Suddenly she realized that he might not want even her to see this; that he might not want her to know of this drab tent where he crawled for sleep off the field of battle.

I crawled out of my inner chamber, and the whole lot of us dived through the rapidly rising water into the ditch outside.

So, one morning (like Robinson Crusoe again) I set off with my fowling-piece and ammunition, and crawled towards the farm.

I got back to our cottage, crawled into the hole in the floor, and thought things over.

Elcie and her brother got scared and ran in the house, crawled in bed and thought they were hid, as they had scrutched down in the middle of the bed with the door locked.

My landlady assuring him that he had mistaken the door, conducted him up stairs, where he found the tools of a coiner; but the tenant had crawled along the roof to an empty house, and escaped; much to the joy of my landlady, who declares him a very honest man, and wonders why any body should be hanged for making money when such numbers are in want of it.

He give me a bundle er bread and I run in the other room and crawled under the bed 'way back in the corner.

The sea below him whispered and crawled, above the sun was the sole tenant of the sky, and east and west the down was empty of passengers.

Roy went off with his usual confidence, but Ken, more highly strung, felt his heart thumping as he crawled along the rough edge of the deep, dark ditch.

Here crawled the lizard and the rattlesnake; and there was no music to the desolation save the petulant chirp of the cricket.

Ah wuz skeered uv bears an panthers so ah crawled up in a ole bandoned crib an crouched down gainst de loft.

"They made nice mole holes, so I crawled right in, and for a little it was bully fun.

" "But, Barbara," argued Ian, as we reached the porch, "it wasn't us that crawled, it was moles, and they just digs right ahead and turns up the ground and flowers and everything, and never thinks things, do they, grandpop?"

She saw Mr. Judson at the door, whither he crawled to speak with her.

True, here crawled hate, avarice, lust, flesh and its myriad forms of deathnot in their own elemental darknessbut as scurrying vermin forms suddenly drenched with light....

It was a passionate ambition the old pettifogger had, to see his scion enter through the front door and with head proudly erect, the precincts of the law, into which he had crawled so cautiously and at the risk, more than once, of being dragged out with a chain fastened to his ankle.

But the driver in the blue jersey, hearing that awful cry behind him, slowed down and crawled along.

Two or three beetles crawled sluggishly away as the light fell upon them, and dusty cobwebs festooned all the corners; but to Tony it seemed so magnificent an accommodation for sleeping, that he could scarcely believe he heard old Oliver aright.

I made her wrap up warmly, and we crawled out, covered with chaff, rumpled, mussed up, but safe and happy; and found the sun shining over a landscape of sparkling frost, with sun-dogs in the sky and spiracles of frost in the air, and a light breeze still blowing from the northwest, so bitingly cold that a finger or cheek was nipped by it in a moment's exposure.

Vandemark Township was set off as a separate township within six weeks of the day we crawled out of the straw-stackand on that day we had been married a month, and Virginia was boarding with me as she predicted.

Shoop had found the dog as it crawled along the corral fence, trying to get to the cabin.

He was so unconscious of anything but her and his parting from her that for some time he did not notice that the slight craft had narrowly shaved the rocks, that it had barely crawled into the middle current, and that he was temporarily safe.

" I crawled in to breakfast more dead than alive.

“The house of a thousand ghosts,” chanted the irrepressible Larry, as I pushed the door open and crawled through.

I crawled out and stood upright.