I had risen up in bed, I bent forward: first surprise, then bewilderment, came over me; and then my blood crept cold through my veins.

"My blood creeps along a dark endless track," she says of hibernation.

He guided the knife deeper into his flesh; blood crept back along the horizontal blade.

When Buck was led out of the inner room, his face was as dirty and as pale as his bandage, over which blood was now creeping.

The hot blood crept back along his veins.

His men moved among the prisoners as blood crept from block to block across the parquet floor and the smell of cordite sharpened the air.

Caspar still knelt in the middle of the floor, head bowed, blood creeping between the fingers of the hand clamped on his arm.

When the blood crept from its face, and left behind a pallid mask of chalk with leaden eyes, he would keep the glamour of boyhood.

As she looks up, blood slowly creeps out of her nose and the corner of her mouth.

Instantly the blood crept warmly over her body.