There are five "china dogs": woolly larger-than-life creatures gathered at the back center of the stage in a sheeplike huddle.

Just outside town, on the A5086, is the Lakeland Sheep and Wool Centre, where you can meet the woolly creatures of the fells up close.

The huge woolly creatures seemed to be making a game of it.

Without it, and fur and fire, she could not have survived; she was not a woolly creature.

Then more of the woolly creatures.

At the end of the line, the swinging carcass, all red and white, looks nothing like the woolly creature it had been just moments ago.

They showed a confusing parade of woolly creatures.

The herd dog yipped and chased the woolly creature into the dispersing fog.

We had three indigo sheep for North House and I still bore as much of the pigment as any woolly creature.

They featured giant fanged woolly creatures from his classic 1963 book, "Where the Wild Things Are."