Even though the children were all able to produce the real plural " glasses " they generally responded two " tass " rather than two " tasses " when shown more than one nonsense creature called a " tass ".

He cites associated problems such as coronary disease related to diet, psychological and social problems stemming from work-related stress and training leading to people being "... softly and persistently hammered into shape until — Pinocchio in reverse — from being a living creature ... becomes for forty hours an insensate puppet ..." and educational systems, which " knock out of the ingenious adolescent all of the ' nonsense ' of the young, this being most of his or her eagerness and ingeniousness ".

On Earth, the man attacked by the Dalek creature is behaving strangely and wanders away mumbling nonsense.

Accompanying this, Philip opined that Nastrond was also " half identified " with the creature Grendel, the antagonist in the Old English poem Beowulf. Philip 1981. p. 36.

In the Poetic Edda poem Grímnismál, Grímnir ( the god Odin in disguise ) comments on the creature.

Then the creature ( named by the colonists as a " grendel " after the character in the poem Beowulf ) attacks the camp in revenge.

A Bandersnatch is a fictional creature from Lewis Carroll's 1872 novel Through the Looking-Glass and 1874 poem " The Hunting of the Snark ".

* a fictional creature created by Lewis Carroll that appears in his poem Jabberwocky.

The term " gremlin " denoting a mischievous creature that sabotages aircraft, originates in Royal Air Force ( RAF ) slang in the 1920s among the British pilots stationed in Malta, the Middle East and India, with the earliest recorded printed use being in a poem published in the journal Aeroplane, in Malta on April 10, 1929.

* Composer Antonín Dvořák wrote a symphonic poem entitled Vodník about this creature, who is also a character in his opera Rusalka.

The Hounds are referred to by the scientific name Pseudocanis tindalosi, which literally means " the false dog of Tindalos ", but most of the characters call them " Bandersnatches " after a creature in Lewis Carroll's poem " Jabberwocky ".

In the poem, Adam wanders the Garden of Eden and is amazed by the peculiarity of the creature.

The Bandersnatch is a fictional creature mentioned in Lewis Carroll's poem Jabberwocky.

I later experienced the truth of that warning, which undressed me, in one gesture, of the illusions of a child educated exotically in the greenhouse of tenderness which is the regime of domestic love, different from what is found outside, so different, that it makes the poem of the maternal love seem to be a sentimental artifice, with the only advantage of making the creature more sensitive to the rude impression of the first teaching, burning search for vitality under the influence of a harsh new weather.

He then takes a heart shaped cookie and holds it to the hollow chest of his lifeless anthropomorphic creation, inspiring him to create the creature Edward Scissorhands.

A mob confronts the " evil creature ", in this case, Edward, at his castle.

While flying over the coast of Shadow Island, Edward and Aline's plane comes under attack by an unknown creature.

The chaplain sent with him to Australia a letter to Reverend Samuel Marsden that said, " Edward Eagar has really become a new creature.

He began with masks to make the dancer identify himself with the creature he appeared to be.

Once covertly looking at Simms Purdew, the only man in the world whom he hated, he had seen the heavy, slack, bestubbled jaw open and close to emit the cruel, obscene banter, and had seen the pale-blue eyes go watery with whisky and merriment, and suddenly he was not seeing the face of that vile creature.

The creature in feathers looked around and David saw the mad eyes, glazed with an insane fear.

From the lioness' point of view, this strange creature on the back of another creature, lashing out with its long thin paw, very likely appeared as something she could not at first cope with.

Until a few weeks ago, however, Arnold Palmer was some god-like creature who had nothing in common with the duffers.

Now, with the increasing interdependence between himself and Mij came a knowledge of an obscure need, that of being trusted implicitly by some creature.

The creature is often described as a flying biped with hooves, but there are many different variations.

The most common description is that of a kangaroo-like creature with the face of a horse, the head of a dog, leathery bat-like wings, horns, small arms with clawed hands, cloven hooves and a forked tail.

Capp followed this success with other allegorical fantasy critters, including the aboriginal and masochistic " Kigmies ," who craved abuse ( a story that began as a veiled comment on racial and religious oppression ), the dreaded " Nogoodniks " ( or bad shmoos ), and the irresistible " Bald Iggle ," a guileless creature whose sad-eyed countenance compelled involuntary truthfulness — with predictably disastrous results.

Some even depict it as a horned, dragon-like creature with a serpent-headed tail and small, round ears, while others have both " necks " of equal size so that it cannot be determined which is the rear head.

Beside each " living creature " is a " wheel within a wheel ," with " tall and awesome " rims full of eyes all around.

* Cyan Wisp is an alien-like creature from Sonic Colors with an attack move called Cyan Laser.

It is supposedly a heavy creature, the size of a small bear, with a row of spines reaching from the neck to the base of the tail.

The alien creature Sil is nearly identical to Tolentino ’ s chupacabra eyewitness account and she had seen the movie before her report: " It was a creature that looked like the chupacabra, with spines on its back and all ...

Most occurrences in ancient literature revolve around the basis of the threat of Cerberus being overcome to allow a living being access to the underworld ; in the Aeneid Cerberus was lulled to sleep after being tricked into eating drugged honeycakes and Orpheus put the creature to sleep with his music.

He hid in a closet with a sword and waited until seeing a fiendish cat-like creature stalk around his niece's bedroom and bite her on the neck.

:" The Beaver is an amphibious creature: by day it lives hidden in rivers, but at night it roams the land, feeding itself with anything that it can find.

* Chimera ( mythology ), a monstrous creature with parts from multiple animals

Gibberish should not be confused with literary nonsense such as that used in the poem " Jabberwocky " by Lewis Carroll.

" Jabberwocky " is a nonsense verse poem written by Lewis Carroll in his 1871 novel Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, a sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

He reviewed the collection of poems for the 2 June 1816 Examiner, and, in his analysis, he attacked the fragmentary nature of the work and argued, " The fault of Mr Coleridge is, that he comes to no conclusion ... from an excess of capacity, he does little or nothing " and that the poem revealed that " Mr Coleridge can write better nonsense verse than any man in English.

** Limerick – a kind of a witty, humorous, or nonsense poem, especially one in five-line

" His most famous poem, " On the Ning Nang Nong ", was voted the UK's favourite comic poem in 1998 in a nationwide poll, ahead of other nonsense poets including Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear.

The Hunting of the Snark ( An Agony in 8 Fits ) is usually thought of as a nonsense poem written by Lewis Carroll ( Charles Lutwidge Dodgson ) in 1874, when he was 42 years old.

Gardner also compiled a companion volume, The Annotated Snark, dedicated to Carroll's classic nonsense poem " The Hunting of the Snark ".

A limerick is a kind of a witty, humorous, or nonsense poem, especially one in five-line

Gerolf Steiner's mock-scientific book about the fictitious animal order Rhinogradentia ( 1961 ), inspired by Morgenstern's nonsense poem Das Nasobēm, is testament to his enduring popularity.

However, the anapaest's most common role in English verse is as a comic metre, the foot of the limerick, of Lewis Carroll's poem The Hunting of the Snark, Edward Lear's nonsense poems, T. S. Eliot's Book of Practical Cats, a number of Dr. Seuss stories, and innumerable other examples.

* India — the humorist and children's author Sukumar Ray, in his nonsense poem " Abol tabol ", had a character ( Uncle ) with a Rube Goldberg-like machine called " Uncle's contraption ".

" The Purple Cow " ( the full title was " The Purple Cow: Reflections on a Mythic Beast Who's Quite Remarkable, at Least "), an illustrated four-line poem that appeared in the first number of The Lark, was to remain the ne plus ultra of nonsense verse that Burgess would spend his life unsuccessfully attempting to surpass.

Vorpal sword is a phrase used by Lewis Carroll in his nonsense poem " Jabberwocky ".

Jabberwocky, a poem ( of nonsense verse ) found in Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll ( 1871 ), is a nonsense poem written in the English language.

' The Cummerbund ' is also a nonsense poem by Edward Lear, fully titled ' The Cummerbund, a poem from India ', where it refers to the cummerbund as a ferocious woman-eating beast.

The snark is a fictional animal species created by Lewis Carroll in his nonsense poem The Hunting of the Snark.

" Jabberwocky " is an 1872 nonsense poem by Lewis Carroll, about an encounter between a young boy and a monster called the Jabberwock.

A well-known children's poem for which she is noted is the literary nonsense verse Eletelephony.

The poem ends with a vision of the apocalypse of nonsense: