In the novel, the monster is identified via words such as creature, monster, fiend, wretch, vile insect, daemon, being, and it.
en.wikipedia.org A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.
en.wikipedia.org The yuan-ti employ these wretches as watchers over egg-broods and other demeaning tasks.
en.wikipedia.org The fickle goddess treated her passing lovers cruelly, and the unhappy wretches usually paid dearly for the favours heaped on them.
en.wikipedia.org The wretches are people crushed, looked down, excluded by the society, they are real miserables.
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