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"Thy father's halls sheltered the exile, and the exile forgets not the sole pleasure of a king the power to requite. We may never meet again, William, age creeps over me, and who will succeed to my thorny throne?"
Gradually, as the time passes by, he creeps into our affections until our lives would not be complete without the comradeship of his cherished book. Little known volumes may prove to have enough thought stored away between their covers to keep us interested all our days. The great books will prove their worth in a short time no matter how poor the binding, how bad the type or how cheap the paper.
"Pooh! What's the harm? There's no one in this lonely place! It gives me the creeps. Li'l ole Broadway for mine!" "You never know who's anywhere these days!" muttered LeGrand. "That infernal detective seems to be all over. He looks at me oh, he looks at me, and I don't like it." Morocco Kate laughed. "Shut up!" ordered the head clerk. "Do you think this is funny?" "It used to be," was the answer.
"Until what with the freezing of the blood in a body jammed together and flattened against a wall what with the crushed respiration and the cowed heart a deadly faintness creeps over the victim and he swoons away!" "Oh!" "It is a lie a base, malignant lie!" shouted Hawes. "I am glad to hear it, Mr. Hawes." Here the justices with great beat joined in and told Mr.
And then, when the train goes and he realizes that Jem has not come, he creeps dejectedly back to his shed, with his disappointed eyes, and lies down patiently to wait for the next train. Mr. Gray, the station master, says there are times when he can hardly help crying from sheer sympathy.
Opinion seeks to impose her law upon all, instead of setting her at defiance, it would be better to struggle with her and conquer.... I understand the indignation of contempt, and the wish to crush, roused irresistibly by all that creeps, all that is tortuous, oblique, ignoble.... But I cannot maintain such a mood, which is a mood of vengeance, for long.
Feminine life of another sort lurks in the hidden places of the law colleges, shunning the gaze of strangers by daylight; and even when it creeps about under cover of night, trembling with a sense of its own incurable shame.
For, methinks, my sentences drag, my style creeps, my imagination is sunk, my spirits serve me not, only to tell you, that whether I have more or less, I am wholly devoted to the commands of my dear Miss Howe.
Soon there creeps in—soon? yes, by six years or younger—that comforting belief that as we and our aunts and our uncles and our cousins and our friends do, so does—or should do—the world.
"Do you realize, Tom," Dan said, as they stood side by side watching the blazing logs, "that it is sixteen years since General Pointelle stayed at the Inn and used this room? And the treasure, if there is any treasure, has been mouldering here all that time." "Let's get at it," said Tom. "I confess this place gives me the creeps. Have you got my translation of the directions?" "Yes, here it is."
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