Crept Sentence Examples

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  • A cold chill crept up her spine, raising the hair on the back of her neck.

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  • They cautiously crept forward.

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  • Blackness crept into her vision.

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  • He crept into the cave for the third time.

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  • The dark mist slid to the floor and crept towards them.

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  • She crept closer to him.

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  • They cautiously crept around the dune.

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  • Another of the newfound feelings crept into her.

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  • She crept from the bed and looked around.

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  • Brady crept as close as he dared.

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  • Thoughts of you crept into my mind at every turn.

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  • Dean crept down the hall and returned to his own bed, and, after a long time, finally slept.

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  • The men had crept closer.

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  • I remained still and expectant; a chilling terror crept over me.

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  • Arnie waved the laser as Brady crept closer.

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  • Belfair crept away from the castle of the lovely Queen Sinthee and her lazy mate Dorvad, past the kindly Fird of Kornor, mingling on the street with the commoners.

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  • A few hours later, Sarah crept into his room to check on him.

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  • Red crept up her features, and she looked away.

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  • Ivy and Lara were already in bed, so I crept by quietly.

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  • Anger crept through him.

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  • He'd felt similar when the Black God's powers crept through him, stripping his demigod powers in preparation to give him something more.

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  • She waited until she was certain he was distracted before she crept across the apartment, keeping as close to the wall farthest from him as possible.

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  • The boy crept closer to her, and she sought some subject to discuss that would calm him.

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  • Jule crept up to the place where the figure had taken refuge and heard the person shift.

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  • The feeling she didn't like – guilt – crept into her.

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  • We have crept into this corner of grief, turning the water wheel with a flow of tears.

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  • She recognized Damian and Darian as they neared and crept closer to Jule at the sight of the strange man with red glowing eyes.

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  • Dean took a deep breath and crept a few tentative steps into the darkness.

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  • As she did every day, she wriggled out onto it and crept the length of the ledge to the neighboring window.

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  • The muffled ring of his new phone woke him just as dawn's light crept through the window.

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  • Red crept up Jenn's face, and her eyes glittered.

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  • The dangerous edge crept into him.

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  • During the Russian Dark Ages certain clerical errors had crept into the liturgical books Reforms a nd certain peculiarities had been adopted in the ritual.

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  • About 89% recorded their preference in favour of English at the outset; then, as a result of violent political agitation, this percentage was considerably lowered, but soon crept up again.

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  • The book of Johann Busch, himself a canon of Windesheim, De Reformatione monasteriorum, shows that in the 15th century grave relaxation had crept into many monasteries of Augustinian canons in north Germany, and the efforts at reform were only partially successful.

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  • Boghurst, a contemporary doctor, notices that it crept down Holborn and took six months to travel from the western suburbs (St Giles) to the eastern (Stepney) through the city.

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  • He regards " what is strangled " (7fvucr6v) as originally a mistaken gloss, which crept into the text.

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  • Unfortunately corruption crept into the expenditure of the large sums necessary to carry out this programme.

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  • The frequent roughnesses of the traditional text suggest, however,that here and there marginal glosses may have crept in.

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  • His magic crept up her arm and into her body.

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  • Short red hair crept from underneath her cap and even Dean's untrained eye could tell her makeup was carefully applied and her uniform cut to exhibit a knock-out figure.

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  • Years of devouring that fiction genre helped formulate a world where intrigue crept around every corner for the dapper gentleman.

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  • They advanced behind a creeping barrage - a curtain of falling shells which crept forward just ahead of them.

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  • Slowly she crept across the floor trying to miss the creaky floorboards.

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  • To this position the defeated rebels crept, intent on expunging their defeat in the blood of the wounded Highlanders.

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  • He crept toward the bench, the pump-action shotgun leading the way.

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  • The striker stabbed a first-time angled effort goalwards and the ball squirmed through the grasp of Myhre and crept over the line.

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  • This is testified by George Joye in his Apology, who himself brought out a fourth edition of Tyndale's New Testament in August 1534, freed from many of the errors which, through the carelessness of the Flemish printers, had crept into the text, but with such alterations and new renderings as to arouse the indignation of Tyndale.

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  • But, as the years have passed, a resigned, disdainful tone has crept into their responses.

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  • Vile Bodies was just the right combination, tho " grimness and sardonic tone " crept in.

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  • The whole car would start to vibrate violently as the white needle crept between 60 and 70mph.

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  • Coats crept a bit higher and the flat straw boater hat was developed for boating.

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  • Frustration has crept in me to some extent.

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  • Her fingers crept up his chest, fearful they would be shoved away before they reached his neck.

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  • The flush crept up to her cheeks.

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  • A warm flush slowly crept up her neck and flooded her face.

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  • Heat crept up his neck and into his face.

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  • Xander stared after her then crept closer to his mother.

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  • Jessi didn't have to look to know where Xander was; a look of awe crept into the faces of both teens.

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  • And it is interesting to note that while the tropical forms of Quercus failed to reach Australia from Malaya, the temperate Fagus crept in by a back door.

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  • For some little time previously he had been harassed by a suspicion that certain errors had crept into the computations, and accordingly he addressed himself to the task of revision.

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  • An old man, however, crept out of a hut with a child, whom he presented to Bussy as the son of the dead chief.

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  • Three nights later four followers of the chief of Bobbili crept into the tent of the raja of Vizianagram and stabbed him to death.

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  • Obviously the purpose of the paragraph is to point out the wisdom of enjoying life in the time of youth while the physical powers are fresh and strong, and the impotency of old age has not yet crept in.

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  • The first was the chaotic confusion of the finances resulting from the maladministration of the national resources since the deposition of Dom Pedro II., and the corruption that had crept into every branch of the public service.

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  • The objections raised were (i) the costliness of the instruments employed and their liability to get out of order; (2) the need for specially instructed measurers, men of superior education; (3) the errors that frequently crept in when carrying out the processes and were all but irremediable.

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  • The Prussian infantry crept nearer and nearer, till at under 300 yds.

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  • The system worked well at first, but abuses soon crept in, and many persons were unjustly excluded from office; trouble being expected in 1335 a captain of the guard was created.

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  • Matritensis 10041 (begun in the year A.D 94 8), the words are omitted under the heading council of Constantinople but inserted under the heading council of Toledo, in the former MS., above the line and in a later hand, which shows conclusively how the interpolation crept in.

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  • The legendary element crept even into the Latin panegyrics produced by the court poets.

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  • But a distinction of grades of holiness gained by ascetic life has never been entirely foreign to the Eastern mind, and in the popular faith of Mahommedan peoples something very like priesthood has crept in by this channel.

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  • The boundaries of the city have not been essentially extended since 1860, and though large and important suburbs have crept up and practically merged with it, its administrative area remains unchanged.

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  • All its north-eastern factories, from Balasore, on the Orissa coast, to Patna, in the heart of Behar, belonged to the "Bengal Establishment," and as British conquests crept higher up the rivers, the term came to be applied to the whole of northern India.

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  • Thus Canovas meant to keep up the appearance of a constitutional and parliamentary government with what most Spaniards considered a fair proportional representation of existing parties, except the Carlists and the most advanced Republicans, who only crept into the House of Deputies in some later parliaments.

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  • From the last-named various species have crept two-thirds of the way across the state, one (the buffalo berry) wholly covers it, and some have barely crossed into the border foot-hills from Wyoming.

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  • Twice he crept into Sigurd's chamber, but fled when he found the hero awake and gazing at him with flashing eyes.

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  • Any other guy, who crept remotely near Martha, much less had sex with her, fell head over heels in love.

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  • She crept near enough to make out the second man's features and was surprised to see the White God's commander of the Eastern Hemisphere, Jule.

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  • Dean's ini­tial hope that most travelers would have already reached their des­tinations proved foolishly optimistic as he crept his way toward the Atlantic seashore.

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  • I crept across the grass to get a better look at the weird contraption.

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  • By 10am, a state of organized Pandemonium had crept in.

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  • The words should've scared her, but the world was growing hazy, the pain fading as darkness crept into her vision.

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  • Accompanied by two guards, she mounted her favorite bay horse and pounded through familiar roads and intersections to the southern wall., The chill of the ocean crept into its walls.

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  • A few minutes later a brown LTD crept up the drive and stopped.

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  • She watched, fascinated, as the storm crept closer.

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  • Now in some cases, perhaps, in the lengths of the reigns themselves, in other cases in the computations based upon them, errors have crept in, which have vitiated more or less the entire chronology of the period.

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  • His object, therefore, is to discover and remove the various corruptions which have crept into the text, by the usual methods of the textual critic - the collection of material, the grouping of MSS.

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  • The distribution of the beds of marine origin shows that the sea crept upon the eastern and southern borders of the continent auring the period, covered the western plains, and formed a great mediterranean sea between the eastern and western lands of the continent, connecting the Gulf of Mexico on the south and the Arctic Ocean on the north.

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  • It is quite possible that an error of a few years has crept into the Eusebian chronology, which is probably largely based on early episcopal lists, and therefore many scholars are inclined to think that 64 is a more probable date than 67.

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  • That the Sicels spoke a tongue closely akin to Latin is plain from several Sicel words which crept into Sicilian Greek, and from the Siceliot system of weights and measures - utterly unlike anything in old Greece.

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  • At that time, along with foreign ideas, many foreign words had crept into the language; especially Aramaic terms for religious conceptions of Jewish or Christian origin.

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  • In other words, the Old Red Sandstone and Carboniferous rocks, though chiefly accumulated in the broad lowland valley, crept also over some part of the hills on either side, where a few outliers tell of their former extension.

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  • In time mitigations and relaxations crept in, and these gave rise to reforms and semi-independent congregations within the order.

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  • The night was long and cold.  Deidre slept, and Katie drifted between a fitful doze and her thoughts.  Dawn crept across the jungle, peering first from the tangled branches overhead then inching through the trees.  As soon as she could see well enough, Katie crawled to Deidre's feet.  The woman continued to sleep, and Katie looked her over.  She looked like any other college student in cargo pants and a light sweater.  Deidre's long, flaxen hair was in a messy braid, and her skin was pale.

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  • She crept down the dim hall, past the bedroom that Julia and Rachel shared, and on past Brandon's door.

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  • With her bed made, she crept down the stairs and across the family room floor.

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  • I crept cautiously forward until I encountered a closed door, leading, I presumed, to the main house.

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  • As she crept up the stairs of the wine cellar to the kitchen, she couldn't help feeling troubled at leaving the man in the basement.

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  • She crept in and turned on a light, relieved when it worked.

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  • The Buen was nearly full, but as the season crept toward the Fourth of July and the heart of summer, finding a dinner seat anywhere in Ouray would often require patience.

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  • They crept forward, still holding hands although it was cumbersome to do so in the closeness of the passageway.

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  • Dean crept from the room, wondering if it was Lydia returning to visit.

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  • She drew a deep breath, terrified of running into one of those creatures alone, then crept to the door.

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  • Josh's words crept through her mind like an icy wind.

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  • Deidre shifted with a grunt.  Katie sat back on her haunches, not sure what to do when she couldn't see what she was trying to cut.  Deidre was shaking as hard as Katie was, and Katie crept closer for body heat.

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  • Toby took the lead, and the demons, Death and Gabe disappeared as Katie rounded the corner of the palace.  The angel released her and raced into the palace and up a set of stairs.  They ascended several floors, until Katie was sucking wind bad enough to stop.  Toby didn't wait for her, and she stumbled forward.  The interior of the palace was unlit, and the darkness of evening crept into the hallways.

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  • Death held out her closed hand to Rhyn.  He crept forward warily and extended his.  She dropped a small green gem into it.

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  • He finally agreed and took the day off to drive me and the money back to my place and we crept out of there.

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  • But it was now made to appear that the struthious birds in this respect resembled, not only the duck, but a great many other groups - waders, birds-of-prey, pigeons, passerines and perhaps all birds not gallinaceous - so that, according to Cuvier's view, the five points of ossification observed in the Gallinae, instead of exhibiting the normal process, exhibited one quite exceptional, and that in all other birds, so far as he had been enabled to investigate the matter, ossification of the sternum began at two points only, situated near the anterior upper margin of the side of the sternum, and gradually crept towards the keel, into which it presently extended; and, though he allowed the appearance of detached portions of calcareous matter at the base of the still cartilaginous keel in ducks at a certain age, he seemed to consider this an individual peculiarity.

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  • Demons that could take on the forms of whatever human they pleased were rare, and Darkyn had hand-selected the one before him for this mission.  Impressed, he stood back and motioned the cowering Immortal in the corner forward.  The Immortal scientist, Ully, crept towards them, the chains around his feet rattling with each step.

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  • Then together they crept away to enter the low doorway of a neighboring dwelling.

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  • If my mother happened to be near I crept into her arms, too miserable even to remember the cause of the tempest.

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  • In the meantime Mildred had got the letter and crept away with it.

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  • We may imagine a time when, in the infancy of the human race, some enterprising mortal crept into a hollow in a rock for shelter.

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  • The Cossacks and peasants who crept in among the French now considered everything possible.

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  • The most cunning man could not have crept into her confidence more successfully, evoking memories of the best times of her youth and showing sympathy with them.

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  • The magic crept up through her shoes and into her legs, warming her body as it went.

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  • When she finished, still attired in bathrobe and floppy slippers, and leaving a cloud of flour behind her, she crept upstairs to talk to Fred; a conversation that lasted thirty minutes.

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  • But the pristine forest and surrounding view was more than worth the tiredness that crept into the arms and legs.

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  • Abstaining would make for a long night, so he carefully slid out from under her and crept downstairs.

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  • She crept around the bed and leaned on it gingerly, watching for signs of him waking.

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  • The strain on his face was clear, and a tremor of fear crept through her.

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  • Slowly, one little step at a time, it crept up across the rough place where it had slipped and fallen so often.

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  • Cautiously, she crept up to the door and peered around it, jerking her head back instinctively when she spotted Yancey unlocking a door to an inner office.

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  • But he showed no sign of life as he took up his position in his corner, and desperation crept through her.

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  • The glow from the flashlight barely illuminated the next few feet of inky darkness as the two youngsters crept along the dank passageway.

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  • Dusk crept up the canyon as he slowed his pace, searching for a sign in the gathering darkness below.

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  • Dread crept into Deidre.

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  • I will confess that I intended to eat the little pig for my breakfast; so I crept into the room where it was kept while the Princess was dressing and hid myself under a chair.

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  • Soon, with the gun in one hand, he crept back into the cave.

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  • Far calmer than she'd ever been, she crept down the hallway.

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  • A tremor of fear went through her, and Ully crept closer, as if she had half a chance of defending them.

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  • Warmth crept up her face as she thought how stupid she'd sound to someone like Kelli.

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  • Cynthia eventually bowed to Martha's sobs and crept into her room, spending most of the dark hours holding the grieving child.

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  • The feeling she didn't like – guilt – crept into her.

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  • The wounded crept together in twos and threes and one could hear their distressing screams and groans, sometimes feigned--or so it seemed to Rostov.

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  • Bitterness crept through her as she dwelled on his words.

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  • A blue BMW crept up the drive and came to a stop in the yard.

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  • Desire and yearning crept into him, knowing she was so close.

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  • Ully obeyed.  They crept through the hallways, avoiding any that seemed crowded.  Toby followed the directions he saw in his memories and led them to a small chamber near the center of the fortress.  They entered and closed the door, seeing the open portal hovering in the middle.  He took Ully's hand, and they stepped into it.

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  • Rhyn crept carefully through the demon scouts positioned throughout the forest surrounding the castle.  The demons wore the Dark One's uniform of all black with waterproof cloaks and hoods.  The demon side of him rendered his presence similar enough to a full-demon's that the others wouldn't be alarmed.  He sized up each demon he passed, until he found one who appeared to be his size.  The creature didn't hear his soft step, and the snapping of the demon's neck was the only other sound in the falling rain.

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