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Coats & hats were piled on the twin beds, and people were perching cheerfully on top of the coats & hats.

From Time Magazine Archive

She felt despair sit on her shoulders, as heavy as if the harpy herself were perching there.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman

At this time the birds lacked their usual restlessness and were perching quietly, neither preening nor attempting to find prey.

From Observations on the Mississippi Kite in Southwestern Kansas by Fitch, Henry S.

After the train got into motion, motor-cars raced beside the track, school-children were found lined up at wayside crossings, stumps and telegraph poles were perching places for daring climbers.

From Down Under With the Prince by Duncan, Sara Jeannette

"By the way, you haven't told me yet where you were perching yesterday, when I had the kindness—I might well say, the folly—to look for you at all your aunts' lodgings."

From Fr?d?rique; vol. 2 by Kock, Charles Paul de