In some ways, I think it's inaccurate to call this a spiderlike creature.

The cat (if one may call so fearful a creature by so homely a name) was not more than ten feet from me.

'I'm not what you might call a creature of time,' said Susan.

We will not call such a lovely young creature as that, who is a joy to all mankind, an orphan.

Was he at last to cease to be what Harbin Fashnalgid had called a creature of the system?

Had he really called me a 'delicious creature'?

Besides, to call a lover a perjured creature is to encourage him.

I can call you a stupid, unwise creature whose sense is no more than the sound of a winter wind in a hollow tree.

Take me down, Polly, and see if they don't call me 'a sweet creature.'

But why am I calling him a creature?