How To Use Crouch In A Sentence
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Just as Peter Crouch the binman may find his lanky frame considerably less alluring to the opposite sex.
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Grace was crouched in front of a small wisp of a girl.
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His face wore a lopsided grin, and he crouched down near the fire and set to work upon the other shoe.
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Rubber blanks exploded through the bush I was crouching behind, but none hit me.
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No such consideration is given the croucher in real life.
To Say Nothing of the Dog
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Between songs he crouches and we can all hear the plunk plunk of strings being tuned.
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I went into the bathroom, crouched over the toilet and threw up.
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The carriage had become so smoky that passengers had to crouch to the floor to breathe, he said.
Times, Sunday Times
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He quotes from the diary: ‘a doodlebug comes over our bus and we all crouch down to avoid the shattering of the window-glass.’
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Falling to the ground in a graceful crouch was a slender figure, defiantly feminine.
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Then she crouched between his legs, and closely inspected his body.
A TALE OF FOUR HOUSES: Opera at Covent Garden, La Scala, Vienna and the Met since 1945
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They crouched in the cobwebby corner behind a pile of boxes.
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Crouch implement change sit implement, accept osculum restriction.
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The other sniper was crouched behind a rusted workbench close to the main doorway.
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He tossed both knives into the air and caught them before dropping into a crouch like his brother.
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From a vantage point of twenty feet away they all crouched, watching the car, which appeared disinclined to burst into flame.
LOOKING FOR ANDREW MCCARTHY
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Dr. Beeks crouched in the center of the chamber, reaching out to touch something only she could see, then made a moue when her hand failed to connect.
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For here was a trailing line of jog-trotting dusky shapes, some crouching on dwarf ponies half their size, some trailing lances, lodge-poles, rifles, women and children after them, all moving with a monotonous rhythmic motion as marked as the military precision of the other cavalcade, and always on a parallel line with it.
Tales of Trail and Town
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The animal had the character of being, contrary to what his species usually are, exceedingly savage; and he suffered himself to be taken up by me and carried from his foes with a kind of sullenness; but when, being out of the reach of danger, he was put down, he gazed on his deliverer, and then crouched at his feet.
The Dog
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Then Bale crosses brilliantly from the left to Crouch at the far post; Lord alone knows how the big man missed it.
Tottenham Hotspur v FC Twente – as it happened
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Crouching down, he could see the enemy's machine-gun emplacement.
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Sotirios Kyrgiakos, on for the injured Carragher, tried to outjump Crouch but mistimed his leap.
Tottenham Hotspur's speed takes them past Liverpool in home straight
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Marcus straightened from his crouching position and crossed the space between them.
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Dove through the sliding doors and whammed them shut, crouching on all fours, heart beating wildly, peering out at him.
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Then she laughed, and crouched, and picked up in her good hand a blacksnake as tall as a sapling and as thick as a ship's rope.
AMERICAN GODS
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Then armed with a sword, gun, battledore, or an armful of bricks to throw, and uttering sadistic cries, Adam would pursue him round and round the room, driving him from refuge to refuge, until almost beside himself with rage and terror, he crouched junglelike with ears flattened back and porpentine hair.
The Complete Stories
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The light-striped canopy resembles a barred cage, where he crouches like an animal.
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I crouched down without making a sound and started slithering like a snake through the bushy tomato plants that Mr. Russo had tied up on stakes.
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At the place where it sprang from the toe of the valley wall I crouched down to dip my fingers in the fresh water.
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She heard the singing of a blade being drawn from its scabbard, and dropped into a crouch as said blade sliced the air above her head.
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A man crouched in the shadows to monitor the flow of juice.
Indian Balm - Travels in the Southern Subcontinent
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But when Tabu-Tabu put up his hands after the most approved method of self-defense and dropped into a "crouch,
Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates
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Half-seen in a corner of the lobby, three watchmen in greatcoats crouch over a brazier.
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A black marble eagle crouches at his feet.
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They crouch on the scratch line, wait for starting gun to ring only, begin intense contend.
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He crouched next to the bomb - which displayed seven minutes until detonation - and defused it.
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Another squad is crouching next to a bridge, sheltering from the scorching sun and waiting to launch an ambush.
Times, Sunday Times
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An armoire stood between the door and the bedstead, an old four-poster crouching against the left wall, with no mattress and the canopy in tatters.
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Back tire slurping and bouncing wildly, I kept going, finally slithering to a halt when I saw Jeff and Joe crouched under a rock outcropping.
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People are milling about drinking coffee or crouched over laptops.
Times, Sunday Times
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She wore a see-through dress to the Brit Awards and gave Crouchy a sly blowie on the beach in St Barts.
Kontraband Latest
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A grungy man with an evil, nearly toothless grin crouched behind it.
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Street lamp light crouchs posse , resemble brushy balloon, wave in the sky in grey indigo color.
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Crouch zipped a pass to Wistrom, who caught it, turned upfield and was tackled at the 15.
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Around this grand square with its central lake were arranged as follows: on the north side a superb colonnade of sculptured columns, forming the façade of the Temple of Mnevis, the sacred ox of On, at the gate or propyla of which crouched two sphinxes, with majestic human heads.
The pillar of fire, or, Israel in bondage
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The drama takes place at noon, motionless noon crouched into negative capability, when the world is worlding, and forms pulse in a combinative protean grammar.
The Best American Poetry 2008
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Uniformed officers and a couple of detec were crouched in shooting positions up there.
Cat & Mouse
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The three of them were silhouetted, one of the adults crouching, the boy standing at his shoulder.
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In listening to these works with their clumsy blocks of tone, their eternal sunless complaining, their lack of humor where they would be humorous, their lack of passion where they would be profound, their sardonic and monotonous bourdon, one is perforce reminded of the photograph of Reger which his publishers place on the cover of their catalogue of his works, the photograph that shows something that is like a swollen, myopic beetle with thick lips and sullen expression crouching on an organ-bench.
Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers
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Who dareth name the fiend?" croaked an awful voice, whereat Black Lewin halted, gaped and stood a-tremble, while beneath steel cap and bascinet all men's hair stirred and rose with horror; for before them was a ghastly shape, a shape that crouched in the gloom with dreadful face aflame with smouldering green fire.
The Geste of Duke Jocelyn
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Although the NWS has, indeed, recommended the "crouch" as a last resort, the NWS's lightning expert himself, John Jensenius, told me that the advantage is slight -- not as great as some NWS websites imply.
Lightning: To crouch or not to crouch...?
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Lansing made a note of the name and crouched down to put the plate back on the outlet.
The Big Scam
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He started in on the chorus again, crouching low on his hunkers at the side of the stage, looking down on the crowd.
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It's shaped like a little gargoyle who's crouching over the teapot underneath, as if to say, ‘Back off, buster!’
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Whipping up enthusiasm at the Rural Forum as well as a delicious damson syllabub was Cumbrian chef and local food historian John Crouch.
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She shaded her eyes and crouched beside him, the fire crackling and sending sparks into the morning air.
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White in the face, crouching as though his words were blows to be warded off, she skirted round the edge of the room to the door.
GRACE
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The image of a woman crouching before an ivy-covered wall, her body an apparition of light-sensitive salts, is anchored to a new body.
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They were crouched on the ground, listening to their radio.
THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War
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Crouch glanced at his partner and he may have reflected how their differences are more than physical.
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Michael crouches on the roof, watching the action unfold. Police squad cars race towards the prison.
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He puts down the jar and crouches to retie it.
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Another squad is crouching next to a bridge, sheltering from the scorching sun and waiting to launch an ambush.
Times, Sunday Times
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Atop Athena's helmet, between winged griffins, crouched an inscrutable sphinx.
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Not crouched down into the starting blocks with her fingertips pressed so lightly on to the oven red brick track.
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I crouched, sniffing and listening, every muscle poised for flight.
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The day before, a mechanic almost lost a limb, crouching in too close as the car sped into the pits.
Times, Sunday Times
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One of the hunters crouched in the bow with a 12 - bore shotgun ready to bring down one of the mallard or teal that flew up at our approach.
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She saw him coming and crouched behind a bush.
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She crouched down, and wrapped her arms around her frail body, covering her face with her hands.
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Angus, crouching over a keyboard in the corner, waited in pleasurable anticipation for his entry.
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I drew back, and with Zev crouching behind me, peeped through the hole I had made.
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In a labial dawn I savoured salty draughts of liquor springing from your tumid lips, luxuriated in a magnanimity your primal crouch expressed, heard half-suppressed love-cries tell the tumult in your loins.
When I Close My Eyes (rev)
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Cameron rested in a crouch, eating vegetarian tortellini out of the pouch.
MINUTES TO BURN
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She ran to where Graham was crouched and ducked down behind the drums.
CODE BREAKER
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Wilbur loaded his Mauser with an exaggerated but surprisingly able movement and advanced toward the henhouse in an absurd crouch.
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I landed in a crouch and stood up, straightening my robe.
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In the Middle Ages, a type of spaniel was bred, the ancestor of some of our modern spaniels, that would naturally crouch when it located game.
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Most of it's standard - obviously if you spend a lot of time crouched over, you'll have a sore back - but I'm slightly worried that the arches of my feet hurt.
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Rebus nodded slowly and walked over to the bus driver, crouched down in front of him.
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Then the little beggar, electric with fear to every hair tip, crouches and snarls menacingly and almost at the same time whimpers appeasingly at the storm-monster outside.
CHAPTER XXVII
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Uncle Kal stuffed his equipment under a nearby bush, then crouched beside me.
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We saw a man crouched on the floor.
The Sun
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Police were called after a resident heard scratching outside and spotted a figure crouching on the ground.
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The eleven of us were crouched amid the vegetation, laughing, exhilarated, wonderstruck.
Times, Sunday Times
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Behind him, the virescent beast crouched as if about to leap again, bellowing defiance and raising clenched fists that were as big as hams.
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All of the members of the Melody crouched, throwing their hands over their heads to fling away the flying debris.
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When intruders appear, the chicks respond quickly to their parents' calls by crouching or running to shelter.
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He loses interest in the drawers and continues to walk in a crouch position toward the middle of the desk and the chair.
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And I put my hands down, as you naturally would -- you're kind of crouched in one of these American-made car backseats where they don't have much in the way of leg room.
Moving Violations: A Memoir: War Zones, Wheelchairs, and Declarations of Independence
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She paused and crouched, running her fingers along the edge of one of the circular prints with an angled notch in the front.
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There was a psychological moment as the crouching man came up into the trench with his rifle and bayonet, when his chin was in the perfect position: moreover, the sapper was a full back of merit.
No Man's Land
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Bachelorette Party, Penises, and Deep Thoughts
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She was crouched, waiting, next to another Elf and a hawk lycanthrope as other Elves moved across bridges, in and out of trees, all hooded with their weapons concealed.
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We've all seen it: a mother crouched on the floor, arms outstretched, cooing to her baby as he lopsidedly plops first one hand, then the other, on the carpet, dragging his chubby knees behind him.
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What is there more, that I lag and pause, and crouch extended with unshut mouth?
So Long
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On the extreme left, crouching low, its arms hanging near its feet, was an ape; it looked intent, like an athlete waiting for the gun to go off.
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Dropping to a crouch, the princess crept to the edge of the quicksand.
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I can't emphasize enough what respect I have for the kind of research Crouch has done.
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They moved forward in a combat crouch, following the tinct center of what had once been a fairly wide road.
In Alien Hands
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A brief confab and much to the dismay of the defence, Mr Crouch was pointing to the spot.
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Venue crouched over the skeletal remains of a corsair, his long cobweblike hair matted to his yellowed skull.
The Thieves of Darkness
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Then I silently mounted the stairs myself, and crouched two steps from the top to listen.
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Jinx realized with a shock that he was still in a predatory, feline crouch, lashing his tail agitatedly, the claws on his feet digging into the dirt.
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That helped to nullify Stoke's main threat and, although Jon Walters had an early chance that he dragged wide and Peter Crouch acrobatically volleyed over later in the first half, the home side created little else against a Valencia team that looked menacing whenever they broke forward.
Stoke City 0-1 Valencia | Europa League last-32 1st leg match report
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Clambering over the precious pile in the middle, they crouched low on the foreside of the mast and groped under the half-deck.
Nostromo: a Tale of the Seaboard
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She crouched like a cornered animal, her face hidden by the disarranged mass of her hair.
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When trees die, the Crouches leave them standing so that birds such as flickers and chickadees can feed on the insects that invade the dead wood.
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Next, a bloke crouching on the floor, screaming and vomiting.
Times, Sunday Times
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He just crouches on the corner at lunchtime and occasionally bays, like a wolf or coyote.
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This called for light to climb by, since he relished a night on the ground inside the forest still less than he liked the idea of crouching helpless in the grass.
Tunnel In The Sky
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Although many consider Crouching Tiger,Hidden Dragon to be foremost an excellent kung fu movie,the story depicts many forms of love(Sentencedict),the most memorable of which is the poignant romance between the two star-crossed lovers played by Chow Yun fat and Michelle Yeoh.
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Faint music came from another house beyond the trees; a carriage clopped past the distant gates; overhead a nightbird moaned dolefully; I could hear my own knees creaking as I crouched there, scratching the newly-healed bullet-wound in my backside and wondering what the deuce was wrong.
Isabelle
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The (in) famous demon statue, life-size and crouching on one knee just inside the door, is usually referred to as Asmodeus (a demon who guards buried treasure).
The Sion Revelation
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My mum was crouched on the ground and had a cut over her eye.
The Sun
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Crouched in the middle of the road a Moro, gone amuck, darted fanatic glances in search of the Christians he had vowed to die killing, his eyes bloodshot with the self-inflicted torture of the juramentado rite.
Terry A Tale of the Hill People
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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.
THE SUNLANDERS
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He instantly obeyed me -- came crouching up very much ashamed and lay down to beg my pardon.
EMPIRES OF THE PLAIN: Henry Rawlinson and the Lost Languages of Babylon
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Players now tie each other up in intricate pretzels, crouch to let another player fly over their backs and deke faster than lightning.
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Those who remain in a defensive crouch are in danger of being left behind.
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David appeared startled and looked from the spreading ripples on the lake towards the trees where Adam crouched hidden.
LOST SUMMER
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A cluster of vultures crouched on the carcass of a dead buffalo.
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As before a dolphin of huge maw fly other fish and fill the nooks of some fair-havened bay, in terror, for he devoureth amain whichsoever of them he may catch; so along the channels of that dread stream the Trojans crouched beneath the precipitous sides.
The Iliad
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Either way, on Tuesday it is the turn of skinny-tied touchline croucher Andre Villas-Boas to attempt to sate his master's Euro urge as Chelsea kick things off at home against Bayer Leverkusen.
The Guardian World News
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He crouches down and then launches his fist upward in the motion of an uppercut.
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As surpluis and rochet, and suche linnen garmentes: shauen crownes, tourninges at the altare, our masse solempnities, our organes, our knielinges, crouchinges, praiers, and other of that kinde.
The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie
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An item that would have appealed to his sense of whimsy is a bronze figure of a crouching fat man.
Times, Sunday Times
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She crouched behind a tent, peeking out to see if there was any way through.
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David crouched over him, pinning his gun arm with a hand, his knee pressing hard into Clyde's trachea.
DO NO HARM
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A photograph showing him crouched with a gun in the burning building made him a nationalist pin-up.
The Sun
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There, as if really unable to get up again, he remained crouching under the groyne, looking up in an attitude of painful anxiety.
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
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I crouched by him and grasped his hand, mutely offering what comfort I could.
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The cat crouched uneasily in her arms, then uttered a curious low cry and struggled free.
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In the midst of the Anglo-Saxon burials were two crouched Bronze Age burials, both adults, associated with sherds of Beaker pottery and a small bronze awl probably dating from about 2000 BC.
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While crouching on the floor of a lavatory - he was setting up the first shot of his first film - he experienced an epiphany.
Times, Sunday Times
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Next, a bloke crouching on the floor, screaming and vomiting.
Times, Sunday Times
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He crouched down with her and finished undressing her.
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Laura's glowing face was fairly radiant with beauty, and her figure was unconsciously displayed in such a variety of bewitching attitudes and dainty postures, that even a pair of frisky kittens, that had been chasing each other round the grassplot and up and down the stems of the cherry-trees, ceased their gambols and lay still, crouching in the grass, and watching her graceful motions, as if taking heed for future imitation.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858
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Crouching down out of the wind he directed the torch at the sandface, running the beam of light along the strata.
MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
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As I stop, crouching behind a tree to conceal myself, my foot dislodges some loose soil to reveal a deep, narrow cleft between two rocks.
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He crouched in the shadows near the doorway.
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His crouch was a gathering together, an assembling of all the parts of him under the rule of the spirit of him, for the spring upward to meet in mid career this monstrous, menacing thing.
Jerry of the Islands
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A youth crouches on a stanchion under York's new Millennium Bridge - some 15 feet above the bank and the swirling waters of the River Ouse.
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They struck grayest and ghostliest on a high balcony, where a woman's figure crouched, swathed in damp, trailing drapery, with silky, falling hair about a still face, and steadfast eyes that had burned just as steadfastly through the long hours gone by.
The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
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On the driver's seat crouched a white man, the reins held taut in his left hand.
Between Worlds: A Reader, Rhetoric and Handbook
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A small wooden desk, bearing a blue ceramic lamp and a spiral notebook, crouched bowlegged in one corner.
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He crouches at the edge of the hayloft and stands up, looking around for fresh straw to take down to his horse.
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A dank series of cavelike rooms below an Orthodox yeshiva, the place had a musty, subterranean feel, as if the Golem were crouching in the next passageway.
The Lampshade
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Like I said previously, your boy handles almost perfectly (I wished that grenades could be thrown a bit farther) and there are no problems with the running, jumping, crouching or mantling (climbing over obstacles) mechanics.
Review: Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 – The Review Crew
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We crouched low behind boulders, striving for inconspicuousness while Wehausen unpacked his telemetry equipment to see if any radio-collared sheep were in the vicinity.
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I crouched by him and grasped his hand, mutely offering what comfort I could.
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And lo! as I did crouch there, hidden, I saw something come very quiet out of the bushes that did grow beyond the fire-hole; and it was great, and crept, and was noways coloured but by greyness in all its parts.
The Night Land
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he crouched down
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Knowing that she would never be able to outrun her pursuer, the girl quickly stepped behind a tree and crouched down.
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Instead of parrying, Celia crouched under the blade's arc and reprised with an upward thrust of her own weapon.
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The spaniel crouched by the door whining and scratching, and as Kerry came up it raised its beady black eyes to him with a look which, while it was not unfearful, held an unmistakable appeal.
Dope
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After pointing their capacious stomachs at one another, they each then crouched down and shook a leg like an arthritic sumo wrestler.
The Sun
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He crouched as near to the door as he could.
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My mum was crouched on the ground and had a cut over her eye.
The Sun
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One armed officer wearing a helmet and body armour crouched behind the corner of a house and was aiming his weapon.
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Will, on the other hand, has never felt less weakened by morality than he does now, with his son crouched there like a stringless puppet.
The Redleys
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The riders crouched on the backs of the horses and the bandannas prevented the kicked - up dust from choking the brothers.
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Cautiously, he moved forward, craning his head to the side trying to see if anyone was crouching behind the bush.
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Although there is sometimes a difference I can see when we are both playing or training with her is that when by me she tends to be more playful and puppy like and when around my step dad she'll be more serious and give more submissive gestures such as crouching, keeping her tail low and licking him.
Who's Your Daddy?
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Another squad is crouching next to a bridge, sheltering from the scorching sun and waiting to launch an ambush.
Times, Sunday Times
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‘Treehouse’, from Juno Reactor, is reminiscent of the tribal drum work from Crouching Tiger, with a little didgeridoo thrown in for good measure.
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A group of soldiers in berets and camouflage emerges, crouched low in the fierce downwash from the rotors.
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It also means crouching in damp sand at playgrounds and wiping snotty noses and shitty bums and worrying constantly about whether or not you remembered to restock the diaper bag and, also, refill your Ativan prescription.
The World According To Mom | Her Bad Mother
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Half-seen in a corner of the lobby, three watchmen in greatcoats crouch over a brazier.
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Davies arrived on stage at the poky Basement Bar like Gulliver, forcing a crouch so his huge arms could reach up to the perilously low ceiling.
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He muscles the log toward the opposite bank, crouches atop a slick boulder, and steadies the log.
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Mogget erupted out of the saddlebag and crouched in front of Sam, looking in every direction, his fur standing on end.
LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
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He flitted about from obligatory flying jobs and mandatory staff tours and, eventually, wound up again crouched at his master’s feet in the Pentagon.
Phony Veterans and POW's - Article Index
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Hoeing weeds will be a welcome break from pruning duties and is much kinder on the back than crouching down to pull them out.
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They were moving at a crouch or lying looking up at us as we drove happily along, an apparition in a no-go area.
Whicker's War
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She dirties her hands and feet, splashes paint onto her skin or pinches it with clothespins, squeezes herself into cupboards and detached fireplace moldings, wraps herself in tattered wallpaper peeling from the walls, crouches barefoot amongst the dust and detritus and reclines in display cases alongside taxidermied rodents.
Larissa Archer: Artist Unbound: Francesca Woodman at SFMOMA
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We had to plug in the kettle in the hall, make tea crouching on the bare floorboards.
Times, Sunday Times
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Most of each day was spent crouched on a floor, one hand shackled to one ankle with handcuffs.
Times, Sunday Times
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Crouched over in agony, Ruth's terrible cry of betrayal seems torn from the depths of her soul.
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Then, crouching low, he ran from bush to bush and took his stand in front of a weigela bush that screened him from being seen by his family.
Jerry's Charge Account
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He limped under the gateway into the town, and the croucher by the wall peered at him between the meshes of her dishevelled hair.
The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay
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I was at the corner of the church, in a crouch, with just my head breaking the line of the corrugated iron.
SNOWLINE
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I crouched down into the farthest corner from the door, huddling into a ball, making myself as small as possible.
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I got up and went over to crouch next to him and picked one myself.
THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War
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Hamja had painted his boat with an image of a crouching Spider-Man and christened it the Kingfisher, emblazoning the name on the side in the sweeping script of graffiti artists everywhere.
Jihadists in Paradise
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He crouched before the red-black star and heard the song of foreverness that pulsed in the emptiness in this corner of the universe, wherever it might be.
Project Pope
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What about your thruppenny croucher of an old fellow, me boy, through the ages, tell us, eh?
Finnegans Wake
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Peter Crouch comes on for Owen - if he gets booked, England will only have Wayne Rooney and Theo Walcott to play up front in their quarter-final against Germany.
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Having made Winter Marsh from the Crouch I anchored off a shallow bay and rowed ashore in the dinghy.
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I went into the bathroom, crouched over the toilet and threw up.
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It stood crouched, with tail between its legs, like a miserable and woe-begone dog.
LOVE OF LIFE
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Then she crouched between his legs, and closely inspected his body.
A TALE OF FOUR HOUSES: Opera at Covent Garden, La Scala, Vienna and the Met since 1945
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They cut through the chain locking the bike to a drainpipe outside the flat where Mr Croucher was staying in the early hours of April 10.
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Someone came forward at a crouching run and laid two charged muskets on the ground beside me; to my astonishment I saw it was Bella Blair - the fat babu I'd seen reading the previous night was similarly arming the riding-master, and the chap on t'other side of me had as his loader a very frail-looking old civilian in a dust-coat and cricket cap.
Fiancée
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The governor, ashen-faced, crouched in the car; but the bishop said softly as the ecstasy pulsed in his heart:
DARKWATER
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My instinct was to crouch down and get as small as I could, like a turtle in his shell.
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He moved forward cautiously until a man came into view crouched in the shallows of the river.
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At one point George tells of his struggle ‘I was standing, well not really, I was crouched over trying to stand and kept bumping my head, damn that hurt’.
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She ran her hand against the steel plated walls and crouched down to see writings that had been scratched into the metal, probably with a knife.
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I crouched at the border of field and forest, hidden behind the snow-dusted skeleton of a bush and a drift banked against a fallen trunk.
