If you're not sharp enough, I'll
creak the door, and woe betide you if I have to
creak it much.
As the light looked so dim, and the place, for the time, looked quiet enough, and the dilapidated little wooden house itself looked as if it might have been carted here from the ruins of some burnt district, and as the swinging sign had a poverty-stricken sort of
creak to it, I thought that here was the very spot for cheap lodgings, and the best of pea coffee.
Wheels
creak on their axles as the cogs engage one another and the revolving pulleys whirr with the rapidity of their movement, but a neighboring wheel is as quiet and motionless as though it were prepared to remain so for a hundred years; but the moment comes when the lever catches it and obeying the impulse that wheel begins to
creak and joins in the common motion the result and aim of which are beyond its ken.
or did Thomas's shoes
creak, and was her sense of hearing unusually keen?
Just then they heard a grating
creak, followed by
creak,
creak, all round the Gardens.
At the Seventh Circle--but no matter for that: all the Circles are alike to the three young Misses, fair and fat,--at the Seventh Circle, nevertheless, my pupils are sticking fast; and I, to set them going again, recite, explain, and blow myself up red-hot with useless enthusiasm, when-- a
creak of boots in the passage outside, and in comes the golden Papa, the mighty merchant with the naked head and the two chins.-- Ha!
We heard the stairs
creak,
creak, and cease, also for good.
Jaggers never laughed; but he wore great bright creaking boots, and, in poising himself on these boots, with his large head bent down and his eyebrows joined together, awaiting an answer, he sometimes caused the boots to
creak, as if they laughed in a dry and suspicious way.
Little bamboos that
creak together, tell me where he ran?
Now he thought of Martha's arrival, of the drunkenness among the workers and his own renunciation of drink, then of their present journey and of Taras's house and the talk about the breaking-up of the family, then of his own lad, and of Mukhorty now sheltered under the drugget, and then of his master who made the sledge
creak as he tossed about in it.
The Axle-trees groaned and
creaked terribly; whereupon the Oxen, turning round, thus addressed the wheels: "Hullo there!
His boots
creaked, too, so loudly, but still he was not at all afraid."