It was useless, they deemed, to enshrine in marble whilst living, the miserable spirit that, after death, might crawl in a crocodile or burrow in a hog.
Besides, if this Coogan has got faith enough to crawl that mile, who knows what might happen--make him crawl.
The passengers crowded up, standing on the seats and arm-rests, to make room for the Flopper to crawl down the aisle, while the porter preceded him to open the doors.
Underneath one edge of the rock was a place just big enough for Peter to crawl in--it was just the place for a nap.
After a long, long time he saw some one very muddy and very wet and very tired crawl out of one of Peter Rabbit's little paths.
Let uscrawl up and take a look into the windows," whispered Dick.
By the time they had managed to crawl to the shore through the mud, the houseboat was a good distance out into the stream.
They continued to go forward, but now the passageway was so small that they had to crawl on their hands and knees.
More care than has yet been taken should be devoted to destroying the eggs laid in the autumn, and also the wingless females, as they crawl up the trees in the spring and autumn to lay their eggs.
Let the cold crawl stiff and gray across the meadow.
It has walls, mud walls, so thick and round that the shrieking wind sweeps past unheard by the dwellers within; and all unheeded the cold creeps over and over the low thatch, to crawl back and stiffen upon the meadow.
He had not the strength or the wit to crawlupon it and make his way to land.
I mean it is the nature of all animals to crawl away, alone, into the forest to die.
A hole just large enough for a man to crawl through is cut close to the bottom on one side, and any superfluous snow inside the igloo is thrown out through this hole.
They simply remove all their clothes and crawlin between the deerskins.
It stood, top down, upon the ground and they were too big to crawl through its barred sides, so they did the best they could and huddled together on top of it.
Oldest Brother, and in some wonderful way the whole twenty-three managed to flutter and crawl and sprawl up the side of the building, where the rain-drops fell past but did not touch them.
It is never easy work to crawl out of one's skin, and the last moulting is the hardest of all.
This was how it happened that one May morning a little girl stood by the sitting-room window in the white farmhouse and watched Miss Polyphemus crawl slowly out of her cocoon.
The Red Fox managed to crawl though, but it was not easy.
I'm going to crawl into one of them," said the Larger Firefly.
That's the tightest place I ever was in," said he softly, "but I always could crawl through a very small hole.
He was kneeling on the floor now, trying to grip his bitten, bleeding fingers into the wall and crawl upwards.
If they have strength enough to crawl into the river and die, they will come to the surface again two days later; but the chances are that they will get under a root, or that in some way you will lose them.
I sank down among the roots regardless of the slime and watched the crocodile crawl deliberately away, with the gallant little dog retreating before him, keeping up a succession of angry barks.
Then he would crawl quietly up the legs of the chair until he reached my shoulder, where he would commence with his cool little fingers to inspect my eyes and nose, and to pick over carefully each hair of my mustache and head.
Recognizing Lepas, he did not kill him, but took him by his leathern girdle and soused him in his bath-tub, until he was so near dead that it took him hours to crawl home.
Leaning from the window I made out the form of a somewhat disreputable urchin, who, dropping upon hands and knees, proceeded to crawl towards me over the grass with a show of the most elaborate caution.
My obvious intention was to crawl out upon the branch until it bent with my weight, and so let myself into, or as near the boat as possible.
My astonishment was not small, to see him crawl into the bed-place I had left, and quietly roll himself up and go to sleep.
I was still weak and ill, and could scarcely crawl about, so I spent the greater portion of my time on my couch.
I found that I could easily crawl up the incline on hands and knees.
It was barely deep enough to allow me to swim had I had strength for the purpose, and crawl I thought I could not.
One of the modes which is adopted for this purpose, is that of allowing a tame snake to crawl over the head, face, and shoulders of the person who is to be curado de cobras, cured of snakes, as they term it.
They appear to be perfectly blind, for they never alter their course to avoid any object until they come in contact with it, and then without turning about they crawl away in an opposite direction.
He crouched, ready to crawl away to privacy, but found himself too late.
You won't postpone telling us, and you won't try to crawl out of it?
I ascended the hill to the flat already spoken of, though it was a very slow process, for owing to the depth of the drifts, which were now increasing rapidly, and the force of the wind, I was compelled to crawl a great part of the way.
Beauty is goodness; ugliness is sin; Art's place is sacred: nothing foul therein May crawl or tread with bestial feet profane.
Just then I saw another man crawl up about ten feet away and reach out and skin a banana and stuff it into his mouth.
They speak always of small animals that crawl about in wounds and bring poison.
Bobby had to crawlon hands and feet under and through thickets.
And at last he crawled up into the high bed that was so much too big for him, and had to crawl out again, because he had forgotten his prayers.
The changers have to crawl over the laps of the others, while the rest sit tight and hold on for all they're worth.
It was horribly lively, and squirmed about in her arms, and wanted to crawl on the floor.
The reason of the wretched captives might have given way but for the gutter that you can crawl along from our room to the girls'.
She recounted all her strange ways, from the hour when she first tried to crawl across the carpet, and her father's look as she worked her way towards him.
When he grew sleepy he wouldcrawl into any snug place he happened to find--sometimes in a hollow stump, or in a pile of rocks, or a haystack.
It occurred to him that if he could only manage to get his left hind-foot free of the mud (that was his lucky foot, you know) perhaps he would be able to crawl out, somehow.
And the hole in the stump is so small that even Peter himself can't crawl through it.
Illustration] Access was had into this improvised grotto by means of a narrow opening, through which it was necessary to crawl on one's hands and knees; the doctor found some difficulty in entering, and the others followed.
I am going to put on the sealskin and crawl over the ice.
The rest of the town consisted of snow huts, into which the Esquimaux crawl through a single opening.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "crawl" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
