They were obliged to creep for a long time through trackless woods, and at every step to struggle with briers, which generally proved a bloody contest.
We boys used to travel far up and down the bottom, trying to creep up to the edge of the bank, or to the puddles of water, where the different birds sat, to get close enough to kill them with our arrows.
You shall be like the wolf; you shall be able to creep close to your enemies, and they shall not see you; you shall be a great man for surprising people.
If you have to go to the top of the hill, because you wish to see the country, creep carefully up some ravine, and show yourself as little as possible.
Let us creep down this ravine, and get among the bushes, and perhaps we can kill one of these elk.
If he did, perhaps he will creep down there to-night, hoping to kill us; and if there were several persons they may go down there and surround those bushes.
Fine fellows these, with good chests and arms, well-knit and gracefully poised by habitually having to creep and crouch, and run and fight.
I crawled towards the left flank and tried to creep slowly away.
Yes--send the black scout on at once to creep forward far in advance of the column, and tell him to come back and give us full warning of how near we are to the enemy.
They took us last night as we were trying to creepthrough their lines to come to you for help.
The Boers are making a great attack on the fort, and you two must try and creep out while the sentries are listening to the firing.
I started violently and tried to creep away; but my head began to swim with terrible giddiness on attempting to move.
As I laughed his eyes opened wider and wider, and the corners of his mouth began to creep back farther and farther till they nearly disappeared.
Creep up as close as you can, and then come and warn us.
Well, we must wait, for there's nothing to be done but send one or two smart fellows to creepthrough the enemy's ranks in the night, on foot.
And very strangely it sung in the dreary old hawthorn tree, and very cheerily it blew about Curdie, now making him creep close up to the tree for shelter from its shivery cold, now fan himself with his cap, it was so sultry and stifling.
He will know how to bore where he cannot jump, to creep where he must not fly, and so manage his horse that the animal seems to share the intentions and intelligence of its rider.
When Andy reached this small, square hole, cut through a board, he discerned that he could never hope tocreep through it.
Creep along the edge, there, and loop the rope under the end of those side wings.
You hear not even the motion of the worms that creep in, and the worms that creep out, as they feast upon the dead carcase!
Little by little, that imposture had crept into the world, just as the shadows of a stormy night creep without any one being able to note the moment when the first rays of light give way before the dark clouds.
The long shadows began to creep among the rocks they loved so well.
The master, less a child of the woods than Andy, in his excitement had tried to creep closer, and the quick ear of the sentinel had noticed the sound.
He showed me how to creep noiselessly and find paths.
It was surrounded by shrubbery through which he could creep right up to the building, providing, of course, that the sentinels did not see him.
We will creep around And smite them utterly, And smite them utterly.
If you two would agree to stay here, I'll volunteer to creep up back of it and find out," said Jerry.
Evidently they were hungry, and at the time he shot had been trying to creep up on the animal which they yearned to make a meal from.
To this I reply that I have never put myself forward and would have been glad to creep into a corner; they it is who dragged me out by force and cunning.
Well, I'll creep upon my knees to my wife: dost laugh at me?
He could not see them; but, to his horror, he found that the bush was not in a line between him and the water-hole, and he had to creep back.
Come along; you can creep in under the tilt and go to sleep on the boxes.
It requires a steady head, but you can creep along a narrow ledge, and get back to the top here, three or four hundred yards farther on.
At last he was within a few hundred yards of the opening, and he took a fresh curve so as to approach from the farther side, meaning to creep among the rocks and drop down into the hole almost at a bound.
They creep and flit through the trees, coming nearer and nearer, until you look directly into their small innocent faces and could put your hand upon them.
Fleets of mackerel boats and schooners bound for the Banks after cod and haddock creep along the horizon-line.
The only way to do was to go to headquarters for his knowledge of facts; in other words creep along the hall, keeping in the shadows, until he found himself close enough to learn the true nature of the "ghost.
That was all I thought of, to creep away where the fire could not reach me.
She managed to creep to the window and unbar the shutter an inch or two.
She who was almost never alone, clung, I knew, to that tiny refuge, and it was an understood thing between us that I might creep in and sit with her a little after tea, but not before.
Here I laid aside my paddle and thrust the canoe onwards by means of my long pole of white spruce, while Mizpah had nought to do but lean back and watch the shores creep by.
Whereupon, though her back was toward me, I saw a flush creep around to her little ears, and she laid the paddle down something abruptly.
I heard the low change in the note of the tide as the first of the flood began to creep in upon the weeds and pebbles.
And would you have me creep Outside to you, and sweep With you along the steep Of the grey night?
Another to the southwest, called Tronador, the Thunderer, is capped with vast fields of perpetual snow, from which the glaciers creep down to the valleys.
They were fitted to overcome by downright fighting strength a big, slow, self-confident quarry, rather than to run down a swift and timid quarry by speed or creep up to a wary and timid quarry by sinuous stealth.
During perhaps half an hour we three remained in the same position as when first having been awakened, and then Simon Kenton began to creep cautiously out through the underbrush, having first motioned for us to remain quiet.
Ships may creep along the Coast of New Holland to the eastward during the easterly monsoon, when they could not make any progress in the mid sea, without being much delayed by calms.
He even grew bolder, and began to speculate as to how he might creep closer to the pair.
And, unable to resist the temptation, he began to creep after the two shadowy figures, now almost beyond range of his vision.
And when he started to creep forward, it was with some of the stealth of the cat gliding toward a coveted dinner in the shape of a feeding sparrow.
Honest men do not creep around the house of a rich man at such an hour of the night, and put their heads close together.
