Rochelle heard them and crept softly into the kitchen, just as Angel turned away. |
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Then Cole got his first sighter after more good work from the industrious Neill but his shot crept wide of the far post. |
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A small simper crept onto his lips which soon turned into a grin, showing off a row of perfect teeth. |
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When we made this dish, it was amazing how many people suddenly crept out of the woodwork, following the mouth-watering cooking smells. |
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We crept unconfidently down the uneven stairs and I saw that we were the only women. |
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We are putting pressure on ourselves and a bit of slackness seems to have crept into our defending at times. |
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Then a book case across the room swung open and a thin, balding, sallow-faced man crept out, shaking slightly with some unfelt cold. |
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A tingling feeling crept over his form, and an arrogant sneer then crept over his face. |
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I crept into the shared bathroom, snibbed the doors and tried to make as little noise as possible while showering. |
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Seldom has a stock market correction crept up with such stealth, and struck before we were braced for the pain. |
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The departure time slowly crept nearer, and the airlift rumors were solidifying into reality. |
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He was an uxoricide who had crept up behind his wife one morning and slit her throat. |
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A burglar who twice crept through a roof space to raid his next-door neighbour's house has been jailed for 15 months. |
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He crept up on a sentry, given away by the faint flicker of firelight on spired helmet. |
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After the bunyip returned home, Tyawan crept out of his cave to search for his magic bone. |
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For hours they crept along ridgelines and bushwhacked their way through stands of elephant grass. |
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Much later, he crept downstairs and drank from his water dish, but he wasn't his old self and took no notice of me. |
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Afterwards, she would lie in bed and listen as he crept down the hall and opened the door to my room. |
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Golden chains crept their way like unkempt vines across dark, mahogany shelves in between elegant cameos and glittering rings. |
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Out in the forest a steady rustling wind crept through the trees, stalking northwards like a stealthy cat. |
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The stealthy footsteps of a cat crept down the edge of the lane and slunk away behind a stack of barrels. |
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The tap was left running and the steady flow of water crept across the wooden floor. |
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It appeared that a friendly game of gin rummy was not in the offing, and I crept out of the room. |
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I swallowed, feeling the fiery blush that had crept to my cheeks, one of which still had his fingers gently caressing the skin. |
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I felt peaceful and calm for a few moments before the memories crept back into my head. |
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Around him graves crept up the hillside in a mishmash of stone headstones and rotting wooden crosses. |
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Her chest heaved gently to the rhythm of her breathing, but as he crept in further, he had to stifle a scream. |
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Crows crept over the shreds of flesh, silent but for the flapping out of black wings and a few angry caws. |
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At the same time, the mice in the village crept out of their hiding places and took up residence in the empty houses. |
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She turned her head and glared at his motionless face, partially illuminated by pale moonlight that crept through a crack in the curtains. |
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Zoe's illness took her family by surprise and crept into their lives gradually. |
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Between 11 pm last night and 8am this morning the heartless swine crept into our front garden and took it. |
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As the robber was talking, a vaguely humanoid figure leaped from the rooftop of the adjacent building and crept into the bank. |
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I was feeling a bit peaky tonight, and I crept off to bed early, and dropped off, despite the soundtrack burbling away in the background. |
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Blood pearled around the shaft of the arrow, bright red, and swelled there like a parasite until it crept down her cheek. |
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We crept close to a house, knelt into monkey grass or button weed or periwinkle, and looked through the lighted windows. |
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The question may well become one of the degree of unfairness or inaccuracy, and the reason why unfairness and inaccuracy has crept in. |
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There are lots of ways in which inaccuracy could have crept into this final result. |
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Not long after this, at about noon, we heard the elephants feeding in front, and we crept forward. |
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In drama, a dullness has crept in because intellectualism isn't a word you're allowed to utter any more. |
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He crept on narrow planking laid across the ceiling joist of the sanctuary. |
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Valkyrie Three crept forward toward the stairwell door and placed a small stick of plastique polymer explosive. |
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Silently, he crept forward to the edge of a large clearing that was bathed in firelight. |
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The blonde girl's left hand crept up to meet with his own, and their fingers weakly interlocked. |
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I crept silently into the living room, wincing when a hardwood floorboard creaked under my weight. |
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His ethnicity has crept into the dialogue despite the senator's efforts to portray himself as post-racial. |
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If you are not playing as well as you know you can, it could be that a minor fault or two may have crept into your game. |
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He slowly crept up the creaky wooden stairs to the moldy second floor hallway. |
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She carefully crept forward and jumped down a small hole, disappearing into the darkness with a small splash. |
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After signaling everyone to stay outside, I carefully crept back into my room where I heard them discussing, yet again, me. |
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Slowly he crept towards Lana, conscious of his every move, careful not to make a sound. |
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Early the next morning she crept downstairs and picked up the broken pieces of the mirror, drove to the lake and threw them all into the river. |
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She carefully crept down the hall, making sure to avoid the creaky floorboards, towards Jordan's office. |
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He carefully slid out from under the boxes and slowly crept over to the desk, one eye on the door, the other on the bookcases. |
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Quietly, so Chase would not hear her downstairs, she crept over to the window and looked out. |
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Without a sound Elizabeth slipped into the house and carefully crept through the kitchen and then up the stairs. |
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The next day Annabelle crept slowly around the castle, trying to avoid going to see Adrian at all. |
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Slowly darkness crept over and covered her surroundings until nothing but shadows where visible. |
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As the sun crept its way slowly into her view, she saw the same picture reflected in the lake's surface. |
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Exhaustion slowly crept over her and she decided to rest in the parlor so that if her help was needed she'd be ready. |
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I had trouble keeping my eyes off the clock as the time slowly crept forward. |
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The night crept on slowly, bringing with it the orchestra of crickets outside and echoing sounds in the store. |
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Slowly, as June crept on, life began to take on some semblance of normalcy for most of the residents of London. |
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The bedroom door slowly crept opened as the mid-morning sunlight bled into the dingy space. |
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Time crept slowly by as my thoughts flashed over the good day I had enjoyed. |
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Time crept as slowly as the shadow on a sundial and my precious dreams were jigsawed around me. |
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At some points the cave walls crept slowly closer to the path we walked, before steering away again into the distance. |
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Tears slowly crept down her face as she battled between what she saw and what he was saying. |
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Vines crept apace along neighborhood fences, their flowers still opening in the warm mornings. |
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Genie unraveled the huge vines that crept along the wall and revealed a door. |
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Moss has crept between the bricks until it's impossible to distinguish old sections of paving from new. |
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I have borrowed my facts and ideas from odd books, and many errors may have crept in. |
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An error crept into this short report at the proof stage, for which we apologise. |
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That was before errors really crept into their game to deny them two points. |
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An error crept into your table reporting the results of the Scottish Parliamentary Survey. |
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Good practice in data analysis would be random checks against source data to ensure that no errors have crept in during data processing. |
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Although several people worked on the calendar and double-checked all the dates, an error crept in. |
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The thought of him being anything close to a brother to me actually crept me out. |
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A sharp frost crept into relations on June 8, the day the votes were counted in the Nice Treaty referendum and the British general election. |
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A slight smile crept across Merlin's features, and Armando felt worse than ever when he saw the smile transform into a full-face grin. |
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Suspicion crept into my mind and I had a funny feeling that she knew I didn't go to the movies. |
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Once we got there, we crept through the small gap in the overgrown hedges that served as the entranceway. |
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Trepidation crept up my spine as she swam towards me, eyeing me predatorily. |
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Whenever I was with him, guilt crept through my every inch of me, making my skin prickle and hair stand on end. |
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With each step as I crept downstairs, my pair of geta hit the wood like horse hooves on stone. |
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He disappeared in the rear view mirror within a matter of seconds as the speedo crept up to 180 mph on a derestricted stretch of road. |
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But when nostalgia for the old Russian Empire crept in, it became a kind of Great Russian chauvinism. |
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The farm stayed in the family for over 140 years, gradually growing smaller as the town crept around it. |
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A deep growl had crept into my throat, a growl which I had, unfortunately, inherited from my father. |
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The rain stopped and the sun crept out, engulfing the whole garden with its pale gold afternoon light. |
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The entry-level wines of stalwart Australian wineries have crept up in price, and simultaneously slid in quality. |
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A Dutch hoe glides through flowerbeds, uprooting any weeds that have crept in to your planting schemes. |
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A sad look crept onto his face, and a black eyelid slid down to cover his one eye. |
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The flames flickered as another draft rushed past them and a shadow crept along the wall, eyes darting back and forth suspiciously. |
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Anti social behaviour crept into the village when a carload of people arrived on Saturday night, making a racket. |
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Her feet hardly touched the stairs as she gingerly crept up the staircase before coming to a pause on the landing. |
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I crept into the kitchen where I buttered a slice of bread, peeled and quartered a pear, and cut a wedge of decadent Irish cheese. |
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Then she crept up the stairs, avoiding the spots that squeaked, and then snuck to her room, quiet as a mouse. |
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The sun crept over the horizon, spreading radiant golden light across the rolling moorland that surrounded Whitby. |
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I quietly crept to my closet and I grabbed my duffle bag that was already packed with clothes. |
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I crept around my apartment, the floor under my warm beige carpet creaking under my weight with each step that I took. |
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A man crept up behind the girl, putting his hand across her face and dragging her into the undergrowth. |
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As Japan opened up to the west, western images and themes crept into their design. |
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He crept forth into the town square, keeping one eye on the clouds wheeling overhead. |
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As we chatted the background music crept up in volume until at one point it became a roar or stuttering white noise. |
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I gingerly crept to my parents' room and listened with my ear at the keyhole. |
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Before she could be felled or winged by any stray shots, he crept forward to grab her arm and pull her to safety. |
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Slowly and laboriously the aircraft gained airspeed as the needle crept past stalling speed. |
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Then pressure constricted his movement and confidence, and an untimely double fault crept into his game. |
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She got up and crept through the dark so she could kneel beside her mom's bed. |
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Instead, the shadows crept over her, giving her a rather mysterious allure and then soon took off. |
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He exited the servant's room, and crept his way down the hall, retracing the same routes he usually took when wandering at night. |
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More recently, the competition has crept up to Hawaii's backyard, threatening the production of Hawaiian flower leis. |
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Her feelings of fear, anger, and revulsion brought the return of her hysteria and nausea crept into her throat. |
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When I nursed in a clinic near Bombay, a small girl, shielding all her leprous sores, crept inside the door. |
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Unfortunately, foot and mouth has crept into Argentina in recent months, and they've had to start revaccinating. |
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Slowly the colours of the day faded and the dark purple of the night crept in, with its eerie sense of romance and evil to it. |
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I parked my grungy old delivery van among the rows and rows of flash cars and crept up to the house. |
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Katie crept up the stairs to her room and quickly riffled through her desk drawer to find her wallet. |
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Jake crept down the hallway, listening for sounds from the servants and hearing only silence. |
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Glossy leaves hung from dipping boughs, and thick, ropy vines crept up massive, strong trees. |
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Hearing voices in the entrance hall, Beth hastily tugged down her nightgown and crept into bed, arming herself with a book as an effective prop. |
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Gannon crept closer to the right side of the rock and made sure his weapons were armed. |
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A hint of Long Island lockjaw crept into her voice, which I knew happened only in times of extreme stress. |
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Amazingly, the garden has grown to be more than 60 ft-long and has crept around the side of the terraced row. |
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As it wore on to midnight, a lowe in mauve and gold crept and slipped and wavered upon the sky. |
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Hints of Alice In Wonderland crept in with talking rabbits, trees and apples. |
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We crept into an antechamber lined with red velvet and faced a woman who appeared the archetypical brothel madam. |
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Certain misunderstandings about Tangut morphosyntax which had crept into the literature on Tibeto-Burman historical grammar are dispelled. |
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Within a month a new, savagely virulent haemorrhagic fever crept from the jungle. |
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Had they crept just a foot higher, countless historic masterpieces could have been lost to mankind forever. |
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With several hundred children it was quite a lively show, especially when the baddie crept up on the goodie in the film. |
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He crept a little more into the alley, his boots scraping on the abandoned cobblestones. |
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Before long the fog started to thicken as it crept down the gulf from the North. |
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On my trip in Namibia, I watched from a blind amid the thorny scrub brush as a leopard crept up on a meal at sunset. |
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He crept up the singles draw, away from limelight focussed on the seeded players, till the final when he became an object of curiosity. |
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Little tingly feelings crept back into me, but the hurt of last night tempered my reaction. |
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Then a cloud crept into his mind and, as Laurea watched, he faded into a ghost of the merman she had known. |
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A flush of red crept up Kiri's neck, turning her already rosy pink face tomato red. |
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The slower and quieter songs that have crept into the set are only slower and quieter by their own standards. |
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Clearings exhibited large quantities of grapes that crept along from shrub to shrub, their huge bunches of fruit nearly touching the ground. |
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We crept on tip toes into the middle of a tour group who'd obviously paid good money for their scholarly tour guide. |
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The dark shadows crept across the ground, the swirling surface trembling at their presence. |
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The water crept to the top of the massive berm that holds back the lake and then spilled over. |
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They simply adapted to the conditions better and have now crept up on Ayr, who remain third and this season will go no higher. |
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As it was pirated, so the price crept up, ninepence, one shilling, one shilling and sixpence, half-a-crown, and then it came out in instalments. |
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He was far too indulgent of players' transgressions and inevitably an element of indiscipline crept into the play. |
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She waited until the door was closed and the minute hand had moved a few spaces on her watch before she crept out and down the stairs. |
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She crept up to the base and was not surprised to find the place surrounded by a wide and probably deep moat. |
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My soft leather moccasins made no noise as I crept along the path like a shadow. |
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Raven felt the heat rise again within her, and the blush that crept to her cheeks this time had nothing to do with maidenly modesty. |
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The five explorers carefully crept through the ruins, past tall stone monoliths and crumbled walls. |
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As with the last few mornings, after getting up I crept around the corner of the stairs, hoping to see a large chair-shaped parcel sitting in the hall, but no such luck. |
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Elm tree shadows crept across the street and spelled doom for my project. |
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His blond hair was highlighted yet I noticed a little grey had crept in. |
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Grace crept away silently, and climbed a tree that overhung the path. |
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Ignoring these inconsistencies to savour the flavour of the novel may not induce a reader to overlook the errors that may have crept in during translation or copyediting. |
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Bound by rope, an awareness crept upon me as each knot was tied, as my body was tightly bound and the wiggle room dwindled. |
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The board said it believes someone crept down to the dusty roadbed after the last vehicle went by and dug in a mine to catch the next passing vehicle. |
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The bus crept slowly through the viscous traffic pouring into the city. |
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She has been reflecting on the fact that it is ten years since she left school, and surreptitious elements of old school uniform have crept into her recent work. |
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Laughter and snickers crept out of every section of the auditorium. |
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Last thing I remember, as the warmth of my fellow snoozers crept through the duvet, was the wish that Graham had remembered that hot water bottle. |
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As the morning slowly crept forward, more and more things began to stir. |
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As I left the den, the sun slowly crept over the snowy mountains. |
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She crept behind a bush, seeing a snowy owl a few feet away with a cave in the background, standing over a rabbit, hooting victoriously to itself. |
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Now we have several American concepts such as information warfare and asymmetrical warfare that have crept into modern thinking on the subject of conflict. |
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Who knew what kind of psychopathic lunatics crept around there? |
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In spite of myself a chill crept over me at the sight of the white puffy face, and I hastened to pass. |
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She crept downstairs, her feet sticking to the hardwood floors, through the kitchen with its sink stacked high with unwashed dishes, and down the hall. |
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In one incident a pensioner was asleep in her living room when the burglar crept into the house taking cash and jewellery from an upstairs bedroom. |
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As Jack slowly crept forward he heard a soft buzzing off in the corner. |
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They crept out of the city under the oppressive darkness, and were on the slave roads once more by the time the sun burned through the dry clouds and gilded the plains. |
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Small shivers of delight crept up his arm and into his chest. |
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They hastily crept through the halls, towards the bridge of the ship. |
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As the sun's first rays slowly crept over the horizon, he began to speak. |
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Arming myself with some broken furniture I crept back downstairs. |
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No sooner had she wished it than his green-flecked gaze fell to her and the reddish brows raised on his forehead once more while one corner of his mouth crept upwards. |
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The guys were still soundly sleeping when I crept out of my room in pajamas and with barefooted feet and headed upstairs to work on my hopefully perfect plan. |
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The first vessels moved away from the docks while canvas crept up the masts and sails were sheeted home, and they watched in fascination as the entire convoy began to move. |
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The needle of the speedo crept up to seventy five as he passed the van. |
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When she spoke of sexual abuse, a faint blush crept up her cheeks. |
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She carefully crept onto the bed and put her arms around him. |
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She was buried under a thin layer of sand, and she suspected that if she moved, she would find that the sand had crept inside her clothes and would grate against her skin. |
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I crept along the cold wooden floor and saw that the door was ajar. |
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Slowly the sand crept over him and he gave in to the cocooned abyss. |
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During the heyday of the counterculture in the '60s and '70s, a few brave souls crept out of formula filmmaking and found surprisingly wide audiences. |
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As dawned crept over the eastern hills, Taita Morales and the other shamans called us inside. |
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Behind them a van draped with garlands crept along, its rear doors open. |
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Dropping to a crouch, the princess crept to the edge of the quicksand. |
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Slowly and carefully, I crept over the back of the couch to go see it. |
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That night, at midnight, Jon crept carefully into the Princess's chambers. |
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She woke up at the first light of the dawn and crept out to the study. |
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I thought the accompaniments would overshadow the fowl, but the chicken taste actually crept through to add a complex layer to the international tapestry of flavours. |
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She held back a large sigh as irritation crept up to her stomach. |
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The work paid off when Butcher crept back in the England team for the 2001 Ashes series, then whacked the greatest team in cricket around Headingley for 173 unbeaten runs. |
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The faint whistling of birdsong awoke Marcs as it crept into his cell. |
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Decked in pitch-black garb, a flintlock pistol held tightly in each hand, Nathaniel watched as the dim curtain of midday crept over the autumn scarlet of the forest. |
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This was music that had to be crept up on, music to be learned from the ground up. |
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At one point, my friends and I crept to my car with four giant kitchen knives in hand. |
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Bending, with a breaking heart, I touched the marble drapery with my lips, then crept back into the silent house. |
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Not bothering to fix his bed, he carefully crept out of his room. |
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I inhaled Indian myths, and I crept through the woods near our house, re-enacting these myths, and wishing, wishing, for a pair of soft leather moccasins. |
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As for the sole, the wedge heel has crept into men's shoe styles. |
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One or two other insidious pests have crept almost unnoticed into my garden this month including blackfly, which have infested the tall flowering stems of the cardoons. |
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A Wolof griot was added, local mbalax styles and themes crept in. |
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The grin widened, and a slight flush crept across his cheeks. |
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Zhang eventually crept back to camp and found a satellite phone to summon help. |
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The sunlight crept through my eyelids slowly as I regained consciousness. |
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As French culture has seeped out of its food, American culture has crept in. |
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She crept downstairs, holding her breath as she passed her mother's room, pulled on her coat and shoes then lifted the heavy latch which secured the door. |
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With assured grins and malicious leers they crept in toward us. |
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I crept out into the traffic slowly, checking my mirrors and blind spots. |
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A smile crept across the cook's face as she dumped a ladleful of steaming liquid into my bowl. |
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So-called icicle plants, their leaves thick and waxen, crept across the drifting dunes, adorning them with their own beautiful blooms. |
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Zol crept out of the hide-covered shelter without waking Father and Mother. |
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Steve then crept 50 yards down and across a small draw, slid behind a big red alder tree, and began to make soft cow mews. |
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The lasting signs of that horrible event are the increased security measures that have crept into the spectating areas. |
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The blacks crept up on their camp in their feathered kadaitcha boots to spear them. |
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I crept silently up the hill-road, but the fuse of my matchlock was wetted with the rain, and I could not slay Daoud Shah from afar. |
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Vulcanite has crept in towards the bottom of the weights and while this is his stiffest task by far, he can continue on an upward curve. |
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Being heavier than air, the gas crept across no man's land and drifted into the French trenches. |
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Through the brazen hours that followed high noon, we crept onwards through a tunnel of glittering verdure. |
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After leaving the usual bumper crop of zucchini on the neighbor's doorstep, she crept away. |
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Thieves crept in while he was sleeping and stole more than pounds 150 from his wallet on the bedside table. |
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When he reached the ridge the outlying fog crept across the summit, caught him in its embrace, and wrapped him from her gaze. |
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They struck the doors with their riflebutts, and crept past the window with their pocket torches. |
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In order to save himself from dying of exposure, he killed his horse, disembowelled it and crept inside the warm carcass for shelter. |
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When twilight came I had vaguely wished some clouds would gather, for an odd timidity about the deep skyey voids above had crept into my soul. |
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She did not squint not as the sun crept through the Venetian blinds and seemed to ignite her already-luminous smaragdine eyes. |
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His hand crept further up, groinward, when Mike barged in, growling like an old werewolf. |
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While Major was speaking four large rats had crept out of their holes and were sitting on their hindquarters, listening to him. |
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One night, when the old woman was asleep, he crept out of bed and took her walking-stick downstairs to his workshed. |
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The old maple stump shot sickly pink switches from her roots, new switches every year. They crept yearningly toward the little square of window. |
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Over by the creek-bed scarlet-flamed sumac shouldered the silver-green of the willows, and orange-colored bittersweet crept through the tangle of wild plums. |
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The very existence of the league and its privileges and monopolies created economic and social tensions that often crept over into rivalries between league members. |
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The assassin crept into the royal bedchamber only after it was pitch-dark. |
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They were not established in doctrine until the First Council of Constantinople in 381 as an antidote to certain heresies that had crept into the Church in its early history. |
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Among the accidents on this unbriny sheet of water, but which has unavoidably crept in under this heading, was the loss of an ox belonging to David Barnhart. |
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Late in the night when the midnight sun cast a long shadow from the caves peak over his camp, Hother crept into the wood-elf's cave, overpowered him and bound him securely. |
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Boro almost broke the deadlock on the counter attack on 51 minutes as Brobbel found Wyke, but the forward's leftfooted shot crept inches wide of Kelle Roos' goal. |
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Small, stooping, and shabby, like an insulted and injured Dostoyevskian hero, he crept around in a furtive fashion with his hat covering his face and his eyes wet with tears. |
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A thief who crept into a London hotel room and brutally attacked three sisters from the UAE with a claw hammer was found guilty of attempted murder on Tuesday. |
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When the itchy scratchiness crept, literally, onto my head I started getting suspicious but managed to persuade myself that I was just imagining things. |
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Polyurethane-cast pants, crooked like crawling inchworms, crept across the floor, their forms interlaced with chromed aluminum bars shaped after garment patterns. |
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It paid off as Weatherston's endeavour won a corner in 72 minutes and from the set-piece Sheerin's in-swinger was met by Deuchar whose glancing header crept inside the post. |
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The robbers crept out of the forest and blindsided the traveller. |
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