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noun

Creature n.

Anything created; anything not self-existent; especially, any being created with life; an animal; a man. "He asked water, a creature so common and needful that it was against the law of nature to deny him." "God's first creature was light." "On earth, join, all ye creatures, to extol Him first, him last, him midst, and without end." "And most attractive is the fair result Of thought, the creature of a polished mind."

A human being, in pity, contempt, or endearment; as, a poor creature; a pretty creature. "The world hath not a sweeter creature."

A person who owes his rise and fortune to another; a servile dependent; an instrument; a tool. "A creature of the queen's, Lady Anne Bullen." "Both Charles himself and his creature, Laud."

A general term among farmers for horses, oxen, etc.

Creature comforts, those objects, as food, drink, and shelter, which minister to the comfort of the body.

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"Creature comforts" Quotes from Famous Books

... Not that John objects to this. He wishes she would do it oftener, for the cook gets used to Mr. Brown's second-hand version of his wife's language. He simply cannot bring himself to hint at Mrs. Brown's robust objurgations. She can express herself when it comes to a question of her creature comforts! ...

— The Daughters of Danaus • Mona Caird

... brotherly part of a foil. There were several stray visitors, young men and maidens, there were always stray visitors in those days at Ridinghanger, and your grandmother, rosy and bright-eyed, maintained a gentle flow of creature comforts and kindly but humorous observations. I do not remember your grandfather on this ...

— The Passionate Friends • Herbert George Wells

... ideas, however, was nothing averse to the thought of getting back to the creature comforts of the permanent camp in ...

— The Girl Aviators on Golden Wings • Margaret Burnham

... drawing-room in winter what a whiff of salt air is in summer to a sun-baked hillside; and this proved almost too much for the self-possession, already tottering, of young Nisbet. He had always been accustomed to have the things he desired, had young Nisbet, but these, until now, had been either creature comforts, readily obtainable when one's father is a multi-millionaire, or athletic honors, equally easy of attainment when one measures forty-two around the chest, and can do one's quarter in something under fifty. Again, the Nisbets lived on a ranch, and when one does ...

— The Lieutenant-Governor • Guy Wetmore Carryl

... with a certain sense of guilt upon him, for depriving her of all the creature comforts she had known, sought by tenderness and love to make her forget the insults her father ...

— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 5 (of 14) • Elbert Hubbard

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