Crawled

Examples

• Stooping, he crawled into the shelter beside the wounded officer, and placed a cool hand upon his forehead. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• At evening he crawled slowly back; and he used to go of nights to a little club at a tavern, where he disposed of the finances of the nation. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I crawled down between the gondola and the shelter of the high freight-car behind. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• My forehead hit something that gave me a violent bump and I felt blood on my face but I crawled on in and lay flat. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Monks went at once into the street; and the Jew crawled upstairs again for the money. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• The Martian had crawled to my side and with staring eyes fixed on the single panel before us we waited in the silence of death. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Silently we dropped to the deserted deck, and on hands and knees crawled toward the hatchway. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• My tattered dress was that in which I had crawled half alive from the tempestuous sea. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• He should have crawled around the sawdust pile. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• He crawled along behind the horse and looked out of the angle between the horse's hindquarters and the rock. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• After we had crawled in this disgusting fashion for a matter of a couple of hundred feet we were halted by our escort. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• A dreadful dumb trembling crawled all over me on a sudden. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I crawled up from the floor, and saw my face in the glass, so swollen, red, and ugly that it almost frightened me. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• For these things I would have crawled on with her for twenty years, if for twenty years longer her life of endurance had been protracted. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• I saw a dark, creeping figure which crawled round the corner and squatted in front of the door. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Amidst this luxuriant primitive vegetation crawled and glided and flew the first insects. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He was always a man of iron nerve, and the story is still told in India how he crawled down a drain after a wounded man-eating tiger. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• In accordance with his instructions I dropped to my hands and knees once more and crawled from the Presence. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• I crawled about the lawn with an August sun on my back, but I got up at the end of an hour no wiser than before. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Then I crawled out, pushed on through the willows and onto the bank. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• A fly crawled on his hands but the small tickling did not come through the pain. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Then he clambered up to the rim of the hollow, and crawled about among the ferns and bushes. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• They crawled out at night to get food, but remained under cover in the day time. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The ichthyosauri were not proud: they crawled and floundered as we do. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• But really, Ursula, he belongs to the primeval world, when great lizards crawled about. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• You, the most deliberate thing that ever walked or crawled! D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• With the one, time flew sometimes; with the other, never--it crawled always. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.

Editor: Lucius