Initial dog selections centered on helpful behavior such as barking at unfamiliar creatures and people, guarding livestock, or hunting game.

The skeletons of strange and unfamiliar creatures lay curled at the bottoms of several large jars on the huge, stone table.

Only his prior practice in visualizing unfamiliar creatures in terms of familiar ones had enabled him to grasp their nature at all.

It was like being on another planet: one with unfamiliar creatures, strange sounds and smells, and where the sun was just another speck in the Milky Way.

Caught in his arms, she became almost spellbound, voluptuous but never quite yielding to the grasp of this unfamiliar creature.

The light swiftly became a living thing, an entirely unfamiliar creature flapping towards him on huge butterfly wings almost thirty feet across.

The scent at length led it to an unfamiliar female creature who sat, a voluminous greatcoat swept tight around her.

Odo perceived the unfamiliar creature not by way of his own senses, but via those of the Great Link.

But I can not relate readily to unfamiliar creatures, and have extreme difficulty getting into the minds of strange human beings.

The child is presented with a drawing of an unfamiliar creature, often blue and bird-like, and told, "This is a wug."