1 She learned her lesson this time, poor creature; she learned it ten times over.
2 It was an enormous big boy, and Ona was such a tiny creature herself, that it seemed quite incredible.
3 It took him quite a while to get over his alarm at the incredible shortness of the little creature's legs.
4 Jadvyga did not know what had become of the poor creature; she would have gone to see her, but had been sick herself.
5 This happened to him every time, for Jurgis was still a creature of impulse, and his pleasures had not yet become business.
6 In front was a big pan which caught these creatures, and two more women who seized them as fast as they appeared and twisted them into links.
7 Elzbieta was one of the primitive creatures: like the angleworm, which goes on living though cut in half; like a hen, which, deprived of her chickens one by one, will mother the last that is left her.
8 Once crowded in here, the creatures were prisoned, each in a separate pen, by gates that shut, leaving them no room to turn around; and while they stood bellowing and plunging, over the top of the pen there leaned one of the "knockers," armed with a sledge hammer, and watching for a chance to deal a blow.
9 To attend to all this and fill several hundred cans of lard per hour, there were necessary two human creatures, one of whom knew how to place an empty lard can on a certain spot every few seconds, and the other of whom knew how to take a full lard can off a certain spot every few seconds and set it upon a tray.