Creaking

Examples

• When I awoke, the wind had risen, and the sign of the house (the Ship) was creaking and banging about, with noises that startled me. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• In a few minutes after, I heard the creaking of my door, as if some one endeavoured to open it softly. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• As for hindrance to this step, there offered not so much as a creaking hinge or a clicking latch. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Then I heard a gentle creaking as the window was very slowly opened. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Mrs. Snagsby is so perpetually on the alert that the house becomes ghostly with creaking boards and rustling garments. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The creaking of the masts, the clang of the wheels, the tramp above, all persuaded her that she was already far from the shores of Greece. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I like the wind in the high trees and the creaking they make against each other. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Fagin laughed; and making some reply which did not reach her, seemed, by the creaking of the boards, to lead his companion to the second story. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Briggs too well heard the creaking Firkin descend the stairs, and the clink of the spoon and gruel-basin the neglected female carried. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• There was a long pause, during which we held our breath, and then a very gentle creaking sound came to our ears. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• At last however about two in the morning, I suddenly heard the gentle sound of a bolt being pushed back and the creaking of a key. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• And so he struggled to encompass a similar hold with the left hand, and in a few moments Terkoz's bull neck was creaking beneath a full-Nelson. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• The massy portals of the churches swung creaking on their hinges; and some few lay dead on the pavement. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• It is my strong impression that I heard it, and yet, among the crash of the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have been deceived. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• At last, we heard the creaking of heavy boots descending the stairs. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.

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