Jon and I did not cheer, for a cold realisation was creeping over us.

Slowly the realization crept through them that they were still alive and the ship hadn't blown them to hell and gone.

But he was up against a more powerful antagonist than the red-haired sailor, he was outclassed, and the realization of it crept over him with a sickening force.

Then the realization crept over him that there was no way he would be able to pull himself up.

A dawning realization crept over him as he stared down at the butt of the arrow that had spiked the coin to his chest, then he swayed, took a step backward, and fell from the shelf, the gold foil glimmering for just an instant as he spun out of sight.

Tyron looked quickly at Froghorn; then a slow realization crept warmly over him.

Slowly, however, the shocked realization crept home that his plan, to find some place where he could safely leave his body, had no meaning in this restless ocean of human driftwood.

The bleak, despairing realization crept over him: his friend had drowned, along with Rodger and Pontswain.

My realization of John's impact on the teen-comedy genre crept in sometime later.

Gradually the realization of it crept upon him as he groped blindly into the unknown, and it gave him strength to go on in the face of such physical exhaustion as he had never known before.