"A very clever creature, your- dog, was it?"

Elizabeth was a modest, clever little creature, and grew up a very pretty girl.

Long ago some clever creature had carved the details of the otters' faces into the stone, giving them a very lifelike appearance.

Yes, parents were clever creatures, he decided.

Sure enough, the clever creature snorted and plunged in, quickly retrieving the halfling's sculpture.

A clever little creature which has received my instructions.

Michael had a sense that he pushed along behind a much cleverer creature and could not keep up.

"She is a clever little creature; let her worry about her own soul."

"I was amazed by them because they are such clever creatures of the sea," Popov said, his voice growing hushed and respectful.

For clever creatures, the rats could be amazingly stupid at times.