The circuit of the island was completed, and they now crept up quietly to the verge of the cliff behind the spiked stakes.
There was a savage of another tribe in the quarry, and they crept on all fours, taking great pains that he should not see them.
With these he mingled the alchemic signs for fire and air and water, and so by the time the dusk crept into the parlour and filled it with shadow he had completed a manuscript.
Bevis did not answer: he crept cautiously out on the top which vibrated under him; then suddenly seizing a lissom bough, he slipped off and let himself down.
Pan crept from one to the other; he could not get enough patting, he wanted to be continually spoken to and stroked.
Keeping Pan close at their heels, they stole along the path to the stockade, then crept up behind it to the gateway, and suddenly burst in.
Returning inside, Mark stooped and examined Pan, who had crept at their heels.
But when he stabbed at it with his spear it did not move; and theycrept through without hurt.
He drew his other knee on, crept down on the bottom of the punt, and covered himself with two sacks, which were intended to hold sand.
Shoot--shoot there," shouted Mark, as the dogcrept whining towards them.
But they crept like skirmishers, dragging the catamaran laboriously behind them, using every undulation of the ground to hide themselves, till they had got it into the hollow, where they left it beside a heap of stones.
The next moment he crept back through the fence and before he was through something hurled itself against the stockade behind him with such force that the fence shook.
During the frost a blackbird had roosted in a corner of the hut under the rafters, sparrows too had sought its shelter, and wrens and blue-tits had crept into the crevices of the eaves.
Bevis held Pan while Mark crept forward from tree-trunk to tree-trunk till he was near enough, when he put the heavy barrel against a tree, in the same way Bevis had done.
I said to myself, and I crept back into my room, bolting the door after me, that the girl might not be horrified and ashamed when she awoke.
But when she was in bed he crept to her and said, "I am tired, I want to sleep as well as thou; lift me up or I will tell thy father.
When I crept out of the shrubbery the sun was near its setting.
At last it began to be very sultry; the sun's rays darted down upon the pavement like burning arrows, people crept into their houses, the blinds everywhere were closed, and the street became once more silent and dead.
And when the old folks had fallen asleep, he got up, put on his coat, opened the door below, and crept outside.
Every morning the woman crept to the little stable, and cried, "Haensel, stretch out thy finger that I may feel if thou wilt soon be fat.
Seeing a dim light in the upper story where she resided, and following its lead, he crept softly along on the stairway, until he reached the room from which a low sound issued.
Here the little reader paused, and crept to her mother's side.
Soon the bushes and the grass crept inwards over his fields.
No sooner had he seen it than he scrambled silently, but with difficulty, over the barricade of the stump fence, and crept cautiously round the trees to get a clearer view.
Gabriel and eight other men crept inside the scaffolding, raising the cloth with which its sides were covered.
Adela gave a little suppressed scream, and ashamed of the weakness, crept away to her sofa-corner.
While they were busy with this most shadowy of games, nearly all the Shadows crept down stairs again to the dining-room, where the old man still sat, gnawing the bone of his own selfishness.
Adela had crept back to her corner, where she sat shading her eyes, and listening.
There was no light in the little house and no sound from it as they crept stealthily along the bank to the tree where the boat was tied.
On the Union train, Tom had crept back to the rear car along the rolling, jumping carroofs, with orders to set it on fire and stand ready to cut it off.
He and Rose crept upstairs, carrying the sooty bit of burlap with them, and slept through what was left of the night.
A flush almost as red as that of youth crept across his pale cheeks and a mistcrept into his eyes.
The two men crept upstairs early the next morning.
Then, warned by approaching daylight, the less fortunate in the fight for freedom put back the bricks and crept stealthily upstairs, resolved to try their luck the next night, if the tunnel were not before that discovered.
Finally, however, spurred by hunger, they crept out of their hiding-place and found it was Sairey who was calling them.
The wall of the Embankment was lined with people, leaning over to catch the languid breeze that crept up with the tide.
They sat in the cool silence until the lights of the returning taxicabs and motor-cars became more frequent, until the stars crept into the sky and the yellow arc of the moon stole up over the tops of the houses.
The sense of horror against which he had been struggling during the last few hours, crept once more through the whole being of the man who listened.
I crept back into my room, took off my clothes and got into bed.
There was something stealthy and horrible about their movements as they crept around one another.
He fancied himself in some subterranean place of vast dimensions, through the grim galleries of which men and women with evil faces crept like animals.
She did not perceive amid the shadows an old gentleman who had crept into the mouldy place as stealthily as a worm into a skull, and was keeping himself carefully beyond her observation.
After tea Christopher went into the streets, as was frequently his custom, less to see how the world crept on there than to walk up and down for nothing at all.
When Joey crept down again a minute later, Picotee was sitting aloof and silent, and he accordingly singled her out to speak to.
Her heart quaking, Betty scuttled for the narrow side door and crept down the lane, keeping close to the osage orange hedge that made a thick screen for the fence.
Toward this Betty crept cautiously, testing each floor board for creaks before she trusted her whole weight to it.
Betty stealthily crept out of bed and ran to her door.
She crept on all fours towards the rock on which Alice lay, in such a manner that it came between her person and the savage.
A glance of surprise crossed his dark visage as he crept to the edge of the underwood and saw the schooner at anchor in the bay.
At last he went down on his hands and knees and crept forward for a considerable distance in that position, until he reached a ledge of rocks that overhung the shore of the bay.
The cry was instantly replied to, and in a few minutes a boat crept noiselessly towards the shore, seeming, in the uncertain light, more like a shadow than a reality.
There were inside some comfortable seats, and a fireplace, and table, and some wild flowers in a cup; and on the floor were patches of sunshine that had crept through the leaves, and made the room look only cooler and shadier.
What the future had in store she could not tell, but she fed the birds at the window, and the mouse that now crept out to her in the daytime and not only when dusk fell.
A tiny shadow crept up toward the white fingers and took crumbs.
He crept over, drew out the letter skilfully, and returned.
She always waited until the shadows crept around to the eastern side of the house; they were here now, so, filling her pitcher, she stepped out.
She sat and listened to the wonder of his love; then, frightened at the might of it, the lovely reverence of it, crept into his arms for sweet comfort.
Old poisons that had spoiled his life in many ways and that he thought he had conquered crept back to tyrannize over him.
So I crept back to the town and slept in the straw of a barn I found open.
For the first time since his entrance into the room a suggestion of sweetness crept into his tone.
Mr. Ransom flushed hotly and crept softly back to his post.
With that he went to work happily to make up a bed to suit him, and by the time the first Black Shadow had crept as far as the big maple tree, Happy Jack was curled up fast asleep in his new house.
Here it is almost Thanksgiving and--" Striped Chipmunk stopped and scratched his head, while a funny little pleased look crept into his face.
He was glad that it was almost morning, and just as soon as it was light enough to see, he crept out.
Something like shame that such a little fellow as Tommy Tit should dare to go where he did not, crept into Happy Jack's heart.
Then they stared at each other, and gradually a foolish, a very foolish look crept over each face.
Then he crept back to the stair, but his boatmen were not waiting for him.
And as they crept through the tangled growth, the man they sought was in peril more deadly than their filigreed arrows.
Saul had crept to this place in the darkness, while his army slept, to learn what fate awaited him in the morrow's battle.
At Beit Jin, where nobody had interfered with him, he crept out of his tent at dead of night and shot at what he took to be an Arab lying on a rock, some distance away, planning evil.
Then he crept downward to the raw steps again, then picked up his agile heels and flew.
Myself again I crept within, Scanned with keen care The temple where She'd shone, but could not find her there.
A note of uncertainty, almost fear, had crept into the boy's voice.
But when she saw him stop and finger the books on the little table by the window, she crept back to her kitchen--and rattled still more loudly the pots and pans in the sink.
But the light had died from his face and a slow red had crept to his forehead.
At one minute past two Susan crept to the door of Keith's room and pushed it open softly.
First of all, he creptup to the frowning aperture, and looked in.
Leaving Felix lying in a little hollow, getting his breath after the last fierce climb, Tom crept forward.
With each foot that he crept out on that bending limb, he felt that his chances for escaping those cruel claws in an encounter with their angry owner grew less and less.
The shell crept up-stream between banks sprinkled with spectators, hurrying, in most cases, toward the finish line or some midway point of vantage.
A little breeze crept up the slope from the campus and stirred the brown locks over Trevor’s forehead.
But his appeals were vain, and after a while he creptdejectedly upstairs and back into his cold and Muggins-less bed, wondering, sorrowful, fearful of the morrow.
The little chilling breezes that had been ruffling the blue waters of the Hudson had crept away in the track of winter, and the valley was green with fresh verdure and warm with the spring sunshine.
Then the clock gathered its hands together at the figure XII, and Trevor crept sleepily but protestingly to bed and dropped into heavy slumber the moment his head touched the pillow.
She crept softly out of the window, speaking to Rags in a whisper, and the dog leaped lightly out after her.
And as they plowed along, Leslie was horrified to notice that the tide had crept almost up to the level of the old log and was within sixty feet of the bungalow.
Wet through at last, but happy, she crept noiselessly indoors and went to her own room on the opposite side of the big living-room from her aunt's.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "crept" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
