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Updated: June 15, 2025
He passed his great cracked knuckles over his face again, digging hastily into the corners of his eyes, then leaned forward and shook the rusty reins. "Git up!" he said thoughtfully, and the ancient buckboard creaked away into the thickening twilight. She watched him from the door, lingering there, listening to the creak of the wheels long after he had disappeared.
The Vicar withdrew: after a minute I heard the planking creak: then something white glimmered in the opening of the window something like a long bundle of linen, extruded inch by inch, then lowered on to the penthouse roof and let slide slowly down towards me. "Got it?" "Right." I steadied it a moment by its feet, then let it slide into my arms, and lowered it on to the gravelled path.
Wheels creak on their axles as the cogs engage one another and the revolving pulleys whirr with the rapidity of their movement, but a neighboring wheel is as quiet and motionless as though it were prepared to remain so for a hundred years; but the moment comes when the lever catches it and obeying the impulse that wheel begins to creak and joins in the common motion the result and aim of which are beyond its ken.
Then, as he strained at his bonds, he heard their footsteps pass up the companion and along the quarter-deck to where the dinghy hung in the stern. Then, still struggling and writhing, he heard the creak of the falls and the splash of the boat in the water.
The days at a well-ordered country-house, where a divining lady rules, speed to the measure of a waltz, in harmonious circles, dropping like crystals into the gulfs of Time, and appearing to write nothing in his book. Not a single hinge of existence is heard to creak. There is no after-dinner bill. You are waited on, without being elbowed by the humanity of your attendants.
"Mercy, yes, Connie talks to be about all the boys." "Does she talk about me?" Noah's eyes were as wistful as a dog's. For a second Miss Lady hesitated, then she compromised with truth and said, "yes." She did not add that Connie was particularly voluble on the subject of his hair, and the creak of his boots and his apparent genius for ubiquity.
I'll get it in a moment." "You had better not lose any more time." The man slunk piteously out of his shop, and went into a back parlour. Dyson heard his trembling fingers fumbling with a bunch of keys, and the creak of an opening box. He came back presently with a small package neatly tied up in brown paper in his hands, and, still full of terror, handed it to Dyson.
After that was no sound but the wash of the waves, and the hum of the sail, and the creak of the great steering oar as Asbiorn met the luff of the ship across the long, smooth sweep of the waves. We, too, grew drowsy, for the cabin was close and warm beneath the sunny decks. All that could be said was said, and so we slept, if it were but uneasily.
"Stop," said Betty suddenly, as they were at the top stair, "you must remove your boots: the slightest creak might wake the sleepers at the end of the hall."
His face was set into rigid lines of contemptuous defiance; neither hope nor fear could be read there. Fanny raised herself up: 'Are they gone? asked she, in a whisper. 'Gone! replied he. 'Listen! She did listen; they all could hear the one great straining breath; the creak of wood slowly yielding; the wrench of iron; the mighty fall of the ponderous gates.
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