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Spurning breakfast he hurried to his office, and before Martha or the rest arrived he had climbed wearily to the pinnacle of his high stool, and had hunched himself over his figures.

From The Sin of Monsieur Pettipon and other humorous tales by Connell, Richard

It had hunched itself up into a miserable lump, and its long snail's eyes were drawn in quite tight so that they hardly showed at all.

From The Story of the Amulet by Nesbit, E. (Edith)

Lou, who had hunched about in her seat to stare at the assorted array of articles in the body of the van, turned and looked curiously at him.

From Anything Once by Ostrander, Isabel

Apparently its owner was feeling cold, for he had hunched his chin between his knees, and clasped his hirsute arms around his legs, as his eyes stared gloomily, with a hunted air, in my direction.

From Through Russia by Hogarth, C. J.

The cat had purred complacently on the first day of my arrival, and had hunched up her white, furry back towards my hand, and had smiled with her calm, light-blue eyes.

From The Return Of The Soul 1896 by Hichens, Robert Smythe