was couching

• past progressive

  past progressive

  Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.

  of couch.
  couch

  noun

  a piece of furniture for seating from two to four people, typically in the form of a bench with a back, sometimes having an armrest at one or each end, and partly or wholly upholstered and often fitted with springs, tailored cushions, skirts, etc.; sofa.

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was couching

Queed looked unseeingly out of the window, where the sun was couching in a bed of copper flame stippled over with brightest azure.

From Queed by Raymond Moreau Crosby

At its back a horse was standing, On the stock a foal was running, On the curve a sleeping woman, At the catch a hare was couching.

From Kalevala, Volume I (of 2) The Land of the Heroes by W. F. (William Forsell) Kirby

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