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And ten low words oft creep in one dull line:
(Alexander Pope (1688-1744), British poet. Essay on Criticism (Fr. II). . .
Poetical Works [Alexander Pope]. Herbert Davis, ed. (1978; repr. 1990) Oxford University Press.)
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Ambition can creep as well as soar.
(Edmund Burke (1729-1797), Irish philosopher, statesman. Letters on a Regicide Peace, letter 3 (1797), repr. In Works, vol. 5 (1899).)
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Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.
(Clifton Fadiman (b. 1904), U.S. essayist. New Yorker (April 21, 1934).)
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Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust,
Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
(Alexander Pope (1688-1744), British poet. Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot. . .
Poetical Works [Alexander Pope]. Herbert Davis, ed. (1978; repr. 1990) Oxford University Press.)
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When the sun shines, let foolish gnats make sport,
But creep in crannies, when he hides his beams.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Antipholus of Syracuse, in The Comedy of Errors, act 2, sc. 2, l. 30-1.)
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A few, a few, too few for drums and yells,
May creep back, silent, to village wells
Up half-known roads.
(Wilfred Owen (1893-1918), British poet. The Send-off (l. 18-20). . .
Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse, The. Philip Larkin, ed. (1973) Oxford University Press.)
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They stoop to fate,
And must give up their murmuring breath,
When they, pale captives, creep to death.
(James Shirley (1596-1666), British dramatist. The Contention of Ajax and Ulysses (l. 14-16). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company.)
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... looped with the creep of varying light,
Monkey-brown, fish-grey, a string of infected circles
Loitering like bullies, about to coagulate....
(Philip Larkin (1922-1986), British poet. "If, My Darling.")
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"Have no lit candles in your room,"
That love lady said,
"That I at midnight by the clock
May creep into your bed,
For if I saw myself creep in
I think I should drop dead."
O my dear, O my dear.
(William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), Irish poet, playwright. "The Three Bushes.")
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Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen. On the farm the weather was the great fact, and men's affairs went on underneath it, as the streams creep under the ice. But in Black Hawk the scene of human life was spread out shrunken and pinched, frozen down to the bare stalk.
(Willa Cather (1873-1947), U.S. novelist. Jim Burden, in My Antonia, book II, ch. VII (1918; rev. 1926).
The narrator recalls his first winter in a small country town in Nebraska.)
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