Creatur

Frightened, very frightened, when they first brought her in; it was the first sight of the crowd and the judge, poor creatur.

But it was observed with some irritation in the village, that anybody but a "blind creatur" like Marner would have seen the man prowling about, for how came he to leave his tinder-box in the ditch close by, if he hadn't been lingering there?

I 'm mighty sorry to hear about the poor old creatur; but she 'd served you a long while.