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    1. They took on two hundred bags of fuel, so many that one had to crawl over them to get to the one bed that was still open


    2. These tunnels are meant to protect them when they travel and are usually found free standing in the crawl space below your home


    3. Poor ventilation in crawl spaces will encourage moisture and dampness will occur which is again great conditions for the termites to live in


    4. Insure crawl space vents for proper ventilation of all areas


    5. A good rule of thumb for crawl space ventilation is about two square feet of opening for every 25 lineal feet of wall


    6. "I will call you Serpent," he said, which in the old tongue meant to crawl or creep around


    7. If you have determined that its carpenter ants then go to the Dances with Ants chapter and treat like you would the ants, the only difference would be that you place the ant cafes inside the house, in the attic, crawl spaces, any place where they are seen, hidden from view


    8. Dust in places such as attic, crawl spaces, around outside house where wood meets the ground or other moisture


    9. ancestors would crawl ashore a few


    10. The powerful craft was much easier to maneuver at high speed on open water than at a crawl in crowded chop

    11. “I can walk (or crawl, or roll) with what life has given me


    12. lit with the fire-fly bright eyed crawl of moving cars


    13. Alan already had his arm around it when this happened and he was able to crawl up onto it because the herd hadn't spread enough to let it take its stride


    14. They had skinny little vine-like legs also, and the one closest to him was using them to crawl slowly away


    15. There are some men and women out on the town – obviously enjoying a tavern crawl or whatever they call it here


    16. Tell Joe and Fred to duck under the counter and crawl through to


    17. "I was trying to crawl into one at the time


    18. where late night meets the crawl of emerging city streets,


    19. Then horrible thrashing erupted in some nearby water, and a scream that turned Alan's hair white and made his nuts crawl up inside his belly


    20. to crawl out of the surf and onto the palate of dry land

    21. They claimed to have been attacked by a huge stone spaceship with a captain so scarred it made their gonads crawl


    22. Of course, Alexis would call it a hut, and where else would you find a shepherd when not with his flock? Its opening was so low I had to crawl to look inside


    23. ‘Alastair, if you have not worked out that I would crawl the length of the high street on my knees if it meant I could be with you, you are not as bright as I thought!’ I replied, but he is not to be fooled, I can see that


    24. Upstairs in the bedroom Helen Roach cowered down between the bed and wall, as far away from the sound of scratching demons as she could crawl


    25. She hung her head and started to crawl back to her position by the mast, but Patass’ arm went around her waist and drew her up to sit on his lap


    26. “They are insectoids; the cold will slow them down to a crawl


    27. Feeling shaky from the exertion of undressing, I crawl into bed and I sit up, the newspaper laid out in front of me, a cardigan round my shoulders


    28. as she could crawl


    29. Every time that he watches the damned thing crawl through the seconds he gets that drowning feeling again


    30. The Easter Sunday lunchtime crawl; bickering families on their way to The Big Sheep, fourteen hundred cubic centimetres of internally-combusting scenic country-lane driving, the flat cap and ladder-back glove brigade

    31. Probably from her habit of following around the store cat on its forays in search of critters ever since she and her sister became clever enough to crawl


    32. He gags as he falls, spilling his guts onto the front of his flak jacket and then onto the floor, and he turns away and starts to crawl as soon as he feels solid earth beneath his spine


    33. Joe began to crawl


    34. on the left, double-timing her crawl to the door


    35. Once covered, the thought of having to crawl back in that bed with him, brought a bitter taste to her mouth


    36. But, with the celebration of the Midnight Sun the night before and this afternoon's unexpected activity Alec wanted nothing more than to crawl into the corner of an unknown dive, eat his meal in peace and be confident that no one would dare burst in to disturb him


    37. If he could make it to that roof and get up on it, he should be able to reach up to the bridge railing and crawl thru that to the khume above


    38. began to crawl along the ridges until it reached the


    39. Alec had watched several soldiers crawl up the thing already, and every time they neared the center the entire bridge bulged downward, flexing till he swore it would surely snap


    40. “Do we have to crawl though that fearsome wood again Grandpa

    41. Her leg throbbed and bled, but she forced herself to crawl as fast as she could – which was not very fast at all


    42. She turned back around and tried to crawl to her blade, which though it lay in the snow not far from her, it still seemed like hundreds of yards in these feverish moments


    43. The sides of the passage glistened, almost appearing to crawl with burrowing creatures


    44. Maybe it wasn’t so bad to let him crawl


    45. Every night I would crawl out of that pesky bed, dressed in a patient's gown and an IV plugged into my arm, and sit outside the hospital, on a bench, under skies just like these


    46. Danny could not move but Ben the terrier managed to crawl


    47. There were a lot of obstacles to deal with – obstruction, damage, freaks – that it slowed our progress to a crawl


    48. He’d moved inside a wooded area, found a large rock with a concave bottom that he could crawl into which would be perfect to protect him from any Security heat sensors


    49. elongated, wire-ribbed, plastic tunnels the kids like to crawl through, and an inflated “bouncing room”


    50. “Tell me what?” asked Steve as he began to crawl past Peter’s body, trying to avoid actually looking at it














































    1. The force unhinged Serpent's jaw and he slithered away, tasting the dirt as he crawled


    2. Months crawled by since her ride in the android


    3. ages ago, back when the apes crawled out of the trees and first began to name the


    4. Insects crawled over his cracked lips, into his eyes


    5. Insects crawled in that


    6. I moved the camp bed back against the wall and crawled underneath the blanket, still hugging the spoon


    7. At that point, fearing the worst, Menachem had crawled over to The Man and kneeling in front of him he had pleaded


    8. As soon as it was safe to move I unwound my aching body and crawled over to where Menachem still lay, mute and unmoving


    9. We crawled along congested streets and lanes, routes that took us deeper into the west of England


    10. He sweated in the heat as he crawled along in traffic

    11. Son then crawled onto the guards’ chest and held his


    12. that a sallow skinned thing crawled


    13. He hobbled and crawled to it and found the knife was still there, the clothing bundle and the water skins


    14. He crawled over and picked up Luray's spear and sat with that held high by the fire


    15. crawled under the bar towards the rear rooms


    16. I crawled back up the beach on all fours, gasping, triumphant - cold belly, warm back, and for some reason, laughing out hot tears


    17. Thank you for saving this for me," she said as she crawled into the bed and reached for him


    18. It must have crawled up your sleeve


    19. I slowly crawled up to it, tapping it like a caveman


    20. Flies and creatures crawled over me without a swipe from my hand

    21. It was awe inspiring seeing Vesuvius gradually appear on our left as we crawled out of the city


    22. With apologies in English and Kassidorian she crawled back to her seat on the boat


    23. Sometimes, when loneliness crawled over


    24. She wiggled, squirmed and crawled around the car and into the relative safety of the brush away from the tracks


    25. Jorma’s testicles crawled up his legs when he imagined being locked in some chamber somewhere beyond one of those openings


    26. crawled over the console to the passenger seat


    27. their escape, others were too injured to continue and crawled off to the side


    28. Again, she crawled to a near halt but her fears were all in vain


    29. He crawled into a fetal position as they kicked his head, his face, his chest, his back, his arms and his legs


    30. She slipped very carefully thru the fence and crawled thru the vedn to a spot where she could see clearly over the far side of the talrin fence

    31. "So what are they doing here?" he crawled to her side, looking longingly into her eyes for an answer


    32. though, and I crawled along the porch roof, keeping myself invisible as I passed


    33. X’ander crawled the remaining distance to Lock Core; the Eater no longer held in his hands, nor in a barrier of flames


    34. But by the time he crawled his way to the wall of logs, the gate was already burning


    35. Insects crawled through the man's matted hair


    36. The creature swayed back and forth for a while then grabbed hold of the tree and slowly crawled away along the branch's underbelly


    37. There was no open space anywhere, everything was piled with stuff that was now infested with things slimier than wevn and other small things that jumped and crawled and slithered over him


    38. Sam crawled out of the cupboard below the stairs


    39. The second wave tripped over the fallen first wave and, as they crawled forward they too became victims of the deadly sharpened steel traps


    40. Though headless, the dwarf's body crawled on

    41. The android crawled out from under the net, leaving Alan under it


    42. “When’s breakfast then?” Fizzicist crawled out of his tent, his glasses slipped back over his balding head


    43. Her entire body burnt as if dipped in acid, Kendal crawled out of Ostedes’ torso


    44. At first I thought that a spider must have crawled near her, but then I saw the way she was looking at the journal


    45. crawled his way down to the arm that had the mole on his


    46. but what words would he use? “A beetle crawled into my


    47. Once she had come to his room in the early morning hours and crawled into his bed wearing nothing at all


    48. The three crawled out of the van, with Graysen carrying Tylen's body on his back, and Ferro carrying his partner


    49. other Chaurus crawled to swipe at his back, Penelope was suddenly freed from the binding trance


    50. ” Jista chuckled as they crawled out of their pods into the empty service shaft














































    1. He explained that, "In spite of the fact that my life seems to be crawling with Yingolians these days, I'm really not an astronomy junkie


    2. It will last a long time and will protect plants from crawling insects


    3. Dusting is best for crawling pests such as snails and slugs, spiders, snakes, rats, gophers (place into tunnels), ants, fleas (outdoors only), and will keep, rabbits, deer and coyotes away (sprinkle around property edge)


    4. With his free hand, Vald swatted and twisted apart the men running and crawling from the wreckage


    5. He didn't answer, but avoided her by going inside and using the head, doing his teeth, shaving, and crawling forward into the bedroom to load some fuel bags out of there and into the space that was free'd up on the kitchen floor during Dawnsleep


    6. a little bug crawling across the


    7. Tables are covered with books, used paper cups and plates, half-eaten chunks of food covered with slowly crawling, lazy flies


    8. As it happens, it is a Granny & Grandpa afternoon and, as Fred is a keen G&G attendee and frequently spends the afternoon crawling round the floor with the children, it makes sense to include the kids in the festivities


    9. I learned to control my body so that I didn’t have to use the bucket too many times, hating the crawling stink of my own detritus, and, oddly, I did not want The Kid to be offended by my bodily waste


    10. Below us the road was full of trucks in low gear crawling to the West

    11. that crashed about your crawling play,


    12. While crawling up onto it he got kneed in the mid section a few times but hardly noticed that over the pain from the foot


    13. into the crawling mist that rolls over the land,


    14. crawling up the walls


    15. I woke up in darkness on a mattress in hospital clothes and started crawling around to scope out my new environment


    16. It occurred to her there and then that if they couldn’t get to the crawling thing behind her, they would probably take just as much delight in wreaking havoc upon the body of one of the genteel classes


    17. He had been too timid when they were taken in by Alan’s fantasy, he had been too timid to turn around when they learned the truth and had come crawling back home, only to become embroiled in this war in Heaven


    18. Her outer layers were crawling away from her inner core, and with each repetition of the circle she tried desperately to make herself smaller and smaller, until she could reduce her presence in the world no more


    19. to her there and then that if they couldn’t get to the crawling thing


    20. Billy can feel their eyes crawling all over him

    21. He used his arms to pull and his legs to push, crawling toward the black van


    22. the corner of his eye and, crawling over to the table,


    23. Crawling to a dry spot, she stood up and attempted to smooth her already tight jeans


    24. But what do you think of yourself spreading reports about me like that, and then crawling to me for help the moment you are in trouble? What sort of a game is that--eh?"


    25. From the chill they sent, crawling up Emily's spine, she knew


    26. Seconds before stirring from the foliage, Tetloan said that he saw the demons crawling forth from within the hill of rock -- like mist from a lake, as he put it


    27. Alec kept his mind off the future, and his eyes off the faces of those around him, choosing to occupy the slow progression of time by watching the face of the wall, and the colony of red winged bugs crawling on its stone surface


    28. They came crawling from the forest with the setting of the sun


    29. The firelight clearly picked out a group of men crawling along the ground, dragging a ladder behind them


    30. Far more alive than the flaking yellow fingers crawling with black, pulsating veins

    31. After forty minutes of careful crawling she got to the edge of the forest and scuttled into the shelter of the trees


    32. Crawling on his belly from one building to the next, he tried not to look down but often he found himself glimpsing at the streets below, watching the shadows scatter as yet another ball of flame ignited the sky


    33. From their height, the undead blended as one, forming a black blob crawling up the foot of the trunk


    34. box but they kept crawling out, increasing the bite marks


    35. and any other crawling insects he could catch


    36. “What? That area is crawling with Spriggans


    37. The lady, now naked, ran her fingers over her lush body, and then astonished Danny by crawling on top of the bed, walking on her knees


    38. The next horn blow was clearer, and much more near, and even Barrin Iylin, desperately crawling out of a mass grave, could hear it, though he didn’t know what it meant


    39. crawling toward us


    40. crawling away: besides all this, there was generally a ridge or furrow in the

    41. The pile of demon bodies was stacking up, and demons were crawling on top of the stacks


    42. CSM Domby came crawling into our position such as it was and Sgt Ted Wallace was with him the CSM said


    43. We seemed to have been crawling forever towards the rear and suddenly much to our relief there was no shrapnel at all and we could stand up and walk which was heaven itself


    44. As you tried to eat they would be crawling into your mouth and they would actually cover the food you were trying to eat like a black blanket


    45. I have been told as how it is just one big mass of crawling buzzing black flies so it would seem thy have gone there for a better feed”, and having told us this he turned and walked off laughing


    46. Crawling back outside we stood up and I asked


    47. ” He said, crawling inside his tent


    48. I though we were going to be there all night but the door opened as though by magic and we fell inside crawling on our hands and knees


    49. “Look at the state of you Albert Hall how dare you come back here falling down drunk and crawling along the floor?” Bert had a sloppy grin on his face as she continued


    50. Colonel Terry thought that the situation was so serious that he sent some of the lads crawling out to see if they could pick up any water bottles from the dead Germans or from our dead as well then we rolled the dead Germans onto the parapet and out of the trench to lessen the smell and flies we knew that would soon come in this heat














































    1. The tempo of the journey changed, becoming one of short, slow crawls rather than the monotone long-haul of the open road


    2. While Berndt and I stand in the shadows out of sight, Joris crawls forward to the edge of the road and checks it out


    3. Hell … what have I said? … the awkwardness of the whole situation here in the café suddenly clobbers me … embarrassment crawls up my face … made worse as I remember where we were at the time


    4. Bex crawls over to where Leona is laying and cradles her head


    5. He crawls to the side of the car and hauls himself upright, running a mud stained palm across his eyes to wipe away the tears, leaving brown tracks, a primeval war paint, across his cheeks


    6. A Ford Mondeo crawls past the open drive entrance, the driver peering through the passenger window at the names of houses painted on logs and cast iron plates


    7. The sound of cars and late night hauliers making time and distance ready for Monday morning crawls through the wooden frame of the double-glazed window


    8. Jayson crawls through the window into a small half bath, using the sink to ease his climb


    9. Ted Wallace crawls closer to the Lieutenant and said


    10. She screams again and crawls away from Molly

    11. Breathing heavily, Caleb crawls to the side of the net and drops over the edge, hitting the platform hard


    12. 21 He crawls in the valley, and


    13. A stewardess crawls into the bathroom to cover her ears


    14. Jaden crawls in circles on his knees, and then tries to get up but falls back on the ground


    15. crawls on the ground behind you, rises up slowly,


    16. as it crawls on dry gravel searching for moist, rich


    17. worm as it crawls on dry gravel searching for moist, rich earth


    18. Shivering and caked with blood, he staggers and crawls his way to the edge of the marshes


    19. A group of thirty or so idiots crawls and squirms about in the dirt, gasping for air, but knowing they’ll die soon as the hunters surround them


    20. She knows what she really wants for Christmas! She crawls out of bed and wraps herself in her favorite robe before going downstairs for breakfast

    21. As a sleeping man dreams of the serpent which crawls near him, I have felt the foul presence of Set's neophyte


    22. Rugged shakes his head, then moves the curtain and crawls through


    23. “It is the lot of everything that crawls on the face of this planet to be unsure about things


    24. The cockroach crawls about the insides of the unit and leaves a residue from his body that turns the equipment into junk


    25. Disappointed with his lack of success with his jokes, he crawls home to his lonely bed and then resolving to do something about his marriage, he drives around to the mother in law’s place in Brynhyfryd to where Di had decamped with the kids


    26. always had a smart ass personality and over the years every time I feel myself about to say something dangerous or stupid this man's voice crawls into my


    27. By presenting a knife known to kill Fey he could sit back and see what crawls out of the woodwork


    28. My arms feel weak, my legs are too heavy, and a chilly aching crawls into my bones


    29. “The reason why the hairs stand on end, the skin crawls and a shiver runs down


    30. If science still cannot explain the original source of the electromagnetic field, what can be said about it? Its current level can be compared to the stage of development of a one-year-old child who crawls in the space limited by his parents so as not to injure himself and learns the world through toys that are given to him

    31. though and crawls over to it


    32. Then he will realize the reality of the saying- (There is no god but Al’lah) knowing that ruling is up to Him alone, all mights and powers belong to Him alone, no action is done without His permission…, no wind blows, no accumulation of clouds, no rain falls, no Sun rises, no earth moves, no alternation of day and night, no beast crawls, no plant grows, no plant fruits and no leaf falls except by His knowledge and after His order


    33. Earthquakes and tectonic shifts or mall demolitions and nuclear testing the stretching of its limbs? Is it our artificial electrical grid or thunderstorms and hurricanes that comprise Eartheart's higher nervous system? Our field is the lab, our flesh a sensor net, but certainly, the soil, not the dump, is Eartheart's digestive tract; water, not monergy, its circulatory system; weather patterns, not satellite orbits, its respiration; until we're all resourcefully recycled as excrement, decay and death becoming soil once again, where microbial life crawls the face of all the skin of this mother we sprawl across, until we rise, again, as food and stomach both reproducing as sustenance for each other, the carriers of essential vitamins and minerals feeding the many organs comprising its biodiversity


    34. The child crawls towards it, lifting the lid, she takes a star spangled bannered aircraft carrier, turns her back to the audience, places it in the coffin, and with howling and renting of sack, her voice and back defiantly declares – I ain't gonna pay for war no more


    35. Unks crawls between the Professor and the stack to help relieve the weight that’s fighting to crush him


    36. The smell of Hell’s smoke slowly crawls over top-deck


    37. "Googlebot", crawls the web and provides updates to Google's index


    38. named "Slurp", and different versions of Slurp crawls the web many


    39. A warm feeling crawls down into


    40. The time crawls by; one’s in a waking trance,

    41. If he cannot see better why not keep quiet, and let us braver folk march along with our heads in the air, held so high that we cannot bother to look at every slimy creepiness that crawls across our path? And did you not notice how he keeps on telling his friends in his letters not to mind when he is dead? Unnecessary advice, one would suppose; I can more easily imagine the friends gasping with an infinite relief


    42. The prisoner crawls as close to me as he can


    43. He stares at her as that cold horror crawls back up into his chest


    44. For example, a spider that crawls on someone’s body has absolutely different Conceptions of it than “the owner” of the body


    45. A disheveled Willie crawls out of the flattened


    46. crawls a few feet to over to where the


    47. The vehicle moans once or twice, but still crawls up the hillside, which is almost as steep as a wall


    48. Greg crawls forward… he signals with his hand for me to stay put


    49. Will you be the turtle who sticks his head up high and slowly crawls to your destination? Then I salute you


    50. A bandy child, asquat on the doorstep with a paper shuttlecock, crawls sidling after her in spurts, clutches her skirt, scrambles up































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    Synonyms for "crawl"

    crawl crawling creep creeping australian crawl front crawl cower cringe fawn grovel abase bow prostrate yield surrender obey give in

    "crawl" definitions

    a very slow movement


    a swimming stroke; arms are moved alternately overhead accompanied by a flutter kick


    a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body


    move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground


    feel as if crawling with insects


    be full of


    show submission or fear


    swim by doing the crawl