Meanings of active creature in English

Out of the ideal world, man is reduced to be the active creature of sensation.

He was a brisk, active creature, about middle height, with jet black hair, and a quick circulation.

The girl Megan seemed the only active creature-drawing cider and passing with the jugs from cask to table.

I tried in vain to catch the active creature, who was soon joined by others of his abominable race.

All biochemical reactions on Jupiter must be low-energy ones-there'sjust no way an active creature could generate enough power to function.'

She now sought to soothe her feelings by tickling the chin of the black kitten- aprocessto which that active creature submitted with purring satisfaction.

Moreover, these active creatures have the same functions as Coleoptera, and thus render their existence unnecessary.

This could not have prevented either monkeys or snakes, or such active creatures as tiger-cats, from robbing their stores.