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There are no tongue-twisting names, no creakingly dull "epic fantasy" politics.

Recommend a fantasy novel to someone who doesn't like fantasy. 2009

The furor over soy imports in the 1990s led to a hiatus in the EU regulatory system, which has only recently begun once again to operate (albeit creakingly) to approve crops for import to be used primarily in animal feed.

Politically Modified Martin Livermore 2007

Checking email on a creakingly slow Cingular GPRS network is a painful process, I must add, but still it is small.

Will Moto A630 show-up in rap-videos? 2004

And others are there who go along heavily and creakingly, like carts taking stones downhill: they talk much of dignity and virtue — their drag they call virtue!

Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none 2001

Malta creakingly stood upright in the small boat, bracing her feet as she stared at the oncoming ship, her disbelief slowing her acceptance of it.

Ship Of Destiny Hobb, Robin 2000

“Nice building,” Kincaid said as they rose creakingly in the lift.

Leave the Grave Green Deborah Crombie 1995

We checked into our hotel in a daze-a creakingly old hotel called the Hacienda.

Microserfs Coupland, Douglas 1995

How if the key turned creakingly instead of silently, or would not yield at all?

The Heretic's Apprentice Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1989

How if the key turned creakingly instead of silently, or would not yield at all?

The Heretic's Apprentice Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1989

Rents were sometimes not collected, but the cumbersome system did go creakingly forward, provid - ing Wiktor with just enough surplus to pay for his apartment in Vienna and the care of his three horses.

Poland Michener, James 1983