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Example sentences for "living creature"

  • These may be regarded as primary life-processes, in virtue of which the animal characterized by them is a living creature.

  • It is a living creature, and not a vegetable.

  • But this priviledge, is allayed by another; and that is, by the priviledge of Absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man onely.

  • I should scarcely think anything very terrible lived here, for there is not a sound stirring nor a living creature to be seen.

  • The Rajah returned to see if he could help anybody to escape, or invite them in their distress to his court; but he found that all was burnt down--not a stone nor a living creature remained!

  • The trees grew so thickly overhead that she could scarcely see the sky, and there was no village or house of living creature near.

  • For a quarter of an hour at least I penetrated deeper and deeper into the city, without encountering a living creature on my way--with only the starlight to guide me.

  • Not a living creature appeared in front of the chapel.

  • There is not a living creature left in the world whom I love but you.

  • It is quaint and interesting, and is sufficiently unlike a living creature to avoid giving any sense of pain to the beholder, while it is yet in a most unnatural position.

  • It is, in truth, rather an ornament than a copy of a living creature, yet it is so suggestive as to call forth the thought of a bird.

  • If she be a living creature, thou hast it in thy power to produce her, for she dwells in this house.

  • Canst thou, whose eyes tremble at the gaze of a living creature, think to look upon the face of a fallen angel?

  • You would take it, in this state, for some kind of seed, rather than for the habitation of a living creature.

  • And not a living creature knew it--yourself included!

  • Nobody who had not known it beforehand would have suspected that there was a living creature in the room.

  • I had penetrated the secret which the quicksand had kept from every other living creature.

  • Lutey stopped, and listened, and looked back, but, as far as he could see, not a living creature was to be seen on the beach but himself.

  • A living creature is climbing the ascent!

  • His only peculiarity then was that he had greater powers and more acute and exquisite senses than any other living creature.

  • And whatsoever the man called every living creature, that was the name thereof.

  • Seeing no living creature on it during that time, and the shore being very broken, we came to an anchor about two miles from it, and sent ten of our crew in our best boat with some casks to get water and cut wood.

  • The girl had been the one living creature in his memory that he had cared for and who cared for him--the one person whose interest in him was real.

  • Perhaps he had been mistaken in thinking it an imprint of a living creature.

  • Then he wheeled, a snarling, fighting monster with death for any living creature in the blow of his forearm, and lunged toward Simon again.

  • He was simply a living creature in a grim and unconquered world, alone and helpless in the terror of the darkness.

  • It is a positive treat to see a living creature of any kind.

  • Yesterday I walked through the most promising valleys for eight hours, but did not see a living creature; yet there is a very fair show of vegetation, much more than at Melville Island, where the game is abundant.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    already intimated; beef cattle; cannabis indica; commonly known; favourite resort; free school; living animal; living animals; living being; living body; living creatures; living faith; living forms; living matter; living nature; living room; living soul; living standards; living thing; living wage; living waters; nine feet; quartz rock; shall prepare; when full; with the result that