A lad walks beside the horses, the iron creaks, and the ploughman holding the handles seems now to press upon them with his weight, and now to be himself bodily pulled along.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
He turned in his place, put his shoulders against the door and his feet against the woodwork of the stairs, and pushed steadily; there were one or two loud creaks, and the door began to yield.
"By What Authority?"
Robert Hugh Benson
The door shut softly, but-mercy, what creaks those steps had in them!
"The Heather-Moon"
C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson