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somehow or other, there is a genial sunshine about you that warms every creeping thing into heart and confidence. Your — Washington Irving

My body was braille for the creeping influences. — Seamus Heaney

Sadness creeping from the shadows will get less and less until it crushes her no more than a petal might her breath. — Nicola Morgan

The threads of malice creeping toward him from Beloved's side of the table were held harmless in the warmth of Sethe's smile. — Toni Morrison

REGARDING THE MARCHING BAND: How much more interesting it would be to see a creeping band. — Demetri Martin

THE ADVENTURE OF THE CREEPING MAN — Arthur Conan Doyle

In 2003, I warned of a 'creeping coup' in Russia against the forces of democracy and market capitalism in Russia. — John McCain

Was it a sign of Creeping Decrepitude? — Julia Child

They carried sticks and wore white clothes with bells on them, to stop them creeping up on people. No one likes an unexpected Morris dancer. — Terry Pratchett

Like a snake creeping through the undergrowth, I sneak into the law school well past noon and hours after both of my scheduled classes have broken up. — John Grisham

The creeping sense that he might have seen him reading the book came up from the ground, but that was more anxiety than evidence. — Natasha Pulley

I had assumed I'd pack my bags and head elsewhere after 'Constellation,' but Chechnya is creeping its way into the margins of my second book. — Anthony Marra

Someone creeping into his yard in the dead of night? More likely there's a very shell-shocked cat wandering somewhere, covered in potato peelings. — J.K. Rowling

What e'er you are
That in this desert inaccessible,
Under the shade of melancholy boughs,
Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time. — William Shakespeare

Lust comes creeping through the night to feed on hearts of suburban wives who learned to pretend when they met their dreams end. — Neil Young

I sensed them creeping around in the living room as my body shot to instant wakefulness. It probably sounds weird, but I could hear them breathing — Robert J. Crane

I feel like I'm creeping closer to finding the situation that triggers songwriting, which is obviously an extreme of an emotion. — Laura Marling

I have not much love for the bright lights - unless it's the sun creeping up over the horizon. — Michael Leunig

Every moment age is creeping up stealthily,
but life, life is melting down
like a candle that is flickering around. — Suman Pokhrel

I read 'Crime and Punishment' years ago and don't recall the details of it, but I do retain a strong sense of the creeping paranoia and panic. — Arthur Smith

No, really, Noah," she said. "I'll wait until you 're dressed."
So i could miss that blush creeping across her face? No way. — Katie McGarry

Ava wasn't the poor unsuspecting woman who'd let the wild thing into the house, she was the wild thing's mate, creeping indoors at his side ... — Lauren Gilley

The thought came creeping, just as the numbness came creeping, stealing over his senses, softly, smoothly, there in the silken silence. — Robert Bloch

SERIAL, n. A literary work, usually a story that is not true, creeping through several issues of a newspaper or magazine. — Ambrose Bierce

I feel the madness creeping slowly. Loved by many I'm still lonely. — Ronnie Radke

When feelings of inadequacy come creeping in, let's park our minds in God's truth. — Lysa TerKeurst

There are sneaking,
creeping, crumpling
noises coming from
inside the walls. — Neil Gaiman

The sunrise sky was creeping over the edge of the city in orange-and-scarlet striations, and the clocks were or were not chiming seven. — Scott Lynch

The creeping wilderness will soon take over that church that trusts in its own strength and forgets to watch and pray. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

You carried your own burden and very soon your symptoms of creeping privilege disappeared. — Seamus Heaney

People think of science as rolling back the mystery of God. I look at science as slowly creeping toward the mystery of God. — Allan Hamilton

I believe that for the past twenty years there has been a creeping socialism spreading in the United States. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Change came so slowly you never noticed it creeping up on you, or far too fast for comfort, but it came. — Robert Jordan

I search my heart, but at the moment the only person I can feel creeping up on me is Snow. — Suzanne Collins

The moon was creeping up behind a hill to the northeast, almost as though it was afraid of what it would see when it cleared the ridge. — Scott Pratt

I don't write so much now. I'm getting on 33, pot belly and creeping dementia. — Charles Bukowski

A boy cannot begin playing ball too early. I might almost say that while he is still creeping on all fours he should have a bouncing rubber ball. — Christy Mathewson

The flying serpent figure is ancient civilizations' way of creeping onto the throne of the Upper Heavens to claim its authority. — Ibrahim Ibrahim

My mother had soft hands that smelled like soap, and a smile like the first bit of sunlight creeping over a trimmed lawn. — Lauren Oliver

Shaun get your sister her glasses. She looks naked without them. It's creeping me out. — Mira Grant

All are keeping a sharp look-out in front, but none suspects that the danger may be creeping up from behind. — James M. Barrie

Anger was quickly creeping into the areas that mourning hadn't filled — Bernadette Marie

The worst kind of hurt was the kind that wasn't there yet, but you knew was slowly creeping toward you. — Heather Gudenkauf

I am a grandmother now, and that means age is creeping on, creeping on. — Lillie Langtry

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes. — Oscar Wilde

Now I feel free, and hope is creeping back. Maybe because I'm paying attention to what I have rather than what's missing. — Doug Cooper

Sleepiness seemed to be creeping out of the ground and up their legs, and falling softly out of the air upon theirheads and eyes. — J.R.R. Tolkien

I think that whenever a nation feels itself to be at is zenith, it starts to feel a creeping sense of anxiety. — Robert Harris

They looked neither older nor younger now; the beards of the aged were no whiter, nor could the creeping babe of yesterday walk on his feet today ... — Nathaniel Hawthorne

The waves were shadows, snakes under a quilt, creeping in almost unseen until they emerged in milky ripples at the water's edge. — Winston Graham

The thinnest tendrils of dawn are creeping in from the east. People in New York are softly starting to tweet. — Robin Sloan

For out of fear and need each religion is born, creeping into existence on the byways or reason. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Something was creeping and creeping and waiting to be seen and felt and heard. — H.P. Lovecraft

It is strange how loud little sounds become when you are in the dark and doing something wrong. — Richard Llewellyn

Darkness has a way of creeping up on you, making its presence known before you even realize it's happened. — Melyssa Winchester

Listen, all creeping things, the bell of transience. — Kobayashi Issa

Maybe just being open to things being connected made us see more. Now I shudder whenever I find that sort of connectedness creeping into my life. — Mark Vonnegut

It is the same woman, I know, for she is always creeping, and most women do not creep by daylight. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping. — A. C. Benson

What majesty is in a creeping Snail, what reflection, what earnestness, what timidity and yet at the same time what firm confidence! — Elisabeth Tova Bailey

The worm does not his work more surely on the dead body, than does this slow creeping fire upon the living frame. — Charles Dickens

Slowly and imperceptibly old age comes creeping on. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Anything, anything would be better than this agony of mind, this creeping pain that gnaws and fumbles and caresses one and never hurts quite enough. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Be commonplace and creeping and you'll be a success. — Pierre Beaumarchais

It takes a trained and discerning researcher to keep the goal in sight, and to detect evidence of the creeping progress toward it. — John Charles Polanyi

It was March. The days of March creeping gustily on like something that man couldn't hinder and God wouldn't hurry. — Enid Bagnold

What the creeping crud is that?" he demanded. "You're inside a giant glowing chicken-man! — Rick Riordan

His billiards lessons regarding double kisses, push strokes, butt caps, creeping angles of incidence, and snatches began to sound like flirting. — Jennifer Harrison

Nowadays, most women just assume they have a right to be in the workplace, and any kind of discrimination they suffer is sort of more creeping. — Romola Garai

Good prayers never come creeping home. I am sure I shall receive either what I ask, or what I should ask. — Joseph Hall

Science moves, but slowly, slowly, creeping on from point to point. — Alfred The Great

My poison is creeping through his body.
My strong venom is killing his heart. — Cressida Cowell

Loyal companions are an unequaled grace, stanching fear before it bleeds you numb, a reliable antidote for creeping despair. — Dean Koontz

Now entertain conjecture of a time, When creeping murmur and the pouring dark Fill the wide vessel of the universe ... Chorus Henry V — William Shakespeare

I'm still afraid to sleep - too many ghosts peering creeping condemning. — Kiersten White

It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living. — Eric Hoffer

The concept of a weary severed hand, exhausted from relentless creeping, made no sense. — Dean Koontz

We felt there was a creeping tepidness in music, a cloying softness, as if music were only a salve, not an instigator. It's — Carrie Brownstein

This was the way the world ended. Not with a bang, nor even a whimper, but with a sort of creeping paralysis of indifference. — Nigel Balchin

What was once dormant is now a Creeping Thing — Ishmael Reed

Everything is so superb and breathtaking. I am creeping forward on my belly like they do in war movies. — Diane Arbus

Saying of the Prophet
Some behaviour
I am like a man who has lighted a fire, and all the creeping things have rushed to burn themselves in it. — Idries Shah

Each time that I think you go,
I turn around and you're creeping in. — Ella Henderson