"Creak" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... it's the best name in the world, whether it's pretty or not. You don't know that wagon yet. The tongue is spliced, the whiffletrees are loose, the reach is cracked, the box is tied together with a rope, the springs creak, the wheels wabble, lean different ways, and never ...
— The Voyage of the Rattletrap • Hayden Carruth
... of grasses are bared of their bees, Their voices sound like falling spume between the leaden seas; We hear beyond the alders where the long swamps lie The creak of broken rushes and ...
— England over Seas • Lloyd Roberts
... the hall antique, To call her Thomas from his toil; Opes the huge door;—the hinges creak; ...
— Broad Grins • George Colman, the Younger
... creak of the door-handle the White Linen Nurse was on her feet, breathless, resentful, ...
— The White Linen Nurse • Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
... hark! did I not hear the gate creak? (She perceives CHARLES and starts up.) He?—whither?—what? I am rooted to the spot,—I can not fly! Forsake me not, good Heaven! No! thou shalt not tear me from my Charles! My soul has no room for two deities, ...
— The Works of Frederich Schiller in English • Frederich Schiller
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