creeps
/kɹiːps/ noun B2- A sensation that objects are crawling on one's skin.
- A feeling or sensation of fear or horror. · I get the creeps walking down that street, even in broad daylight.
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And the ghost of a little murdered child haunts the corner up by Idlewild; it creeps up behind you and lays its cold fingers on your hand--so.
Darzee, the Tailorbird, helped him, and Chuchundra, the muskrat, who never comes out into the middle of the floor, but always creeps round by the wall, gave him advice, but Rikki-tikki did the real fighting.
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