The object is to keep the creature alive for as long as possible, which can be 12 days or so.

On the other hand, no one can hurt a dragon, because he's the toughest creature alive.

In the aul they found only one alive creature, a red dog.

For a moment it had seemed that Nick and I were the only two creatures alive.

But he goes on to say that the only good thing is that there should be very many creatures alive.

The silence had become so absolute that we might have been the last creatures alive.

Perhaps what had lived on was another creature: the body alive, the spirit flown to the aurora.

It was almost as if I were the last creature alive in the world.

He seemed to be the only creature alive in this immense, empty landscape.

And if any creature alive in this world had wings, it was he.