But modern jockeys-crouching, tightly coiled atop their galloping steeds-actively work to make sure their weight doesn't slow things down.
Creepbalso suggests secrecy and, in animals especially, indicates a crouching position
He knew that it would come again-the darkness was full of demons crouching, waiting to worry him with their teeth again.
She began taking off her uniform, then stood there, hands cupped over her breasts, crouching at the pubic bone.
Between la Courtille and Saint-Laurent, your eye had already noticed, on the summit of an eminence crouching amid desert plains, a sort of edifice which resembled from a distance a ruined colonnade, mounted upon a basement with its foundation laid bare.
Old Pretty by this time had looked round, puzzled; and seeing two people crouching under her where, by immemorial custom, there should have been only one, lifted her hind leg crossly.
The beggar is crouching in a corner of the room.
Halfway to the desolate Taldyk mountain pass we saw a young boy wearing a balaclava and crouching down against the cold.
She did not notice me until I was already there, crouching over the animal, my hand upon its warm flank, its pulse racing alongside my own.
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