Tom felt something crawling on his arm.

The clods of the valley shall be sweet to him. All men shall draw after him, as there were innumerable before him.

The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.

(A spider crawling on a web in front of the motion detector appears very large to the motion detector.

Thus far, changes are noticeable in his appearance and slogans, and a certain self criticism has crept into his public persona.

Income disparities will not be fundamentally altered until the market equilibrium wage inches upwards sufficiently to create labor demand at decent wage levels.

We've all had stress creep up on us without even noticing it until we lost it on someone who didn't deserve it, and then we realize that we probably should have checked in with ourselves a little earlier.

Some recent stories nanobees zap tumors with real bee venom they're sending genes into the brain a robot they built that can crawl through the human body.

But the language used by the Obama administration to describe the violence and state corruption that snakes from the Andes to the US border is starting to capture new thinking on narcotics.

This is quite a turnabout for an economy that for years had crept along at what was derisively called the Hindu rate of growth around 3 while much of the rest of Asia shot ahead.

Vitamin D deficiency creeps up on people, and causes all sorts of health problems to their bones, to their gradual decay of their immune systems, or loss of immune function, and probably some problems with their mood and health, their mental health.

But if corruption creeps in and people don't have the opportunity to have that protection of the rule of law, then if you can use violence, if you can use violence with impunity, you can reach out and harvest the vulnerable into slavery.

Or you could go out by yourself even to a half block long empty lot, into the bushes like a creature of leaves you'd lurk, crouched, crawling, simplified, savage, alone already there was wanting to be simpler, wanting, when they called you, never to go back.

On a trip back home to Canada during a Japanese summer, I was luxuriating in the cool, crisp air when I was struck with a panic attack did I unwittingly bring back cockroaches to Canada in my suitcase? Could there, at this very moment, be a cockroach creeping around, ready to set up shop in my hometown?