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But a waiting Yates man, crouchingly running up the line, was successfully passed, and the trio bore farther infield, putting ten more precious yards behind them.

From The Half-Back by Barbour, Ralph Henry

“I didn’t——” Miss Hoffman faced him crouchingly and shook an indictment from her fingers.

From Bransford of Rainbow Range Originally Published under the title of Bransford in Arcadia, or, The Little Eohippus by Rhodes, Eugene Manlove

Waiting until the fellow had gone to the furthest limit of his post, the chums, flat on their stomachs, crawled forward until, on looking backward, they judged it safe to rise and move on crouchingly.

From Uncle Sam's Boys with Pershing's Troops Dick Prescott at Grips with the Boche by Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)

Two of them moved crouchingly, and Carrie could not see the third man.

From By Right of Purchase by Bindloss, Harold

Instead, commanding his warriors to make halt, Kaolin himself dismounts; and signing the gaucho to keep him company, the two step crouchingly forward and upward to the outer edge of the cliff.

From Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco by Tilney, F.C.