Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Creep
Creeping into her innocent heart like a maggot into a rose.
—Anonymous
Crept … like a chill.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Creep
Like the grey mists upon the mountain side.
—Gerhart Hauftmann
Creep like torpid Hottentots.
—A. F. F. von Kotzebue
O’er our silence creep
Like whispers of the household gods that keep
A gentle empire o’er fraternal souls.
—John Keats
Creep like shadows.
—William Shakespeare
Creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school.
—William Shakespeare
Creeping close as snakes in hidden weeds.
—Edmund Spenser
Creep
Like the downy wing of sleep.
—Arthur Symons
Softly creeping, like a breath of air,
Such as is sometimes seen, and hardly seen,
To brush the still breast of a crystal lake.
—William Wordsworth