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He rises, pushes aside the curtains into the inner library, where the lamps have almost burnt away, creeps up the wooden stair, and into the deserted upper story. Why was that door into the end room his father's room open? He had seen it closed that afternoon. No one had been there since. He stepped nearer.
The big, dark eyes, their marvellous beauty and expressiveness dimmed by death, and the long, sensitive ears, one ripped by the falcon's talon and both slightly bent at the tip with age, were suggestive of persecution, and of a haunting fear banished only with the coming of night, when, perchance, the early autumn moon rose over the corn, and the hare played with her leverets among the shadowy "creeps."
Marrapit, I make so bold as to send you in a little parcel a pair of woollen slippers that I have knitted for you." Mrs. Major examined them. Such sun as creeps into Angel Street, Marylebone Road, jealous of rival brightness had filched their first delicate tint of green, had stolen the first passionate scarlet of the red blobs.
"The Earnest slowly steaming, Captain Dane casting the lead every few minutes, creeps so near to the towering South Foreland by 2 A.M. that one might almost throw a biscuit ashore. The feat is on the eve of being accomplished. The ebb is not yet so strong that he cannot make palpable progress through the tide.
I'll be even with you then, old fellow that I will, if I am only spared! And so he creeps out, scarcely knowing whether he should make up his mind to beg, borrow, or steal, half muttering to himself, as he hops across the way, to visit some neighbor for a breakfast, 'I declare such infamous treatment is enough to make one dishonest, and never be industrious and virtuous any more!" The Rabbit.
Slowly it creeps up from snow to sunshine; when it has gained the summit it seems almost to rest for a little; rapidly it rushes down from sunshine to the snow. Judging from my own feelings, the distance from January to June is greater than from June to January the period from Christmas to Midsummer seems longer than the period from Midsummer to Christmas.
I know that the lady who sobs behind the footlights is well paid for it, but all the same, it gives me the creeps." "It's nothing serious really it isn't," she explained. "It's merely a safety valve. If women couldn't cry, they'd explode." "I always supposed tears were signs of sorrow," he said. "Far from it," laughed Ruth.
"I do not like that Golliwog," breathed Mrs. Jasher to her host, when Cockatoo was at the sideboard. "He gives me the creeps." "Imagination, my dear lady, pure imagination. Why should we not have a picturesque animal to wait upon us?" "He would wait picturesquely enough at a cannibal feast," suggested Archie, with a laugh. "Don't!" murmured Lucy, with a shiver.
This, he felt, was more real than usual. He glanced at Monkey's eyes a moment. 'Another time, said Daddy, already half believing in the truth of his adventure, yet not quite sure of himself. 'It collects, and collects, and collects. Sometimes, here and there, a little escapes and creeps out into yellow flowers like dandelions and buttercups.
Through the deep, jagged rift where runs the Potomac, along the rock-bound gorge through which in ages past the torrent burst its way, there creeps a host of tiny shafts of color the skirmishers, the éclaireurs, of the irresistible array of which they form but the foremost line the coming army of the God of Day.
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