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Examples
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And so this Rokesmith, greedy and hungering, begins a-creeping on his hands and knees towards the money.
Our Mutual Friend 2004
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"Should call Filch, I should, if something's a-creeping around unseen."
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Rowling, J. K. 1997
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There's a yellowish tinge a-creeping over Nature's emerald sheen,
The Old Hanging Fork and Other Poems George W. Doneghy
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"There's a whole fleet o 'dhows a-creeping up under the lee of the land and running before the wind to the north'ard, sir!"
Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy John B. [Illustrator] Greene
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It was Colonel Sneekins's intention totally to disregard Mr. Ruse's plea for rest from official cares, and as he now from behind the wings contemplated the great crowd that was surging into the Cooper Union, he rubbed his hands and gleamed his teeth with such intensity of emotion that the Rev.Dr. Lillipad Froth, who was standing near by, felt his flesh a-creeping.
Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York A Series of Stories and Sketches Portraying Many Singular Phases of Metropolitan Life Lemuel Ely Quigg
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Of course, civilization is a-creeping up to the mountain, and I reckon by the time Lahoma is my age it'll be playing an organ in church.
Lahoma 1913
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And a long, long night that lags a-creeping there,
Collected Poems 1897 - 1907, by Henry Newbolt Henry John Newbolt 1900
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And the long, cold night that lags a-creeping there,
Poems: New and Old Henry John Newbolt 1900
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And a long, long night that lags a-creeping there,
Poems: New and Old Henry John Newbolt 1900
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And the long, cold night that lags a-creeping there,
Collected Poems 1897 - 1907, by Henry Newbolt Henry John Newbolt 1900
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