Behind him trailed another horse, and for the first time in her life Valeria heard the soft, whispering creak of saddle leather, the faint clank of spur chains, and the whir of a horse mouthing the "cricket" in his bit.
"Lonesome Land"
B. M. Bower
Then the ominous creak grew sharper, and one of them shouted.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton
That sounds a rotten thing to say but I hate being given it all like this, especially when you haven't got much of your own either-" "Between friends," said Stephen slowly, swinging his leg backwards and forwards and making the bed creak under his weight, "there aren't any giving or taking-it's just common."
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole