They looked very glum, and neither made any reply as I crawled ashore among the concealing bushes.

Currently, it is a sacred site of the Inuit: modern visitors are expected to crawl ashore, or die exactly a year later.

Water was splashed vigorously into the face of the man in the bow, arousing him to crawl ashore.

The breeding season - when female crabs crawl ashore to lay their eggs - peaks during the full moon in May.

Had the moat creatures been able to crawl ashore right now, they would have found considerable prey to feed on.

The surviving men of the crew sprang over the side and splashed and crawled ashore.

"For that we didn't need to crawl ashore," Anton said.

It would do for the lagoon, but as he worked he thought of the Swarmers crawling ashore at the last island.

Warren was sure the Chinese did not know the Swarmers were crawling ashore or else they would have come after him in a group.

The first few spiders were already crawling ashore with crossbows held at the ready.