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Meanings of crawling like in English

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Usage of crawling like in English
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Cautiously the man, crawling like a snake, worked his way to the sluice-boxes.
The Trail of '98: A Northland Romance
2
Flopping and crawling like a crippled chicken, he got out of sight below.
The Desert of Wheat
3
Thurzo thought about the girl crawling like a worm through the dark tunnels.
House of Bathory
4
He thought he could see her impulses crawling like ants and could read them.
East of eden
5
Coming in the dark-hehadn't no business crawling like that out of the dark.
Lord of the Flies
6
I found myself in the cavern, reduced to crawling like some pathetic forest beast.
Monster Hunter International
7
The Misty Mountains were crawling like anthills: orcs were issuing out of a thousand holes.
The lord of the rings
8
The man had painstakingly inched his way back toward the tents, crawling like a caterpillar.
The seeker
9
My friends, I simply cannot stand crawling like this!
The Schoolmistress, and Other Stories
10
I saw the Umbiquas running in the swamps, and crawling like black snakes under the bushes.
Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet
11
I crawled upon my hands and knees; I hauled myself up slowly, crawling like a snake.
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth
12
They clung upside down to pipes and beams crawling like bats toward his light, glistening metallically.
The Complete Alien Omnibus
13
Nobody had been paying any attention to Prophet Elias, who had been crawling like a torpid caterpillar.
When Egypt Went Broke: A Novel
14
Meanwhile the spy crept closer and closer, crawling like a serpentine quadruped and making fairly good progress withal.
The Radio Boys in the Thousand Islands; Or, The Yankee-Canadian ...
15
A few minutes later, they're hopping like frogs, crawling like spiders, waddling like ducks and scampering like dogs.
The Irish Times
16
The two figures that they followed were crawling like black flies across the huge green contour of a hill.
The Innocence of Father Brown
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