Example Sentences

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I believed I smelt a lion some two hours ago, and perhaps he has been crouching near us, watching for one of us.”

From Adventures of Hans Sterk The South African Hunter and Pioneer by Drayson, A. W. (Alfred Wilks)

She has been crouching all day beside her, hiding her face in her gown.

From In Kings' Byways by Weyman, Stanley John

She has been crouching all day by her, hiding her face in her gown.

From For the Cause by Weyman, Stanley J.

Another has been crouching for five minutes behind a tuft of grass, watching like a cat at a rat-hole for some one to come by and be pounced upon.

From Ways of Wood Folk by Copeland, Charles

An immense white fog-bank which has been crouching on the horizon rears suddenly and rushes across the ocean, whose low mutter rises to a roar.

From The Splendid Idle Forties Stories of Old California by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn