fellow-monsters

Updated: August 22, 2026

The human race, which in its earliest, incapable childhood easily managed to dispose of the mammoth and his huge fellow-monsters, still stands helpless before the little mosquito, deadliest of VISIBLE animals on earth.

Arthur Brisbane - Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers

For were they senseless as their fellow-monsters of the sea, they durst not profane so pure an excellence as thine; the sullen boars would jouder out a welcome to thee, and gape, I and wonder at thy awful beauty, though they want the tender sense to know to what use it was made.

Aphra Behn - Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister