A good endearing creature she was.

Pilot whales are endearing creatures, as anyone who has been involved in their rescue will testify.

"She's a lovely, helpful and terribly endearing creature," said Robert Pincus-Witten, director of the gallery.

A distinguished biologist's group portrait of "the most endearing creatures I have ever seen" and a catalogue of human bungling that may guarantee the extinction of the wild panda.

This endearing creature has a special place in our countryside lore; in the past, it was believed to suckle from sleeping cows, to be immune to snake bites, and to pick up fallen apples by rolling on them.

I looked down at this endearing creature and saw in my mind's eye a vision of a side of bacon.

Sea World has more than 300 of the clumsy, endearing creatures, who frolic in a man-made reconstruction of their Antarctic home, complete with an icy beach, rocky outcroppings and a gelid swimming area.

An endearing creature with curly ringlets instead of fur, the Mimicke Dog was featured in Edward Topsell's seventeenth-century Historie of Foure-Footed Beasts.

Blanding's turtles are awkwardly endearing creatures with black speckled shells and yellow necks.

One of the most endearing and lovely creatures in the galaxy, friend of my youth, companion to man.