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  • I've seen the fowk sometimes turn roond-aboot in their seats, when Sandy cam 'creakin' up the passage, as gin they thocht it was a brass-band comin 'in.

    My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

  • Yo'd come on a bit o 'creakin' wood windlass like a well-head, an 'you was let down i' th 'bight of a rope, fendin' yoursen off the side wi 'one hand, carryin' a candle stuck in a lump o 'clay with t'other, an' clickin 'hold of a rope with t'other hand.'

    Life's Handicap Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • Yo'd come on a bit o 'creakin' wood windlass like a well-head, an 'you was let down i' th 'bight of a rope, fendin' yoursen off the side wi 'one hand, carryin' a candle stuck in a lump o 'clay with t'other, an' clickin 'hold of a rope with t'other hand. "

    Indian Tales Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • Aye wint tu VT tu C Dougie McLean… iz mush beddarer muzik fur uz non-dansurz… juss nod hour hedz adn smyl… lotsa creakin noyziz inda awed-y-ntz

    the burn - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • "Aunt Matildy says he's allus creakin 'round like a rusty gate-hinge."

    Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret Annie Roe Carr

  • Clear across the bay we could hear her screw creakin, 'an' her engines clankin 'like they were all poundin' to pieces.

    Plotting in Pirate Seas Francis Rolt-Wheeler 1918

  • I could 'ear the stair creakin' under 'im and I was just wonderin' whether I should go into the house w'en

    Okewood of the Secret Service Valentine Williams 1914

  • You can hear de choppin 'an' de win'lass creakin 'and smell de smoke.

    The Winds of Chance Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

  • But your saddle is a-creakin 'and a-sayin', 'Go git' im! '

    The Ridin' Kid from Powder River Henry Herbert Knibbs 1909

  • "'Pears like every joint in me is a-creakin' to-day."

    Cavanaugh: Forest Ranger A Romance of the Mountain West Hamlin Garland 1900

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