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Rochelle heard them and crept softly into the kitchen, just as Angel turned away.
Then Cole got his first sighter after more good work from the industrious Neill but his shot crept wide of the far post.
A small simper crept onto his lips which soon turned into a grin, showing off a row of perfect teeth.
When we made this dish, it was amazing how many people suddenly crept out of the woodwork, following the mouth-watering cooking smells.
We crept unconfidently down the uneven stairs and I saw that we were the only women.
We are putting pressure on ourselves and a bit of slackness seems to have crept into our defending at times.
Then a book case across the room swung open and a thin, balding, sallow-faced man crept out, shaking slightly with some unfelt cold.
A tingling feeling crept over his form, and an arrogant sneer then crept over his face.
I crept into the shared bathroom, snibbed the doors and tried to make as little noise as possible while showering.
Seldom has a stock market correction crept up with such stealth, and struck before we were braced for the pain.
The departure time slowly crept nearer, and the airlift rumors were solidifying into reality.
He was an uxoricide who had crept up behind his wife one morning and slit her throat.
A burglar who twice crept through a roof space to raid his next-door neighbour's house has been jailed for 15 months.
He crept up on a sentry, given away by the faint flicker of firelight on spired helmet.
After the bunyip returned home, Tyawan crept out of his cave to search for his magic bone.
For hours they crept along ridgelines and bushwhacked their way through stands of elephant grass.
Much later, he crept downstairs and drank from his water dish, but he wasn't his old self and took no notice of me.
Afterwards, she would lie in bed and listen as he crept down the hall and opened the door to my room.
Golden chains crept their way like unkempt vines across dark, mahogany shelves in between elegant cameos and glittering rings.
Out in the forest a steady rustling wind crept through the trees, stalking northwards like a stealthy cat.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Rice crept over the wet strip of gable roof, and entered the window after his sister.
It was as if the somberness of those wind-swept woods had crept into his cabin.
The nose of the freshman boat crept alongside the sophs, whose faces wore a do-or-die look.
The canoe tipped inch by inch, and the boiling water crept up its freeboard.
And the heat crept up from its kingdom in the Plains below and laughed at our boasts of the coolness of our hill station.
He crept out to the ruins by the well, fished out the packet, and a sniper got him.
He crept to where he lay upon the deck, and called to a sailor who rushed by to help him.
Carefully and painfully she drew herself to her knees and, dinging to the rope, crept up the rock hand over hand.
The smaller fry of Channel shipping have crept into dungeness or the Downs.
The forager, who belonged to Si's company, crept up to Corporal Klegg and in a conciliatory tone opened negotiations.
Then, glutted with the feast, he crept away to lick his bruises and recover from the fray.
When it was all shorn off she crept out of the room without opening her eyes.
A silvery creature like a slowworm came crawling out from among them, slowly crossed the clay floor, and crept into the fire.
Down the corridor into which he crept, snakelike on his belly, red light flickered from an open door.
As the blood of Acis crept in a stream from under the rock it grew paler and paler until it turned into water.
Along the denser shadows the three crept to a position in the rear of the natives.
The Angevin, in despair, crept as softly as possible to pick them up, but his persecutors were not yet weary of the sport.
These Worms crept into the nostrils of the cup-bearers so that they all fell asleep.
And into his thoughts now crept a doubt, one that alarmed his sense of justice.
Many were the efforts to reform the abuses which crept into the monastic houses.
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