A cauldron whose handles were cast in the shape of wild beasts was filled with the broth that would be their first course and bubbled over the fire.

In my hand remained the pattern of the hilt, the twisted, alien shapes of Northern beasts and runes.

Dawn had reached that deceptive stage when small boulders seemed large, bushes took on the shape of mythological beasts and all clouds looked stormy.

Giant crowned figures of men and women in long, ornate robes bowed to the crowd amid the shapes of fanciful beasts.

"I suppose we must take the shapes of beasts?"

"Let us mix the shapes of several beasts, so we will not look like any one of them," proposed the wily old Nome.

His first meeting was with an in-house designer to go over proposed designs for a new line of sterling silver keyrings in the shapes of mythological beasts.

Like clouds, he thought he could make out the shapes of fantastic buildings and beasts, one flowing into another.

His doublet was black with yellow and green embroidery worked into the shapes of fantastic beasts.

The burner has five feet in the shape of beasts, the front parts of which are in the shape of unicorns.