What had crept upon us under the cover of the dark was gone.
"Because that is the way we look to have them creep upon us?"
He did not cry out as had the others when death crept upon them.
"No," she said, taking the decision that had been creeping upon her for the last half hour.
The knowledge first crept upon him slowly, then came on with a rush.
It is a strange thing, this age which creeps upon one.
There death had crept upon him almost unknown; here it was announcing its approach.
He crept toward me like a wolf upon a sleeping lamb.
Like a creature of evil, this last arrival was creeping in upon those who had gone before.
Unless she followed after, somehow crept upon him at nightfall.