BIOGRAPHY IN THE BEDROOM. The candle was instantly extinguished. In discreet silence the girls stole back to their beds, and listened. As an aid to the vigilance of the sentinel, the door had been left ajar. Through the narrow opening, a creaking of the broad wooden stairs of the old house became audible. In another moment there was silence. An interval passed, and the creaking was heard again. This time, the sound was distant and diminishing.英文原著 · 《I SAY NO》
It lay like a golden rod under the front-door--and vanished. It reappeared like a gold thread under the lintel--and vanished for good. We heard the stairs creak, creak, and cease, also for good. We neither saw nor heard any more, though we stood waiting on the grass till our feet were soaked with the dew.英文原著 · 《The Amateur Cracksman》
Through the drawing-room door that was ajar voices floated. "And were there ices?" came from Charlotte. Then the creak, creak of her rocker. "Ices!" cried Ethel. "My dear mother, you never saw such ices. Only two kinds. And one a common little strawberry shop ice, in a sopping wet frill." "The food altogether was too appalling," came from Marion. "Still, it's rather early for ices," said Charlotte easily.英文原著 · 《The Garden Party》
``I can get along without that light, Buck,'' I said, and I must have been rather haughty and abrupt, for a stifled shriek came from under the bedclothes in the corner and Buck disappeared swiftly. Preparations for bed are simple in the mountains--they were primitively simple for me that night. Being in knickerbockers, I merely took off my coat and shoes. Presently somebody else stepped into the room and the bed in the other corner creaked. Silence for a while. Then the door opened, and the head of the old woman was thrust in.英文原著 · 《A Knight of the Cumberland》
"He always came arrayed in fine linen, a cornflower blue coat, a paduasoy waistcoat, black trousers, and black ribbon bows on the double soled shoes that creaked like an abbe's; he always held a fourteen franc silk hat in his hand.英文原著 · 《A Man of Business》
Then she would tell me that my nature inclined to quietness and harmony, while hers asked for motion and splendor. I wondered whether it really were so. But that huge, creaking framework beside us would continually intrude upon our meditations and break up our discussions, and silence all poetry for us with its dull prose.英文原著 · 《A New England Girlhood》
[BEDSPRINGS CREAKING & MAN MOANING UPSTAIRS] Maybe he's just jumping on a pogo stick and he really likes it.美剧 · 《Friends》
Although we still don't have an explanation for those creaky floorboards in the middle of the night.美剧 · 《Modern Family》
But I'll be right next to the creaky do-- You know, if you want, I can put some oil on that.美剧 · 《Modern Family》