I was shivering with cold, creakingly stiff, and perceptibly hungrier. From Wordnik.com. [Smokescreen]
“Nice building,” Kincaid said as they rose creakingly in the lift. From Wordnik.com. [Leave the Grave Green] Reference
We checked into our hotel in a daze-a creakingly old hotel called the Hacienda. From Wordnik.com. [Microserfs]
There are no tongue-twisting names, no creakingly dull "epic fantasy" politics. From Wordnik.com. [Recommend a fantasy novel to someone who doesn't like fantasy.] Reference
The big door opened creakingly, and the two children went inside, flashing their torches in excitement. From Wordnik.com. [Five On A Treasure Island]
Four guardsmen closed the gate; its ironclad valves swung creakingly shut on hinges as thick as a man's leg. From Wordnik.com. [Conan the Avenger]
As they watched, powerless to move, the image of green stone shifted one of its huge feet slowly, creakingly. From Wordnik.com. [Conan]
Checking email on a creakingly slow Cingular GPRS network is a painful process, I must add, but still it is small. From Wordnik.com. [Will Moto A630 show-up in rap-videos?] Reference
It took an eternity, longer than the years he had spent there, for the door to creakingly and laboriously swing open. From Wordnik.com. [The Eternal Mercenary]
Slowly and creakingly the door rose, showing a yawning chasm beneath, while a rush of fetid air assailed their nostrils!. From Wordnik.com. [Army Boys on German Soil Our Doughboys Quelling the Mobs] Reference
At length his efforts are crowned with success; the door flies creakingly open, and a cloud of dust uprising covers them like a mist. From Wordnik.com. [The Haunted Chamber A Novel] Reference
A monster of the fish tribe, but having claws and horns, is hung over their door by iron chains; at the least breath of wind he swings creakingly. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Malta creakingly stood upright in the small boat, bracing her feet as she stared at the oncoming ship, her disbelief slowing her acceptance of it. From Wordnik.com. [Ship Of Destiny]
Wine-shop signs, blazoned with skulls, torches, crossed scimitars, dragons, gryphons, crowned heads, and other devices swung creakingly in the stiff sea wind. From Wordnik.com. [Conan Of The Isles]
And others are there who go along heavily and creakingly, like carts taking stones downhill: they talk much of dignity and virtue — their drag they call virtue!. From Wordnik.com. [Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none] Reference
An hour later, having creakingly crossed a long trestle, the strange train, still bumping and rattling, made its way along the even newer and worse track which led into. From Wordnik.com. [On the Edge of the Arctic or, An Aeroplane in Snowland] Reference
He screamed creakingly, until he realized the morel was speaking not with cruelty but regret; whereupon he tried to control his shivering and listen to what was being said. From Wordnik.com. [HOTHOUSE]
At once they moved forward and were assisted inside the wagon, which soon after passed out of the gate and moved creakingly along the main road in the direction of the Styr River. From Wordnik.com. [The Red Cross Girls with the Russian Army] Reference
But she knew how creakingly old-fashioned it sounded. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
The elevator descended creakingly and halted beside them. From Wordnik.com. [A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill] Reference
I moved over and he sat down, creakingly, on the end of the bench. From Wordnik.com. [Aleta Dey] Reference
With a nervous giggle, Annie took herself creakingly out of the room. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysterious Affair at Styles] Reference
And then he paused; the door opened creakingly and his mother entered. From Wordnik.com. [The Nine-Tenths] Reference
The rusty diligence danced creakingly on its old springs; the horses trotted and their bells jangled. From Wordnik.com. [Tartarin of Tarascon] Reference
The sand came rattling down upon him, the thistles bent over creakingly and two figures appeared beside him. From Wordnik.com. [The Case of the Lamp That Went Out] Reference
Finally he stumbled upon the right combination, and the door swung creakingly open before his astonished eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Tarzan of the Apes] Reference
The carriage rolled creakingly on, pitching and tumbling and bumping over the stones and into the ruts in the road. From Wordnik.com. [Hurricane Hurry] Reference
Upon which the windlass was set going, and slowly and creakingly the "crow's nest" was lowered from its airy height. From Wordnik.com. [A Bookful of Girls] Reference
A grating, comic flavour to his predicament struck him suddenly, and he laughed creakingly as he swung down the echoing pavement. From Wordnik.com. [Whirligigs] Reference
Father opened the window, eased out the suit-case, followed it, and gave his hand to Mother, who creakingly crawled out with her bundle. From Wordnik.com. [The Innocents A Story for Lovers] Reference
By and by the sun grew hot, the train wound slowly and creakingly upgrade, the car became full of dust, all of which was disagreeable to. From Wordnik.com. [The Call of the Canyon] Reference
He had that most depressing of unwished-for possessions, a skeleton; its cupboard-door swung creakingly in the wind, and its bones rattled in his ears. From Wordnik.com. [The Wooden Horse] Reference
It swung inward, creakingly. From Wordnik.com. [The Campfire Girls of Roselawn Or, a Strange Message from the Air] Reference
I pushed my chair back creakingly. From Wordnik.com. [Sixes and Sevens] Reference
'bout goin 'ter Minervy Sue's in Georgy, "he said creakingly, as if his voice had suffered from its unwonted disuse. From Wordnik.com. [Who Crosses Storm Mountain? 1911] Reference
Is so creakingly contrived. From Wordnik.com. [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
" said Joan, and settled creakingly into her bed. From Wordnik.com. [Five Have Plenty Of Fun]
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