24 collocations for squatted

He then squatted down, cowboy fashion, upon his hams, and smoothing carefully a piece of level ground, began towhat he called "figger.

" On the same page, and the next, you say of Us, high Churchmen and high Tories, "Beneath the battlements of Holyrood There never squatted a more sordid brood Than that which now, across the clotted perch, Crookens the claw and screams for Court and Church.

At sunset I came out upon the brow of a deep barren-looking canyon, in the middle of which squatted some old ruined log-cabins.

But our passionate generosity of soul was running in too strong a tide just then to be stemmed by any such interference; it could but be diverted, and Muncaster's bedroom served us as well wherein to squat in one of those close, rapt circles of talk such as, I think, after all, men who love poetry can alone knowmen, anyhow, with a poetry.

Major Drummond squatted down cross-legged before the smudge, lighting his corn-cob pipe from a bit of glowing moss, and leaned back contentedly, crossing his arms behind his head.

Both of them are squatting face to face, as often in the middle of the road as elsewhere, and with bowls, razors, soap, bottles and other appurtenances of the trade spread out between them.

Near the door squats a figure without arms, who can scratch his head with his toes without altering his position, "What do you do for a living, Baba?"

Behind the hedges of well-kept gardens squatted the brown gardener, making trenches indifferently with a hoe or a toe, and under the municipal lamp-post lounged the bronze policemana touch of Arab about mouth and lean nostrilquite unconcerned with a ferocious row between two donkey-men.

"We beheld a circle of half-naked braves in full war regalia, squatting haunch to haunch, listening to a story-teller.

He was not going to squat henlike on his place as the cockies around him did.

The other sort of gipsies consist of those that have squatted down in the villages some hundreds of years ago.

But our passionate generosity of soul was running in too strong a tide just then to be stemmed by any such interference; it could but be diverted, and Muncaster's bedroom served us as well wherein to squat in one of those close, rapt circles of talk such as, I think, after all, men who love poetry can alone knowmen, anyhow, with a poetry.

" Cardatas turned toward the captain, and at the same time Burke said: "Captain, hadn't you better squat down a little?

In the South there is, of course, growing in all its Saharan vigour, the noble date-palm, and by its side, squats the palmetto, or dwarf-palm (in Arabic dauma).

The first men had squatted beside their camp fires this same way, their wolfine pets beside them, as they made their battle plans.

Two men squat against the wall on either side, surrounded by their adherents, each holding between his knees a long-stemmed pipe built somewhat on the German fashion.

In the fields, dry and burnt to our eyes after the green valleys, squatted the reapers, snipping the sparse ears, apparently one by one, with sickles like penknives.

I'm goin' to kill him!" He had squatted down before the fire, his long rifle across his knees, and spoke as quietly as though he was talking of a partridge or a squirrel instead of a human being.

Around him, spell-bound, squatted the ring of his dark-faced and unwashed hearers.

Round it squatted a score of women, with plaids drawn tight over their heads, who rocked and moaned like a flight of witches, and twothree men were on their knees at the edge of the ashes.

[B] or cigarette in mouth, squats the shopkeeper.

Behind it, crouched close, squatted some infantry soldiers, firing from the cover of the wreckage.

Near a bright fire that was burning on the ground squatted a band of hideously-painted fellows who seemed to be redskins, while close at hand, bound and helpless, were a number of palefaces, plainly the captives of the savages.

The Hare now, after having squatted two or three Times, and been put up again as often, came still nearer to the Place where she was at first started.

24 collocations for  squatted