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1. On the other side, Raj had to crouch down to open the window, and he was already short for a sixth-grader
2. Catwhiskers came in first, Joe and Fred both had to crouch down
3. In the gathering dusk, we see Joris sprint across the road, then crouch down behind a bush
4. 'Sonny,' still hovered in their ears as Harry firmly grasped the hand on his shoulder and dropped into a spinning crouch; the scream of pain from the hand's owner was silenced shortly as he yanked on his arm to free his hand with such force that as Harry released his hand his own fist smashed into his face and he crumpled like an imploded building
5. ” She performed a crouch and step with her staff passing over head as his blow was again blocked
6. Titania instantly dropped to a crouch and wasn't there when the force of his lunge sprang at her
7. Jameson pulled his arms to his side, pinning the hands of his 'captors' and dropped into a low crouch with his back straight so as not to dislodge them
8. Crouch the owner of TBN come to our
9. Crouch, but I could not move
10. He would have to crouch and jump
11. She slowed and came to a crouch at a juncture leading straight up and down from the lateral shaft they'd come up
12. Amaranthe sank into a crouch and buried her face in her knees
13. At the end of the row, she darted behind the bookcase and dropped into a crouch
14. Gonzalez spotted the end of the staircase and moved up the last few steps at a crouch, stopping to listen, gun at the ready
15. Finally, Sicarius swung from the rope and landed in a crouch beside her, fingers pressed against the floor
16. Having lost control of his mind, his psyche could do little now, other than crouch in a terrifying darkness, surveying the world from another badger's eyes
17. She automatically ducked beneath the blow, rolling to the right and coming up in a defensive crouch
18. Frank forced the boy along in a half crouch, pushing him towards the bush and unceremoniously shoving him inside
19. Rolling and tumbling, he came up in a half crouch, hoping the thing was hurt real bad
20. ” He returned to crouch over the dead man and, while Elizabeth watched, he began rifling through the pockets of his jacket, turning up the man’s army paybook, some snapshots that Colling consciously did not look at closely, a worn Wehrmacht-issue Polish phrase book and a tattered Esso map of Poland
21. They were both able to crouch in the small cave
22. It was all quite just me and my thoughts, damn silence which gave me a little gut to stand and view out of the window, to check if the help had arrived yet but I saw no such sign and then there was a disturbance out of the door, which made me to crouch my way back to my initial hiding place
23. I crouch by his head, my knees pressing to the pool of blood, and put my hands on his shoulders
24. We’ll have to crouch, then
25. I crouch, listening to the thunder of wings behind me, and run my hand through the grass, just above the ground
26. I sink into a crouch and crawl toward one of the trees so that the trunk will hide me
27. Peter surges toward me in a half crouch, and punches me in the stomach
28. Tris and Christina crouch next to the Erudite man with the shattered shoulder
29. I leave the safety of our numbers and crouch near the photograph, watching her the whole time
30. She drops to a crouch, papers littering the floor all around her, and I think, She’s crying, but I’m not sure why, since I don’t see her shoulders shake
31. Then I run back to the end of the hallway and around the corner and crouch, my back to the doors, as I press the detonation button and shield my ears with my palms
32. Except for a slight osteoporotic crouch, Kosmo walked with confidence and purpose
33. Tatsuya could barely stay on his feet and signaled to his men to crouch down
34. He landed in a crouch on the ground, fingers brushing the bloody earth
35. Libuse rose slightly from her crouch, clutching her spear
36. I saw him appear, crouch from the dark shadows that shrouded his immortal form into the illumination cast onto my tiled floor from a moon that was desperate to become plump
37. He moved up the stairway in a crouch
38. I just wanted a dark corner that I could crouch in
39. She had no idea what she would do when she got there but she couldn’t crouch helpless and do nothing
40. Then, seeing all suddenly crouch and cover, he understood
41. A minute later he saw that Talia was standing in a slight crouch on Equemev’s back with one foot in front of the other and her hands out for balance, with the wildest grin he’d ever seen on her pretty face, her blond hair and the hem of her dress flying behind, her cheeks pinked by excitement, exertion, and the cool wind of their speed
42. Between silent curses as he fought the clutching jungle vines and thorns, the Wolf grinned thinking that whoever coined the old saw about ride to the sound of the guns could never have envisioned this most basic of ground movement, walking in a crouch, to the sound of the most modern death dealing technology
43. He carried himself as in a crouch of intense alertness, as one who felt that he was facing an unseen enemy
44. He carried himself as in a crouch of intense alertness,
45. hesitation, walk over to crouch with them, quickly exchanging
46. Just as I stood before him in a similar crouch, I barely had time to tense up before the sweet song of the red-winged blackbird began our match of strength and skill
47. She straightened from her crouch and said calmly, "Close enough, Chuck
48. He could sit on the floor, crouch, or lie down—curled into a ball
49. Dave moved to crouch behind a sofa and could hear frantic breathing
50. Your thighs tighten, your calves tense in crouch, you roll up to the balls of your feet and spring
1. spider’s web out of his hair and then crouched down in the long grass in the same way
2. was low and narrow, forcing Danton to move forward with his knees bent, crouched
3. it was so dark he did not see Son crouched at his feet
4. The ceiling was low and narrow, forcing Danton to move forward with his knees bent, crouched down beneath the mountain
5. He crouched to spring out, but the wave was much too big for that little motion
6. What the hell was he up to? What did he want? Time crept by as I crouched in the shadows but not another sound
7. The strap from my bag drooped out of the boat and trailed across the sandy soil on the other side of the lighted doorway from where I crouched
8. In a corner under an overturned chair they could see Mistress Sera crouched
9. Returning to his fire, he crouched down and took a match out
10. ’ He crouched over
11. Alex is a couple of metres further down the lane towards the farm house, crouched down by the fence
12. Crouched into as small of a ball as physically possible, she cupped her ears
13. Lemoss crouched behind the rock shielding his eyes from the ferocious snowstorm, and then suddenly she was beside him again with a bedraggled sheep in her arms
14. The other two guardsmen crouched behind the bullock
15. a man crouched in fear
16. again and he crouched, as we waited for hell to break loose
17. “What’s wrong with her?” Griffin crouched near Savannah, while I searched the surrounding woods
18. Asmodeus threw me off him and crouched
19. That voice… it can't be… The man crouched down in front of Edrimer and said, "If you say anything to the cops about those two who got shot, we will hunt you and your loved ones down
20. Carius had reappeared and crouched down to deliver the food, which was hastily snatched away by a famished Penelope
21. Crouched in little huddled clumps of threes and fours, the tattered forms of 'conscripts' scraped, cracked, chewed and sifted out even the smallest bits of ore from the mounds of rock and debris surrounding them
22. Obviously a show-biz elevator thought Ben as he crouched down and braced himself for the worst
23. My head snapped to Joss, seeing he remained crouched in the weeds
24. He crouched and listened
25. “Now who the hell could be out here in this desolation?” he muttered out loud to himself as he crouched beside a tree trunk
26. He helped Jenny do the same and then they just crouched there, waiting for the outcome
27. He loosened off a little more line and crouched against the floor
28. They all moved four or five metres away and crouched down
29. Big splinters of wood were flying up into the air as our boat was hit countless times by bullets and the noise amplified inside the hull where we crouched taking cover and sounded all the more frightening
30. The four troopers quickly fanned out into a covering formation and crouched close to the ground, each of them intently surveying the area around them while holding their rifles ready
31. He caught a glint of something underneath the bed,and crouched down to look closer
32. But now it crouched like a flower choked among weeds
33. But it crouched there, like a malevolent imp
34. As I crouched there I remembered the time I had been caught on the Turkish wire on Gallipoli and I shuddered at the memory and tried to dig myself further down into the hole
35. “Where to now, monk?” it was obvious that they now stood where we now crouched over
36. find a bottle and try and fill it crouched in the foot well
37. He crouched down beside the kid
38. He crouched low, waggled his butt, and launched himself into the air
39. The mirror fell to the floor in a hundred jagged pieces and he crouched to the floor to find the largest shard of glass
40. ” She crouched before him, checking his bandages as he sat in a shadowy corner of the prison yard, away from prying eyes
41. He stepped into the tent to see Wil crouched beside the bed where Hayley lay with her eyes closed
42. He crouched with his back against the wall, his hands tied behind his back with a course rope, balanced on the tips of his toes with his heels raised
43. The police woman looked over her extensive notes and waived him away, making a beeline for Abigail who was sitting crouched in a corner looking vacant
44. Yet as soon as they were out, Cheeryup crouched and hissed to the boys, “Follow me!” She stole behind the structure, Wyll and Floppy trailing her, and made her way to a window that was half-open
45. Smoke gathered in the rafters, obscuring Sicarius, who crouched on the beam closest to the door, ten feet away
46. wares, and on the steps of the cathedral crouched a crowd of beggars
47. As soon as he took his eyes from the cat it crouched and ran at him
48. Terry slammed open the door and was across the room in four quick strides, but the man was already half-turned towards him, crouched in a fighter’s stance
49. Rounding some bushes Dawn shot two more cats crouched together in the centre of the track
50. more remembering what he practised for years, he crouched, and shielded his eyes while crashing
1. Clad only in his underpants, he crouches in the doorway of the tent for a moment as though choosing his goal, then sprints off
2. "Come here", he whispers to Helen, who crouches low as she manoeuvres around the foot of the bed
3. Round and round they circled each other in the defensive crouches that kept their weapons well out in front
4. Four, however, crouches and presses his back to the metal support, breathing heavily
5. Tobias crouches next to the computer and pulls the side of the case off
6. Tobias crouches in front of me, his hand on my left shoulder
7. Susan collapses to the ground, crying, and Caleb crouches next to her
8. He crouches next to one of the other Dauntless traitors, this one young, not even old enough to be a Dauntless member
9. He crouches by the three guns on the floor near Eric’s feet
10. He crouches in the tub and puts my foot in his lap, dabbing at the deeper cuts with a washcloth
11. They do, and she crouches over the stretcher
12. They stop right next to me, and he crouches by my shoulder
13. Tris crouches on the ground inside, shoulder to shoulder with Christina and diagonal from Cara
14. 10 He crouches, and humbles himself, so that the poor may fall by his strong ones
15. He crouches as he feels the ground pulling his body in that direction
16. As Ralph crouches on the rock, keeping an eye out for stray or deliberate weapons, he takes what is left of his mind and sifts out the noise and the pain, all the colours of orange, red and black
17. At the first of the bridges, Isabella crouches down
18. I am like a hunter who crouches by his small fire amid the forest, and hears stealthy feet padding in the darkness, and almost sees the glimmer of burning eyes
19. Aaron crouches in front of me
20. and the woman crouches on her knees,
21. Christian crouches low and concentrates keeping the seal
22. When she stands no more than a few inches away from the edge of the first scorch mark, she crouches down, then begins to drag her hand through the impressions
23. Guns drawn The cops start to fan out ,cop 1&cop 2 rush towards the back of the house, cop 3 crouches by their car near the gate, and the inspector and cop 4 cautiously approach the front door
24. A naked man crouches on the floor
25. As we ascend the snowy peak, the others drop to low crouches near the ground
26. On a step a gnome totting among a rubbishtip crouches to shoulder a sack of rags and bones
27. THE GAFFER: (Crouches, his voice twisted in his snout) And when Cairns came down from the scaffolding in Beaver street what was he after doing it into only into the bucket of porter that was there waiting on the shavings for Derwan's plasterers
28. She crouches and locates it with her fingers
29. “Feel this,” says Harold Bazin, and crouches and brings her hand to a curved wall which is completely studded with snails
30. Etienne crouches on his popping knees beside Madame, then scurries to the telephone and speaks a few words
31. She crouches over her knees
32. She crouches against the wall of the grotto, knapsack in her lap
33. I sit down in my allotted seat, and he crouches beside me to strap me into the harness
34. His face was twisted with amazement and anger to the likeness of some wild beast that, as it crouches
35. ” He crouches next to the plane and points at its fuselage
1. crouching at the door of Cain (Genesis 4:7)
2. Alex is no crouching tiger, but he is quick and definite
3. He kept an eye on their progress as he examined the flooring, he could just see what he wished to see by crouching very low and peering back under the house
4. Several figures, including Rafe, limped from the remnants of the Outer Shell, saved by crouching against it as the swell flowed over the wall
5. was aching from the crouching position I had into in order to
6. 2 men were crouching behind a red car in front of the store, both of them wearing gold Elastics
7. Edrimer finally made it to Zachary, crouching by the OldGen, and taking his hand
8. "Demilan, are you okay?" she inched closer at him, eventually crouching by the man to take a closer look at him
9. His first impression of the man was that he seemed to be a weakling, crouching in his domineering wife’s shadow
10. It was almost as if the whole elevator were one huge creature, crouching, ready to pounce
11. “Is that ice?” asked Chris, crouching with some difficulty to get a better look at the white discolouration of the rock beneath his feet
12. Russell moved over to the gravesite, crouching in freshly turned dirt to place his hand on the tombstone
13. Although my thigh muscles must have screamed from the crouching position I occupied, my terror
14. Crouching as low as my stiff legs would allow me, I crept from tree to tree evaluating Devil’s defenses
15. He was crouching on the balls of his feet, watching her approach
16. "But even as I spoke he was back again, crouching at Patty's feet, and
17. Crouching down he checked under the bed
18. crouching in the doorway
19. Instead he heard men shouting and firecrackers or, no… guns! Guns, shooting! Still crouching, William opened his eyes and saw a scene from his high school history class
20. Crouching down, creeping forward as quietly as I could, I reached the gate and the voices became clearer
21. It took a long search but I eventually found him crouching on the roof of the garden shed
22. over again?” while crouching for his long waited gigantic greasy
23. The smell of blood was a sure warning to other meals, still on the hoof or crouching cautiously in their burrows
24. Crouching low on the bike, decelerating hard as he reached the end of the straight, Frank hit the bend
25. Nadir realized in shock, that he was crouching beside a dead man
26. Crouching low in the runnels of the bog, he ran until the sweat blinded his eyes
27. They didn’t see Claire, crouching within her hooded cape, as they rubbed their hands together for warmth
28. At least twelve insects were huddled in a startled group, crouching behind the glass dome for safety
29. crouching between the crates, Cloud peered through the cold
30. Maggie and Libuse huddled closer to Huss, all three of them crouching behind a white stone while Jerome and Nicolas stood in the open, waiting
31. He is still crouching in the fetal position
32. “When are you going to learn sister?” he pondered as he made himself comfortable on my bedroom floor by stretching his arms and legs the way a household cat might, and then using his vampire speed to sit on a crouching position on my bed
33. Levi exhaled deeply, digging his hand out of the trench that constituted my grip, turning his back to me and crouching with his hands resting on his knees in a bent position, like an exhausted marathon competitor
34. He did not see Lucy crouching at the top of the
35. The man crouching down failed to notice
36. The two Lava Shapers quickly turned their backs to it while crouching, hunching, and covering their faces with their arms
37. half crouching, ran along the fence towards the rear of the
38. He was crouching down in fear
39. Three minutes later in the clearing, Wolf and Myers jumped out and ran crouching under the blades to help load SFCs Jim Monaghan and Joe Meneuz into the Huey
40. “On my signal,” he passed the word down the line as he tried not to look at the several supine bodies laying in the several poses of death, “we’re out of here! Back down the hill! But quietly! Quietly! No noise!” He watched as the pause in the launch became a pause in the delivery and, waving his arm as he spoke the command, “Now!” He rolled out crouching low, he sped down the hill as behind him he heard the groouumpp! groouumpp! groouumpp! of rapid-fire flights of arrows hitting the now empty hilltop
41. The wheels cleared the grass and Parker looked down to frame a picture of four tiger-suited men; two crouching, two standing and shooting
42. She frowns and nods, before crouching down next to the old man
43. She was the last one back to the old well and, as she approached, the cook could see her people hiding in the shadows, the women crouching down on the most part with the men keeping a look-out
44. Crouching down, she waves her hand over the rock
45. Still crouching, so his full height would not be visible at the door, Halfdan raised his ax and tapped the square-end of its heavy blade onto the door
46. There, Isabella is crouching in the shadows, holding the boy and pretending to soothe his forehead
47. Halfdan next saw, closer to where he was crouching on the wall, two guards standing over three dust-grey men lying on the ground; the guards were stabbing down with spears
48. He led the way up the steep path, crouching low and staying close to the uphill side with Caleb
49. and, waving his arm as he spoke the command, “Now!” He rolled out crouching low, he sped
50. Crouching down, Moshe waved the others off as he approached his antagonist, hatred burning