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Updated: September 11, 2025
The narrow-gauge of the N.P.C.R.R. crawls like a snake from the ferry on the bay to the roundhouse over and beyond the hills, but seven miles from the sea-mouth of the Russian River.
Never mind how." Joses indeed was out early and late, and he was horribly alert. Nobody knew when and where his fat body and brown face might not be turning up. "Crawls around like a great red slug," said Old Mat; and it was seldom a horse did a big gallop but the fat man was there to see. The morning Boy went for her first dip he was at the lighthouse on the cliff above the Gap.
"'I'm awake, says Grief. "'Well, why don't you get outen the rain? "'I'm all wet now an' the rain don't do no hurt, says Grief. "An' this yere lazy Grief Mudlow keeps on layin' thar. It ain't no time when the branch begins to raise; the water crawls up about Grief's feet. So his pard shouts at him some more: "'Whoopee, you Grief ag'in! he says.
I gets t' un an' makes a footin' on th' rock. I gets out my knife an' finds th' ice breaks easy, an' cuts a hole an' crawls out. By th' time I gets on th' ice I were pretty handy t' givin' up wi' th' cold." "'Twere a close call," assented Dick, as he puffed at his pipe meditatively. "How far did un go under th' ice?" asked Bill, who had been much interested in the narrative. "Handy t' two mile."
The alligator cannot devour its prey beneath the water, but crawls on land with it after he has drowned it. They are said to catch wild pigs in the forest near the river by half burying themselves in the ground. The pigs come rooting amongst the soil, the alligator never moves until one gets within its reach, when it seizes it and hurries off to the river with it.
Then Torfi Torfason gets up, gropes his way out through the hall, lets the bitch in, and she crawls at once over her pups. After that he lies down to sleep. But he has not lain long when he is aroused by somebody walking about and he can not figure out why.
If I had known you were all coming, no vintage that crawls up the hill would have been good enough for me. He threw the bond of his wonderful smile round us as we swallowed his stuff, and our hearts were lightened.
Now, had the young man been as full of courage as he was of vulgar conceit, he might, I verily believe, have turned his hatred, and his knowledge of affairs, to very good account. Lacking the spirit of the smallest animal that crawls, he was content to eject his odious malice in oaths and execrations, and to submit to his beating after all.
The bare stone is its cradle, the rough clay its welcomer, as it makes its entrance into the world, a poor thread of scarce cohering albumen. But safety lies within; and behold the atom of animated glair embarking on its struggle with the flint. Obstinately, it sounds each pore; it slips in, crawls on, retreats, begins again.
Both of us heard the scrape of something on the icy garden walk, the moment the lights went out. Immediately after it the Judge called to me. "Look!" he said. "Isn't something moving there along the shrubs?" "Yes," I whispered. "It's near the ground. It crawls." "What do you want?" called the Judge to the moving thing. Then, although he had no revolver at hand, he said, "Answer, or I'll shoot."
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