Creaked

Examples

• They creaked under his weight--it was exasperating. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The chair below suddenly creaked again--I felt the trellis-work pillar under me shake from top to bottom. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The chair creaked, and the pillar shook once more. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Louis, who was looking at her (which I was not), says she creaked when she curtseyed. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Something creaked: it was a door ajar; and that door was Mr. Rochester's, and the smoke rushed in a cloud from thence. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• For a thousand years the Chinese system, though it creaked and swayed at times, seemed proof against decay. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• And Jos creaked up the stairs to bedward, followed by Kirsch with a flambeau. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The huge green fragment of ice on which she alighted pitched and creaked as her weight came on it, but she staid there not a moment. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Something outside or inside this singular girl suddenly creaked. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I had strange thoughts of what had befallen me, when the door of my dungeon creaked, and two villain monks entered. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Our feet creaked and crackled over the bare planking, and my outstretched hand touched a wall from which the paper was hanging in ribbons. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The exposed machinery creaked and groaned, the unguarded paddle-wheels revolved ponderously and splashed a great deal of water, the tiller was badly placed for steering. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• I'm as stiff as a ram's horn stooping so long, said Fairway, standing up and stretching himself till his joints creaked. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• There is a press in the room, but its hinges have not creaked, nor has a step been audible upon the floor. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• A tread creaked on the stairs at last. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.

Edited by Joanne