"All __ Great and Small": Herriot

Usage examples of creatures.

Most striking of all about these last two creatures were their berets, shining bright red in the fast-dimming light.

The hunting party had come upon a band of six creatures, or actually both groups had come upon each other, stepping out of the thick brush onto an open, rocky riverbank simultaneously, barely twenty paces apart.

Then he stalked after them, his bloody sword in his bloody hand, hoping one of the creatures would stray from its friends.

Groups of the ugly creatures ran into each house, ransacked the place, and then, set it ablaze.

Juraviel, or any of the others, how loud their conversation had become, for though Elbryan was barely fifteen yards away from them, they had erected a sound shield, and no human ear could have discerned anything more than a few chirps, squeaks, and whistles, sounds easily enough explained away by the natural creatures in the area.

He glanced all around, tried to focus on individual creatures that he might discern their leader.

Elbryan wondered, having no explanation of who or what those delicate winged creatures might be.

He did not understand these creatures, so gay and full of almost childish spirit at one moment, so deadly and stern at the next.

Elbryan figured there must be about a half dozen bipedal creatures approaching.

He smiled again as he thought of that innocent time, but it was not a longlasting sentiment, swept away in the wave of darker emotions as he considered what creatures such as these had done to his world.

A brown bear might come roaring down the hill, hurling itself upon the cabin as if the shelter were some elk, but black bears were shy creatures by nature, far from aggressive unless cornered, or defending their cubs.

Even those creatures closest to the center of the area between the arms felt the residual heat, and on that shimmering air was brought the tingles of promised power, the itchy anxiety to go out and kill.

Elkenbrook had never known such a huge gathering of goblins, could not conceive of the notion that the hateful, selfish creatures could ever band together in such numbers.

He and Cric were within a dozen strides before the goblins spotted them, and then how the creatures howled!

Fortunately for Elbryan, none of the creatures bothered to look up into the tangle of branches.