Sentence examples for crawling things from inspiring English sources

Flowers seem to a boy, who doesn't know better, like the winged, the walking, the swimming and crawling things abstracted from time, and stilled by inward gazing.

ALTHOUGH the world is home to tens of millions of animal species, the vast majority are small crawling things with lots of legs.

The cottage had a thatched roof, and though it was rotted through in half a dozen places and perfervid with the little lives of crawling things and rodents, she didn't seem particular.

If anyone could make lizards, salamanders, snakes and all measure of creepy, crawling things objects of wonder and even beauty, it was Robert C. Stebbins.

Where do all the horrible crawling things in LA congregate, make weekend plans, and compliment one another's handbags?

Opening the sacks without prying apart each layer of wood is impossible, so the best thing to do is to trick someone else into doing it and laugh as thousands of crawling things escape and freak everyone out.

Perhaps the deep love of every creeping and crawling thing that drives Wilson to creative heights is one of those perpetual minority sports, like jazz or opera.

Never again will I come to you, never again or — the lines in which the notion of desire as "bittersweet" appears for the first time in Western literature — Once again Love, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet and inescapable, crawling thing, seizes me.

Whatever this crawling thing may be, it's just as likely to leave them down there as it is to pull them out.

Featuring the likes of Front 242 and Chris & Cosey, it's a dark, clanking, lurching, crawling thing that's making us feel a bit sick.

Anthony Burgess representatively summarized this conception of the "dream" thus: "Mr. Porter and his family are asleep for the greater part of the book Mr. Porter dreams hard, and we are permitted to share his dream Sleeping, he becomes a remarkable mixture of guilty man, beast, and crawling thing, and he even takes on a new and dreamily appropriate name – Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker".