Ants and mice and rats, some said, had crept between the bricks of their new storehouses and eaten half their crop.

The mice crept away again.

Granted you're a good steward, John, not even you can know what mouse has crept into every byre and sheep fold and storehouse on the manor of Eaton.

The mouse crept into their bedrooms and bit them while they slept.

"Well, it is the first time that even a mouse has crept along carefully and quietly under my very nose and not been spotted," said Balin, "and I take off my hood to you."

Behind him the hairy thing whose evil eyes had been watching his as a cat watches a mouse was creeping stealthily toward him.

The curious mouse creeps closer, is captured, "and because the Mouse has teased Miss Moppet-Miss Moppet thinks she will tease the Mouse; which is not at all nice of Miss Moppet".

The mouse creeps nearer.