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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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Etymology of 'Creature comforts'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Creature comforts" Quotes from Famous Books

... of the Menagier's book is concerned, however, not with the theoretical niceties of wifely submission, but with his creature comforts. His instructions as to how to make a husband comfortable positively palpitate with life; and at the same time there is something indescribably homely and touching about them; they tell more about the real life of a burgess's wife than a hundred tales of Patient Griselda ...

— Medieval People • Eileen Edna Power

... creature comforts. His tie was hanging outside his waistcoat, and his complexion was like white pasteboard that has got wet. "Courage," said I. "It ...

— Certain Personal Matters • H. G. Wells

... "no song, no supper;" but of supper—or, rather, dinner—and no song. Bermondsey had failed in the artistic combat, not from lack of powers, as its brilliant part in the duet and its subsequent soli proved, but simply from a Sybaritic love for creature comforts. I ventured to suggest it might have been expedient to remove the seed, but was informed that, under those circumstances, the creature—its proprietor called it an uglier name—would not have sung at all. The remarkable part of the business ...

— Mystic London: - or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis • Charles Maurice Davies

... of creature comforts I spake,' answered the Covenanter, regarding Major Melville with something like a smile of contempt; 'howbeit, I thank you; but the people remained waiting upon the precious Mr. Jabesh Rentowel, for the outpouring of ...

— Waverley • Sir Walter Scott

... of the fast-days—a cold, bleak one, too—Father Foley, a popular and genial priest, on his way from a distant visitation, dropped in to see Widow O'Brien, who was as jolly as himself, and equally as fond of the creature comforts, and, what is better, well able to provide them. As it was about dinner-time, his reverence thought he would stay and have a "morsel" with the old dame; but what was his horror to see served up in good style a pair ...

— Toasts - and Forms of Public Address for Those Who Wish to Say - the Right Thing in the Right Way • William Pittenger

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