But the small red chested bluebird - the more common blue jay is blue with a white stripe - is a passive creature.

Mrs. Eversley was a passive creature, quite content to take things as they came and after so long an absence from civilization, to bide a little longer among savages.

But it was hard to take my eyes away from the cold and passive creature on the bed, who was staring at us with total vindictiveness.

The reason why people tend to concentrate on girls' toys is that they are usually designed to turn girls into pretty little passive creatures, or domestic servants.

FOR generations, American shoppers have been passive, long-suffering creatures, dutifully absorbing every whim and fancy that merchandisers cared to throw their way.

Men make the mistake of thinking that because women can't see the sense in violence they must be passive creatures.

On the surface, he is a passive creature.

The centaurs tend to be passive creatures, but become violent if people intrude on their territory too often.

In the Triassic period that followed, the Earth's ecosystem shifted from mostly passive creatures like the clamlike brachiopods to more active predators that searched for their food.

Deer were passive and timid creatures, but these beasts bellowed and snorted and chomped.