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  • noun Obsolete spelling of creature.

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Examples

  • "O Isabel," he said, "when you're like this, same as you are to-night, there ain't a livin 'creatur' that's as nice as you be."

    Country Neighbors Alice Brown 1902

  • In general, the bee-hunters keep back till August, for they think it better to commence work when the creatures "-- this word Ben pronounced as accurately as if brought up at St. James's, making it neither" creatur '"nor" creatOOre "--" to commence work when the creatures have had time to fill up, after winter's feed.

    Oak Openings James Fenimore Cooper 1820

  • Never did eyes of mine gaze on as glorious a lookin 'creatur' as you be yourself, at this very moment!

    The Deerslayer James Fenimore Cooper 1820

  • "Well, 'Lizabeth never showed her face outside her door for more'n a month afterwards, and a more pitiful-lookin' creatur 'you never saw than she was when she come out to prayer-meetin' the night Sally Ann give her experience.

    Aunt Jane of Kentucky Eliza Calvert Hall

  • She resumed, with increasing fury, "Oh! coward, still more 'creatur' than coward!

    Mysteries of Paris — Volume 02 Eug��ne Sue 1830

  • Isabella Rossellini's eight-part short film series about the sex life of insects and various creatur...

    Giveaway — ‘The Green’ Messenger Bag 2009

  • Liek ai sayd, daffinishun ov cat is creatur alwais awn rong sied ov dore!

    Inside kitty wants out - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • You are Basement Cat, creatur of all things bad, confoozing, trubblesum, frustratin and EBIL!

    I can’t help but think - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • “Please may I” — the spirit of that little creatur, and the way he kept his rising tears down! — “please, dear pa — may I — kiss Norah before I go?”

    The Holly-Tree 2007

  • “Please may I” — the spirit of that little creatur, and the way he kept his rising tears down! — “please, dear pa — may I — kiss Norah before I go?”

    The Holly-Tree 2007

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