Which preposition to use with crouches
Profiles of the others she saw: one a passive nurse in uniform, who was patiently chafing the right hand of the bed's occupant; the other a lean-featured red-haired stranger, who sat crouched in his chair and held the dying man's left hand.
He let his mittens fall on the floor, crouched on his heels, and rocked his head in his hands.
Could you obtain a clear view, you would see a figure of Justice, with Ignorance and Quarrelsomeness crouched at her feet: on one side a skeleton, and on the other Punishment.
The two chums crouched behind a thick bush, and peering through its leafless branches could see nothing but the closed double doors, and a stretch of blank wall on either side.
Then she heard him speak again, crouching under the rock at her feet; and he said faintly to himself, 'That was no dream.
"We clambered over heaps of rocks, we descended ladders, wound through narrow passages, passed along chambers so low that we crouched for the whole length, entered upon lofty halls, ascended ladders, and crossed a bridge over a yawning abyss.
And then Landis was seen to raise the muzzle of his gun again, and crouch over it, leveling it straight at Donnegan.
Crop was as much astonished as I was, and he crept to my feet and trembled like a coward, as he crouched beside them.
Twelve o'clock saw them entering that gash of the hills where the little cabin crouched against the great mountain wall.
Now while Ulf yet stood to stare amazed upon this wondrous axe, upon its sharp-glittering, flawless edge, Walkyn had risen, dagger in hand; but even as he crouched to spring, a voice spakea gentle voice but commanding; and in the fire-glow stood the white Abbess, tall and gracious, the silver crucifix agleam upon her bosom.
Bertrand did the roasting, crouched like a gnome by the edge of the fire.
The wily panther, slipping and crouching among long grass and bushes, pounces upon the antelope and deer, but seldom crosses the bald, craggy thresholds of the sheep.
" Watkins needed no help; he had his party rounded up, and in complete control, the fellows begging for mercy, as they crouched before the cutlasses of their assailants.
Savages as well as white men were forced to cease their efforts to kill, and for a time we crouched beneath such poor shelter as the trees afforded, but drenched to the skin in a twinkling.
And on the back veranda behind them, where she had been crouching with her ear to the paling, Rosie came out of hiding and burst out like a whole hallelujah chorus, and with the empty scrub pail in one hand, and the brush in the other, beat the cymbals as she sang: "O that will be glory for me, Glory for you and glory for me, When by His grace I shall look on His face, That will be glory for me!" CHAPTER XXIV HOME
The young Cardinal remained alone, crouching by the high altar, until he was led away by some priests into the Old Sacristy, whence he was escorted by two of the 'Eight,' with a strong bodyguard, to the Palazzo del Podesta.
No voice but his was heard for some time in the ighloo, then, "I fraid," said Muckluck, crouching near the fire, but with head turned over shoulder, staring at the sick man.
For I saw, on the instant that I got me to mine elbow, how that certain things did crouch within the borders of the trees, no more than a score paces off.
So Roger took the belt, and turning softly, left Beltane crouched above the fire as one that is deadly cold.
The rest of us crouched along the starboard rail, peering out into the mist, and listening for the slightest sound.
Jealousy creeps in, suspicion awakens, hate crouches around the corner, and these men combine in mutual dislike for certain things and persons.
The road is a cornice cut on the western bank upon which side it runs for ten miles until the bridge below the village of Torre Garda leads it across the river to the sunny slope where the village crouches below the ancient castle from which the name is taken.
" Outside the gate of the compound, coolies crouching round a lantern sprang upright and whipped a pair of sedan-chairs into position.
He was still crouching about her feet.
You would almost have thought he had meant it should be so, if you had looked into her eyes sometimes,perhaps when she was on her knees by the timber; or when she listened to the chant, crouching out of sight in the church.