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It grew into a fine young Bilderboy, but the years have caught up with it, and now it seems its knees are creaking and its heart is weak.

Visitors can dress up in jumpsuits and hard hats and descend in a creaking elevator to the coalface 300 metres below the surface.

hooked up to a dialysis machine powered by a creaking generator. That was a popular image, given the fact that no one could find him.

His pulse throbbed in his throat as he crossed the dark room, the old floorboards creaking under his feet.

Anytime you hear any squeaking or creaking lube your axles and cams to see if it clears up the noise.

SCULLY hangs up the phone, then turns toward the door as she hears a creaking floorboard.

International deals went through the creaking hands of the Bank of China or, quietly, black markets.

The country's creaking railways make it hard to move the stuff, as does the absence of a mechanism to negotiate bulk rail contracts.

I love its sound specially for jazz but totally dislike its "plastic creaking" build quality and the bass is not a strong point.

She pressed one of two green buttons on the living room wall, and the house moved imperceptibly but for a slight creaking noise.

He opened it in the great hall of Parliament House by declaring that the "old way of governing has long been creaking and groaning. "

the faint creaking, as of the saddle-leather to a horseman riding across turf, the slap of a rope, the hiss of sudden spray.

Over the snow my creaking feet Disturbed the slumbering village street Like profanation, by your leave, At ten o'clock of a winter eve.

The horses plodded on, the litter creaking and swaying between them.

These markets are now the backbone of North Korea's creaking economy as the regime provides almost nothing by way of rations any more.

The cart suddenly began creaking, squeaking, shaking, and, as though unwillingly, turned sharply to the left.

Another big idea, again offered with an envious eye to China, is to modernise America's creaking infrastructure.

He saw no one, so he kneeled down, his joints creaking as he did so.

The oceans boast world-class diving with a kaleidoscope of fish patrolling sprawling reefs and creaking shipwrecks .

The door was slowly creaking open. I positioned my left arm so that it covered both my throat and heart.

If you were at home at night and heard creaking downstairs, wouldn't you want a Glock in your night stand?

For the rest of the evening, even though the creaking noise continues, you are no longer fearful.

When the winds rock the trees, listen for voices in the creaking of the trunks. If you hear your name, you are one of the Goddess chosen.

Like you we wait and hold our breathe, knowing that the old system is creaking at the joints and cannot hold together much longer.

A creaking North Atlantic community may soon find it has a more vibrant southern rival.

The swinging old light is always non-stop, creaking.

City officials are deluged with complaints about traffic jams, crowded public transport and creaking schools and hospitals.

Who knows the old man cried even more sad, say, people in the fire burned creaking, how the pain?

Jim climbed slowly up the creaking steps, his courage slipping away at every step.

Kasparov's eventual victory came to symbolise the triumph of youthful energy over the creaking Soviet empire.

You're lying in bed at night, about to fall asleep, when you swear you hear creaking on the steps.

The whole forest was peopled with frightful sounds-the creaking of the trees, the howling of wild beasts, and the yell of Indians.

These are not circumstances in which Washington is likely to take a lead in repairing and refurbishing a creaking multilateral order.

I suddenly heard the creaking of the door.

This will put extreme pressure on Brazil's creaking transport and warehousing systems, Rodrigues admitted.

The World Health Organisation has been calling for several years for China to invest more public money in its creaking rural medical system.

The constitution was supposed to renovate the EU's creaking legislative machinery as well as bringing Brussels closer to the people.

Every house, every room, every creaking chair has its own particular ghost.

Nonetheless, even before production has started, Tete's infrastructure is creaking.

Best of all, the interbank lending market is creaking open.

Everything soft and enchanting as we walk over the bridge. Smoke coming up between our legs, the tracks creaking, semaphores in our blood.

the air is thick with warnings that London's creaking infrastructure will crack under the weight of visitors.

Sweat beads gathered at his lips. The wooden floor protested under his weight, creaking for help.

Trevor got up, creaking the floor as he walked.

But the formula itself is creaking all too loudly; so what better time for a reboot?

Meanwhile no one is even thinking about reforms to the country's creaking pension system.

I heard the leather of Baba's seat creaking as he shifted on it.

Yet this pillar of Canada's national identity is now creaking under the burden of cost.

A creaking transport network is holding back Colombia's growth. How fast can Juan Manuel Santos improve it?

The timber and paper mills of central Louisiana are creaking as housing collapses elsewhere.

On their way they met women carrying baskets on their heads, soldiers on wagons and creaking carts drawn by oxen.

Tonight, when the old cupboard makes a creaking sound, you two have to get married.

It is becoming clear that promised improvements to the country's creaking transport systems are unlikely to amount to much.

This creaking rural system stands in contrast to China's fast- growing modern retail network .

China's creaking power industry has struggled to meet the country's vast appetite for energy.

South-East Asia's existing network of railways is creaking, patchy and underfunded.

But the crisis has placed huge additional stress on our creaking educational system.

sturdy pitch pines rubbing and creaking against the shingles for want of room, their roots reaching quite under the house.

Already some horse-drawn carts were creaking along the street.

Nor have foreigners been brought to London by the weather or the creaking transport system.

Russia's power industry is planning to pour $100bn into modernising the country's creaking electricity network.

They were never intended to bear the weight developers have loaded on top of them, and they've been creaking for years.

its exposure to mortgage-related investments and to creaking bond insurers.

Romance is a snowy evening you walk back home alone with creaking footsteps.

Mr Obama is right that America's infrastructure is creaking (see article).

A radiator hissing. A sink dripping. A floor creaking. A curtain blowing.

Does he just have soreness accompanied perhaps by some creaking in the joint?

America 's accounting rules, like its tax code, are creaking under bolted -onguidance.

One night very late I was awakened by a tearing noise, like timbers creaking.

It is true that the starmaking machines run by the record companies are creaking.

Creaking, old-fashioned, monolithic state-owned giants just didn't have the same appeal.

even notice the chair creaking under your weight.

The holding company is looking to exploit opportunities such as upgrading Russia's creaking infrastructure.

Is creaking America on the road to ruin?

What a horrible creaking of the joints.

A creaking door hangs long.

In India, it is that failure to modernise the country's creaking infrastructure will choke off growth.

On my way to school I can see the babbling water in the brook, hear the frogs creaking, cuckoos cuckooing, sparrows chirping in the woods.

the neighbor upstairs always walked with a creaking sound

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There is only the swing creaking,

The billows play, the mast bends, creaking,

There is only the swing creaking, that you have just left,