But Pelle's body creaks whenever he moves; his bones are growing and seeking to stretch themselves; he feels growth and restlessness in every part and corner of his being.
He grips the back of a chair; the chair creaks and breaks] But the most disgusting thing of all is that this crocodile for some reason or other imagines that its chef d'oeuvre, its privilege and monopoly, is its tender feelings.
He snatches at the back of a chair; the chair creaks and breaks] Devil take it, how I'm smashing up your furniture!
All fairly erudite persons know you cannot do the thing you threaten: and it is notorious that the weakest wheel of every cart creaks loudest.
Illustration: Carriers walking by the side of their lumbering, bullock-drawn pedati, which creaks along the sun-scorched roads.
But they only beat her back, for she rides gracefully, faltering timidly with frightened creaks and groans, whilst the waters shiver her frail bulwarks with their cruel message of destruction, which might mean her very death-rattle.
There were the rats and mice, and cats and owls, and creaks and cracks--no quiet about the place from night to morning.
And now it creaks and creaks and snaps in the night.
A gleaming line of blazing torches and twinkling lanterns wave along the quiet streets and through the opened fields, and the snow creaks hoarsely under the tread of a hundred men.
The creaks came nearer—down, down, down, until quite suddenly they stopped, and I heard a cough.
Bertha was crying bitterly, and told us she had again heard creaks in the room, just as if someone was getting out of bed to murder her.
The ice, just forming into sheets, creaks and cracks as the rising or falling tide strains it along the shore; fragments, falling loose upon it, skid across the surface with the ringing sound which travels so far.
Any one who has seen a pond in winter, when the ice round the edge is rotten and when a breeze blows across it, is aware how the loose sheet which covers the centre creaks and groans as it is driven against the bank.
Though wind creaks startled him again and again as he made a pedestal of faded books for his searchlight and directed its glaring circle upon the blackened wall of the fireplace, no dreaded hand upon the knob disturbed him.
The house was big and old and abandoned for the most part to creaks and dust and cobwebs.
Another time the Sunball sent her to bring him a pair of sandals, and as the girl carried these in her hand she began to lament, saying: 'As creaks the leather so creaks my heart after my little mother.
Each bucket of iron at the wells of the farmyards, Each bucket and pulley, itcreaks and it wails; By cisterns of farmyards, the pulleys and pails They creak and they cry, The whole of sad death in their melancholy.
I found myself listening, heard some creaks about, nothing more than you can generally hear in a house in the dead of night, and I was thinking of going to sleep again, when all at once I seemed to scent violets somewhere.
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