People who could afford to buy creatures mixed from a genetic cocktail of humanity, tigers, and dogs. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

This creature, man...this creature was a collection of rot on four legs. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He is a strange creature, but maybe I should have summoned him to our Council.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

She tried to ignore the shifting shadows she saw ahead—various creatures ducking out of sight. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

He * * Charles was a creature of habit, and the whole family’s routine revolved around his. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A mockingjay is a creature the Capitol never intended to exist. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Bigwig’s spirit was as tough as his body and quite without sentimentality, but, like most creatures who have experienced hardship and danger, he could recognize and respect suffering when he saw it. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The creature lifted an idle hand and flicked a finger at Ivan. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

It was due to this that many of the strange and fell creatures of Erilea existed. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

A few creatures came and looked at them when the fire had died away. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“The Crow’s Eye gave him to me, wretched creature that he is.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Dustfinger put his hand into her glass prison and carefully took the little creature out. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He was a creature of the wide-open spaces, not the underground. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It takes long intimacy, long and familiar interliving, before one kind of creature can cause illness in another. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dragons can be kindly and wise, and quite unlike the fire-breathing, malicious, greedy creatures the white demons seem to think dragons are. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had crossed the Elmuthaleth at the Godslayer’s side and now carried, in his pocket, the tooth of a creature from the world’s oldest myth. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The slushed walls gradually peeled, inviting bats, rats and other nightly creatures to come live with us. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I do; a dear motherlike creature you are. But I do not know myself.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Cornflower, along with other woodland creatures granted sanctuary, was sleeping in makeshift quarters provided by the good mice of Redwall. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

They wander through a tent full of mist, encountering creatures made out of paper. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Farther away another dark creature slashed through the water, and another; of course they are based in New London, and this is their home. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were two creatures now, and the second one had wings. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“And that’s a totally cool idea! We could do the colors of the ocean and all the different creatures that live there!” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

A much younger creature, also a boy, came running out of the house immediately ahead of the others. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

One, an excited creature with wings, began to throw itself against the bars, creating a ringing noise. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The bones of dead creatures sprawled in the washes. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Oh, how I then wished that I could be such a wee creature, small enough to hide so well. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Melisandre’s face darkened, “TTiat creature is dangerous. Many a time I have glimpsed him in my flames. Sometimes there are skulls about him, and his lips are red with blood.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The creature behind them jerked and moaned, and Harry and Dumbledore sat without talking for the longest time yet. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Something else slipped out of the pages, though, something breathing, a creature made of flesh and blood. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Other creatures lurked just on the edge of sight. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Pax had been born with that same instinct as well, but distrust is no match for kindness administered consistently and unmeasured, especially in creatures new to the world. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Sylvester had always said that swans were terribly moody creatures. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

The creature hesitated, then nodded and lifted its arm, letting Bitter pull Jam away and back, closer to the bed. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

By the time he turned a corner and found the three apprentice boys crowded around the poor creature’s udders and snickering as they sprayed each other with milk, he was in a foul mood. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

And they both looked up as the ambulance raced past them on the avenue on which no creature moved, save for the saints of God behind them. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The creatures circled the train like vultures, delighting the tourists. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Whatever poor creature they had surrounded was clearly the property of an elderly, fashionably dressed woman who swung her handbag wildly while calling out, “Please, children, keep your distance! Leave my Reginald alone!” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

I wished he were less remote; and I anything but the creature that I was in my shabby coat and skirt, my broad-brimmed schoolgirl hat. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The nearest creature touched its own breast with its trunk and spoke. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Thomas couldn’t help taking a peek—he saw a smear of bright red on one of the creatures’ bodies. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Still pale, still dreamlike in his beauty, but no longer the fantastic sparkling creature of our sunlit afternoon. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the night the unknown creature came out of its hiding place and whisked its long antennae over Nhamo’s legs. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Imagine a creature so unlike other animals that scholars once believed it was a plant.” The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The crazed creature had cut a swathe through the middle of a vineyard, turned a stone wall to rubble, and left a guard dog gibbering under a hedge. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I had a swimming feeling in my heart like a creature thrashing to get out and wanting to stay in at the same time. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even the moist and uncomfortable creatures in the lunch pail ceased to exist, for the little red metal flag was up on the mail box, signifying that some postal matter was inside. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tells me God forgives me and I must forgive myself, that God loves me and I must love myself for only when you love God in yourself can you love all God’s creatures. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent to the concerns of such puny creatures as we. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She turned to the creature by her side and spoke some of those singing, hooting sounds, moving her arm as she did so. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Yes. It is. You opted to send in a lapsed creature. So now I’m going to.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

So far it was empty, except for a tiny creature sitting in the second from last seat at the end of the row behind them. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Maria wanted to know—and to share—the origin of all creatures, not just butterflies. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

No man would ever yield to a creature such as Reek, no matter how desperate his situation. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Quick as lightning he thrust the big stake into the Firedrake's jaws, jamming them open even as the creature gaped wide to let loose the first foul gust of flame. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

Smaller creatures flee invisibly but audibly through the undergrowth. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

A barnacle-covered creature as pale as a corpse, and the dark, oily tentacle of a second creature gripping on to the first. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

It responded quickly, while the creatures were still a few hundred yards away. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Pointing my wand away from myself into the deadly folds of the creature, summoning the memory of the day I had been voted President of the local Gobstones Club, I performed the Patronus Charm. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I never saw a needier creature in my life.’ Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

One magnificent creature with beautifully striped legs swung down directly in front of Vikus. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The graceful creature paid no attention to the wolves, but frisked gaily at the old man’s side. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

As it is, the natives mount small attacks every other day on any man or creature who strays too far from our guarded, half-built fort. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Coo was a sort of bunny creature lying next to Ginny’s bed. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

She didn’t even seem to notice the pain, poor little creature. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Everyone agreed that they are more like human beings than any other creature alive today. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Poor creature. Poor creature,” said the mother and turned away to get him food. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It shows the extraordinary creatures that supposedly lived on the Moon. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Poor creatures! one can think of nothing else.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

She clapped it over the creature at once. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

What certainty had he that a single human creature now living was on his side? 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Here, the eye was first attracted to a black, bat-like creature that danced on the sand, and only later perceived the body above it. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Shadow stared, impressed in spite of himself, at the hundreds of full-sized creatures who circled on the platform of the carousel. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Then another creature moved forward and touched her hand with its trunk. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

In this cycle, countless creatures worked in tandem as well as against one another. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He could feel that mad stinking creature from the crate starving for blood inside him, its sunken features lurking behind his own face, but maybe it didn’t have to be like that. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

May Belle had her eyes all squinched as though Leslie was some strange creature in a zoo. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

The creature looked almost exactly like one: a wrinkled hag with batlike wings, brass talons, and glowing red eyes. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The creatures—maybe half a dozen, Annabeth guessed—had paused just on the other side of the boulder, but still they gave no indication that they’d caught the demigods’ scent. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

And here’s where things became completely surreal, because riding by his side, astride a creature with the body of a ravid and the head and wings of Wraith the white eagle was...Sarai. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“But for Marly—every spider, every creature has to live.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Other parts were gritty with sand, or were tangled in seaweed, or were inhabited by small, scuttling creatures. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Poor clowns, wider than tall, more dead than alive, poor creatures whose ghostly faces peeked out from layers of prisoner’s clothes! Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

They did open it, however, and saw in it the serpentlike creature. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I risked a glance behind me—the Story Box was still there on the pedestal—and then turned to face another group of screeching metal creatures. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

One article ran with an image of a half-human, half-mouse creature with a long, scaly tail; another ran with a cartoon of a hippopotamus-woman reading the newspaper at a bus stop. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Well, as a matter of fact, I asked that Swedish creature—a pleasant soul—if it was bolted, and she said it was.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Can you imagine how unlikely it is for any two creatures to cross each other in a universe as big as this one? Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

They sat on the sand at the bottom of the tank, building things out of Legos, though the creatures seemed just as dazed as the Nereids. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It is because the hawks themselves are furious creatures, and the people who associate with them catch it. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And there have been other things. There have been sightings of strange creatures near the border of the Wood. Creatures that are not human. We have encountered them ourselves on our journey here.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Should any such creature cause harm to, or draw the notice of, the Muggle community, that nation’s wizarding governing body will be subject to discipline by the International Confederation of Wizards. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is a useful lie. For you see that I, a poor, simple creature without reason, am harmless and hence safe from harm,” I explained. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

At the same time other materials are being taken away, borrowed for temporary use by living creatures. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Of forest lore he had studied deeply, and Taran listened in wonder as Adaon told the ways and natures of woodland creatures, of bold badgers and cautious dormice and geese winging under the moon. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

The girl, who had never seen a lion before, wept at the thought that she would have to marry such a frightening creature. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

And there, just outside, was the creature whose footsteps shook the bones of Weep. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She was certain that if Cluny’s army overran Redwall, there would be enough treasure to keep even the greediest creature happy for life. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I felt myself a small creature in a vast tapestry of nature. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

They said he’d gone into the Greater Jungle hoping to find freedom and instead had found a creature that killed for amusement. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The Earth then was full of awesome, nightmarish lizards—the dinosaurs, immensely successful creatures, which filled virtually every ecological niche. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

These creatures are innocent of any harm to man. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Before long another swarm of small winged creatures crowded the mirror. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Earth gave birth to her last and most frightful offspring, a creature more terrible than any that had gone before. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The little creatures might have been funny if they weren’t surrounding her, staring up at her with those pointed teeth and hungry green eyes. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Up ahead of them Bod saw a statue swing up, and another two creatures came catapulting out into this crimson-skied world, just like the ones that carried Bod. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Dimple shuddered to think what the creature might turn out to be. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The writers of books on insect behavior generally take pains, in their prefaces, to caution that insects are like creatures from another planet, that their behavior is absolutely foreign, totally unhuman, unearthly, almost unbiological. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some creature—Matty thought probably a fox or weasel—had inflicted a terrible wound upon the small green thing, and the frog was almost dead of it. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

On the deck above, something went THUMP, as if a heavy creature had landed. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Among all the world’s large creatures, the only survivors of the human flood will be humans themselves, and the farmyard animals that serve as galley slaves in Noah’s Ark. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was evening; not a house, not a living creature, was to be seen. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The primrose was more vulgar, a homely pleasant creature who appeared in every cranny like a weed. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

They had never seen eye to eye with Hagrid about what he called “interesting creatures” and other people called “terrifying monsters.” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Whenever any creature broke loose on Zuckerman’s farm, the event was of great interest to the others. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Had that mysterious creature been frightened to death? The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“What was the creature doing?” said Dart the weasel. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Olfactory receptors for communication between different creatures are crucial for the establishment of symbiotic relations. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The sun can no longer warm God’s creatures,” she said. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

I pictured the world, all pretty blue- green and floating out in space, creatures and forests and deserts and cities. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

The creature leered, as though it could hear his thoughts. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

All through the Abbey and its grounds creatures stopped what they were doing. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

From all I have observed of Prince Dain, he has always seemed like a creature of honor. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I had failed to convince my sisters to stay away from the creature and now we were being invited into his cave. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“I want to hear about the evil creatures. What’s out there?” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“Oh Father,” he cried, “make of these creatures a people for me, as numerous as they, and fill my empty city.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Too much hard luck can create a permanent meanness of spirit in any creature. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

They will dig away the earth from under the bodies of small creatures, such as shrew mice and fallen fledglings, and then lay their eggs on them before covering them with soil. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meggie put the book about creatures who were masters of disguise back in its place. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Then there was a creature bounding along the pig track toward him, with tusks gleaming and an intimidating grunt. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Yes! All over the sheet! We’ll have to burn it.Take the creature outside now.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

My eyes scan the woods just in time to see the first creature leap onto the plain. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

A roach is a creature no one can love, but you cannot kill it. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

To many, that could mean only one thing: Since canals on Earth are man-made, Mars’s canals must have been built by intelligent creatures. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Men with absolute power over their slaves acted like creatures we would otherwise meet only in nightmares. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

The creatures seemed no more dangerous than sugar ants, but something worried him far more. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

She heard faint noises, like some night creature scurrying. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girl sitting slumped over a few yards away looked like the most miserable creature he'd ever seen. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The next year, Bridge, Tab, and Emily were the set of fifth graders who drew creatures on their homework papers, and they drew the same things they had drawn before: bird, snake, and Martian. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

He smiled down on the scurrying eight-legged creatures and whispered, “Ah, yes. To the right. I see.” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

They named the seed tree, and all the creatures and plants. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He was sneaking up behind the creature, and any moment now the intruder would find itself nose down in the carpet. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I would much prefer this useful role, if I had any say, to the essentially unearthly creature we seem otherwise on the way to becoming. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stared down into a forest full of growling tropical creatures and magnificent birds. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

He looks at me like I’m a creature from another planet. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

So the two friendly creatures just stood there together and listened to the crickets for a while. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Di, I believe, amazing creature,” the Prince replied, smiling gently as Buttercup commenced the letter. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He was Lord Ramsay’s creature, lower than a dog, a worm in human skin. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Once they were safely out of the creature’s mouth, they followed the stone path that wound around the cave that wasn’t a cave at all but a gigantic whale thing. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“She is a sort of elegant creature that one cannot keep one’s eyes from. I am always watching her to admire; and I do pity her from my heart.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

She matched her words so perfectly that the speech was not a speech at all, but one creature’s voice in the wild, as natural as a raven’s caw or a coyote’s howl at midnight. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Swinging his spear wildly, he jumped on top of the creature’s bulbous body, whacking two metal arms away from him with a loud crack. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

And he, compassionate creature, who drew from me the arrows of sorrow one by one, listened, and when I came home I was not alone. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Zola and her father and the villagers are watching with their mouths widely open, as if they are thinking, What creatures are these? The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

But as for loving this insensitive person this mocking creature—it’s becoming more and more impossible every day! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

There were tide pools over there, full of bright petalfish, the watery flower creatures that shrank when they were touched. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“It goes well for us, old one, though how I can say that anything goes well which causes death and injury to living creatures is beyond me. We live in strange times, my friend.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The creature standing feet away, obscured in the shadows, was large; she could tell that instantly. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Grandma had explained it was full of special dust that would keep undesirable creatures away from them. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

She had arrived at the underground country where the broken and thrown-away creatures lived. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

If we let fly enough of them at once, we can even burn out the one-celled green creatures in the sea, and thus turn off the oxygen. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a round, bristly creature no taller than his knees. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

In the world were also dwarfs—ugly creatures, but masterly craftsmen, who lived under the earth; and elves, lovely sprites, who tended the flowers and streams. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there were more important things to tend to, and so the agent rolled the creature’s corpse out into the surf, watching it go under. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

He did not believe that God created the earth and all its creatures in six days. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would visit the barn at once, to see what aid she might render to the miserable creature—or creatures—within. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

A group of little creatures is coming up the walk. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Compared to a star, we are like mayflies, fleeting ephemeral creatures who live out their whole lives in the course of a single day. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The creatures of the tundra were going to sleep, as they did also at noon in the constant daylight. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Actually, Remedios the Beauty was not a creature of this world. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Two short, stubby legs poked out from the bottom, and the weird creature stomped indignantly out to the middle of the raft. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Other creatures, however, hunted for prey both day and night—like crocodiles. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

The creature appeared from the curtains of webbing, and Annabeth realized that her quest was hopeless. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

And if that pale soft stupid creature could incite the animals when fully clothed, how much more lust would a queen inspire? A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Bitter’s hand flew to her mouth when she saw Jam being held by the creature, and Aloe’s skin went gray. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Fletcher, a trader in banned artefacts and creatures, had intended to import a trafficked Demiguise into the New World, with the aim of manufacturing invisibility cloaks. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Use your power,” she said, “and make the hussy fall madly in love with the vilest and most despicable creature there is in the whole world.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were unnatural creatures, and the ship smelled better once cleansed of their presence. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Lancelot noticed that she was a bold creature, who was probably fond of getting her own way. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The creatures had six arms each, three sprouting on either side, so they looked like cavemen evolved from insects. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

At the sight they forgot the goddess and turned in pursuit of the beautiful creature. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he remembered his grandmother’s instructions: It helps if you know the creature well. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

His belief was that from time to time the Earth experienced global catastrophes in which groups of creatures were wiped out. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The lion was a bit unwilling to help such a small creature, but when he saw that the others were happy to do so, he grudgingly agreed. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Robert had slain her gallant brother Rhaegar, and one of his creatures had crossed the Dothraki sea to poison her and her unborn son. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The old fool of an Abbot and his stupid devoted band of creatures were all outside, shoring up gatehouses, drilling, fetching, carrying and generally being good and useful. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Attractive creature,” she said, “but queer-tempered I should think, difficult to know. I thought he might have made some gesture of asking one to Manderley that day in the lounge, but he was very close.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“What if it wasn’t an animal, but a person? And what if that person disabled Verin long enough for them to summon this creature?” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Talk about wild things! Your grand-mother was the wildest, most untamed, most ornery and beautiful creature ever to grace this earth.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

The creature hit the bottom landing and charged after her, so close she could smell its reeking breath. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

They stared bravely into the creature’s eye without blinking, and it stared back. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

It seemed that all the creatures of the wild were holding their breath. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

But on a table at the end, all by itself, sat a most amazing creature. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The creature shrugged and vanished, leaving a dizzying space where it used to be. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Pa showed Laura the tracks of the wild creatures in the snow at the sides of the road. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The treetops rustled and branches snapped as more of the fiendish creatures raced to join the fight. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Those who have seen it describe a tall, silver-haired creature, something like a skinny bear. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Had the old enchanter ordered him to capture a full-grown gwythaint, Taran would gladly have set out after one of the vicious winged creatures. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

The creature opened its mouth to make another horrible scream, and Matt suddenly knew who it looked like. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I opened my Notebook to the illustrations I’d made of the microscopic river creatures. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“His hair is quite gray,” said Taran, who could not bring himself to believe these strange creatures were indeed speaking of his old teacher. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

The little creature hurried back down the path. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

I crawled onto the sand on all fours, invisible creatures skittering away as I collapsed onto what felt like a pile of leaves. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Anya decided she had wasted enough time on a creature that might not even be real. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

She would have thought a question like that, which was almost an insult, would enrage the great creature beyond reason, and she wondered at Farder Coram’s courage in asking it. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

"Where is it, boy? Where is it?" roared the giant "boss" creature, his hulking, fly-infested body bent over so his head wouldn't scrape the ceiling. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

An entire flock of bat-like creatures with long flowing tails bursts out and swims through the sky in the opposite direction. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Greater sea creatures glided past, their bodies decorated with pulsating, magical designs. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Anya smiled, but then the memory of the creature in the dungeon snuffed her smile out. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

"Well," she said, sucking away at her stinking cigar, "their favourite ruse is to mix up a powder that will turn a child into some creature or other that all grown-ups hate." The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Matthias kept his eyes closed, his face still buried in the creature’s fur. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Looking at the volcano-shaped creature, he knew what some of his friends had been trying to tell him was correct. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The creature’s screaming and slobbering intensified, growing louder as it approached. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

And we, even if we had no meat or even grass to gnaw, still boil our water to kill the invisible creatures that would like to kill us first. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

An odd suit is one thing—hearing that creatures from books and movies might actually be real is something else. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

But humans enjoyed all of these advantages for a full 2 million years during which they remained weak and marginal creatures. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other magical creatures inhabit places inaccessible to Muggles—one thinks of the Acromantula, deep in the uncharted jungle of Borneo, and the phoenix, nesting high on mountain peaks unreachable without the use of magic. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

That’s the way it is with most creatures, from what I can see. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

So they finally decided to spend one last night in the village, along with all the creatures that Fenoglio had brought back to life. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

This land might very well belong to supernatural creatures. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many creatures had frozen to death over the winter. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The hole was large enough if I stuffed the creature in a bit. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

That world was discovered by the Dutchman Antonie van Leeuwenhoek when, in 1676, he was the first to see living creatures invisible to the naked eye. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

"It's three hundred times a minute. But even so, you wouldn't have thought it went as fast as that in a creature that moves so slowly, would you, Miss Honey?" Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

But I must have seen a picture, or one in the Games, because when I see the creatures, the same word comes to my mind. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

A creature half the size of a man, with leathery wings and hooked claws, was crawling over the side of the basket toward Lee Scoresby. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

She tells me the poor wee dog was hit by a car and he crawled all the way from the middle of the street before he died.Wanted to come home, the poor wee creature. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“It made us sisters—dear, dear creatures to each other. On the day of our reunion we say, I go to meet my sisters.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Seven naked little pink creatures lay all wound up together with closed eyes and ears standing up and long whiskers sticking out and little pointed noses and tiny strings of tails. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Big beautiful creature so alive, it seemed like it could never die. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

She grabbed a stick and pounded the creature even as it rose to attack again, banging it until its body was mush with the tail twitching feebly. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The creature rolled and came to its feet, and it took me a second to recognize the bonobo. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

There was nowhere in the castle to summon or hide a creature like that, except for the endless, forgotten chambers and tunnels running beneath it. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“He used an ant, if you can believe it. Tied a silk string to the little creature and coaxed it through the shell by putting honey at the far end.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

If things had been a little different, it might have been some other creature whose intelligence and manipulative ability would have led to comparable accomplishments. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She learned to walk on the hard-packed earth outside the cabin, getting up, falling down, getting up again— a small naked creature, who answered to the name of Minta or Minty. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She raised her hands but she was shaking too badly to use her power to end the creature’s suffering. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I hung balanced, a creature of two minds; and one of them said—unreasonable, stubborn as the mountains—that she was beautiful. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

One creature opens its mouth and reveals sharklike teeth that plunge into the neck of its screaming victim. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The old man was staring at Flatnose with an expression of disgust that suggested he couldn’t believe such a creature had slipped from his pen. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

In front of him was an enemy who was trying to kill him; in front of him, also, was a human creature, in pain and perhaps with a broken bone. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

When creatures first crawled from the seas, this is what came up, and they haven’t changed a great deal since. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Its walls and floor and ceiling were made of wooden planks notched cunningly together and decorated with all the creatures of the sea. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The serpent was more than a creature; it seemed like a living monument, as eternal and elemental as a mountain range. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

A parent, after all, is the steward of another creature’s life, a creature who in the beginning is more helpless than the newborn of nearly any other species. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

The creatures in it looked like live twigs or dry leaves. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The woods were full of unpredictable happenings—snapping creatures, falling branches, stinging insects. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Matt was left alone, curled up in the middle of the floor, like the unnatural creature he was. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The creatures rolled onto the surface and set off, soon picking up speed. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Here was one of those old images brought to life, or maybe a creature descended in true line through endless years from the models used by the forgotten craftsmen long ago. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

And the spectators observed these emaciated creatures ready to kill for a crust of bread. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Colette always flushes when we discuss the wedding. She is such a delicate creature. Sensitive nerves.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The creature topples over, a flailing arm sending a pyramid of golden apples spilling to the dirt. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Some tiny creature caught in the talons of an owl. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

His expression seemed to say: Did this tiny creature just talk to me? The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Fortunately this soft pink man was not one of his sister's braver creatures. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

When Walt Disney made a motion picture of Bambi, his artists based their images on the Great North Woods of Maine, but this was palpably not a Disney forest of roomy glades and cuddlesome creatures. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

A group of people, including a spider and a being with glowing eyes, confronted a terrifying creature rising out of the sea, their hands outstretched, preventing the evil from advancing. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He held the tin mug upside down over it and then slipped the card out from between them, so that the creature fell into the glass. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

It was considered an almost magical creature, outside the realm of common insects. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It was enough to realize that the world had once held creatures strikingly unlike anything we might now find. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Well. I guess I shall have to try again. Troublesome creature. You almost foiled me once, but you failed. And you shall fail again.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The creature gave a dreadful squeal as Beowulf touched him. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pointed to the gray-black rocklike creatures that moved lazily in the sandy mud on the bank of the river. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the first moments after they had recognized the poor creature under the hemlock, Hazel and Dandelion felt completely stupefied, as though they had come upon a squirrel underground or a stream that flowed uphill. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He seemed to be so young, a cub, a puppy, something helpless and beaten, a creature so sunk in misery that it was more misery than creature. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He heard a low snarl, met the gaze of an ancient creature with cold, empty eyes. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I crash into the trees, repeatedly swiping away the blood that's pouring into my eye, fleeing like the wild, wounded creature I am. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Håkon cried out and tried to grab for the gash in his arm, but the creature twisted his hand away. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

She seemed a placid creature altogether—eminently respectable—perhaps not over intelligent. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nor is it only the creatures that forage on the ground or those who prey on them that are endangered by the foliar spray ing of the elms. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

And Jack saw that the creatures pulling the sleigh were not winged horses at all, but a pack of horse-size white wolves with fur that glimmered in the moonlight. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

She looked around the clearing then and found that she was surrounded by all manner of forest creatures—owls and foxes, dormice and squirrels, bees and deer and rabbits. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I was ten feet away from the Chimera’s bloody maw, and I knew that as soon as I moved, the creature would lunge. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Our pets had mostly escaped by then, or been eaten up, as in the case of Methuselah, but the Congo still offered a wealth of God’s creatures to entertain us. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“See the spiny, spindly creature? A round ball with spikes? Like a rolling porcupine?” Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Unlike the forest creature, Kira had no claws with which to fight. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

This at least is one joy that must have been known by almost every living creature. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now he saw the landsman's view of the swell and it seemed like the breathing of some stupendous creature. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

So that they might have a little more power over the world around them, and the creatures in it, for whom they cared so little. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Today, I threw a whole bucket on the creature and bought rounds of cassava for everyone in our cell with the money Santicl6 brought us from Mami. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This creature, which had never before been seen in that place, was the creature which people now call the baboon. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

It’s one of the creatures the captain speaks of. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

But perhaps, she thought, Einar would be in the meadow, tending his creatures, and would welcome her company. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I saw that there were two lines of creatures that looked like men on either side of the road; that there were a few white faces and a great many black faces. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

A spiderlike creature made of clockwork and gears scuttled by. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She moved closer, and it touched her on the breast, where she had pointed, and she heard her voice coming back to her from the creature’s throat: “Merry.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The creature blinked hard and whipped its head around. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The little creature appears late one afternoon on an old carousel in the village of Perchance. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

They weren’t even technically dinos, as if the creatures were so huge and ridiculous they needed their own entire type of monstrosity to encompass them. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

There was no creature so ungodly as to make them destroy it. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was the central thing; it was the way you understood yourself; if it never happened to you, not ever, you would be like a mutant, a creature from outer space. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was mistaken; tonight I found new ones, worse ones. I am the most wretched of creatures. Say you wouldn’t mind it if I killed myself so I could end this existence.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The spadefoot toads and turtles and slithering creatures, the chattering of black insects. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Behind them, shadowy two-legged creatures gave chase, their mouths filled with shiny, razor-sharp teeth. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

With breathtaking speed and skill, the tiny creature raced up the trunk of the old elm. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

It was as if the people ceased to be people and instead became an enormous herd of panicked, stampeding two-legged creatures. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

No monster was revealed, but the sweetest and fairest of all creatures, at whose sight the very lamp seemed to shine brighter. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Who would have thought of that combination of herbs? Isn’t it amazing!” she had said in delight, watching the creatures revive. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

And in the course of the ride she became more aware of the creatures’ physiology. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

To be so huge and trapped by such tiny, useless creatures. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Could they be speaking of the creature from the Commandant's study? An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The creatures of the Stone circled a while croaking, and one by one beat back ponderously inland over the moors. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

She read about Mount Olympus and creatures like the chimera and the phoenix, and then read the story of Prometheus. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Ilya stared down at the creature, which was still trying to get up. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Years later, I learned an English word for the creature that Assef was, a word for which a good Farsi equivalent does not exist: “sociopath.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Cain raised his head and stood slowly as the creature knelt before him and lowered its dark eyes. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Exactly. The perfect creature to flush out our adversary.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“He sends me these creatures, then expects me to make something of them,” he remarked to no one in particular. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

He would not let her touch them, and he insisted on apple-pie neatness, so the poor creature was obliged to vacuum, dust, and polish around them. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Nhamo climbed down the ladder, hooked it out of harm’s way, and, greeted by only one or two outraged oo-AA-hoos, trailed after the creatures. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Scooping it into his hands, he delivered the pathetic creature to the yunka man, holding it up to him like an offering to the gods. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The creature turned its head to look at Ilya, copper eyes burning. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Meleager then rushed on the wounded creature and stabbed it to the heart. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fiddler crab is not the only creature of tidal marsh and estuary to be threatened by pesticides; others of more obvious importance to man are endangered. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Now, now, children,” he said, “what are two upstanding young creatures like yourselves doing in a place like this?” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Everywhere she looked, extraordinary creatures hatched, grew, and changed. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Where was the creature that had snuggled within? The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The creature was at the edge of the arena. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

To be boarding a creature as old as that! The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Faithless creature,” Oriana says, looking at me as though through the sheer intensity of her gaze she might ferret out my secrets. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The cries of the other creatures suddenly stopped and he thought he could hear feet scampering away. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

"I liked it better when there were all kinds of creatures in our clearing," he said. Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You poor creatures,” she repeated, almost in a whisper. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She covered her ears when the little creatures streamed out of their smelly pens, but she was charmed by the confident way they nibbled lucerne from her hands. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or could they be creatures of the warlocks, meant to take me unawares! A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Before I had been made to go to church, I had given God’s existence a sort of tacit assent, but after having seen His creatures serve Him at first hand, I had had my doubts. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Too many thoughts crowded her head, and all of them were tainted with the image of that shadow creature lurching toward her and the golden shrouds’ inhuman laugh. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Sometime in the distant past, a line of ancestral creatures must have developed this structure and found it worked, just as generations of long-ago crawling things in Mary’s world had developed the central spine. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

In all the excitement, Magdalys hadn’t had time to think about how she was about to ride one of the most dangerous and unmanageable creatures in the modern world. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

All the creatures Kyle had read about and studied in the dinosaur books downstairs were now swarming across the giant video screen in front of him. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

They had been behind German lines before many times—living like woods creatures, living from moment to moment in useful terror, thinking brainlessly with their spinal cords. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The creature was so upset he could only gasp and gesture. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

There were boggarts, mischievous creatures who slammed doors and shattered pottery or pawed through a household’s winter stores in search of sweets. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The creature spoke again, and this time Mary tried hard to make the same sounds: “Mulefa,” she said tentatively. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

What a strange and moody creature this is, she thought. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pressure of trains passing in far-off tunnels pushed the air around like breaths in some great creature’s gullet. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

So it seemed to be; for as he spoke the tall creatures, without a glance at the riders, strode into the wood and vanished. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Cain had incapacitated Verin while he summoned the creature; it liked its blood hot. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Never had he seen such a creature like the one before them. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He began complaining that we were all getting too soft, too dependent on creature comforts, and that we were losing touch with the natural order of the world. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“But it was in the story when I heard it, so I suppose it’s some creature or other.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked up at Hagrid — perhaps he had to go into the lake sometimes, to deal with the creatures in it? Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

What colors and strange creatures had been ejected from the spaces between her teeth? The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew only that I would grow heavy with the burden, and one day deathlike pains would grip me until the creature sprang from my loins and cried to be cared for. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Like how the magical creatures shimmer into sight just like the charmed folk used to do for me. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

She took a deep breath and slid her hand into the painting, along the creature’s neck, following the smooth metal of the feathers under her fingers. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I stand there shaking from head to foot, moved to the deep-sea depths of my being, like a creature thrown into audience with thunder. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh yes, old man, take it from me: If we have this little creature we’ll have her father, too. He’ll come like a dancing bear led by a ring in his nose.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Each of the creature's words is deliberate, as if it wants to make sure I don't miss a single one. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

T he old men stayed in their corner, silent, motionless, hunted-down creatures. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The enormous creature roared pleasantly, rattling all the blank video screens in the game room, then disappeared back into the floor, which closed up around it like a collapsing ring of tiles. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

The creature’s twiglike hands moved to its face and pushed the pale clay about, making something like a nose. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

A creature with no interest in magic or rules. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

He translated fully to each group of creatures the Abbot’s message, in turn construing back to the Father Abbot their grateful thanks with pledges of help and loyalty to Redwall Abbey. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The Greeks apparently had some such feeling because in their stories, although they represent these creatures as living beings, they make them unlike any form of life known to man. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

At last Wilbur saw the creature that had spoken to him in such a kindly way. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

“What was that, do you think, in the creature’s mouth?” she asked. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

How many of these creatures were also connected to one another? The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Judging from their sad shape, the beanbag creatures had been sitting out here a long time—since the snow melted last spring at least. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

With his teammates’ help, Kyle found several books about flying creatures from the prehistoric era. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

“The only creatures to benefit from this pestilence are the rats. Go home, Matilda, take my regards to your grandfather, but tell him he must lock all the doors and pray for frost.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever creatures were living in the barn were probably more frightened of her than she would ever be of them, even if they panicked and touched her. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

How many times must a creature be dragged down the same ridiculous road? Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Taisin saw the creature’s bright orange and emerald wings flutter as she twisted in midair to look down, and Taisin reeled at the sight below her. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

This creature hadn’t the intelligence to be a witch; She was powerless, invisible, Wastefully daft. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

A creature in the sky floated down with a checkered flag in its hands. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

I read about the distant countries of the Indies and fantastic creatures discovered by voyagers on land and in the sea. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

And why, you might ask, was the otherworldly, deeply religious Patria attracted to such a creature? In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beneath me, a creature with a long, hairless tail that drags in the dirt scuttles across the ground. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It was this dependence that made Aedes aegypti the perfect creature to carry yellow fever into Philadelphia in 1793. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Light flickered on bits of ruby glass and on sensitive capillary hairs in the nylon-brushed nostrils of the creature that quivered gently, gently, gently, its eight legs spidered under it on rubber-padded paws. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oriana’s current maid, a hairy, wizened creature named Toadfloss, brings tea and cakes, meat and jam, all piled on a massive silver tray. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Thomas could picture it all: the creature’s metal spikes digging into the wooden sides of the Homestead, the massive creature rolling its body, climbing up toward their room, defying gravity with its strength. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“Uncle. UNCLE? You are related to the creature persecuting my people?” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Just sixty-five million years ago our ancestors were the most unprepossessing of mammals—creatures with the size and intelligence of moles or tree shrews. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frank stood to his left, shooting down the creatures as fast as he could. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“What’s it like there? Scared, was you? Did creatures come in the night?” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But why should a great warrior stoop to even notice such a pathetic creature? Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nurse Cramer was a good- hearted, sentimental creature who rejoiced unselfishly at news of -weddings, engagements, births and anniversaries even though she was unacquainted with any of the people involved. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

And Lazlo wasn’t a creature of anger or envy, but he felt the scorch of both—as though his veins were fuses and they were burning through him, leaving paths of ash in their wake. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

They were roughly the same size as the grazing creatures, but leaner and gray-colored, with horned heads and short trunks like elephants’. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He grabbed a loose stone from the floor and hurled it at the creature. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The creature spit at her and leapt away. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

They were now spending lesson after lesson learning how to look after flobberworms, which had to be some of the most boring creatures in existence. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Thomas wondered what—or who—could create such frightening, disgusting creatures. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

She just stood in the driveway, between the creature and her family, her best friend absent in her hand. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Kids waving their arms up and down to make fake video creatures fly to a phony volcano? Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

But we seek the dominant intelligences, the grandest creatures on the planet, the sentient and graceful masters of the deep ocean, the great whales. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

An alarmingly large and ferocious-looking man, Hagrid has been using his newfound authority to terrify the students in his care with a succession of horrific creatures. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“None of these creatures are good. Not the way we think of good. None are safe. Much of morality is peculiar to mortality. The best creatures here are merely not evil.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“Besides” he said, “she was a very beautiful creature.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Redemption’s rage matched the creature’s hunger, reflected it almost perfectly. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Only a winged creature could reach it, so steep and slimy were the rocks on all sides, and so fearful the onrush of the descending waters. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The eyeless creature with the quacking voice would never be vaporized. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“You’ll be one of a select band, of the cleverest, strongest, bravest creatures ever,” bragged the Bishop of Bath and Wells. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Not a monster, not even a beast, but a living creature. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Her fingers linger atop a particularly bad drawing of some sort of horned creature hovering above a circle with holes in it. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Redemption stood up and took a hesitant step toward the creature. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He was a creature who had nothing, trying to get something. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

There was no sign of a living creature and no sound at all except for the soft thud of the BFG’s footsteps as he hurtled on through the fog. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Experimental work on making such creatures from scratch may begin by the end of the century. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She even told good scary stories, about haints and spirits, creatures that she said roamed around the South Carolina marshes where we lived. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

"There are no white creatures here but us," Big Rabbit said. Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It must have stretched for several acres, and to support all of his bulk there were a hundred golden legs, each carved like some creature of the sea. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He heard his babas voice, but other things too: a bullfrog’s croak, the buzz of a thousand cicadas, creatures he couldn’t name. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

As a teenager reading African parasitology books in the medical library, I was boggled by the array of creatures equipped to take root upon a human body. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Never in his life had he seen a spiderweb so big, and he didn’t want to know what sort of creature—or creatures—had made it. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“How' many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is!” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I join a second auction happening for a power-up that looks like a round, growling, fuzzy black creature with two large paws. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

When the creature rolled, these arms folded and maneuvered to avoid being crushed. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

These included the elephant bird, a flightless creature ten feet tall and weighing almost half a ton—the largest bird in the world—and the giant lemurs, the globe’s largest primates. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

"What quarrelsome creatures these humans are," said Bree to the mare. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

A monster sounds like it would be a magical creature. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The creature clicked its heels together, and the silver ankle bells rang out impossibly loud. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Someone catches a sea creature puffy and watery like a cucumber. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

And about then she found an adjustment being made in her mind, as the word creatures became the word people. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

In the soporific heat of those months Blanca, protected by the creature that was growing inside her, forgot about the magnitude of her disgrace. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

While still in the Illustrian Quarter, I pass a large glass display of saddles and bridles and stop short, startled at my own reflection, at the haunted, hollow-eyed creature looking back at me. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The creature’s skin felt slippery, as if it had been covered in jelly. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

He skittered between obstacles like a primeval creature who had outwitted the modern world. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The stories brought all these places and the creatures in them to our table. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The creatures flew around Will’s head, sometimes only a foot or so away, but they always swerved aside or upward at the last moment. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I set off again, maintaining for some reason - perhaps because I expected further farm creatures to wander across my path - my slow speed of before. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

The creature’s fingers worked faster than hummingbird wings, pinching and tossing each particle over its left shoulder. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

As we see, the mere possession of two legs was no guarantee that a magical creature could or would take an interest in the affairs of wizard government. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

His head and shoulders were in the room before he caught sight of the creature curled up a few feet from him, fast asleep in the gloom with its large mouth wide open. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The fact that a tiny little creature like me had caused such a commotion among a bunch of grown-up men gave me a happy feeling. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

There are now so many jellyfish that power plants around the world have been shut down when hundreds of thousands of the creatures have clogged their seawater cooling systems. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“We make it special in the barn. We have some dangerous creatures in there, too, so it’s still off-limits.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“Do I even want to know how many times you secretly saved me from one of Cain’s creatures?” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

After the lord of the dark world below carried her away she was never again the gay young creature who had played in the flowery meadow without a thought of care or trouble. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then she entered that awkward preadolescence stage, all pimples and big glasses and brand-new curves, and Lázaro acted like he didn’t know what to make of this new creature. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The ugly creature was on its back with its arms and legs flailing, but unable to move because of the weight of the stone on his chest. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Keeping their heads low, they moved from post to post, serving each creature with a bowl of stew, some wild grapes, and a small loaf of honeyed nutbread. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

No wild creature could have carried the dead body away. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The massive creature simply pressed and tested and forced Nailer to memorize and then to write. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Part of him sensed that she thought of him as something like an animal, a useful creature like a dog, but not actually a person. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Hopefully, that means the creatures inside are safe. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Wherever we go, every living creature eyes her up and down. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Exquisite little creature!” said the Director, looking after her. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The creature’s fingers were the size of bananas, but nowhere near as pliant. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

All the creatures laughed aloud with delight and relief at seeing their old friend alive and well once again. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Most significantly, we both use precisely the same code book for translating nucleic acid information into protein information, as do virtually all the other creatures on the planet.' Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wardresses had never known there was even such a species as an African lawyer or doctor, and regarded me as an exotic creature. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the Shetani held his gaze, he knew then that the creature wouldn’t be the thing that killed him in the end; it would be the fear. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

And another creature that looked as if it had been sprung from the limbs of an oak tree: wood nymph. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The bird’s head exploded in a mist of red and white, and the creature blundered on clumsily for several steps before sinking onto its breast. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“What fantastic creatures boys are! Why did I let myself in for this?” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

As far as Harry could see through the darkness, there wasn’t a living creature in sight, not even a cat. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

There were also abominable creatures haunting the reeds and tussocks that from the sound of them were evil relatives of the cricket. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Zorya, my dear, may I say how unutterably beautiful you look? A radiant creature. You have not aged.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

The suspended creatures turn their heads in the direction of the ghost in their midst. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

If she were alive, I wouldn’t be rolling away from home in the company of these creatures. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You do realize that your sheets are changed, your fires lit, your classrooms cleaned, and your food cooked by a group of magical creatures who are unpaid and enslaved?” she kept saying fiercely. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

She needs to smack that creature dead, because enough is enough! A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Not to catch them. To look at magical creatures that nobody else even knows exist. Come on.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The eight ridiculous Dresdeners ascertained that these hundred ridiculous creatures really were American fighting men fresh from the front. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The house is almost like a living creature that keeps expanding and contracting and remaking itself. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

He was scrambling away from the creature, but it was moving faster now. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

She told them that Talus lived there, the last man left of the ancient bronze race, a creature made all of bronze except one ankle where alone he was vulnerable. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gamma rays from deep space blanket the earth and annihilate all living creatures. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Just as we believe that the earth was once inhabited by strange gigantic creatures, so did the Greeks. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Some of the most lethal creatures on earth are invertebrates.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

The sand creature laughs as delightedly as if I’m juggling and pulling faces. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He lay in wait as the shadowy creature came closer and closer, and when the time was right, the badger pounced. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He had to stick his arm in up to the elbow to turn the creature upside down and help it pull its head through. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Will someone—what is this underworld creature doing in my forest.'” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Everything about the creature was gray: gray clothes on gray flesh on gray bones. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The day creatures wanted night to last only half of the time. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

About half a mile away, a mountain of coral disintegrated under the weight of two giant creatures. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Like a wild creature, eyes darting darting, I keep checking for trouble. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

The dark creature curls a second tentacle around the bowsprit in a powerful grasp, and tears the bowsprit right off the bow. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the cobblestone courtyard, a dozen shaggy cow creatures were sniffing around the mossy base of an old stone well. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Some of us looked around the village while others followed the tracks of the creature down the path to the river. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

And on this day someone did come out on him suddenly, a creature the like of whom he had never seen before. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“Blue flame is obvious, of course. But I’d hesitate to attribute that to the Chandrian in particular. In some stories it’s a sign of demons. In others it’s fae creatures, or magic of any sort.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

One may look in vain for living creatures in the daytime, but when the sun goes and the night gives consent, a world of creatures awakens and takes up its intricate pattern. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The legs were too short, and couldn’t possibly lift the creature’s bulk. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The sailor kicked the suffering creature away with his boot, annoyed and disgusted. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

A dark, fanged creature lurked just behind the hero, glowering malevolently. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Perhaps she should have lived in the night all along, with the owls and bats and other nocturnal creatures. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t sure if this was a cue for me to say how good the drawings were, but by this time, I was becoming genuinely drawn to these fantastical creatures in front of me. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I shouldn’t have messed around with magical creatures,” he finally admitted. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

From these twisted creatures, the Scholars learned to trap the jinn with salt and steel and summer rain still warm from the heavens. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Cold and dead they were, and they hated iron and fire and the touch of the sun, and every hving creature with hot blood in its veins. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Many that were released wrongly came hurtling back down into the ditch, sometimes slaying the very creatures that had hurled them. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

They were at the edge of the deck when the creature rushed him, grabbed the torch, and ripped it from his hands. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I grabbed the chocolate pot and left, not wanting to see what became of the poor creatures’ heads. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what he has been told about them is lies. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“A creature whose mouth and butt are one and the same.” The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Isn’t he the handsomest creature in the whole world?” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Upon the creature’s back were wings made from soiled white tarpaulin or hospital curtains, melted onto the flesh and veined with throbbing arteries. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Jam looked at her reflection, backdropped by the creature, then wiped her hands over her face. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“You are a greedy creature,” said Orddu, with a tolerant smile at the hooded crone. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

He peered down the corridor that led deeper into the Maze, as if expecting the creatures to arrive then, summoned by the sound of their name. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Diggers would come and sprinkle a layer of soil over the flesh, but even so it would be eaten by the clawing, hungry creatures that came at night. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The horde surrounded him on all sides, millions of creatures. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Every animal they considered was an improvement over the creature who had betrayed them. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Knowing the sort of creatures who live on cliffs, I made myself invisible again, and in the darkness I heard voices. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

This time, visions of a firestorm—really, the land of the goblins is clearly an endlessly wretched place, and they must be awful creatures to want to live there. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Could it be that your conscience is ethical and you recognize what a merciless action it would be to cage a free creature of ALLAH? Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

He knew that Kreacher could not be permitted to go and live with Bellatrix Lestrange, but the idea of owning him, of having responsibility for the creature that had betrayed Sirius, was repugnant. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

This God created a world that ran like clockwork, with every plant, animal, and creature a cog in the great machine. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The creatures were surrounding something that lay glittering in the mud: something slightly taller than they were, which lay on its side, a large cage, perhaps, with walls of crystal. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Up until that point, the creature hadn’t made a single sound. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Or when she was gathering firewood, she would catch sight of that winged creature again, flying high against icicles hanging like teeth from a cavernous ceiling. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Both boys ran in at the Griever and jumped feetfirst at the creature, kicking out at the last second with every waning bit of strength. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Though Byrd, too, is a creature of habit sometimes. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Sarai followed them in a state of fascination, and they went into a tiny shop tucked under a bridge, leaving their creatures at the door. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Under certain circumstances, the membrane surrounding blepharisma disintegrates and comes independently loose, like a cast-off shell, leaving the creature a transient albino. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He bent down to pull the shroud over the face of the dead creature again. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

It’s my job—isn’t it?—my way of earning my shelter, to be this creature’s friend and surrogate flock. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was connected to the heartbeats of every living creature in the Great Wood; everything wanted so fiercely to live, even the trees that seemed half dead. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

There was nothing to choke down, no creatures to swallow. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Arranged all in a row were several of these animal bushes—fantastic creatures as tall as the house, standing guard against the woods—including a winged griffin, a rearing centaur, and a mermaid. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Such shadows as I bring forth here will be terrible, and no creature of the dark will stand before them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She suspected that tropical creatures followed the same pattern of transformation she had discovered in so many European species. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Silhouetted against the golden moon, and growing larger every moment, was a large, strangely lopsided creature, and it was flapping in Harry’s direction. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The drawings—sometimes crude, but always lifelike—depicted creatures like the ones she saw in her visions. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The creature slipped off the bed and bowed so low that the end of its long, thin nose touched the carpet. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

The moment it touched the eloko, the creature’s skin began to sizzle. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

This strange hulking presence gnawing its meat was like nothing she had ever imagined, and she felt a profound admiration and pity for the lonely creature. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Been feastin’ on the creatures for months now, he would not be surprised, even if they were out of season. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Proud of bearing so beautiful a gift the aged creature carried it to Procne, who was still wearing deep mourning for her sister and whose spirit was as mournful as her garments. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Taran noticed Medwyn had not only healed the creature’s leg, he had also given him a bath and a good combing. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

After all, what creature in nature despised its own existence and felt shame for its means of survival? Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

It is a barely visible eight-legged creature belonging to the group that includes spiders, scorpions, and ticks. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Reynolds turned her pistol on the creature and shot him in the chest. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

But now without the cover of mist, Bailey can see the white walls of the tent and all the creatures within it, but none of them are moving. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

When a relative was feeling bad, Mamita would grab one of the little creatures and stuff it in a sack. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The creatures of the fen knew who—and they were frightened. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

The creature on her wooden horse knows none of this, not yet. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Wherever there is continued uncertainty about the classification of a beast in the following pages, I have noted it in the entry for that creature. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rubbing their backsides and scowling, Jack and Sarah looked around to find themselves surrounded by stubby creatures with gray skin and pointed ears. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The creatures’ heads seemed much too heavy for their necks. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

But the Star gave the humans unnatural power, and so the lesser creatures fled, disappearing into the deep places to wait out the war. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

It was the beauty of a creature fulfilling her exact purpose in the world, being the precise thing she had trained her whole life to be. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He was a tiny creature, smaller than Winston, with dark hair and large, protuberant eyes, at once mournful and derisive, which seemed to search your face closely while he was speaking to you. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Then Madame said, barely audibly: “Poor creatures. What did we do to you? With all our schemes and plans?” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Strong had promoted himself as a tracker, but the only creature he sniffed out reliably was whiskey. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The creature stepped clear of the dust haze. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

They both turned their heads at once, because it was a bird that sounded like no creature that belonged to the world they were in. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Oh!” cried Emma, “I know there is not a better creature in the world: but you must allow, that what is good and what is ridiculous are most unfortunately blended in her.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

“I took the Spider’s coin, I’ll not deny it, but I was never his creature. And my loyalties lie elsewhere now.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Some of the creatures living in her clothes had come all the way from Flea Bottom with her; it didn't seem right to drown them. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“I fail to understand,” said Father, who understands everything, “why you would have a poor dumb creature condemn us all to eternal suffering.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He liked the busy little creatures and thought their tiny bodies, rippling with feathery gills, were every bit as nice as flowers. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Should he invite this charming creature to have a drink with him? A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the mysterious creatures must be strong to have rocked the box as they were being born. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

She carries a soda can filled with pebbles so the sound will ward off any dangerous creatures. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

A bulky creature with a simian build was marching toward the greenhouse pulling a rickshaw-type contraption the size of a wagon. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

It is roots sucking deep at the earth, and the pale, sightless creatures that live below the ground. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The creatures on both sides of their group seemed to have noticed them again. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The assembled creatures passed on a vote of thanks to Matthias for his resourcefulness and bravery. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

A trail of blood was left on the mud where the creature crawled. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without any competition for the job, Clara became the creature’s mother, and she soon revived him. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out of the shadows dash creatures of all shapes and sizes: swift, diving bats and scurrying raccoons, fluttery moths and cunning bobcats. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Entertainers dressed as mythological creatures played pipes and strings. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

The creature had already disappeared, leaving her in the empty room with greasy fingertips. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Before Seth could react, the creature squirmed down the drain. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Harry, who knew only too well the kind of creatures that Hagrid was likely to provide for an event like this, thought it was unlikely to be any fun at all. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

When Lupin had lived here, you were more likely to come across a specimen of some fascinating new Dark creature he had procured for them to study in class. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He could not get out until the bones strewn around him grew back into living creatures; he had become joined to the metabolism of other lives, and until they rose he could not rise either. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

How many million years old was the stonified creature I held in my hand? The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“I don’t have to show you anything. And—with the exception of Lucinda—fairies never disappear when other creatures are present.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

In Ento, she had called that creature out of the baby’s body, but it was Kaede who had faced the consequences. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Fenoglio stared at the shining little creature, his eyes heavy with sleep. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

None of the magical creatures had ever caused too much of a problem. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

After all, she was not the one who’d killed the creature. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Jesse wouldn’t argue that, but he saw her as a beautiful wild creature who had been caught for a moment in that dirty old cage of a schoolhouse, perhaps by mistake. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

First: The “snake” was actually a chain-like creature with a metal shackle for a head. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

They gazed at the beautiful creature for a long minute, and then Neel switched off the flashlight. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Vetch marveled at the little creature, and once put up his hand to stroke it, but the otak snapped its sharp teeth at him. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

You raise me from the dust by this kindness; and I trust that, by your aid, I shall not be driven from the society and sympathy of your fellow creatures.’ Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was silence now, as the Englishmen looked in astonishment at the frowsy creatures they had so lustily waltzed inside. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one could, and the horrible creature devoured man after man until the city was in a state of siege. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I do not like killing any living thing, even those creatures that fill some people with dread. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But eventually, the tides forced all creatures to the open waters. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dragons, if you must know, are wicked creatures—full of violence and duplicity and deceit. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“I’m sure you know best how to manage these creatures,” Lady Constance said coolly. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Who could catch and tame such a creature? Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matthias lined up with the other woodland creatures to collect his food: a bowl of fresh milk, a hunk of wheaten loaf and some goatsmilk cheese. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The creature’s face seemed to be protruded, because of its bent carriage. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He decided that she was not worthy bringing up and had the tiny creature left on a wild mountainside to die of cold and hunger. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was apparently a great expert on these creatures and she made it very clear to me that her witch stories, unlike most of the others, were not imaginary tales. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

And today, a hundred years after his technical emancipation, he remains—with the possible exception of the American Indian—the most despised creature in his country. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Tracks of unknown creatures in the mortified loess. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

An arras hanging on a wall billows, as if stirred by a strong wind, and from behind it scurries a creature with the face of my father. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

It made the parrot into a less noble creature than God intended. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

After three days in the company of the wheeled creatures, Mary Malone knew rather more about them, and they knew a great deal about her. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She pushed against the creature to lever herself out from underneath it, but it absorbed this energy and got heavier. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He traced in the air the convolutions, visible in the picture, of the creature’s cry. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The bulky creature with the underbite tried to beat Seth to the bed, arriving too late and receiving a violent shock as it collided with the invisible salt barrier. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“You know, I’ve never seen such a creature,” her mother said thoughtfully. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I play on his vanity, and so, perhaps, become his creature like all the others. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Agent Fiona brings our group to a quick stop when agents come bustling through a doorway struggling to control a ten-foot tall furry creature in ripped blue jeans and a green Save the Trees T-shirt. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The creature that was the source of it must have been perched on the back of Mrs. Coulter’s chair, because the light streaming over it threw its shadow clearly on the wall. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

To the careless branch rustling of a creature that did not need the advantage of stealth. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He rushed forward, thinking to move away from this swampy area that harbored and bred such creatures. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Keeping his eyes on the big creature, he hurried along the shoreline toward it. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Why didn’t this monstrous white creature just walk in and finish what it had started? Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The creatures were friendly, and they could see in four dimensions. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frank watched as one of the creatures lumbered across the promenade, snuffling and licking the pavement with its long tongue. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

They saw deer; and once, beside the road, looking at them curious and unafraid, a small reddish-brown creature with a thick tail, whose name Jonas did not know. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

He saw a soft, stooped creature of a man whose dandelion-fluff hair, beard, and brows encroached upon his face to such a degree that only his sharp little nose and round spectacles showed. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

They went in despairing grief, leaving the lovely helpless creature to meet her doom alone, and they shut themselves in their palace to mourn all their days for her. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thomas jumped on the one holding Dave, tried to jerk the kid free, hoping the creature would retaliate. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

They already knew a great deal about the prehistoric creatures that roamed the Serengeti in bygone years. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Of hideous creatures growing up from pale foam. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He realized that thrashing about in the water would only create the current that would bring the creature over to him. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“I will, but only if you’ll tell me everything you know about the creatures that killed my grandfather.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps someday your cricket will play as well. I prophesy great things for a creature of such ability, Mario.” The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

A faint light burned in the pit revealing a furry creature hunched over a stone slab, fiddling with something. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

What was the first creature he had killed? The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I hook the creature around the back of my neck. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Under the bones lurked a ruined and wretched creature with cracked brown teeth and a yellow tinge to the whites of his eyes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A creature that stares at me from the mainsail boom. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“But I cannot and will not punish the creatures of this jungle for being true to their own nature.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The light startled the creatures, and one of them took to the air, its wings whirring heavily through the dust. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Now a three-dimensional creature can exist, in Flatland, only partially; only a cross section can be seen, only the points of contact with the plane surface of Flatland. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

How can creatures of my own mind not be controllable by me? An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

They turn out to be little separate creatures, the colonial posterity of migrant prokaryocytes, probably primitive bacteria that swam into ancestral precursors of our eukaryotic cells and stayed there. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to do that! What if there’s, like, a creature living in the cave?” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Children are often the least sentimental of creatures, especially if they are absorbed in some new pleasure. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He seemed excited about the whole thing, and Jam couldn’t bring herself to break that, the story, the magic of a creature spilling out of a painting. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Koffi let Baaz’s stories about the Night Zoo’s creatures—some true, most fake—blend together as more animals were summoned one by one. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The creature’s wings were crushed flat against its body at first, but soon they opened, and Doon saw what his green worm had become: a moth with light brown wings. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

They reached the rubble pile as Ivan let loose a battle cry and ran at the creature, sword raised. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

It was sad that it was suffering so much—and being such a big, strapping creature it wasn’t at the end of its ordeal— but there was nothing I could do about it. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

At Moat Cailin the bog devils had loosed poisoned arrows at his men, but that was to be expected from such degraded creatures. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“What darling little creatures you are,” he said. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She wondered whether having final responsibility for someone, even a creature like a horse or a dog, was fundamentally opposed to the wild and inward journey of writing. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

None of these creatures frightened this brave hunter, who would come home and tell people of what he had seen. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Gloria had a grip about the robot’s neck that would have asphyxiated any creature but one of metal, and was prattling nonsense in half-hysterical frenzy. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

The real one said, “And so it stands to reason that the fastest thing in the world is not a person or a creature, but a thought!” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

His eyes, filled with anger and disgust, were fixed on the wretched creature as he now began to move again, still whispering and hissing to himself. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The eyeless creature at the other table swallowed it fanatically, passionately, with a furious desire to track down, denounce, and vaporize anyone who should suggest that last week the ration had been thirty grams. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“You know the law. Strict to the letter. No books, no houses, nothing to be produced which in any way suggests ghosts, vampires, fairies, or any creature of the imagination.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fossil record speaks to us unambiguously of creatures that once were present in enormous numbers and that have now vanished utterly.' Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the port-side wall, the huge ugly face receded so that Leo could see the entire creature—another gnome chimp, in even crazier clothes. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The night creatures returned to their hollows and grottoes, and the birds flitted nervously between the branches, twittering. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

That afternoon they rebuilt the fence, hoping that it would stop the creature from visiting their fields that night. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The creature raised her head, and Percy’s stomach screamed, Help me! The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She was trying to nurse him along, to get the wary creature to sign her contract and marry one of her girls. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

His dog had pounced upon an unlucky creature with long thin legs. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Who are the only creatures with the ability to conjure fireballs? Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

When simple plants colonized the land and the first creatures crawled gasping from the sea, the Appalachians were there to greet them. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

There could be thousands of other Earths, each teeming with creatures; it was certainly within God’s power, whether Aristotle agrees or not. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Fortunately for the slave, the creature's swollen state prevented the Firedrake from following him through the fissure in the rock. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

A thud and a whisper: Some other living creature had stirred close by. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

They had passed a pleasant evening, joking and playing games with the little creatures. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

She stayed in the woods where all the hidden creatures were, and the trees feared her. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

It was these creatures that the Aleuts hunted for their pelts. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was probably asking himself yet again what he had done to deserve this strange, creature he called his son He wasn't as big as him, as interesting, as disciplined, controlled, dependable, or reasonable. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

He’d take them in whole, crushing the tinkly shells under his sharp teeth, smacking the gummy creatures down with his mouth wide open, giving me a terrific view of the whole process. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Shades of creatures that he had slain through the years came back to mock him. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

All we face is a lot of peaceful mice and some local woodland creatures. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

She could not let disappear all the creatures Gran had cared for. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

It hadn’t occurred to them that their favorite food might not sustain the creature. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

All she could see, over and over in her mind’s eye, was the hilt of her iron dagger protruding from the still form of that creature. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I swam in for a closer look at the tangled creature. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

She was terribly ashamed of herself for luring this fragile little creature out of her book. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He imagined himself being flung into the air and landing on the thick gray skin of the giant creature before being trampled. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“And I am Time,” said the clockwork creature, sinking into a graceful bow on its insect legs. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Otto focused on the creature, which was large enough to be a monster, but not really gruesome like a monster. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Every creature had a basic instinct for survival, but for that poor critter, there was no getting away. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Trees can also deter destructive creatures like caterpillars by flooding their leaves with tannin, which makes the leaves less tasty and so inclines the caterpillars to look elsewhere. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

As if every human and every creature and every gas and liquid and speck of dirt and granule of sand and gust of air settled all at once, and all was right in the universe. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Perhaps fifty yards in front of them, a brown-gray creature was pushing his long snout into the ground and snorting like he had a sinus infection. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Now they had all seen—everyone in the shop—and no doubt were scorning him for a poor sort of creature, cringing and puny, unable to defend himself. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

This one wasn’t a mythical creature, though, but a man reposing in the grass, one arm supporting him, the other pointing to the sky. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“They’re amazing creatures—the fastest birds on earth. They’re like shape- shifters, the way they streamline their bodies in the air.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The cases had perforations, evidently to allow the creatures inside to breathe, but Kendra was unable to see into them. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Hooke had shown that the louse was every bit as complicated a creature as a lizard. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Poor creatures. Still, I suppose they will all be singing in a few weeks.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shyer creatures would go to the water hole early in the morning, drink a few sips of water, and then move away. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“A bogatyr? I wish! No. We’re fools. My father heard there are still magical creatures here, so we came to help you out.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Tendai blinked to clear the cobwebs from his mind and saw a creature he never expected to encounter again. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The buildings were painted in shades of pale limestone and sand, adorned with colorful hieroglyphics and a menagerie of statues depicting gods and creatures. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

In fact, most dragons are good creatures who bring rain to the farmers when they soar up from the water and fly through the sky. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

And now, at Grant Park, there’s a wide green lawn, with a cool fountain of sea creatures shooting water from their mouths. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Although he could not see into the hollow, he knew that there was some creature in it—something fairly big. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would have considered this disheveled creature’s intention as mad and impossible had he not remembered the serpent in his hand, its menacing fangs and cold eyes. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

A hideous little creature glared up from inside the jar. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

They hacked at chinks in the creature’s scales. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

They were all just creatures trying to survive the drought, as we were. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“I am a useful and much loved creature. Ask any gardener you like. And as for you...” James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

A lot of the kids were having fun, gawking and laughing and throwing peanuts at the animals, but the sight of those poor creatures made my throat swell up. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He was in fact a Faun, which is a creature Shasta had never seen a picture of or even heard of. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Fwooper owners require licences, as the creatures must be handled responsibly. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bitter passed through the creature’s body as if it was nothing but gold and feathered fog. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Did you see those poor little creatures that first night?” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

So likewise those living creatures that are enemies to poisonous things, and swallow them up without danger, may shew us that such poisons will cure the bitings and blows of those creatures. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

My mother purchased them for sixpence a cup, from a fat black woman who erected a stall by the street corner every afternoon, peddling them with other exotic creatures. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Head tilted, he watches Coach like, like he’s some wild creature. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The animal is at once different from me and yet as a living creature it is in some ways the same. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The creatures erupted from a crevice and filled the air with their jittering bodies. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

For that reason we did not discover until we retired that our hotel beds were full of little hungry creatures. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The little creatures were cunning and hard to catch, but their meat was tender and rank. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

This was a very big and hopeful name for such a sad little creature. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The creature—clone—had regained its energy and was screaming again. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first creature looked like the top half of a miniature giraffe sutured onto the bottom half of a donkey. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The creature was kicking and biting still, so he cut off her head and rolled it away before lifting the dead Gallivespian clear of the leathery neck. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Places where sea creatures with rows of eyes blinked back at them from the other side of the glass. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Hazel followed behind, trying to move as stealthily as the creature. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

As if he wished to ascertain that the person addressing him was actually a creature of flesh and bone, a human being with a body and a belly. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though this might surprise some first-time students of Magizoology, the problem might come into clearer focus if we take a moment to consider three types of magical creature. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was like a wild creature, by turns furtive and barging, ever unwashed, and with the staring lack of empathy that belongs to murderers and small children. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Waiting to see if the creatures can, in fact, climb. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The creature stood on a bridge and no one else was present; the creature screamed in isolation. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

As it dies the creature lashes out, inadvertently opening gashes on a few of its companions. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

At that moment a large Bulldog, who had been sniffing and staring very hard, said: “Look. Isn’t there another of these queer creatures—over there, beside the river, under the trees?” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

“What an amiable creature I was!—No wonder you should hold my speeches in such affectionate remembrance.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

He came out of the hole and tore across the hill faster than any creature in the world. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was pitifully small; how could hairpins make a dent in that creature’s hide? Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The nasty creature was terrifying to think about, but he wondered why finding a dead one was such a big deal. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The phoenix is a gentle creature that has never been known to kill and eats only herbs. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m happy for everyone and everything—all the creatures on the planet. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“I warned them they had to check out those new-free folks better, and now somebody’s accidentally toted some of those horrible creatures up here.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Whenever he tried to communicate, all that he received was a nod or a shake of the tiny creature’s head. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“What creature sat in the corner the first time that Harry Potter visited my office at Hogwarts?” he said, giving Harry a small shake. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

This moment would be fixed in her memory forever: the moment she saw with her own eyes the creatures she had heard about all her life. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even when they had lived aboveground, they were essentially night creatures. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

There was no telling what other invisible creatures I was out here socializing with—snakes, frogs, fish, a whole river world of biting bugs, and I could have cared less. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other mother’s wet-looking black hair drifted around her head, like the tentacles of a creature in the deep ocean. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Living creatures exist with one another in a delicate balance, she seemed to be saying. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Most people, when they think of an animal, think of a creature with hair, such as a dog or cat, a rabbit or a mouse, a horse or a cow. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The tiny creature looked up and stretched its fingers, revealing enormous brown eyes and a nose the exact size and shape of a large tomato. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“We do not name it! I never even told Hagrid the name of that dread creature, though he asked me, many times.” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Together they forced the creature over the side and into the black waters of the Rhoyne. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But in general the random character of the evolutionary process should create extraterrestrial creatures very different from any that we know. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instantly, eight winged creatures appeared on the screen, one stationed in front of each player. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Fairy lanterns have long been among the surest protections from creatures with dubious intentions.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“We must make, ah, some offering, that is, some contact with nature. Perhaps some simple creature might be the vehicle through which He will speak. Let us see.” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father said he had never seen a more wretched creature. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Someone was actually using the Wyrdmarks to open a portal to summon this creature. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Some of those creatures used to be people; others were things that no one understood but everyone knew to stay away from. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“There you are!” the creature beneath them said. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Other boxes are specially designed for owls and for bats, so that these creatures may take over in the dark hours the work of insect hunting performed in daylight by the small birds. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

In a few minutes the whole creature was out. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It felt like nothing in the world existed besides me and those words and the silent creatures pulsing all around me. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Instead, he is going to launch him toward the heavens where el Conejo’s outline will remain on the surface of the moon, so all are reminded of the mightiness of such a tiny creature. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He ducked, grabbed a rock, and hurled it at the creature. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Look!” and he nodded his head towards the moving mass of creatures before them. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Already he could smell them, the several scents of the creatures standing or sitting, or, in the case of what appeared to be a raccoon, asleep. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The mice and woodland creatures shuffled their feet and gazed at the floor. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He fired over the side at the creature’s body, lodging arrows in the chinks of its shell; but that only seemed to annoy the monster. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

There seemed to be everything here, every creature Meggie could imagine, and even more that she could never have dreamed existed at all. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

And then Wormtail lowered the creature into the cauldron; there was a hiss, and it vanished below the surface; Harry heard its frail body hit the bottom with a soft thud. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

This very creature that we pursue, he take hundreds of years to get so far as London; and yet in one day, when we know of the disposal of him we drive him out. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

And then a silver hare, a boar, and a fox soared past Harry, Ron, and Hermione’s heads: The dementors fell back before the creatures’ approach. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

All three turned to him, and their own daemons too, who had until then affected the extreme politeness of keeping their eyes modestly away from this singular creature, here without his body. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Jam whipped her head around to the creature. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

"Glub, glub," the stone said, and when the stonecutter raised his head to look at the stone, he saw the beseeching eyes of a trapped creature. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

For the rocks to be clean, for the creatures in the ocean to eat the rest of it, for a three-thousand-pound shark to dissolve. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

He said his family was there to get rid of magical creatures. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

In the evenings Kapugen sang and danced with the old men, and all of their songs and dances were about the sea and the land and the creatures that dwelled there. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

If anyone were ever to witness the moths behaving in such a coordinated way, they would have to grow suspicious that these were no natural creatures. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She closes the gate, lifts the hem of her dress, and wades into the shallow pool, praying she does not crush any creatures as she steps. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

They stood still, with their bows already raised and arrows fitted, so that they would make the least possible movement to disturb the creatures when they did appear. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

But in the unrestrained laughter Claire could hear a hint of the carefree creature she must once have been. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Silent in the moonlight, it was like some patient prehistoric creature that had crawled down from the mountains: dumb, lonely, biding its time, untroubled by the articles of playground equipment which surrounded it. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

She moved on and found herself getting closer to a herd of those grazing creatures she had seen the previous evening, whose movement had puzzled her without her knowing why. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

A faceless, spiny sea creature twisted and revolved in its liquid home. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

She loves to be among the living creatures, whether on the reefs or in her aquaria. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Who can be sure? But whatever the cause, the result is terrible. Sunshine is meant for men, darkness for bats and snakes and jackals and other such creatures.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pushed himself onto his hands and knees, ready to face some small, fierce creature, but saw that the object was Ron’s foot. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

You might expect a creature under attack to run for her life, or to defend herself, or at the very least to scream. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

She had to beg for it, poor creature, because the feeling at court had come to such a pitch that nobody would accept her brief. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually Lovey stopped crying out at every sudden noise from the night creatures, or when she stepped too deep and the water surged to her waist. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

How could I have been brought to this pass by creatures such as these? A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Did that other creature come to the same end?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Of hideous creatures growing up from pale foam. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Only, about a hundred yards away from the Wart, there was suddenly a Mack creature standing on the edge of the clearing. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as if the night itself had poured into hall Heorot, killing and eating mere men, the creatures of day. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

She heard the scampering of a four-legged creature coming down the stairs—the twins, wanting the pool and about to be disappointed that it had been taken over. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Nailer resented the idea, even though he didn’t want to ever try to jump a train again and knew that the huge creature was correct. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Already I knew that I wanted this creature to live, to be with me. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

But if all rats were bad, who was this strange creature staring at him from across the fire, offering to be their guide? Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

In spite of the creature’s fearsome appearance, he was soft as potting clay where the baby was concerned. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of falling straight down, both creatures had been swept out of Jess’s line of vision by huge gusts of wind. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He’d brought a big drawing pad and asked me to describe the creature again, and as I did he sketched it, stopping occasionally to ask for clarifications. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

They had to hope the creatures would keep to their normal schedule and not come out during daytime hours. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

BOOK: I am the creature you have not seen. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

Most top predators of the planet are majestic creatures. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew naturalist scrivs in the Archives who would have cut off their hands to study such a rare creature. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

In the canoes are the very creatures conjured up by Richard’s stories. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

What if I had ended up with a creature that looked silly or ugly, a tapir or an ostrich or a flock of turkeys? Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Some had heard about life on Mars and accepted that the creatures had come to Earth. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

The creatures in the drying ponds sang louder every night; the creatures in the grass and in the fields sang louder every day! Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

There were so many creatures, of such strange and wondrous shapes; although the conditions they were kept in distressed him, Julius could never have enough of seeing them. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Two years later the Leakeys found the skull of an apelike creature who became known as Dear Boy or George. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t think, but swam like a body, like a creature, like a fish. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The creature curled into an awkward ball as Taran began shaking him. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

The creature leaned closer, filling the air with its venomous breath. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

The universe went on into infinity, dotted with innumerable worlds, each inhabited by mysterious creatures. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

They took refuge under the awning of a book stall along with a number of other people and creatures. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Thus, like an egg, the great, hairy, black and golden creature splits in two, each with an equal share of the family genome. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The railings were a delicate tangle of iron grapevines and creatures. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

At last he stood still and all the creatures whom he had touched came and stood in a wide circle around him. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

The creature angled its face at her, horns dark against the slate-gray walls. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He even imagines a local doctor dissecting the chigger, the smallest creature visible to the human eye—and thus of course impossible to dissect. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I wonder what it would be like to live in a world integrated with magical creatures! Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

But he hoped she’d be back soon — she was the only living creature in this house who didn’t flinch at the sight of him. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The idea of this creature solemnly lecturing him— him—about the social order was really too grotesque. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bill Anders, however, wasn’t too happy about eating such a strange creature, and stuck to heart of palm. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She shaded rows of scales and spines, and smiled at how the creature seemed to come to life a fraction more with each new detail. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The Wart found it difficult to be a new kind of creature. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Whatever their real nature is, they’re unique among magical creatures because they aren’t limited to one kind of magic. You can find them anywhere, adapting to anything.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The snakes had made him able to understand the language of all flying and all creeping creatures. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Banga built a fire and roasted the tiny creatures on a spit. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“But what about the other creatures in the area?” cried Matthias. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

These others, the strange pale creatures that lived in their alien unlife, weren’t considered folks. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were young creatines—the same creatures whose eyes had met with the almost forgotten click of magnets in the smoky Hall of Camelot so long ago. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was famished but not yet so famished as to eat flesh flung to him by an Orc, the flesh of he dared not guess what creature. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

On deck, Carlyle jabs at the squid with a mop handle sharpened into a harpoon, but the creature’s flesh is too thick for him to do much damage. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The second labor was to go to Lerna and kill a creature with nine heads called the Hydra which lived in a swamp there. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of those creatures came to the pear flats when the apples started turning red. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Had it in her hand. So that’s clause three of the Code of Wand Use broken, for a start. No non-human creature is permitted to carry or use a wand.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

She reached into her head and summoned the loudest silent voice she could find, then threw it as hard as she could in the creature’s direction: PET, STOP! Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Even with her fish tail, she was the most stunning creature he had ever encountered, and he, who had not been turned by pain or possible death, found he could not refuse her. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

When the big grey wolf wrenched free, he took most of the creature’s throat out in an explosion of pale rotten meat. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Quick as a panther—as any other feline creature... And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

“Are there others here for Yul-Bayur besides you and this creature?” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Dyedka had told her about a bukavac he had driven away from the village before, and how the monstrous little creature had made such a ruckus, it had caused Dyedka to go nearly deaf. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The creatures hooked a claw through the center of the pods with their front and rear legs, and used their two lateral legs to push against the ground and move along. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The towering figure roared: a creature so large that a man could have bathed in the soupy spittle of its mouth and sat curled up in the chambers of its heart. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Percy looked up just in time to see the creature make a second pass. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Could Babulya do what that creature in the arena had done? Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

As if a clawed creature had been here, raging. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Old Tallow split a poor waboose, rabbit, and opened its skinny body to show that the creature was mush inside, a bloody pudding as the result of disease. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

The only sour note—and here I degenerate into slang to more properly set the mood for the creature whom 1 am about to discuss—was Gloria, the stenographer, a voung and brazen tart. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

More creatures like these moved about among the houses, or tended crops, or worked among the trees. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

As the night wore on, the passage of a forest creature or the restless sighing of wind in the leaves made him start. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Yellow dog eyes, predatory, examining a creature he could destroy in a moment if he chose. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

The grim news was digested in silence by the assembled creatures. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“I... my lord, the men would never... giants eat human flesh, I think ... no, my lord, I thank you, but I do not have the men to watch over such a creature, he...” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The three creatures became one ecstatic tangle of golden, white, and black fur, cavorting in the moonlight. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

A creature of strange and changing shape has appeared from nowhere. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the head of Asmodeus Poisonteeth, the giant adder, lay severed upon the ground, its eyes dulled in death, never again to hypnotize another living creature! Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Silently, we watch our old cat Sherman sneak around a tree, his tail swaying, going after some creature we can’t see. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

It reflects off pools and glossy leaves and the eyes of other creatures. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

“What creature,” the Sphinx asked him, “goes on four feet in the morning, on two at noonday, on three in the evening?” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The prints of whatever creature had left the holes were unmistakable. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

He was just going down the new hole when he noticed that some small creature was pattering about in the grass. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But Gran told me that all magic creatures were driven into extinction!’ said Ivy. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Coming out in the gray light before dawn, the first creature Bigwig saw was Kehaar, foraging between the elders. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

To begin with, it confirmed that God had wiped out creatures not occasionally but repeatedly. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

From here, the woods were a totally different creature than from Dr. Hyde’s classroom. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

He just hoped the Gladers had turned their attention from making the aisle in the Maze to keeping the creatures away from the Cliff. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The creature screamed with both mouths again, different discordant pitches that rattled the marrow in Anya’s bones. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Four winged creatures were rising to meet the fairies. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

They burst into little clouds that slowly sank to the bottom of the canal, and I wondered how many creatures would come out once night had fallen. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The sight of the dying animal brought back the memory of the creature she had killed in Ento, and for a moment she thought her stomach would turn itself inside out. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

This creature, this thing, had come while they were unconscious. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Delicately made models of creatures Harry did not recognize, all flapping wings or snapping jaws, hung from the ceiling. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

And in this past day, Christmas Eve, while the clock made two complete rotations of its own, I watched over three tiny creatures whose lungs struggled like the flat, useless wings of butterflies prematurely emerged. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But as it is I perceive behind them only the suffering of the creature, the awful melancholy of life and the pitilessness of men. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I bet she can’t wait to get back to her know-it-all friends and tell them how Jane McKeene is a mad half-wit that believes in invisible creatures swimming around in our blood. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Still, they were afraid the creature might run away with the child, so they told their father what had happened. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She remembered watching a nature documentary about deep-sea creatures. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Academic to me then, the sad fate of the creature. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The skillful creature dodged a rat, spun round and landed a fierce double-footed kick to its stomach. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Both creatures dashed from the common into the depths of Mossflower. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Will and Lyra climbed up once more, and the other creatures looked closely at their balance and checked the stirrups with their trunks, as if to make sure they were safe. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The fourth and final approaching creature was able to stop in time, teetering on the very edge of the cliff, a spike and a claw holding it in place. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

As though the creature beneath the cloak sensed Harry’s gaze, the hand was suddenly withdrawn into the folds of its black cloak. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Why not? She must have someone with her until we are sure the creature is tame. In any case, all her servants are close at hand.” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

The long, frail wings trembled as she squeezed through, and then the joy of flight took over the creature, and it plunged into the wind. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

So, as well as reading about those faraway animals, I also watched the wild creatures near my home—squirrels and birds and all kinds of insects. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

When the creatures strained against their leather straps and pawed at the air, their barking made every soul in the quarters want to run to their cabins. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

‘Nasty creature! So much the better. Disgusting rabbit, eat that lettuce!’ Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

All night long I had been having nightmares in which throngs of black people sprawled dead in pools of red blood, surrounded by all sorts of slimy, creeping creatures. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am certainly the most fortunate creature that ever existed!” cried Jane. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

These offer an at-a-glance guide to the perceived dangerousness of a creature. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nina had never seen a creature like the one that crawled into view from the tunnel. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

A lich was an undead creature, usually an incredibly powerful wizard or king who had employed dark magic to bind his intellect to his own reanimated corpse, thus achieving a perverted form of immortality. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Immediately upon being informed of the hay cart incident, the Abbot had insisted upon calling a special council meeting of all Redwall creatures. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

She’s really a Hill woman, through and through, while I am a creature of the street. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Most of the creatures in the Underland, the crawlers, the bats, the fish, they have no need of light. We humans are lost without it.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

No matter what sound-making device is placed at their disposal, creatures in general do a great deal of gabbling, and it requires long patience and observation to edit out the parts lacking syntax and sense. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She cupped the medicine bottle in her palms, surveying the creature within. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

And what if the planet were dying and those creatures had to find a new home? Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

They were huge beings of metal, or creatures in heavy armor, and on the foredeck of the vessel, a bright flower of flame suddenly bloomed, and the people cried out in alarm. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

As a lumbering, shaggy creature pausing at the edge of Woods. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It was a large gray-and-brown creature, bigger than a setter, with a huge slavering mouth. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other was a stag, a beautiful lordly creature with wide liquid eyes, dappled flanks and legs so thin and graceful that they looked as if you could break them with two fingers. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

They are stubborn creatures, difficult to open, and if they are the slightest bit overcooked, they are too tough to eat. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then the bizarre creature soared over one of the street lamps of Privet Drive, and Harry, realizing what it was, leapt aside. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

He flung his club at it, but the little creature pulled back from his heel and looped, at great speed, away behind one of the white chalk boulders. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Because the times have changed. What are those creatures who attacked your party?” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She has never not seemed strange to me, like a creature from a fairy tale, pale as a ghost. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The creatures lurched after Roza—attacking her or trying to help her, she couldn’t tell. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“The jungle’s full of strange creatures and plants. But by watching us, I’d know the seafood’s safe.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

They hear a program about sea creatures, another about the North Pole. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

See if the Lambs don’t say, ‘What a lively, nice creature that Jo March is!” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Neither Mr. Flux nor the beast saw the fresh trap, and the creature’s legs tangled, snagged by the line. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Every creature has a hiding skill and a fighting skill a warrior can use. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I take my sling and a stone from my pocket and move to a limb where I can swing my arm if another creature comes to the bait. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the ship begins to take off, a swarm of the bat-like flying creatures passes in the distance. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

There were splashes on the roots of a tree, as though the poor creature had been thrashing around in pain close by. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“A fallen fairy. Nasty little creatures. Imps despise themselves as much as fairies adore themselves. Just as fairies are drawn to beauty, imps are drawn to ugliness.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

She heard more sounds like the words that the winged creature had spoken. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

"Pets are a different matter, to be sure. But the little creature must be old enough to survive without its mother," he concluded, rising. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

And who had more knowledge than the jinn, the oldest creatures of the earth? An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

It was not that these creatures did not work, after their fashion.There was, as Squealer was never tired of explaining, endless work in the supervision and organisation of the farm. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile in Philadelphia–Wistar’s city–naturalists had begun to assemble the bones of a giant elephant-like creature known at first as "the great American incognitum" but later identified, not quite correctly, as a mammoth. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The moon was full and bright enough that I found the mangled coyote between clumps of wild blooming buckwheat, where some other creature had likely dragged it. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

By doing what Maria herself did almost every day—collecting, watching, and documenting—he had added to the world’s knowledge of these little-known creatures. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Ivan glanced back at the creature, and his panicked breathing stopped as he held his breath. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The big creatures were swimming lazily, their shells appearing, then disappearing beneath the dark surface. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the habit of killing grows — the resort to “eradicating” any creature that may annoy or inconvenience us — birds are more and more finding themselves a direct target of poisons rather than an incidental one. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps creatures of the deep dragged them overboard. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Håkon screamed in pain, struggling, clawing at the creature holding him down. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

"I have come to tell you,” he began, "that there is a creature who is greater than you.” The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

A small black creature with claws and a waving tail scuttled up the side of the house. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

If an intelligent creature that had no human feelings suddenly arrived from another planet it would not understand anything about pain and suffering. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Sam had heard about the strange little creature. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“The creatures we’ve seen,” Con interjected, struggling to make sense of what she was saying. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Many of the comfort objects, like Lily’s, were soft, stuffed, imaginary creatures. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

They were beautiful creatures, with multicolored fish tails, and the heads and forelegs of white stallions. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Maybe it made Pet seem more like an individual, not just a random creature popping out of a painting. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The fantastical creatures and characters, on the other hand, were allotted a much more exotic and complex musical palette, often based on the so-called ‘Octatonic’ scale. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

All he knew of it was that it was drawn to him and would try to work its will through him, being his creature. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

The creature in the sac seemed horribly unformed and unfinished, as if two plasticine people had been warmed and rolled together, squashed and pressed into one thing. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Ekon tried to pull out of its grasp, but the creature smiled, exposing a set of pointed white teeth. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

How can one creature be so beautiful and another...? The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Any minute now Mr. Alacran would stride out of the house and shout, Take this creature away! The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The beams of light from the creature shone all over the place, completely random, never settling in one spot. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

It gave her a melancholy pleasure to eat the creatures that had so recently tried to bite her. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another creature, this one shaped a bit like a small dragon with fuzzy wings that trailed on the ground, bustled past. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The creature stuck out a long black tongue and slapped the glass with calloused hands. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

And on the far shore a creature that raised its dripping mouth from the rimstone pool and stared into the light with eyes dead white and sightless as the eggs of spiders. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

They swung them like lassos and began to ensnare Typhon, throwing lines around the creature’s legs and arms, using the tide to keep circling, slowly tangling him. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Just like the purple creatures in the water, the cave’s walls glow. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He slowed the bike and they stared at one another until the creature turned away and disappeared into the woods. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

The Coven cornered them and used the Star to lock them forever in a grove of trees, a living, growing prison, the only place powerful enough to bind such creatures. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He watched Baba's body rise from the dirt, mouth open in a silent scream as a creature stalked forward, a being with wretched black eyes and blood dripping from its maw. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Suddenly a cart laden with bleating lambs rolled past, and one of the smallest creatures wiggled through the wooden bars of its cage and tumbled to the street. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

What do I say to a creature who cares nothing for loyalty or friendship or life? An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

If a chimpanzee can reach out to help a human, then surely we humans can reach out and try to help the chimpanzees and all the other creatures we live with in the world today. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The gap between them and Mr. Flux was widening, as the creature he rode didn’t have wheels and couldn’t simply coast down the steep incline. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

From up close, she saw that the alien creature’s tentacles were actually made of words, tightly packed together, looping lazily over each other. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Everyone arose at this and the doors were opened and the lords and the creatures stood aside for the King and Queen to go out first. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

A distant flash of lightning showed him a tiny creature huddled against his chest. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was that the name of the creature she saw in her visions? Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Leave us,” Tantalus ordered, “while we decide this creature’s fate.” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

If you ask me, there are so many dummies that about a quarter of the class should be kept back, but teachers are the most unpredictable creatures on earth. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

A huge tawny creature, its body low to the ground, like a cat streaking across the lawn to a tree when a strange dog has got into the garden, was behind them. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

The bite of any one of these creatures could kill a child, explained Amah. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But also creatures yet to be discovered in the seas’ depths.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I take it you saw your first microscopic creatures,” he said, smiling. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The creature snarled, and she heard its deep intake of breath and the scrape of nails departing stone as the ridderak leapt for her. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She became aware, slowly, that the flying creature’s heart was beating as quickly as a tiny war drum, urgent with some kind of duty. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The caracal was half again as large—the height of a goat—and was a much bolder creature. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Poor creature. I wonder if he had a wife and family,” said Eye. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t picture it, this godlike creature sitting in my father’s shabby kitchen chair. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The creature sighed and rustled its fur a little. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

She spent much of their time together stealing sideways glances at her, as if Ash had become some sort of strange creature or, perhaps, an invalid. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I heard Dale shooting guns and stuff the night the creatures came through our window,” Kendra said. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The butterflies and bees that had landed on the mirror took flight when it was overturned, but only a few of the winged creatures flew away. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The thought creeps into my mind like a slithering creature—Maybe we would have become better people. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

And down came the demons from everywhere, frenzied creatures of darkness, lurching wildly toward their prey. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

You see, those poor dead creatures returned to the earth, their bodies nourished the soil, and they helped create the most dazzling spring bloom the island had ever known. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

These were fay, creatures who inhabited the trees and the rivers, the seas and the hills. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She turned my hand a-loose and reached over in the grass and pulled out the most terrorfying creature that ever lived! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

It was as if the creature had turned off. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Another arranged the tusks so that they curved backwards on the engaging theory that the creature had been aquatic and had used them to anchor itself to trees while dozing. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

He asked a bit about the sorta creatures I look after ... so I told him... an’ I said what I’d always really wanted was a dragon ... an’ then ... Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Without warning, one of the creature’s hands made a grab for Coraline’s arm. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Then he turned away, drew his sleeve over his nose, and got up, and stamped about, trying to whistle, and saying between the efforts: ‘Where’s that dratted creature?’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The sting shot pain all the way to my elbow, causing me to marvel at how much punishment a minuscule creature can inflict. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Salt was a great fat creature with short legs, and she was blowing like a rhinoceros. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

She opened one, and little creatures scurried at the bottom. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was best not to dwell on the fact that this entire plan hinged on the silly creature. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Owah,” said Fishtail, in wonder, “you are much beloved by the creatures.” The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Frank might have liked Venice if it hadn’t been summertime and tourist season, and if the city wasn’t overrun with large hairy creatures. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Hoagland necessarily considered everyone a world-political creature, with a heightened persona, a neurotic cultural manner. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He fixed the mechanical creatures that had stopped working. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

He was like some kind of Star Wars alien creature with invisible tentacles that sucked your thoughts out of your brain. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Down below among the roots there was the sound of creatures crawling and snuffling. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

They are great hunters, going after wildebeestes and zebras, as well as smaller creatures. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

A few moments later there came, from close behind the plant hedge, the sound of a fairly heavy splash: but what creature might have made it there was no telling. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

How could the good Lord have made such creatures? Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The creatures, some sitting on chairs, others reclining on a sofa, were all watching him intently. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

Had the Neanderthals survived, would we still imagine ourselves to be a creature apart? Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

When middle school started, they were the set of sixth graders who drew creatures on their homework and did not fight. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

There was the sound of him rolling over and a series of snuffling noises, not unlike those of the creature outside. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The video was about the sea creatures who live around sul fur chimneys, which are underwater volcanoes where gases are ejected from the earth’s crust into the water. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Think about every wild creature in the forest,” I said. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The creature unclenched its fist, and the dust blew to the ground. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Motley collections of stray animals have always populated racetracks, and being the social creatures they are, horses usually befriend them. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

What creatures would come into view if all the greenery were removed? Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

In his excitement, the dog sniffed our clothes and licked our faces so frantically you’d think the frenzied creature had three heads. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

"I could silence the creature, if it please you," he said through his open visor. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The creature collapsed, her rank scent filling the air. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Scornfully watching the chaotic maneuvers, the Warlord would criticize first one then the other for the shortcomings of the creatures they represented. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“A strange creature, that one. I’ve never heard of a salvage company that would bond that sort of muscle.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Because every dangling, orange-eyed head was one less miserable creature to weigh heavy on their hearts. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

His mother was yelling, "Feed it to the pig, you stupid creature! Why not? No one decent will buy burned bread!" The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

But the creature stayed low, hiding in the darkest shadows, so that Roz couldn’t see who it was. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The 1880s saw two scientists, France’s Louis Pasteur and Germany’s Robert Koch, isolate various bacteria—extremely small one-celled creatures—living in animals and humans and link them to specific diseases. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

The creatures return to their forward-facing gazes, but one of the wolves growls as it settles back into its frozen state. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I shudder to think what kind of creature could spin a web like that. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they herded the hairy creatures en masse into gullies or entangling bogs, driving the animals to their doom with shouts, dogs, torches, and, possibly, shamanic incantations. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Competing for attention on an adjacent stage was a loudmouthed showman in coattails and a large, prehistoric-looking creature whose gray skin hung from its frame in cascading wrinkles. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

There weren’t any humans or robots in those buildings, only sea creatures. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Lifting the tapestry of the doorway with a pale hand, the ghostly creature in half-armour, its unarmed elbow in a sling, stood on the threshold. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sayle glanced briefly at him, then turned back to the creature hovering over him in its tank. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

He painted the cartoonish, alien-looking black creature on the wall over the kitchen table that the family called the “funny man.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I draw my scim and shove it through the creature, twisting, hoping steel will kill the thing. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

This time, the night so thick, it was impossible to tell the precise moment when the creature emerged from his dreggy pool and began to drag his coils toward hall Heorot. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pantalaimon’s owl cry the night before had frightened every small creature that heard it, but it was nothing to the passionate wail that Lyra uttered now. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

They did not appear to be human, not creatures of this world. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

You mean like magic, I asked, and he thought about that and said, no, it’s not magic, it’s just Nature’s way to give one creature advantage over another. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Meggie saw from his face that everything in him felt revulsion, but he came closer and took the creature. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

One second, there was nothing, and the next, a huge mouth opened before us, revealing the skeletal remains of whales and sea creatures even larger hanging within its mast-long teeth. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Strange-looking creatures, dressed in striped jackets and black pants, jumped into the wagon. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Never mind that. Find the creature and destroy it,” said the President. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

After a minute they moved on, and Will and Lyra were happy to walk among the hay-scented, grass-warm creatures who trundled beside them. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Where have you been? Yawar was here looking for you! You have shamed us all with that creature of yours!” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Our footpath crossed over four single-track paved roads but except for a cow grazing by one of the roads we hadn’t seen another creature bigger than a hedgehog. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

For months at a time, James entertained these pale creatures, their white buggies traversing the mud tracks that led to the great house. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Any minute she might turn into some horrible creature and attack them. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Raccoons owned the night, and raccoons were truly terrifying creatures—more brutal even than cats. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

Huge creatures of the imagination scuttled across the muddy bottom of the river. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

These are the terrible creatures you ride forth to meet, Your Majesty. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Normally, no one would have kept domestic animals in such a lethal place, but the creatures had a very special purpose. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps some storyteller saw the helpless, suffering creature Odysseus left behind as a thing to be pitied. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were suddenly creatures of pure energy, blurs of black jetting across the clearing and into the trees. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The Vole family taken captive; death or slavery was all the wretched creatures could look forward to. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The nightmare city of Ghulheim sat on a high rocky outcrop ahead of them, and the creatures loped down the road towards it. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

They saw the corpse of an inhuman creature, its arms wrapped around bended knees, its head lolling sideways onto the ground. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“It is at any rate a pleasure to meet such ontologically improbable creatures.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

For millions of years, humans hunted smaller creatures and gathered what they could, all the while being hunted by larger predators. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

These creatures drifted around without families, totems or tribes, although Knife and Granny seemed to be Portuguese. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Victarion had forbidden his men to bring any of the demonic creatures aboard ship, yet somehow half his fleet was now infested with them, even his own Iron Victory. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The window wasn’t glassed, and so all sorts of small creatures could come in through the bars. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was aware of the other players around him, hel- meted and grotesque, creatures from an unknown world. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The council had agreed that both he and Methuselah, plus any creature they chose to help them, were to be left to their own devices. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I jumped back All four flippers came out and the creature tried to make its getaway. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He says the smart humans owe it to every other living creature not to let the dumb humans wreck the whole planet. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I’m not used to being touched, except by Peeta or my family, and I rank Gamemakers somewhere below maggots in terms of creatures I want in contact with my skin. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The poor creatures perched on the bottom barely moving, obviously pining away for flight. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are some creatures that do not seem to die at all; they simply vanish totally into their own progeny. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day a three-dimensional creature—shaped like an apple, say—comes upon Flatland, hovering above it. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sprinted to the left, turned, and saw the creature bearing down on me. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I’ll be back, Percy promised, but if the creatures in the exhibits could hear him, they gave no sign. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Bestiaries do not contain, as a rule, totally novel creatures of the imagination made up of parts that we have never seen before. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

This would lead to the formation of galaxies, stars, and eventually even insignificant creatures like ourselves. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Amaranta suddenly discovered that the girl she had raised, who was just entering adolescence, was already the most beautiful creature that had even been seen in Macon do. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I remained still and silent, but the creature within me growled its way deeper and deeper into my soul. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

The poor squirrel was the only creature that might be trusted to give an honest accounting of the events that had led to its untimely arrival at the party. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Shin was no longer a creature of his captors. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Recording a creature’s movements, behavior, or stages of development—as Maria did—meant long hours watching, paints in hand, and the ability to sketch quickly when something happened. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Grandpa said a night is coming when all the creatures here will run wild.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

They battled across the green Abbey lawns, right through the center of the maelstrom of warring creatures. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The creature is female, and while her tail is fake, her long parsnip nose is entirely real. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The walls of the corridor leading into the tomb were covered with dozens of strange paintings depicting enslaved humans, orcs, elves, and other creatures. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“I can smell you from here. You’re the smelliest creature in the place.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

His eyes had gone wide as the dust settled and he made out two figures in it: a long brown snake and a small, furry tan creature. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

This creature stood ten feet high; it was no mere snake. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“You vex with us for making you send the creature away? It’s a lot to deal with, what happened. You want to talk about it?” Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The creature glared at him with ice-cold irritation. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

No creature among them went upon two legs. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Griphook was unexpectedly bloodthirsty, laughed at the idea of pain in lesser creatures, and seemed to relish the possibility that they might have to hurt other wizards to reach the Lestranges’ vault. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

She envisioned a grotesque creature stalking forward in the moonlight, tongue darting between serrated teeth as it eyed easy prey. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

There was something just too creepy about the genetically designed creatures to consider getting close to them. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Frigg spoke to trees, to beasts, and to birds and to all things that creep and fly and crawl, and each creature promised that its kind would never hurt Balder. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Gregor saw the bodies of rats, humans, roaches, spiders, bats, and other creatures he didn’t even know lived in the Underland, like mice and butterflies. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Yvaine realized that she felt nothing but pity for the creature who had wanted her dead, so she said, "Could it be that the heart that you seek is no longer my own?" Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

From behind the same bush they had used as their Anal hiding place when approaching the well, a creature emerged. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

But the only creature she had seen whole was the winged fairy, who repeatedly flew down that corridor as if she were doomed to traverse the same small space for eternity. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

There’s a creature a layin’ down there, but I’m blowed if it’s fish or fowl, there’s so much mud and dust plastered on it,” whispered the hedgehog. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The small creature nestled closer, and Neel choked out the words: “Please, Baba, please.” Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

He was distracted by the whimpering and thumping of the agonized creature behind them and glanced back at it yet again. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“We have understood your story about the imprisoned sea creatures in Atlanta. Keto and Phorcys must be stopped. We will send a quest of mer-heroes to defeat them and free their captives. Perhaps Cyrus?” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Destiny” sounded like an obligation, and if I was to be thrust into battle against a legion of nightmare creatures, that had to be my choice. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

He just kept at it, torturing the soft body of the creature, pulling harder, stretching the tender thing as far as it would go. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I moved closer to the throne, eager to get away from those creatures. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The creature made a violent rip-rip-rip sound that might have been laughter. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Medical science does not seal the earth, whose nether creatures seep out, hair by hair, disguised like the smoke that dispels them. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Scientists theorize that the first “eyes” were nothing more than a pigmented, light-sensitive spot on the skin of some ancient creature. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Claire could see that it looked, indeed, like a head, and that from a distance the entire mommet would seem a frightening, flapping creature. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She tasted the goats’ blood and spit it toward the ceiling, then she sampled the blood of many more creatures. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cruelty of it—the bizarreness of being forced to look happy about handling creatures who could kill you as soon as look at you—was one thing she wouldn't miss about working here. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He said that they believed butterflies were special creatures and wish givers. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

But the creature is already feeding on warm Gulf water. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t watch a creature frantically trying to live, knowing it only had a short while—an hour or two, maybe. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I’m telling you this because it will take me some time and I’m asking you to be patient. Boys are not patient creatures, as a rule.” The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

And at a primal level it suggested the unconscious fear of being swallowed up by a larger creature, the terror of being completely consumed, eaten alive. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

She could return to the limitless state that every living creature once was in and will be again. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The attempt to tame the wild creatures, for instance, broke dow'n almost immediately.They continued to behave very much as before, and when treated with generosity, simply took advantage of it. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

And with this translation you could begin to exploit a whole new group of creatures. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“They might,” said Arianne, “but peacocks are vain, proud creatures, strutting about in all those gaudy colors. Give me a swan serene in white or beautiful in black.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

How was she supposed to explain that a creature was coming to hunt at his house? Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

And then there would be a sound like a jackal’s yelping and the two-legs would move off and feed the other creatures imprisoned in different parts of the darkness. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Along the shoreward edge of the shallows the advancing clearness was full of strange, moonbeam-bodied creatures with fiery eyes. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“I’d rather be on the end of a fish hook and used as bait than come up against those terrible creatures again!” James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

He held the mug out toward the creature, wondering if it would sip the flavored milk or just climb inside the cup. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“Now, Tristan. We have to hold until the Shield forces get here. If that...creature keeps digging, we don’t stand a chance.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He saw first the glowing curved line around the head of the creature and the line showed him that it was the front of a dolphin. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

As long as some creature experienced joy, then the condition for all other creatures included a fragment of joy. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

But when the badger pounced, this creature just rolled onto her back, stuck out her tongue, and died. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

This vixen wasn’t such a bad creature after all. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Now that you have reviewed the case file, you must realize what a dangerous creature this Fowl is. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Behind them were another dozen or so monstrous creatures, no two alike. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The gloomy creature flung his hands to his head and began moaning and rocking back and forth. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

All he could do was to butt his hard round head sideways into the creature’s face. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“Silly creatures, to put such thoughts into my head. I won’t care for it, or let it change me a bit,” thought Meg, and rustled across the room to shake hands with her friend. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was not a great roar—it was more like the sound made by a tiny creature that lives among the leaves and twigs. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The creature—creatures, now—resumed drinking, with heavy lapping noises. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was just a mutt who had been kicked around too much and was happy to find a creature who was afraid of it. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve seen that word—wickedHe searched his mind for what the phrase could possibly mean. “On the little creatures that live here. The Maze Runner 2009-10-21T00:00:00Z

And if these creatures both protected and attacked her... Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“I haven’t yet seen any of these strange creatures that people keep telling us about. Don’t you want to see what we’re dealing with?” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Then, compelled to see what kind of creature would scream at her so, she looked again, searching in her eyes for reasons for this violation of her sensibilities. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s not right to be so fearful. Even the smallest of the children feel at home with the creatures.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“I hear they are singular creatures, much different than men.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

And preparing for a hunt, his father would caution a full moon, hanging over the foothills, “Don’t shine too bright, you’ll make the creatures skittish.” Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

A final garbled burst of complaints issued from the dark hole, and then the creature was gone. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Cannek Reed was the son of a stonemason with rocklike fists, and he belonged to the water the way his father—a rare creature—belonged to the earth. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Vast clumps of seaweed swayed in the current, forests of red and blue and green and all hues in between, home to creatures that had never existed in the natural world. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

He could understand any creature, even a bird. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The creatures he had named came forward and he turned away eastward with them. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

She believed that all creatures—including butterflies and moths—reflected God’s glory and the infinite variety of his creation. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Ben reached in, lifted the flap of flesh, and stuck a hand inside the creature. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

She turned back and caught a glimpse of the towering creature taking a slow, ungainly step in her direction. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The Centaurs, creatures who each had the body of a horse and the chest and face of a man, were related to the bride and came to the wedding. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every square creature in Flatland sees another square as merely a short line segment, the side of the square nearest to him. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Mami pulled her feet onto the rungs of her rocking chair and rubbed the goose bumps from her arms, I imagined a world of fascinating creatures slithering underfoot, drawing squiggly patterns on the dirt. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Somewhat relieved—for the memory of the Ento creature had reared up fresh in her mind—she went back out into the corridor, and the shadow fluttered in the distance again. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Cornflower voiced the question that was on the mind of every creature there. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

There were still some pumpkins left, but they knew that if the creature visited them again, then all their pumpkins would be gone. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

She told herself that if the ghost of the creature could not speak or see, then no real harm could be done. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

A cold wrapped around Anya, no longer just from the creature. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Although it was three or four meters away from him, he could see that the cage was divided lengthways into two compartments, and that there was some kind of creature in each. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

As it turns out, chloroplasts are also separate creatures with their own genomes, speaking their own language. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

His plans, his hopes, everything he’d spent years working for was gone because of that wretched creature. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Behind him rode three queerly garbed strangers atop ugly humped creatures that dwarfed any horse. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“But Festus is more than a machine. He’s a living creature.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Above me the lines between the ceiling tiles warp and twist into monstrous creatures. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Soon enough, our people abandoned us, remembered us only as creatures of the old land, as things that had not come with them to the new. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

In fact, the word animal includes all living creatures except for plants. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

He had the form of some creature like a mongoose, but red-gold in color and smaller. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“That’s more what I thought Care of Magical Creatures would be like . . . proper creatures like unicorns, not monsters. “What about Hagrid?” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“It’s a little living creature—and it sings beautifully! I’m going to give up my season ticket to the Philharmonic.” The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anything could happen to a young creature far from home. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

“The lion was the right mount for me. You and your friend will have to sit on one of the water creatures—each animal works in a different way.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

But if one thing or one living creature refused to weep for him she would keep him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Who is this creature no one can see? How can he have more power than me?’ A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mind wanders to the wolflike creatures in the first arena, the monkeys in the Quarter Quell, the monstrosities I’ve witnessed on television over the years, and I wonder what form these mutts will take. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

At seven-thirty we too closed the door behind us; Moortje, my cat, was the only living creature I said goodbye to. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

His eyes were open, but his face was such a fearful mask of blood, foam, vomit and earth that he looked more like some demon creature than a rabbit. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wherever Harry went inside the tiny cottage or its garden, he could hear the constant ebb and flow of the sea, like the breathing of some great, slumbering creature. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The tiny creature continued sucking its paw, shifting from foot to foot, its bushy tail curled up over the small back, higher than the tips of its ears. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

It was too dark for sure shooting anyway, and the creature was gone into the gloom of the leaves in a twinkling. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Wart went like a snake, like t coney, like a silent owL He was «m»n and the creature had no chance against him at this game. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They are the stupidest of creatures in the Underland! Why, they can barely even speak!” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Thank God. I thought you were some kind of creature from space.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Well,” he said slowly, “it must be a miracle, then, that such useless creatures grow up into something as great and reasonable as you, don't you think?” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

If Nhamo had met the creature on a forest path, she would have climbed the nearest tree. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The creatures were all out of their hammocks and moving excitedly around the room. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

He seemed a little shrimp of a creature beside the Witch. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Ocean creatures drizzled in sauces or begging to be dipped in spicy concoctions. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was beyond fury at this little creature, who had spoiled my chances at amassing a fortune of pink clay. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

As if he’d been a circus beast trained to behave like a domesticated creature, the mammoth dog left the dead man’s side and slipped out of our car through the opposite rear window. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Like Papa had told me, every creature has to kill to live. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twice the size of Ghost, the creature was covered with coarse black hair, with tusks as long as a man’s arm. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A crab creature was staring directly at him from the distance. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Behind me rose steepsided mountains of amber, on which had been carved words of great power to try to bind the creatures who lived within. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said the scent came from dissecting sharks and whales, from cutting away layers of blubber and plunging her hands inside the cavities of marine creatures that were twenty times her size. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

But they were silly, fearful creatures; and after looking at me in surprise, they both scurried up an oak tree and scolded senselessly in loud voices, shaking their tails, until I left. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

With a powerful leap, the creature jumped out, landing on the counter. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Already, on the walk from the station, the May sunshine had made him feel dirty and etiolated, a creature of indoors, with the sooty dust of London in the pores of his skin. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The Trunchbull looked down and saw it and she bellowed even louder and with a swipe of her hand she sent the creature flying across the class-room. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

When I do, I notice a creature I've never seen before. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“What has this world come to when the sun can no longer warm God’s creatures?” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Full of dark fins like knives, vast creatures beneath. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“And the little creature's screeching and struggling," she whispered, “would be as sweet as honey to him." Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Flux was like a cowboy on its back, gripping fur with one hand, slapping the creature’s flank with the other. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Often the subject of a sentence—whoever or whatever is doing the action—is a two-headed creature with or or nor in the middle: Milk or cream is fine, thank you. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The creature was up, rising like a Strigoi from a crypt. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Nor do many species of animals live in this rigorous land, but those creatures that do dwell here exist in bountiful numbers. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

You surface and water drains from your nose and eyes and you’re just another small creature in the big, wide world. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The light grew until the Queen was bright as a star; she was the brightest, strongest star in a constellation, and every living creature was in orbit around her. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The greenish light still seeped from the marks on the floor—marks Cain had etched with his own blood—illuminating the creature who stared at her with those starving, relentless eyes. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“No, nor no dragons. Is not the creature a dragon?” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

When Indians died, the shaggy creatures vastly extended both their range and numbers, according to Valerius Geist, a bison researcher at the University of Calgary. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I shrank from it until the little creature licked my hand in a friendly greeting, and I could not help but smile at it “Do not fear, he will not harm you,” Mechtild said. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Drowsily Mary wondered why the grazing creatures didn’t move under the shade of the trees during this hottest part of the day. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“But as your grandfather has warned you, some of those creatures can be deadly. There are many places on the property where even he does not dare venture.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

They were fine, strong creatures, large and broad-backed—like living boats, in fact. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Some creature dropped straight down in front of the truck. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

They would tear to pieces the wild creatures they met and devour the bloody shreds of flesh. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even if that creature had been a monster when she killed it, she had still killed it. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

"I want to talk to you about the glass of water with the creature in it," Matilda said. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Listen hard, because I’m not telling you again! Fire is a dangerous creature!” he had shouted at Farid. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Perhaps even more marvelous, however, was the prospect that the Jupiter bird may have had the power of flight, making it by far the largest creature ever to soar in the skies.’” A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The flowers look beautiful and savage in the daylight, like vicious creatures suspended in time, motionless. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Kote pressed the iron shim to the black side of the creature, and there was a short, sharp crackling sound, like a pine log snapping in a hot fire. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Her family’s reality had expanded when Pet was added to it, but everyone else still lived in that other world, the one where creatures from other realms didn’t exist. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The giraffe is timid and beautiful and quite possibly the strangest creature I’ve ever seen. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

These alterations don’t make him appear more normal, however, but more anomalous, like a creature from an alien planet disguised in human clothing. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The sheer size of it was enough to prop open the creature’s jaws, which she immediately started to do. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I had an odd sensation, as if a little creature was crawling up my spine. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

The tethers of light stretched around Mini, gathering her up and yanking her out of the creature’s throat. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

For Elinor had decided to offer a home, or “asylum,” as she put it, to all the strange creatures who had landed in her world. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The creature made horrible click, click, click noises like an enormous, slow-motion cicada. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Some folks think that creatures like that don’t have feelings, but I think he missed his master and I went easy on him. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was a wonderful gift, no doubt, and yet of what use was a sword when the creature to be struck by it could turn the swordsman into stone before he was within striking distance? Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There may be creatures in there that could,” said Hazel. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Imagine how unlikely it is for two creatures of any kind to see each other—through the shadows of the woods—eyes connecting, attention ready. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Even scholars of the time believed insects were creatures that God had not fully formed—inferior, even evil in some way. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Another creature trapped in a situation she didn’t want to be in. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The candlelight that served to illuminate the cage made the albino seem totally like a creature who had never seen the sun. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

There was only one creature in all the wood with that heavy unmistakable scent...Constance the badger! Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Humans aren’t the only creatures to seek mastery and rebel at being mastered. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re just in time. I heard a noise, and came out and found these—creatures—trying to dig up your house.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Sargon buried his fangs into the disgusting creature's shoulder, and a fountain of green blood sprayed the ceiling. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Bounding up the hill to Fry High, the creature barreled through the hole it created earlier, following its original course to the library. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

A billion tiny mud creatures lived and ate and died in the top layer of sand, and the little casts and breathing holes and invisible movements showed that the whole landscape was aquiver with life. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Either way, she was stranded on a tiny island in the middle of a pond full of creatures who wanted to drown her. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

A sharp crack revealed a small victory, but any elation ended when he realized that the momentum of his swing was now pulling him back down to land right on top of the creature. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

When they arrived, they stood patiently at the verge and let the wheeled creatures move slowly through them, checking, touching, counting. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Her dragons were sly, spiteful creatures who stole peoples gold and killed people for malicious fun. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The basement remained, a great square hole in the ground; and in its crumbling walls, protected from the wind and snow, numerous small creatures lived. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

By acquiescing in an act that can cause such suffering to a living creature, who among us is not diminished as a human being? Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Humans are the only creatures who can tell one another about imagination in stories or pictures. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Abigail responded harshly to Republican critics of Jay’s Treaty, calling them “mindless Jacobins and party creatures.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

I mean it literally: There is at least one species of jellyfish that can grow younger, which is something that pretty much no other creature on Earth can do. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

She walked to it, and when she put her hand on the doorknob, a sigh ran through all the creatures in the hall. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Oh, you unfortunate creatures, are you all right?” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Howls poured from her mouth as if she were some kind of tortured creature. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Both creatures swore to stay on earth until the project was complete. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

They’d laugh to see a creature winking at them from the bottom of the water gourd. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sprawled under the tree was the strangest creature Taran had ever seen. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

He seemed dark and dangerous, like a creature you might stumble on in the middle of the night. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She edged her right hand beneath the creature and scooped it up. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Her stomach heaved, for this meant that she had to walk through the cavern, past all the cages and all those strange creatures with their sad, brilliant eyes. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The creature threw his head back in a laugh then, letting his airy cackles echo off the trees around them. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Soon it appeared as a great winged creature, blacker than the pits in the night. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The tiny creature didn’t move, and I couldn’t tell if it was alive or dead. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

This creature was the ancestor of all the giants, and it called itself Ymir. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Bigwig could hear a worm moving in the earth nearby and faintly down the tunnel came the sound of some small creature pattering through the grass outside. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a creature of the earth, he endured, hearty, whole, seemingly indestructible, with no regrets and no hope. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was tacked among the dried creatures on the wall. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Jason flew from the stern and landed on the creature’s head. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“It is to dig with,” said the learned creature complacently. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

They sat in silence for a long time, and the whimperings of the creature behind them barely disturbed Harry anymore. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Cat and Kittens had retreated to their closet, peering out at the giant shaggy creature. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

So long as the creature didn’t eat them. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Everyone had been busy burning and burying a creature worth a king’s ransom. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Then I remember the honey badger—pound for pound the most powerful creature on earth! I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

How could some creature from a painting know these people, her people, better than she did? Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The Dragon King is one creature you stay friends with, since he can cause earthquakes as well as floods and droughts. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

She landed and whirled, charging back to where the creature had crashed through the door and now sought to shake itself free of the pile of wood. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The Gallivespians bred these creatures carefully, and each clan’s insects differed from the rest. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The moment his skin touched the smooth stone, the grunts from the creature transformed into the voice of a youthful boy, who sounded about as old as Nathan. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“The tournament is still four nights away,” the creature says. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Håkon struggled against the creature, but it held him in place, so close that it was on the verge of enveloping Håkon in the cloud swirling around it. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The clearing in the woods was home to the small forest creatures. Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mentally he promised himself that he would never again use a collar on any living creature. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Mind you, a standing meerkat reaches up eighteen inches at most, so it was not the height of these creatures that was so breathtaking as their unlimited multitude. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Just after he found this one, while he was sitting on the floor watching in fascination as the creature crept up his arm, a couple of workers came by and saw him. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The soup actually had hardly any taste, but at the same time it tasted really awful, because you knew that in it was a strange, ugly creature. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The creature’s lips were cracked and dry, reminding her of parched earth after a drought. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She took the small scaly creature on her knee and fed it bits and crumbs, while she pondered what Ged had told her. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

I’m way more comfortable with drawing creatures, plants, landscapes. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Loons, according to the program, are not social creatures. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I do not think that God wishes his creatures to suffer.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I am the lord of all creatures of the darkness, puny Iapetus. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“See that no creature goes near them. Stand guard night and day. If just one of these dormice is missing, you’ll both end up on a roasting spit. Is that clear?” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Of all the woodlanders she was the oldest and wisest creature within the walls. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The slimy creature might carry gold anywhere—in his mouth, under his sandal strap, in a loaf of bread. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Out in the country- side, the forms and coloring of the dead are strange; these are the wild creatures. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted to be angry at the memory of the creature, enraged, but the truth was that even now, thinking of that moment drove a spike of raw fear into his bones. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

She’d never painted a mural before, just filled notebook after notebook with wild creatures and winged, battle-ready versions of her friends and neighbors. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“Did you see any other creatures besides the water butterflies?” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Alys, toothless and wrinkled though with piercing eyes and a sharp tongue, told the men roughly: “Leave us be!” when they carried the trembling creature in to her. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

And this dactyl—this strange and beautiful creature with its wrinkled, gray-brown hide, barrel chest, and slender neck—she wanted to hug it. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The creature dropped its weight on the prisoner with a sickening crunch and set about slowly mauling his shoulder as he lay there shrieking. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Fluffy, black and long-snouted, this burrowing creature has a predilection for anything glittery. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

However it was three rather disconsolate creatures that sat down to early breakfast after a few hours’ fitful sleep. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I looked at Connor and Birdie and Mae, all three of them ready, apparently, to believe anything about the creature in our midst. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“Then tell me what was the first creature I killed.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

But having noticed this much, Buckland failed to realize what it meant: Megalosaurus was an entirely new type of creature. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Finally, the creature stiffened and sank from view, slime closing over its head, a slick of dark blood the only sign it had ever been there. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The pair left the shop and remounted their creatures, Isagol holding up her bracelet so the moons tinkled like bells. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I can see all the birds flying in the air and the creatures crawling on the ground. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

There was a bluebottle buzzing around, and for a minute we had a laugh playing “blue bottle tennis,” throwing our hands about to make the demented creature go from one to the other of us. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Naturally one wants you to be happy, and I grant you he’s a very attractive creature but—well, I’m sorry; and personally I think you are making a big mistake—one you will bitterly regret.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

They’d put their hands on him and press him into their mold, and he’d come out the other end of it as the same dark creature he had struggled to avoid becoming. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“Let me go, Martin! I fear no creature that lives.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

In the sublunary sphere it might seem easy to formulate some general laws: all living creatures die; children take after their parents. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

She was a poor creature, and I thought of her with scorn if I considered her at all. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

She stared at the creature twisting and wriggling in the glass. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

“You sly creature! Of course we meant the young man,” exclaimed Miss Belle, laughing. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

A minute later, I accidentally shove my finger into the home of some angry, sharp-pincered creature, and it scuttles over my hand and arm. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Zeppelins,” said the bear’s voice, startling Will, for he hadn’t heard the great creature come near. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

There might not be creatures like this where they were going. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“So what’s in the cage? No, don’t tell me. The only other nonmagical creature in the Lower Elements. And the first troll we’ve managed to take alive in over a century.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

For their part, the grazing creatures regarded her with mild, incurious eyes, showing no alarm. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Stone sculptures of sea creatures were stationed all around the bottom of the staircase to the gate of the great hall. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Would he wipe out the creatures of the fields and forests, and then come for the creatures of their home? Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

"And this wise, sweet creature sent you here to torture me?" she said. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Before she could comfort him, he changed into his wildcat shape and sprang down on the creature, batting it back from the edge of the roof, where it was crawling swiftly to escape. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The moment they had dawned, he was a creature from Edgar Allan Poe. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a long moment, the creature said nothing, then she threw back the shawl from her forehead. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Without a hunter as part of their family, she and her mother had not eaten meat except for the occasional small creature that they could catch within the boundaries of the village. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she sees his number appear, she recoils, as if she’s just seen a poisonous creature. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He told her about the reports his father had received about creatures, possibly fay, entering the Kingdom in the north. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

A small shadow stepped from behind the trunk, and in the fiery glow of the sky, I saw a tiny, fairylike creature. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

And their sparkles caught the attention of some very curious creatures. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I had never observed such a creature, for, whether from shame or fear, I had ignored the madmen and the poor who lived among us. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The creature tried to pull up, and that crushed her fingers between the loop and the horn. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“Crash, I guess we just feel that animals are God’s creatures and that it’s not for us to, uh, consume them.” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

“What Ambrose says makes sense. Would you lift the wretched creature up and carry him to the sick bay, please?” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

This creature has lagged behind the rest of us, and is still going through the process of being assembled. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they squeezed through, Chess’s face pressed painfully against the stone head of a creature that might have been a demon or just a man caught in the worst agony of his life. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Christ,” Henry says, slapping at a bug that’s landed on him, “what are these infernal creatures?” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

But the only sound was the wind in the fruit trees, and the only creatures in the gardens were a few pale moths. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The winged creature screamed at her, but the Ringwraith made no answer, and was silent, as if in sudden doubt. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The first animals, creatures like worms and jellyfish, appeared only when she was forty. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a white Afrikaner, a creature of the South African system and mind-set. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And to make matters worse, bears have an instinct that drives them to attack when a creature runs away, especially if the creature running away is a mysterious, sparkling monster. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Then the claws retracted, and the massive creatures scuttled away from the encroaching jellyfish. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“For a creature to survive so long, it is, no doubt, as smart as it need be.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

At that precise moment it was two of those same creatures who stood on the fringe of Mossflower Wood, spying across the common land to where Cluny’s army was exercising. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The creature eyeing them had the face and torso of an old, bare-chested man, complete with thinning gray hair and wrinkles etched deep into his features. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Birds started to chirp and sing in the trees and as the dawn came up we saw strange creatures in the fields, standing, looking at us. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“On the little creatures that live here. The beetle blades.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Holly could only watch helplessly as the human took careful aim and delivered a series of crippling blows to the stricken creature. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

No creature moved nor voice spoke for a long while on the island, but only the waves beat loudly on the shore. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

She was fearful of the smallest of creatures—a mouse, scurrying across the floor of Alyss hut, almost caused her to faint—and fascinated in a worried sort of way with birds. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He was doing them a good turn because they had saved his life but, as Hazel knew, he could not help despising them for timid, helpless, stay-at-home creatures who could not fly. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, the incredible diversity of living creatures from bacteria to the great blue whale is largely due to this capacity of carbon. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Their hiding place on top of the rock would be in plain sight to a creature that tall if he chose to look in their direction. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

She had seen the wild, ancient creature in him before, but this time that inhumanness edged into something she recognized with her gut: He looked at her with desire. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The great creatures and their greater shadows, with a mingled roar or squawk of triumph, flung themselves upon him. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

They and we and all creatures in between possess many similar genetic instructions. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, in case she became a famous writer, Lynn practiced writing little stories in her diary: Once upon a time a funny witch cast a spell on all the world’s creatures. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was then that Constance did something that creatures would speak of in years to come. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Brambleweft starts to sketch—billowing skirts and cunning little capes, corsets stitched with fanciful creatures. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Percy sent his thoughts through the water, the way he spoke with other sea creatures. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Full of hidden creatures, rocks, and even mountains. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The creature has a maker, a boy with nimble fingers and a tender heart. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

A creature who could only have been Bahumat emerged from the alcove. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The trainer believed that racehorses were instinctively hard-trying, competitive creatures who did not need to be forced to exert themselves. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But his chest ached at the thought of them out there, killed by the horrendous creature he’d seen through the window his first morning in the Glade. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

It seemed to him that he had never seen any creature so beautiful as this tiny bird, and he already loved her. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Be oft you shameless hussy,” she cried, bringing her hunting crop down on the creature’s nose. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom liked to encourage self-sufficiency in all living creatures. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“A tiny creature, inside of the dead. What, like a mouse?” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I figured whatever it was, it wasn’t one of God’s creatures. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Despite the benefits of fire, 150,000 years ago humans were still marginal creatures. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Crowing roosters and yapping dogs were the only creatures abroad at dawn today. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

But was it okay to feel joy over another creature’s death? The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“How would such a creature walk, sir?” asks Mr. Banerji, and my father, approving, says, “Well may you ask.” Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The white creature floated above like a Zeppelin, all indistinct except what was under the water. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

They tormented the old creatures, seeking the source of their power. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

A low cloud in the air turned out to be tiny flying antlike creatures by the millions. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I endeavoured to gain from Frankenstein the particulars of his creature’s formation, but on this point he was impenetrable. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

Take the octopus— a remarkable creature, grammatically as well as biologically. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But before he could reach the donkey—one of the creatures which he loved the most—a shiny blue crow fell from above to perch on the donkey’s unprotesting muzzle. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

What was it with me chasing weird little talking creatures into dark spaces? Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

We watch the creatures crawl over each other. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

“They rattle easy, poor creatures. And folks is always bothering them.” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

But Jason withstood the fearful creatures as a great rock in the sea withstands the waves. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I fought the sucking mud and crawled out like some prehistoric creature from an ancient lagoon just as Mami and my sisters and brothers came running. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The collision with the sea cow had rattled me—I couldn’t help wondering what other creatures might be cruising around the dark cloudy basin. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“What I’m bothered about is Mother. Suppose that creature went into her room. She might frighten her to death.” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z