Crawling

Examples

• When he asked what should such fellows as he do crawling between earth and heaven, he was encouraged with loud cries of Hear, hear! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Crawling, guv'ner, again a wall-- True, Phil--shouldering your way on-- In a night-cap! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• These crawling things had fascinated my attention, and I was watching them from a distance, when Miss Havisham laid a hand upon my shoulder. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• At last, by a sudden impulse, just as our train was crawling out of a suburban station, he sprang on to the platform and pulled me out after him. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Must man, the heaven-climber, be for ever the victim of the crawling reptiles of his species! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Dr. Cruger saw a continual procession of bees thus crawling out of their involuntary bath. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Do you not see that it is no use now to be crawling a little way after men of the last century--men like Bryant--and correcting their mistakes? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The warriors tore open the entrance and a couple of them, crawling in, soon demolished all the eggs with their short-swords. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• But the most hateful sight of all, was the lice crawling on their clothes. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• One, aquatic, a yard long, fifteen pounds in weight, with limbs and strong claws admirably adapted for crawling over the rugged and fissured masses of l ava, feeds on seaweed. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Nevertheless, when her husband was away, she would come down like a wolf on the crawling supplicants: 'What do you people want? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Some people, so situated, would have been ashamed of the berth he had with us and his manner of crawling into it. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.

Typist: Mabel