You see, she forgot to come an' 'tuck me up' last night, so I creeped downstairs,very quietly, you know, to see why.

"What makes you think it was money?" "'Cause she'd been talking to Adam,I heard him say 'Good-night,' as I creeped down the stairs," "Ah?" said Bellew, staring straight before him.

An old slave creeped in one day, inquiring if Jesus could do any thing for very bad people.

L. Murray recognizes bereaved, catched, dealed, digged, dwelled, hanged, knitted, shined, spilled; and, in his early editions, he approved of bended, builded, creeped, weaved, worked, wringed.

The former prefers creeped to crept, and freezed to froze; the latter, slitted to slit, wringed to wrung; and both consider, "I bended," "I bursted" and "I blowed," to be good modern English.

Dearborn prefers the regular form of creep: "creep, creeped or crept, creeped or crept."Columbian Gram., p. 38.

Dearborn prefers the regular form of creep: "creep, creeped or crept, creeped or crept."Columbian Gram., p. 38.

Creep, crept or creeped, creeping, crept or creeped.

Creep, crept or creeped, creeping, crept or creeped.

6. Write the irregular participles which are commonly preferred to the following regular ones: abided, bended, builded, bursted, catched, creeped, dealed, digged, dwelled, freezed, grinded, knitted, layed, meaned, payed, reaved, slided, speeded, splitted, stringed, sweeped, throwed, weaved, weeped, winded. EXERCISE VIII.ADVERBS, &c. 1.

After the meal she dragged herself upstairs to Number Five, made scant use of nicked basin, spoutless pitcher, and rough clean towel, blew out her little shadeless lamp, and crept in under an immense, elephantine, grateful weight of blankets and patchwork quilts, none too fresh, probably, though the sheet blankets were evidently newly washed.

When it was over she crept into bed.

"Why," drawled Miss Blake, "I crept up when she was drying her hair and I cut it off."

The blood crept up to his cheeks, the light to his eyes.

The dogs had crept out of their houses and were squatted or huddled in the sun.

At last Sheila pulled herself up and crept about the house.

The birds sang and built and the May flies crept up through the snow and spun silver in the air for a brief dazzle of life.

But the wind came not, nor the rain; and the cholera crept nearer and nearer: while the hearts of all in Aberalva were hardened, and out of very spite against the agitators, they did less than they would have done otherwise.

He had had a long talk to a tame fawn which knew him and came when he whistled, and tempted a couple of squirrels down with some very brown nuts, laying them upon the bark of a fallen tree, and then drawing back a few yards, with the result that the bushy-tailed little animals crept softly down, nearer and nearer, ending by making a rush, seizing the nuts, and darting back to the security of a high branch of a tree.

Who hail'd my form as home I stept, And in my arms so eager leapt, And to my bosom joyous crept?

O'er Ashley's waters Crept the sweet billows to their own soft tune, While she, most bright of Keawah's fair daughters, Whose voice might spell the footsteps of the moon, As slow we swept along, Poured forth her own sweet song A lay of rapture not forgotten soon.

She from confession cometh here, From every sin absolved and free; I crept near the confessor's chair.

All that knew Frank, in or about Ridgefield, and all who had sons or brothers in the army, swarmed to do him honor; and the quaint, homely array crept slowly through the valley, to the sound of tolling bell and moaning wind and the low rush of the swollen river,the first taste of war's desolation that had fallen upon us, the first dark wave of a whelming tide!

She shuddered, as a second flash pealed out its thunder, and crept up to me.

" She asked me if I knew the flower; and when I answered her with my words of love of it, she said, "she had always thought it was one of Eden's own bits of blossomry, that, missing man from the hallowed grounds, crept out to know his fate, and, finding him so forlornly unblest, had sacrificed its emerald leaves, left in the Garden, and, creeping into mosses, lived, waiting for man's redemption.

I crept up close to the door.

The poor creature crept out of the house,I saw her go,and kneeling down behind that great maple-tree, she lifted up her arms to heaven, and I heard, or thought I heard her, moaning.

She crept about looking miserable and strained, and seemed to take an interest in nothing.

A few yards behind him, moving furtively and noiselessly, almost as if he had been shod with rubber, crept another figure, that of a stocky, broad-shouldered man, who despite his bulk and weight moved silently and swiftly through the night, a soft brown hat drawn low over his eyes as if he desired to avoid recognition.

His shadower, evidently much concerned in his actions, crept slowly and stealthily forward, approaching nearer and still nearer without being observed.

Behind him, as doggedly as ever and now a little closer, crept the man with the hat over his eyes.

He turned aside, too, from his course, and crept through the bushes toward the south.

" "How do you know that he crept?"

In the distance nothing could be seen but black sky and blacker water, while nearer crept on the line of mist, shutting out all prospect.

This done, he crept back to Ibrahim Mahmud and feigned sleep awhile.