As he was being secured to the gratings, and the shudderings and creepings of his dazzling white back were revealed, he turned his tear-stained face to the captain and implored him to spare him the disgrace, which he felt far more keenly than the pain.

" "I have a kinder of a-creeping about your Cousin Charles, as you call him," said Temperance, after she had closed the porch door.

Then comes a creeping as of centipedes running down the spine,then a gasp and a great jump of the heart,then a sudden flush and a beating in the vessels of the head,then a long sigh,and the poem is written.

"The guide asked us to be seated, while he went behind down a descent with the lights, to show us the creeping over of the shadows of the rocks, as if a dark cloud passed over the starlit vault.