Rickety crouched a moment to feel out the reality of his freedom, then burst away with head close to the ground and ragged mane fluttering.

She clasped her child to her bosom, and crouched motionless in the darkest corner of the room, covering him with the folds of her robe, lest he should wake and cry.

She crouched a little, still clinging to the pickets of the gate.

Flat upon the ground, the small army concentred on the igloo, and behind, deliciously expectant, crouched many women and children, come out to witness the murder.

Gray Wolf crouched shoulder to shoulder with him, trembling and showing her teeth.

Hidden in the dense jungle, some hundred yards below, sits Mrs. Locock on the matted top of a hazel, while Jane, chittering with suppressed excitement, crouches a few paces behind me.

He used to crouch his head down over his two forearms and go to sleep, or pretend to, by way of showing it did not matter what I said to the jury.

They are so different, these haughty Mohammedans, from the bare-legged, barefooted, cringing, crouching creatures you see farther south.

By the river bank, and partly protected by a narrow open space, crouched the Crees and voyageurs.

In the light of the fire the mamaloi swayed, holding the screaming child, and close to the flames crouched the cripple.

acullá, there; ... de acá ... de , ... here ... there. acurrucarse, to conceal oneself; to crouch down. acusar, to accuse; de, to accuse as (or of) being.

At her feet crouched Dennis, the dog, and he also was trembling at those raucous sounds, and Mamie could feel his thin ribs pressing against her own thin legs.

For a brief space it peered at us in silence, and then a dark figure sprang like a cat on to the deck, and stood crouching a short distance away.

However, they got to the opposite bank in safety, and crouching up a ditch found a grove of trees, where they dressed.

and he nodded where on the battlement below, crouched Eric with Walkyn and Roger who laboured at the winches of a great trebuchet hard by.

Here Salo was crouching half fainting on the floor.

Thus held the doomed animal could make little effort to protect itself and crouched in sullen quiet, its white fangs gleaming in a noiseless, defiant snarl, its eyes shining with pain and anger, and with only its thin starved body, which jerked and trembled as the Indian came nearer, betraying signs of fear.

Behold the sovereign on her throne of bronze, While crouching at her feet a lion fawns; The glittering court with gold and gems ablaze With ancient splendor of the glorious days Of Accad's sovereignty.

His body crouched there, the weak fingers obeying feebly the instinctive habit of a lifetime with twigs and matches.

Then awa' to the hills, to the lea, to the rocks: Ere I own an usurper I'll crouch wi' the fox; And tremble, false Whigs, in the midst of your glee Ye hae no seen the last of my bonnets and me. Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can, etc.

There was a fire of driftwood burning at the back of the beach, and round it crouched a group of men in reefing jackets and sou'westers waiting for morning to save what they might from the wreck; but I gave them a wide berth and so passed in the darkness without a word, and came to the top of the beach.

" "Come," said Sir Philip, testily; "don't crouch grovelling on the floor there.

They sat there on the floor of the loft, silent, in the attitude of children who crouch hiding in their play.

she cried; 'look at my sister!' Out on the extremity of the buck-stage (how she got there neither they nor she ever knew) crouched Honoria, her face idiotic with terror, while she stared with bursting eyes into the foam.

Sitting yet in darkness, and massed against us, crouch sullenly the immemorial hordes of Asia, the wild blacks of the African swamps and jungles, and the dwellers of Polynesian seas.