crature

It is consarning one Miss Batirton, of Notingam; a very pretty crature, belike.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

The bunyip sounds like a crature that I have come across in folktales, but I unfortunately can't place the region off the top of my head.

languagehat.com: BUNYIP. 2004

Oh, the excess of delight the widow experienced in speaking of Barry to one of her gossips, as the ‘poor misfortunate crature!’

The Kellys and the O'Kellys 2004

'Have ye the laste little trace of aniseed in the house that you could drench the crature with the way the houn's would folly him?'

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-02-04 Various

Judge Whiting, I had the axe round me neck by the climbin 'strap, and I got it in me fingers when we heard the crature comin', and against his chist I set it, and I gave him a shove that sint him over.

Her father`s daughter 1921

"Ye'll have the pore crature that worried it'll set up barkin ', an' if the misthress did know, there be's a dawg in the house, she'd likely just throw a fit an 'die."

Explorers of the Dawn Mazo De la Roche 1920

An 'the half-breed crature -- she might ha' come from Patagony.

Wild Youth, Volume 1. Gilbert Parker 1897

An 'the half-breed crature -- she might ha' come from Patagony.

The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

An 'the half-breed crature -- she might ha' come from Patagony.

Wild Youth, Complete Gilbert Parker 1897

Judge Whiting, I had the axe round me neck by the climbin 'strap, and I got it in me fingers when we heard the crature comin', and against his chist I set it, and I gave him a shove that sint him over.

Her Father's Daughter Gene Stratton-Porter 1893