"Crawl in" Quotes from Famous Books
... sluices and whisper through the gold. She sees no wild-eyed steers above stand spear-horned on the brink; The brumby mobs she used to love come down no more to drink; Where green the grasses used to twine above them, shoulder-deep, Through the red dust — a long, slow line — crawl in the starving sheep; She sees no crossing cattle that Western drovers bring, No swimming steeds that battle to block them when ... — An Anthology of Australian Verse • Bertram Stevens
... through one cavern after another, holding my lantern aloft. That must be the solution. There could be no other way. I sought and sought, but alas! it was a false hope, and I threw myself down in a corner in despair, deciding that the prisoners must have been forced to crawl in as I had—though it was hardly like jailers to ... — Pieces of Eight • Richard le Gallienne
... down in a piece. He stopped short as footsteps approached in the corridor, paused, and went on. Then he peered into the black gaping hole behind the grill. It was big enough for a man to crawl in. He shinned up into the hole, and pulled the grill back into ... — Gold in the Sky • Alan Edward Nourse
... have to crawl in through the cable conduit," Ray said. "I've done that, lots of times; so have most of the other guys." He nodded toward the body of the truck, behind, where his dozen-odd 'teen-age recruits were ... — Null-ABC • Henry Beam Piper and John Joseph McGuire |