Just beyond these a throng of hucksters, market-women, butchers, bakers, etc., vociferously urge him to accept their votive offerings of garden truck, carrots, cabbages, parsnips, haunches of beef, baskets of French rolls and the like, all of which the Prince proudly declines, whereupon the vast concourse breaks forth into this wild chant to the air of BINGEN ON THE RHINE.

They sat on their haunches in the snow, and grinned at the whip-crackings and futile "Mush, mush!" of the Colonel.

On the second chain of ponds, we saw, as we were rowing along, a large panther walk out on to the top of a great boulder, and look around, lashing his sides with his long tail, and then sit down on his haunches with his tail curled around his feet, just as you've seen a cat do.

But she would not eat, and at last Kazan went and sat on his haunches at her side, and with her looked at what he had dug out from under the snow.

He came back then and sat down upon his haunches beside her, waiting for her to move and speak.

At last he must have dropped asleep, for he woke suddenly with all his senses alert, and opening his eyes found a full-grown fox within six feet of him sitting on its haunches like a dog and watching his face with curiosity.

As I turned away to go back to the village, the wolf sank down upon his haunches for rest, for it was a hot summer day; and as I drove slowly homeward, I saw his sharp nose still pointed at me, until I vanished below the margin of the hilltops.

W. Scott has distributed himself like a bribe haunch among 'em.

He sniffed curiously at Thom's listless hand, cocked ears challengingly at Chugungatte, and hunched down upon his haunches before Tantlatch.

The general belief is that these worn patches are made by the bears sliding down hill on their haunches on the snow; but my natives have a theory that this is caused by the bears' pelt freezing to their dens and being torn off when they wake from their winter's sleep.

For two minutes Thor sat on his haunches without moving a muscle of his great body except those twitching thews in his nose.

He did not see the bear sitting patiently on his haunches beneath the tip of the long wing.

The lads were surprised at the way their own horses followed, sliding on their haunches down the steepest places and picking their way among rocks and bowlders.

His master had given him a fat haunch from an enormous stag to roast for the priests' dinner, and a dog had run off with it.

They were all squatted on their haunches outside the hut, apparently waiting for a signal to go in.

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

In a moment, another came out right opposite to him, and then another, and another, until Mark swears to this day that there were more than a dozen of these fierce and hungry savages squatted on their haunches within fifty yards of him.

Another crack and another, and with each crack a dog tumbled, until little Satan sat on his haunches amid the writhing pack, alone.