Слово "creature". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

You might have hesitated to let him remove your appendix, but you could not have imagined a more delightful creature to drink a glass of wine with.

The kindest creature!

Harry Potter, you must leave. You are known to many creatures here.

He threw off his pack and went into the rush-grass on hands and knees, crunching and munching, like some bovine creature.

He was a weak, ailing, little creature, and did not dream of disobeying this command.

She sat down in the third row, and when Gurov looked at her his heart contracted, and he understood clearly that for him there was in the whole world no creature so near, so precious, and so important to him; she, this little woman, in no way remarkable, lost in a provincial crowd, with a vulgar lorgnette in her hand, filled his whole life now, was his sorrow and his joy, the one happiness that he now desired for himself, and to the sounds of the inferior orchestra, of the wretched provincial violins, he thought how lovely she was.

“The more of those terrible creatures that are killed the better, at all events,” said John Mangles, “so let’s seize the chance, and it will not only give us a little diversion, but be doing a good action.”

Now the leg would be cut off at the knee, now at the hip; now he was a monstrous kind of a creature who had never had but the one leg, and that in the middle of his body.