How To Use Creeping In A Sentence
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There is grassland on the natural brae of Royal Garden, yellow and green, fighting with the autumn. In this grassland, an alley wanders forward, just like the traces from a big snake' creeping.
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First, they were creeping molds that slithered forth from the ocean onto land...and then they stood upright, supporting their globby substance by means of calciferous scaffolding, and finally they built machines.
Stanislaw Lem (1921-2006)
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Everywhere I turned there were immense trees towering above me, rainbows of exotically coloured blooms, and thick dark carpets of creeping moss.
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The demons were brilliant - creeping and crawling, twisting and writhing as one would expect them to.
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On October 30, just as the flood waters were creeping up in Ryedale, she drove her Peugeot car through a deep puddle and stalled the engine.
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The creeping fractures in both have been palliated by results in recent games, but the coming ones will determine whether those signs of life are indicative of temporary remission or permanent recovery.
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I could hardly believe I was creeping around my Cathedral with an exorcist.
ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
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As such I found myself dressed in black pyjamas and hood with only my eyes visible, creeping along a hallway with a particularly well-polished Ottoman strapped to my back and an alabaster vase full of tulips.
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I tend to be a late replier rather than a nonresponder, but even this shows a creeping lack of respect.
Times, Sunday Times
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Funny how religion is creeping into the environmental debate.
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She could feel the burning heat creeping up her neck and building up on her cheeks painfully.
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This is a big reason to combat the creeping banalisation of cosmetic surgery as just another 'harmless' service offered by the booming beauty industry.
The Times of India
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State-of-the-art production and Gilmour's note-perfect playing collided with bassist Roger Waters's grim lyrical vision, which fretted about materialism and age creeping up on you.
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Feelings of lethargy and fatigue are creeping into my being.
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Hanging planters also make a good home for anything that will trail and spill over, such as ivies and creeping phlox, especially if the planter is hanging above eye level.
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The faintest noise, it sounded like the creeping of some wraith.
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Also, they have never partaken in the demographic bullying which is seeing to it that the streets of Britain are the subject of a creeping - more of a brisk walk actually - colonisation aka multiculturalism.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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Creeping plants such as the ivy may be joined together by thin wire.
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They "rustled" and "cached" and "packed" things without even stopping to think, and _r's_ were unmistakably creeping into Priscilla's strictly Bostonian speech.
Virginia of Elk Creek Valley
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They often tried to force the play early and, with unforced errors also creeping in at inopportune times, they rarely completed sets of six.
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The Moorish girl advanced, creeping on her knees, her two hands still extended towards Meroë, who, full of pity, leaned towards the suppliant, meaning to raise her up.
The Brass Bell or, The Chariot of Death
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Either it means the debate ratings are creeping up, or its unusually dismal Saturday night programming for CBS.CBS News is live streaming the debate right here for those you without benefit of a telly or US geographical location.7.15pm ET: So after his brain feeze last time, Rick Perry is putting in more preparation, right?
GOP presidential debate in South Carolina - as it happened
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I am thoroughly disillusioned by the insipidity that is creeping into all aspects of daily life.
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Wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air.
Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report
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Two million years ago it was buried under a creeping blanket of ice.
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Its shocked expression looks more like a simper as it sits on Brewer's shoulder, perfectly arranged to look like it's creeping up from behind.
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The yellow flower spikes of a dwarf mullein or verbascum and the delicate white and pink trumpets of a creeping convolvulus defied my attempts at precise identification but were delightful nevertheless.
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If you look very carefully at the setting full Moon that morning, you may notice a slightly darker shading creeping over the lunar surface.
Times, Sunday Times
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Some call them a joke, poseurs who pastiche the look, moves and sound of classic, brothel-creeping rock'n'roll; others call them the coolest band in the world.
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After 22 cuts of the whip, he was starting to feel the pain creeping through his mind.
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The unmoved expression slowly creeping over Lily's face prompted him to continue explaining post-haste.
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In London, at a distance from all this tragedy of courage, I felt that I had slipped back to a lower plane; a kind of flabbiness was creeping into my blood -- the old selfish fear of life and love of comfort.
Carry On Letters in War-Time
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Hannah nodded her head again, a faint smile creeping across her face.
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Armed with only an acoustic guitar, My Morning Jacket's frontman falls into the delicate opening strains of ‘Bermuda Highway, ‘his ghostly caterwaul creeping up my spine like a fever.’
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Dressed in black (how obvious) the person was creeping toward the house, ducking behind bushes and hedges.
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The upright stems branched from creeping branching horizontal rhizomes that bore delicate hair-like roots.
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It's whipgloss, ladies: the grasses steep-edged in the storm, dense with hornets trying to trick their way under the roots while the stains keep creeping out of my fist, moistening the knee of my pants, your pants, our pants leaving us stranded like creatures that gurgle under the waste as the mud hardens.
Gloss
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There was a dankness in the air, a smell of creeping poverty which emanated from the beggars and rose to enfold them all.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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For suddenly he became conscious that it was there, behind the trees somewhere lurking, a curious kind of stilly glimmer creeping about the air, along the ground, in and out of the tree-stems.
A Silent Wooing
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Low, mounding chamomile and creeping thymes grow between the nemesias.
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In a moment, the forest was quiet again, and the flying and creeping things slithered and crawled to view the carnage.
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The unmoved expression slowly creeping over Lily's face prompted him to continue explaining post-haste.
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In the darkness, she could hear the curtains creeping on the draught.
CHAMELEON
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HE recovered the shoebrush from under the window of Tabby, the young assistant house-master, and tucking it into his pocket, skirted the outer limits of the school, dodged behind a fence, and creeping on all-fours, made a wide detour via the pond and rejoined the high road to
Skippy Bedelle His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the Complete Man of the World
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You find here enormous acacias, monkey-bread trees, raphia palms and baobabs; less gloom, and fewer creeping and hanging plants.
The Pools of Silence
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Over the period of a month or so, the temp kept creeping up even though the room temperature is maintained relatively constant.
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The cobbles were cool on my feet - I had not even put on sandals for fear of being heard creeping across the marble floor of my home.
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And still the creeping evidence of failure seems ubiquitous.
Times, Sunday Times
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I love shallow, weedy, silted up estate lakes to pursue crucian carp, tench, bream and carp and I love the sort of creeping and crawling tactics needed to get within inches of the fish.
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We have found the wild tulip, the primrose, the lupine, the eardrop, the larkspur, and creeping hollyhock, and a beautiful flower resembling the bloom of the beech tree, but in bunches as large as a small sugarloaf, and of every variety of shade, to red and green.
The Passing of the Frontier; a chronicle of the old West
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While the bombing is the biggest Mauritanian “story” to catch western media attention since the election Mauritanians are more concerned with other troubles related to legitimacy and creeping despotism.
Global Voices in English » Mauritania Experiences First-Ever Suicide Bombing
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Creeping small-leaved euonymus, cotoneasters and ivies are popular for ground cover.
The Sun
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Lucas stared at the ground, trying to hide the joyful smile that was creeping across his face.
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A tingly feeling was creeping down my spine as he slowly rubbed his thumb in circles against the pulse in my wrist.
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Funny how religion is creeping into the environmental debate.
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Branches and trunks twist and bend as they grow, creeping horizontally along the ground as well as reaching toward the sky.
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Benji had a creeping suspicion that this would be the answer to his question.
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Becca blinked a few more times before creeping out of the shower and relocking the door.
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The inflation rate has been creeping up to 9.5 per cent.
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The oblivion of unconsciousness was creeping up on her at its leisure, and she would make him regret murdering her too slowly.
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For, what great, black horse is this which, despite Carnaby's flailing whip and cruel, rowelling spur, is slowly, surely creeping up with the laboring gray?
The Amateur Gentleman
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The reaction to the growing interconnection is a creeping "social psychosis.
Douglas LaBier: A Rising "Social Psychosis" in Public and Private Life
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Spreading plants: creeping thyme, purple-leaved clover, stonecrop, ajuga.
Times, Sunday Times
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The errors are creeping into Ferrero's game now as he squanders an opportunity to earn a break point at 30-30.
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Now interest rates are creeping up, making for bigger mtg. payments, the price runup is grinding to a halt.
C'ville Real Estate Bubble? at cvillenews.com
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It has exacerbated many existing weaknesses (rise of e-tailing, rise of e-books, creeping omnipotence of e's and hyphens), and has forced publishers to examine their business models.
Nathan Bransford: Publishing's Winner's Curse
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A slightly uneven surface is studded with irregular mossy rocks and covered with the northern European forest mixture of grass and creeping shrubs like bilberry.
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There is something reassuring about the creeping medicalisation of extremes of human normality.
Times, Sunday Times
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A beam of silvery light was shining through the old windows, the moss already creeping up and encircling them in emerald tendrils.
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It has short, creeping rhizomes from which new shoots arise each year, and is an attractive species with horticultural potential.
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You can also let a creeping fig or other dense vine cover a block wall between you and your neighbors, or add planting sconces to walls and gates.
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The sun that shines. Banana plantations creeping up the hill.
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He entered the presence of the Prince of Scotland, creeping as if he trode upon eggs, with downcast eyes, and a frame that seemed shrunk up by
The Fair Maid of Perth
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It called for individual nerve and daring on that shell-swept, pestled earth, creeping up to new positions or back for water and food by night, lying "doggo" by day and waiting for a counter-attack by the Germans, who were always the losers in this grim, stealthy advance.
My Second Year of the War
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250 Things You Can Do to Make Your Cat Adore You
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You discover the words, “whippersnapper,” “scalawag” and “by-cracky” creeping into your vocabulary.
You Know You’re Over The Hill When… « You Got to be Kidding's Blog
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At Blackpool yesterday, the shadow home secretary, Oliver Letwin, promised a radical counter-revolution against this creeping centralisation.
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Already the numbness was creeping through her body, dissolving her strength and robbing her limbs of their force.
COMPULSION
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Downslope, a patch of creeping red fescue grows naturally, requiring mowing just once or twice a year to renew growth.
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“Do, do,” said Mowbray, recklessly; “I thank you, I thank you;” and hastily traversing the garden, as if desirous to get rid at once of his visitor and his own thoughts, he took the shortest road to a little postern-gate, which led into the extensive copsewood, through some part of which Clara had caused a walk to be cut to a little summer-house built of rough shingles, covered with creeping shrubs.
Saint Ronan's Well
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Surely women know by now not to go creeping into scary houses by themselves after dark.
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I had a queer sensation as if a worm was creeping down my spine.
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Creeping thistle, haunt of the charming meadow brown butterfly, can become a real pest if it gets a foothold.
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They came in twos and threes, creeping silently through the forest, with their flying arrows able to annihilate distance and bring down prey from the top of the loftiest tree without themselves climbing into it.
CHAPTER XV
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The dragon is bodiless yet has scaly hands creeping upwards.
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He could not resist a faint smile creeping over his face.
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Some other plants had survived, a small convolvulus, golden lamium and creeping geranium were beginning to sprout so these were potted up but the lining fell to bits when the basket was emptied.
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So in some splendid still lifes you will find blowflies sitting on a pear or the odd maggot creeping out of a peach.
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The title personalities of the lead character gave actor James Nesbitt plenty of fun, and there was a creeping menace to events hinting at darker deeds to come.
The world does not owe you a living
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I could feel the blow in my gut and kidneys, sheer panic, creeping up my back and riffling the hair on my scalp.
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On the river-shore crawfishes were lazily creeping over the gravel.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878.
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Once realizing that this thing had some sort of wizardry in his power, he began creeping towards the door.
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If you look very carefully at the setting full Moon that morning, you may notice a slightly darker shading creeping over the lunar surface.
Times, Sunday Times
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Even in his monumental riveted copper sculptures, one finds the subtle influence of the coppersmith / icon maker inadvertently creeping into his technique.
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The fact that employment regulation is a creeping burden does not make it any less onerous.
Times, Sunday Times
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It started in the left leg, the tingle creeping slowly through the whole limb leaving numbness in its wake.
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The creeping attack insured that the first assault would come without warning because the enemy would not pick up the asdic of the first ship right above her.
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The traffic was creeping along at a snail's pace.
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Naturally the most ambitious junior ministers and backbenchers are also creeping up to Downing Street.
The Sun
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What horrors will come creeping out of the flask on the laboratory bench?
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Locomotion is facilitated by three types of appendage: creeping welts, prolegs, and suctorial discs.
Insecta (Aquatic)
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Still trying to figure out how Coastal Na'vi might handle Jungle N'avi creeping into their space due to decimated but newly 'invigorated' Darwinian leader types looking pretty worth a Na'vi WAG trying to up the gene pool 'n all, and needing a bit more room now the sprog crash pad in Dubai has sunk.
The Guardian World News
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Then under foot there were patches of woolly feather-grass and fragrant meadow-sweet, sheets of fescue, dog's-tail, creeping-bent, and meadow grass.
La faute de l'Abbe Mouret
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That's a cast-iron guarantee that any stolen moments of leisure time for me and my wife will be tarnished by a creeping sense of guilt.
Times, Sunday Times
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For seven minutes I explore these objects, creeping and tiptoeing upon them, gradually gaining confidence as the music swells.
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The creeping mist coiled its tendrils round the spiky barbs like grasping fingers.
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But after more than three years in operation, the number of bags crossing shop counters - while still a fraction of the number used a few years ago - is creeping up.
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Funny how religion is creeping into the environmental debate.
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OTTAWA – Anti-Semitism is creeping from the shadows into the mainstream and even onto university campuses, a parliamentary committee heard Monday.
Archive 2009-11-01
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They are creepingly (ph) widening their zone of occupation.
CNN Transcript Aug 17, 2008
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We meet Paul, 21, too prolific to count his numberless crimes, a specialist in scary ‘creeping burglary’ from night-time houses.
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Glad to escape so easily, the young acolyte disappeared down the alley of fig trees, not without a furtive look at the patches of chickweed around their roots, the possible ambuscade of creeping or saltant vermin.
On the Frontier
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He had found his creeping gromwell, and he had found the place where Huon de Domville had spent the last night of his life.
The Leper of Saint Giles
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Get through that London, Michaelmas Term lately over, and the Lord's Chancellor sitting in the mud on the streets with a megalosaurus creeping up on him or something and see how far I get with this year's Dickens of a Read.
Let Christmas begin.
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Now if the student will compare Section 35, he will see that in the white blood corpuscles we have a very remarkable resemblance to the amoeba; the contractile vacuole is absent, but we have the protoplasmic body, the nucleus and nucleolus, and those creeping fluctuations of shape through the thrusting out and withdrawal of pseudopodia, which constitute "amoeboid" motion.
Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata
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Throw in a disappointing 14th on the grid for today and deep misgivings must surely be creeping in.
Times, Sunday Times
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There are lots of strange things creeping around the interweb.
Times, Sunday Times
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And still the creeping evidence of failure seems ubiquitous.
Times, Sunday Times
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A slightly uneven surface is studded with irregular mossy rocks and covered with the northern European forest mixture of grass and creeping shrubs like bilberry.
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There was a dankness in the air, a smell of creeping poverty which emanated from the beggars and rose to enfold them all.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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The mangroves never cease building, ever creeping seaward.
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In a flash, Creed was out of the jeep and creeping past foliage and tree-trunks towards the beginning of the picket fence.
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The color scheme is rich yellow and dark red, from plants such as coreopsis, creeping zinnia, ‘Garnet’ penstemon, pineapple sage, rudbeckia, and yarrow.
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We were creeping forever through darkness with nothing but each other's black figures and the swoosh of our cloaks to tell that we were still together.
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Bilgewater sloshed around his ankles, creeping under his nanoskin faster than the skin could re-osmose it; the night hung against him hot and sweaty as a giant hand.
The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection
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Over 360 species of plant have been recorded on site including creeping spearwort (found at only four other sites in Britain) and coralroot orchid.
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It was an odd, creeping feeling, that made her body tickle and itch at the same time.
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So the Medium Lobster salutes Virgina's attempt to put a stop to creeping secularity in our private arrangements.
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Then he turned and went slowly up the stair, and came out on to the open face of that Isle, and he saw that it was waste indeed, and dreadful: a wilderness of black sand and stones and ice-borne rocks, with here and there a little grass growing in the hollows, and here and there a dreary mire where the white-tufted rushes shook in the wind, and here and there stretches of moss blended with red-blossomed sengreen; and otherwhere nought but the wind-bitten creeping willow clinging to the black sand, with a white bleached stick and a leaf or two, and again a stick and a leaf.
The Story of the Glittering Plain; or, the land of Living Men
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In Kirsty Gunn's second novel, Featherstone, we find ourselves confusingly but fittingly connected with characters disassociating themselves with creeping abandon.
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They marched across rugged terrain in darkness before creeping up on the captors' lair.
The Sun
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POSES: Personalization is becoming creepingly popular, because it ` s another way for the bride and grown make their guests stand out in a special way.
CNN Transcript Jun 22, 2005
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Buttercups have creeping runners that root at intervals and are almost as difficult to dislodge as dock.
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unseelie" does not me impish prankster. your unseelie red cap should be eating babies. your unseelie sluagh should be creeping out of the closet to bring terror to children- absolute, psyche scarring horror. your unseelie pooka should be telling the kind of lies that wreck a marriage, that cause a massacre.
Mordicai: crown me king!
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Many plant species can reproduce clonally by creeping roots or stems, propagules such as bulbils and tubers, or agamous seeds.
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More worrying, the long-finned gene seems to be creeping into broods where it's not wanted.
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The main weeds dying back were creeping thistle, couch and mature knotgrass.
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His struggles were becoming more and more frenzied, a wild look creeping into his blue eyes.
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What rankles more than the creeping pop is the lack of time to take part in competitions.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's dark and eerie - a bizarre experience enhanced by the narcosis that is slowly creeping up on me.
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Fixed rates started creeping up at the end of last summer in anticipation of increases in the base rate.
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It was creepingly, annoyingly, stullyfyingly dull.
The almost certainly not last post on Voltron
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Georgia is trying hard to secure wider support to replace the Russian peacekeeping force in Abkhazia with an international one, to prevent what it calls the territory's "creeping annexation.
U.N. Says Russian Jet
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So, finally and belatedly, the idea that is creeping up is that of a two-speed Europe, in which a hard core of integrationist states steams ahead in the direction of a United States of Europe.
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Some other plants had survived, a small convolvulus, golden lamium and creeping geranium were beginning to sprout so these were potted up but the lining fell to bits when the basket was emptied.
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In the days after the riots, police spies were out in force, creeping through the capital with their ears open for sedition.
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Since the winter is creeping up on us, there was also talk of a related drink called gran rakia, which is heated and blended with sugar.
On Rakia
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We felt foolish standing there with rain water soaking up our ragged jean clad legs so we pretended that we liked that feeling of creeping dampness on the tube.
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We sat on our horses, and I watched the huts as the creeping shadows slanted across them.
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A study done by the Nature Institute showed that creeping bentgrass-a USDA-approved herbicide resistant grass engineered by Monsanto and Scotts Company for golf courses-had spread its transgene via pollen to native and related plants 13 mis beyond the control area.
OpEdNews - Quicklink: It's a lawless land when it comes to containing GM
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The bird spends the day searching for food in such places -- hence its name nettle-creeper -- creeping along the hedges, under brambles and thorns, and builds its nest in the locality to which it is accustomed.
Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies
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However, Finley's voice generally lacks the dark quality with which Fischer-Dieskau could cloak his sound when required, and which Britten exploits in settings such as the creepingly chromatic A Poison Tree andAh Sun-flower.
Britten: Songs and Proverbs of William Blake, etc
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Many are low, creeping and useful for softening path edges or spilling over raised planting areas.
Times, Sunday Times
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The mountain is so unlike creeping in people's feet.
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She had been green and whippy, but now she could feel the brittleness of age creeping in and the breakability that came with it.
THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
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Early gentian and Creeping marshwort are European protected species.
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Lionello, who had heard all the forepassed discourse, which shee had delivered to her Husband Beltramo, came creeping forth amazedly
The Decameron
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Cattleyas make copious roots, which are a joy when they explode from the base of the newly formed pseudobulb The thick, creeping, woody rhizome connecting the pseudobulbs often resins in the development of new growths the rriimm of the pot, and, when the new roots follow, this can be a problem ice the grower.
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We rush down the glacier solving its intricacies by interminable weaving, creeping over tenuous bridges, snowplowing desperately below the shrouded rock.
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They peeled off the main road onto a dirt track that cut into a mass of thornbush and creeping triffid weed.
Let The Dead Lie
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They "hasted," and a second or two after were creeping, doubled up lest their heads show above the darkened windows and arouse unwelcome curiosity, along the rear of Torrence.
Left Guard Gilbert
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He is better, then, sir?" said Helen, creeping to the allopathist.
Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851
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A slightly uneven surface is studded with irregular mossy rocks and covered with the northern European forest mixture of grass and creeping shrubs like bilberry.
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I see that film as evidencing the insidious effects of a creeping, dangerous worldview slowly infecting a small group of people, and then one by one destroying them.
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It called for individual nerve and daring on that shell-swept, pestled earth, creeping up to new positions or back for water and food by night, lying "doggo" by day and waiting for a counter-attack by the Germans, who were always the losers in this grim, stealthy advance.
My Second Year of the War
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So some dangerous complacency is creeping in.
Times, Sunday Times
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Young people to prevent the apocalypse which is creeping up on us in the very midst of our plenty.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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Aggressive planting of hawthorn, pyracantha, creeping juniper, holly, Chinese jujube, roses, blackthorn or prickly ash will help deter criminals.
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Still snuffling and coughing from the Creeping Crud.
Lather. Rinse. Repeat.
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Her eyes were bright gold, and the joy and tenderness in her expression rewarded him for much frustration and the pain that was creeping up both arms and beginning to permeate his whole body.
Ill Met By Moonlight
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JoAnne was keeping to the right, creeping along as though she were checking the storefront numbers for an address.
C B GREENFIELD - A LITTLE MADNESS
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Stems are erect or decumbent below or ascending from a creeping base, rooting at the nodes, smooth, glabrous and much branched, varying in height, from 1 to 2 feet; branches are short, slender and sometimes even capillary, with _nodes_ bearded or not in branches ending in solitary spikes, and completely glabrous when they end in binate spikes.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
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Pop melodies paired with creeping electronic production and Emmy's wonderful husky vocal.
The Sun
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The broad, wrap-around porch burst with potted scarlet and ginger orchids, crepe myrtle, and creeping ivy.
WHO KILLED TIFFANY JONES?
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Bright green baby's tears, blue star creeper, and creeping thyme grow below them.
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When people feel irritable about the lack of bounce in the economic rebound; when words like malaise and phrases like triple dip and creeping decrepitude are bruited about - the moment is ripe for yeasayers to pop the pessimists.
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The color scheme is rich yellow and dark red, from plants such as coreopsis, creeping zinnia, ‘Garnet’ penstemon, pineapple sage, rudbeckia, and yarrow.
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There are well-documented cases with papaya in Hawaii, corn in Mexico, canola most recently in North Dakota, and creeping bentgrass, which pollinated grasses 13 miles away in Oregon.
Paula Crossfield: GM and Organic Co-Existence: Why We Really Just Can't Get Along
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Just as he felt a certain warmth in his spirit, he felt the creeping cold in his feet.
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This creeping classical conundrum could have untold beneficial effects on the population as a whole.
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It was still light out, just the first orange rays of twilight creeping over the horizon.
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Rushing streams overflow their banks in summer, watering the meadows where a young Lev Tolstoy wandered, botanical primer in hand, picking out the . . . red, white, and pink scented tufty clover; milk-white ox-eye daisies with their bright yellow centers and pleasant spicy smell; yellow honey-scented rape blossoms; tall campanulas with white and lilac bells, tulip-shaped; creeping vetch . . .
The Return
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We've all complained about creeping infotainment, media concentration, the lack of serious investigative TV, the tabloid nature of the magazine shows and on and on.
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This seems to have been his response to the creeping erosion of the square's residential character primarily by the spread of barristers' chambers.
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We saw two more wild cats creeping towards us in the darkness.
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Traditional societies in underdeveloped countries are no more immune to creeping moral decay than their more sophisticated cousins in rich, developed nations.
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He may not only deny our God and our Redeemer, but he may worship Jupiter or Osiris, an ape or a crocodile, the host of heaven or the creeping things of the earth; let him only have a statutable horror of the religion of others, and agree to brand with the name of idolatry the religion of the greater part of the Christian world.
On Catholic Relief
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Bright green baby's tears, blue star creeper, and creeping thyme grow below them.
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Funny how religion is creeping into the environmental debate.
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We waited for a quiet moment before creeping onto the first tee.
For Love or Money
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The best anyone hoped for was gradual creeping reform.
Times, Sunday Times
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Do you detect a note of self-pity creeping in?
Times, Sunday Times
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Comes from your ancestors creeping through the trackless jungles of Africa.
THE DUTCH BLUE ERROR
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No bloated monstrosity had come creeping toward his house, of course not.
LOST BOY LOST GIRL
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For instance, of the 14 GM crops awaiting USDA commercial approval, nearly half (6) are herbicide-tolerant: corn, soybeans, cotton (2), alfalfa and creeping bentgrass (for golf courses).
Facts about genetic engineering's status worldwide
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The new trend for a 1950s look is creeping in, accompanied by fuller skirts and wide belts.
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In addition to a magnifying effect that shortsightedness seems to have, people like me can also creep up creepingly close to the things we want to look at and still focus properly.
Archive 2009-03-01
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The trees were tall and vast, of tropical origin, with vines hanging from the branches and creeping along the damp earth.
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Fatigue was creeping up on her.
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A creeping process of impoverishment ensued, accelerating progressively to become the generally recognized pauperism of the nineteenth century.
