crouch down

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crouch down

To squat. I crouched down to look for the earring under my desk, but I still couldn't find it.

crouch down

to stoop or huddle down. Crouch down here, next to me. Suddenly, Tex crouched down and reached for his pistol.

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Though the Bull dug into the walls with his horns, he tired before he could rout out the Mouse, and crouching down, went to sleep outside the hole.

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The two friends were crouching down, meantime, behind a tub in the side alley.

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On the right and on the left of the road, which the dismal procession pursued, appeared a few low, stunted trees, which looked like deformed dwarfs crouching down to watch men traveling at this sinister hour.

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Crouching down in a corner, peeping up the lane, the next object that Young Jerry saw, was the form of his honoured parent, pretty well defined against a watery and clouded moon, nimbly scaling an iron gate.

Crouching down again in a corner there, and looking in, he made out the three fishermen creeping through some rank grass!

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His eyes did not again return to Jane Clayton, and presently he left her, walked over to the remains of Taglat, and crouching down upon his kill with his back toward the girl, proceeded to devour the ape.

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Shimerda dropped the rope, ran after us, and, crouching down beside grandfather, she took his hand and kissed it.

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Morning rush hour commuters said they were shocked to see a stark naked man crouching down next to the tracks at the Old Trafford stop.

Naked man stops trams

Three years ago, Middleton was pictured crouching down to speak to Prince George while they were on their tour in Canada.

Prince William, Kate Inspired Anne Hathaway To Do This Parenting Trick

After crouching down to play an 8-iron brush-like stroke back to the fairway, Woods made a double-bogey and walked off the Albany course with a three-under 69.

Tiger gets out of the Woods for double-hit; golf

The poster appears to show a man crouching down in Partridge Lane, Roath, Cardiff.

Posters of a man 'caught on camera taking a poo' have gone up on a Cardiff lane; They have appeared in the Roath area of the city

He is seen crouching down and putting something underneath the vehicle before it explodes into flames.

Appeal after BMW torched on driveway

Prosecutors claimed they have evidence Sean McVeigh, 35, was the man spotted crouching down at the target's vehicle.

Officer 'saw man planting bomb on car'

Giving evidence, Parsons admitted he killed his wife, but said he was "retaliating" after he spotted her crouching down with the blade moments after a heated row between the pair.

Former Cardiff player jailed for murdering wife

In a recent photograph taken at her concert, the 26-year-old singer can be seen crouching down and carefully writing her name across a fan's breasts using a marker pen, the Daily Mail reported.