Now," said Ted, putting Stella behind him and crouching in the darkness.
Shan Rhue strode toward the tent, behind which Ted was crouching with his hand on his revolver.
As its small flame lights up the cold walls, stained black with the smoke of the goldsmith's dead fire, a weeping woman is seen crouching on the damp floor.
The country round lay at her feet, and half-concealed behind a barrel of Portland cement she saw the crouchingform of the enemy.
The canoe swept onwards down it apparently with the speed of a locomotive, and Seaforth, crouching in the bows, gripped his paddle with bleeding fingers that had split at the knuckles with the frost.
Harry was coming along quick as he could, thinking about his supper, and the other fellow was crouching here, clawing his rifle and waiting until he came into the moonlight.
The starving man crouching half-frozen with the paddle clenched in stiffened fingers had watched those trees slide by him, knowing that on their speed depended his fast-failing chance of life.
The girl, with that same awful look in her face, was crouching in her corner.
In the twinkling of an eye, he had leaped behind a tree; and was crouching there, pistol in hand, peering from either side of his place of ambush with bared teeth; a serpent already poised to strike.
He was convinced that he had not been seen when at last he gained the shelter of the haystack, and, crouching within its shadows, he peered forth at the wagon and the group of four men that were standing near it.
Then crouching low they peered forth at the sight which could be seen in the dim light.
And as they went they saw an old grey Fox crouching down in the rushes by the water-side, as still as a stone, and quite hidden from view.
As they drew near the top of the hill they heard more tapping just above them, and going on a little further found the old Cock-Pheasant crouching down just below a broad green path.
Crouching almost to the ground, Durham crawled through the undergrowth until he reached the summit of the bluff, and was able to see once more the narrow sandy strip which skirted the bank and formed the margin of the shore.
As he pushed between the shrubs which grew close up to it, he caught sight of what, in the shadow, looked like a crouching man.
But the most fearful-looking of all were two animals of a tawny red colour, that lay in crouchingattitudes within the porch, almost at the feet of the woman.
We then looked around the pit for the others whose eyes I had seen; and there, crouching in the darkest corners, we saw three bodies of a reddish-brown colour, closely squatted like so many foxes.
When we first saw it, it was crouching along a high log, that ran directly toward the tree, upon which was the porcupine.
The light of the lantern showed them a dim, half crouching figure ahead.
Another minute, and some one dropped down beside the crouching Step Hen, who was breathing hard from his exertions, but still full of pluck, as a true scout should always be.
He rejoiced, for at last he was sure that he and the poor crouching thing at his feet were alone in the world together.
The beggars were crouchingthere as usual in the blazing sunlight, making deep-blue shadows under their broad hats and voluminous turbans and tattered cloaks.
He paused a little, looking down on the crouching form without pity, while she shrank and sobbed with her hands before her face.
The heat and stench made him feel sick and weak, so that the open grave and the knives, and the brown old Emperor crouching in the gilded throne, seemed to weigh him down like a horrible dream.
With a low cry of terror she snatched it away; for there, crouching by her bedside in the ghostly moonlight, was the dim grey figure of her whose blood was on her head.
She was the ragged Kid, crouching on the Little Kopje in the gathering twilight or on the long mound that its eastward shadow covered.
They helped the crew whenever required; were extremely tractable and good-humoured, even taking pains to walk properly, and get over the crouching posture of their countrymen.
But the Kalmucks were scattered along the track between the bridge and the bend, crouching behind rocks and entrenchments which they had thrown up during the night.
Then with practiced step she went swiftly to the crouching figure at the distant end of the long seat.
As Jo reached the lowest step of the porch she saw a black figure crouching under the living-room window.
The fire was burning brightly and its radiance clearly showed Donelle on the couch by the window, fast asleep, Nick crouching beside her, his eyes glaring at the intruder outside and his teeth showing!
It is the work of a second to sweep the latter aside, and discover his poor fiancee all alone, and crouching desolately in a low arm-chair.
Anne found hercrouching close to her bed, with the curtains wrapped round her.
All along the breastwork, front and rear, crouching men sprang up at the rifle crackings to fling their arms all abroad and to fall writhing and wrestling in the death throe.
Here it was a gnarled and twisted tree-trunk so like a crouching panther that I sprang aside and had the steel half out before the clearer vision came.
A full minute more of the threatening silence, and at the end of it we were glaring at each other like two wild creatures crouching for the spring.
Crouching down beside the mud wall he picked out each little watch-tower unerringly.
In the oncoming darkness the narrow brick hut seemed gloomy and uninviting; and the sullenness of the two men, crouching as far from the gaping doorway as possible, added to the disheartening nature of the hour.
They darted across the broad brick platform to the inner parapet, crouching low as they ran, for there was a guard-house a few hundreds yards away.
Often had Wang the Ninth observed them as they ran crouching to the city wall.
He moved on, and, crouching at the doorway, listened intently.
Crouching upon the ground he scanned the sky-line carefully in every direction.
Dave twisted around, half expecting to see a squad of Nazi soldiers crouching behind him.
Crouching down, he struck one of his matches, tossed the flame down onto the gas-soaked strip of shirt cloth, spun around in a continuation of the same movement and raced for dear life back toward the prison tent.
Crouching there in the semi-gloom, the two boys looked out on such a spectacle as doubtless neither of them had ever seen before.
Until the leader gave the signal, they must remain where they were; although one and all of them secretly confessed to being heartily tired of crouching in that strained attitude.
Things had apparently arrived at the last stage, for there was the patrol leader crouching on the lower limb, so that he could drop to the ground and receive the oncoming body of the unfortunate aeronaut.
