And in a while to Beltane's straining senses came the faint creak of a door, a soft rustle, the swift light tread of feet, and starting forth of his lurking place he stepped forward with yearning arms outstretchedthen paused of a sudden beholding her who stood at gaze, one slender foot advanced and white hands full of roses and lilies, one as fair, as sweet and pure as the fragrant blooms she bore.

My coming had silenced the others, and we waited motionless, the stillness so intense I could hear the lapping of waves against the side, and the slight creak of a rope aloft.

But the sash had not been raised for years; it stuck; when it yielded to his efforts, it gave a loud creak.

The Sylph was running smoothly, with the wind almost aft; the scud of water past her bows and the occasional creak of a block aloft were the only sounds audible in the silence that lay like a benediction upon the sea.

No echo of a voice came across the water, no slight flap of sail, no distant creak of pulley, or groaning of ropemerely that fleeting vision, seemingly a phantom of imagination, a vision born from sea and cloud.

He slowly straightened his arms and the iron gave an audible creak.

" Now is the little hatch-gate slammed with the wind, contrasting its rude sound with the rusty creak of the "invisible" iron fence just set up, but already So loose that it

Suddenly a sharp creak, like that of a rusty spring, broke the silence.

At the same time he heard Jerry Wood cursing softly in a neighbouring room, and then the telltale creak of bedsprings.

Another minute and she had fairly flown through the hall and reached the door of the garret stairs; she recollected that the latch had a troublesome creak occasionally; indeed, she had noticed it only that very day, as she and Sally Tracy had mounted to their eyrie in the big dormer window of the garret, where safe from all ears they were wont to confide their girlish secrets to each other.

I was about to give another tweak at the fishing-line when an unmistakable creak came from the upper stairs.

A bent figure follows, and by-and-by another distinct creak and rattle, and yet a third in another direction, show that there are more teams at work, plodding to and fro.

The hickory creaks and yields, but it is tough and does not break.

Silvestro's clammy hand is on the locka worm-eaten door creaks on its hingeshe enters.

Ensnared by superstition, soon and late; As sign and portent, it on us doth wait By fear unmanned, we take our stand alone; The portal creaks, and no one enters,none.

Yet now the first sounds that smote his ears as he opened his eyes were the rhythmic creak of the mine windlass and equally rhythmic, if less tuneful, chant of the men who were working it; "All-ah sa-eed!Ne-bi sa-eed!