MAN, who creeps on the ground with hands and feet when an infant, walks upright in the vigor of manhood, and leans upon a staff in old age.
His lips suck at my open window, And his breath creeps about my body And lies in pools under my knees.
Do you hear the light, light foot, the faint sweet laughter Happy stir and murmur of a child that plays: Slowly the darkness creeps up from floor to rafter, Slowly the fallen snow covers all the ways.
Then he came back again quietly with heavy, dragging steps, as a wounded animal creepsslowly to its lair after a severe and deadly fight.
He creeps into a house quietly, like a scorpion, but goes out again with an ostentatious noise.
Further, the exposed portion of the body is covered with a leathery mantle, and the animal creeps on a broad, flattened surface which is called the foot.
Filled with the thoughts of love was Evangeline's heart, but a secret, Subtile sense crept in of pain and indefinite terror, As the cold, poisonous snake creeps into the nest of the swallow.
Then weariness creeps over the spirits: and an old age, that is indeed learned but in rags,[345] curses itself and the Muses that it courted.
The Grass creeps up all in between the stones And raises undisturbed its luscious green And laughs for youth in shrill and ringing tones.
PETER (holding on to the wall, creeps out into the porch and calls with a faint voice).
TÁNYA knocks, plays on the guitar and the accordion, and then creeps under the sofa.
Already morn has touched the painted windows; The yellow dawncreeps down the storied panes; Already, in the early solemn twilight, The sanctuary's taper softly wanes.
Is it the ivy as it creeps Against the gray church tower?
The condition of the savage hardly admits of but one choice; but as one rises higher in the scale of civilization and creeps nearer to the great centers of activity, the difficulty of a correct decision increases with its importance.
Scott used to caution youth against the habit of dawdling, which creeps in at every crevice of unoccupied time and often ruins a bright life.
To this moment my flesh creeps when I think of the yell the villains set up when I stumbled among them, and the audacity with which they heaped on my devoted head their upbraidings, menaces, and maledictions.
Let us make now Man in our image, Man In our similitude, and let them rule Over the fish and fowl of sea and air, Beast of the field, and over all the Earth, And every creeping thing that creeps the ground.
Then the music creeps out of the chancel,--the faint, sweet air of an old English wedding-march.
When the wind creeps through the cracks in the casements and stirs their musty pages, one can almost fancy that they are whispering to the ghosts of the long ago.
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.
Even a muskrat will creep out of his bed when cold, wet water creeps in.
The life that creeps up between its broken flagstones, the life that trails so impudently across the path, the life that spawns in the forgotten pond--this has a fascination beyond the hand of gardeners.
With man accounted for, night sighs its completion and creeps to the west.
Whenever you fiddle you just give me the jim-jams, with the creepsgoing up and down my back; and what's worse, I always have to blow my nose when you get through.
The swimming vapour slopes athwart the glen, Puts forth an arm, and creeps from pine to pine, And loiters, slowly drawn.
Cursed be that book, or tract, or human counsel, which creeps in between us and the Bible, and hides the Bible from our eyes!
Misery stands out in his poems: misery creeps out in his letters.
The other creeps and crawls all his days, and never thoroughly understands the riches of his inheritance.
