The industry is still a 'creature of' the 1930s. [=it began in the 1930s and has not changed]
They say that these forests are filled with wild 'creatures'. [='beasts']
I'm a 'creature of habit'. [=I always do the same things in the same way]
(..) - Make for the lower ground! - That's it! Go on! - Stay together! Bring your pretty face to my ax. That one counts as mine! Stinking creature. (..)2002 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers