Remember, too, it was dawn and the watch-wher, being a nocturnal beast, blind by day- light, is relieved of responsibility at dawn and knows it.

Reykir realized her eyes were in pain, as she was flying in the daylight, an unnatural environment for a nocturnal beast.

Curious noises that might be the hoot of owls or the distant calls of nocturnal beasts.

Tatzel looked off down the gully where a nocturnal beast had caused a rustling among the leaves.

The Trak sign stirs like a nocturnal beast, and bursts into blue flame.

I had depended most, however, upon our fire, feeling that none of the dangerous nocturnal beasts of prey would venture close to the flames.

They probably represent not nocturnal beasts but members of the species of Homo sapiens out for a night on the town.

As the sun went down, Photogen left to hunt the nocturnal beast, violating the witch's constraint.

I imagined him wandering like a nocturnal beast, selecting and stalking until he struck and savaged again and again.

The sun had set and dusk, like some nocturnal beast, had crept out of hiding and was stealthily licking its paws.