Centaurs were supposed to be the most brilliant and consistent creatures of Xanth, but her belief in this had been shaken.
If this were true, then they may be, in effect, a single mind with millions of bodies-a brilliant creature, but lacking the speed of independent.
They had been pond scum, and later stolen the forms of brilliant, creative creatures, and all the ranges of life between, creeping slowly across the universe.
"He's a brilliant creature of the inside, a man who can help educate the President."
On Oscar Wilde, for example: "Oscar was a brilliant creature neither more nor less 'masculine' than any other man."
He was a brilliant creature, I don't think anyone ever denied that, and everyone prophesied from the beginning that he would go far.
The brilliant charming creature who had lived so well and so long was no more.
He thought how much the brilliant creatures would love it when the sky was open and they could skim about over bright water again.
A lovely, brilliant creature posed on a rock to watch him crawl toward it.
In the pet shop, I watched two brilliant green creatures for a long time.