As the hours crawled by, that burning had subsided to embers.

He could not tell, as the hours crawled by, whether Kelson's breathing was easing or not.

They stretched and strained in the darkness, and the hours crawled by like years.

Exactly one o'clock-seven hours since he crawled out of the ravine.

But the Army doesn't come, and doesn't come, and the hours crawl by.

Every few hours she checked for a dial tone or crawled under her desk to examine the wiring.

An hour later and they had laboriously crawled to the housetop.

The hours were crawling slowly along, and there had been scarcely any progress.

The hours crawled miserably by, and when we finally returned to port, I continued to feel bad for hours.