So I followed him down the, creaking stairs to the morning room.

So, on horse and afoot, in creaking cart and wain, they thronged toward the goodly city of Belsaye.

He sneaked into his clothes, and descended the cold, creaking staircase in his stocking-feet.

Those who have ever entered an extensive prison, will require no description to revive the feeling of pain which it excited, by barred windows, creaking hinges, grating bolts, and all those other signs, which are alike the means and evidence of incarceration.

he asked, in his dry, creaking voice.

The trap creaked loudlythe sound echoing, vaguely, through the huge placeand opened, heavily.

It was late Monday afternoon when the grub-wagon grumbled and creaked its way up the lane and stopped near the back-yard gate.

They accordingly followed him up a series of creaking steps.

She should not wear creaking boots, and should move about the room as noiselessly as possible, anticipating people's wants by handing them things without being asked for them, and altogether be as quiet as possible.

Perhaps you teach your brood the game, In yonder rainbowed thicket, While winds are playing with the leaves, And softly creaks the cricket.

Empty ammunition wagons loaded again with wounded, went creaking slowly to the rear, the sharp cries of suffering echoing above the infernal din.

I am a piece of machinery which, not understanding, my mother winds up the wrong way, setting all the wheels of my composition going in creaking discord.

Wood and canvas were the building materialsthe wood unseasoned pine, smelling fresh and resinous at first, anon shrinking, warping, and entailing cracked walls, creaking doors, and rattling window-sashes.

"As ancient is this hostelry As any in the land may be, Built in the old Colonial day, When men lived in a grander way, With ampler hospitality; A kind of old Hobgoblin Hall, Now somewhat fallen to decay, With weather-stains upon the wall, And stairways worn, and crazy doors, And creaking and uneven floors, And chimneys huge, and tiled and tall.

Here lies the home of school-boy life, With creaking stair and wind-swept hall, And, scarred by many a truant knife, Our old initials on the wall; Here resttheir keen vibrations mute

He had barely creaked the pump handle when Mr. Van Kamp hurried up from the barn.

All the way from the Champs Elysees the huge piece of fool's tackle had lumbered and creaked hither across the sea to Martinique, and was now making the round of the islands, and a very profitable round, to judge from the number of its customers.

For Perris went to the hole behind the rock and presently returned carrying that flapping, creaking instrument of torturea saddle.

But now I hear the rusty hinges of my beloved's door give me creaking invitation.

As soon as he was gone, she shut the door, listening until his heavy boots had thumped creaking down the rickety ladder leading to the frame-rooms.

The hinges creaked a little, and these I hastened to oil; then closing and relocking the door softly, I crept (without pushing my bedstead back again the few inches I had wheeled it forward) to look once more upon the sleeping face of Mrs. Clayton.

The gallant ship, with creaking masts, drives before the gale and plunges over the crests of the foaming billows.

He clung to them dumbly, his face so close to the surface that the tall spiked flowers smiled downbut they drifted inexorably with a faint, creaking music, leaf on leaf.

"But when the swinging signs your ears offend, With creaking noise.

A glance from the window exhibited a double line of canvas-covered wagons creaking past, mules toiling wearily in the traces, under close guard of a squad of infantry.