Which preposition to use with creeped

into Occurrences 547%

Now however the atrocious darkness seemed to creep into my soul, and I became filled with fear and despair.

over Occurrences 238%

I looked at my companion, to see what he thought of the matter; and noted that there was only puzzlement in his face; and then, as I watched his features, an expression of comprehension crept over them, and he nodded his head.

to Occurrences 175%

Thereupon I picked up my book, and crept to the door to listen.

through Occurrences 120%

The wintry dawn is beginning to creep through the windows, and shows the bare discomfort of the old room.

along Occurrences 105%

Creeping along the edge of the schrund, holding on with benumbed fingers, I discovered clear sections where the bedded structure was beautifully revealed.

out Occurrences 87%

She listened for a long time and then gentlyvery gentlyshe crept out of bed and drew aside the little curtain from the window.

from Occurrences 71%

Axe and bow, sword and pike and gisarm, in rusty mail, in rags of leather and skins, they crept from bush to bush, from tree to tree, till they were come to that little pool wherein Beltane had bathed him aforetime in the dawn.

on Occurrences 58%

I persisted, however, creeping on all fours, and shuffling up the smoothest places on my back, as I had often done on burnished granite, until, after slipping several times, I was compelled to retrace my course to the bottom, and make my way around the west end of the lake, and thence up to the summit of the divide between the head waters of Rush Creek and the northernmost tributaries of the San Joaquin.

in Occurrences 55%

" A quarter of an hour later the three boys, in semi-undress, were creeping in single file up the narrow staircase.

about Occurrences 47%

I would only approach the mountain now, and inspect it, creep about its flanks, learn what I could of its history, holding myself ready to flee on the approach of the first storm-cloud.

under Occurrences 44%

Some howled, some laughed, and only Bibbs had sufficient presence of mind to creep under the sink, which afforded a certain amount of shelter from the falling flood.

toward Occurrences 36%

Eastward, the shadows of every seen thing crept toward the coming greyness.

across Occurrences 35%

A prickly sensation traverses my spine, and seems to creep across my scalp.

down Occurrences 35%

Kittie told me herself the very sight of the old Bevins place over on Orchard Street gives her the creeps down her back.

up Occurrences 35%

"Listen!" CHAPTER XVII ONLY A BAT The three girls sat quiet, every nerve tense, that same chilly sensation creeping up their spines, and their hair beginning to stand on end.

with Occurrences 30%

There he sat upon the top of his rock, with scarcely room to turn around, with a wide sweep of deep water between him and the nearest land, the fish utterly refusing to bite, and the sun blazing down upon him with heat like a furnace, as it crept with its snail's pace across the sky.

like Occurrences 30%

The music grew fainter and fainter as it receded, until only an occasional strain, wavy and dream-like, came creeping like the voice of a spirit over the water, and then it was lost in the distance.

past Occurrences 19%

I stepped into the hall, and was about to call to her, when it occurred to me, that it was very queer she should have crept past my door, in that stealthy manner.

towards Occurrences 19%

Now, lifting his head, Beltane beheld a man, bent and ragged who crept towards them on a stick; his face, low-stooped, was hid 'neath long and matted hair, but his tatters plainly showed the hideous nakedness of limbs pinched and shrunken by famine, while about his neck was a heavy iron collar such as all serfs must needs wear.

behind Occurrences 14%

Scrambling once more to his feet, he felt in his waistcoat pocket, and finding there a fusee which he remembered to have taken from a box owned by "Rats," he struck it, and by the aid of its feeble glare crept behind the heap of benches which lay piled up close to the opposite wall.

between Occurrences 13%

The deer, the caribou and the moose could not crawl under windfalls or creep between rocks.

after Occurrences 13%

He reached me his hand and went on without a word; and I with terror crept after him, treading in his steps, following like his shadow.

around Occurrences 13%

Towards its head, a cold stream comes creeping around the boulders, and dancing and singing down the rocks from a copious spring, a short way back in the forest.

for Occurrences 11%

I was compelled to creep for miles on all fours, and in following the bear-trails often found tufts of hair on the bushes where they had forced themselves through.

at Occurrences 10%

Creeping at snail's pace onlywhile I couldn't make thee learn That donkeys' legs were never made to stop at ev'ry turn.

Which preposition to use with  creeped