"Creep up" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... our chance here, then," replies Hull, reflectively. "I'll creep up and take a look at ...
— The Deserter • Charles King
... them don't understand it," he said, morosely. "The women are the worst. I've gone there in the evening and found them studying the map eagerly. Hopefully, I would creep up behind to hear their comments. One will say, 'Yes, that's where my husband came from,' or 'I spent last summer over there,' pointing to some place on the map. They seem to think it's put there for ...
— Pipefuls • Christopher Morley
... to him as he passed out and hurried away; then, hearing the other gentlemen coming down the stairs, he, too, made haste to get out of the room and to creep up to his own after they had assembled, and the cigar cabinet and the whiskey were being passed round, and the doctor was busy above with the ...
— Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces • Thomas W. Hanshew
... every advantage that their knowledge of the country gave them. They had now begun to creep up the ravines, and their number increased every minute. Men were falling fast. Each man carrying a wounded comrade became a target. The Dorsets also were severely engaged. The Northamptons stuck to their ...
— Through Three Campaigns - A Story of Chitral, Tirah and Ashanti • G. A. Henty
... Neapolitan Chiaja (the afternoon resort of Naples). With characteristics quite different, still these shores remind us of the Mediterranean, Sorrento, Amalfi, and Capri, recalling the shadows which daily creep up the heights of San Elmo, and disappear with the setting ...
— Foot-prints of Travel - or, Journeyings in Many Lands • Maturin M. Ballou
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