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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