We arrived about dark at an eminence commanding a view of their new squatting ground.
Arrived at the ring, I found the Indians squatting on the ice and snow awaiting us, with their cutlasses and large knives tucked under their blankets,--weapons they never carry except when they expect to use them.
While he was still about four miles distant from his palace, he noticed a white wolf squatting on the roadside, and, behold!
Only Dschemil himself was absent, squatting on the threshold.
Sometimes you see a school, with the scholars squatting around their moonshee under the balcony, sing-songing in that curious monotone the Hindustanee lesson.
The natives squatting round formed a bright ring of colour, and somewhat against our will we were obliged to witness a typical Indian entertainment.
Here a group of men and women squatting over a hole in the earth, where they are pounding millet; there some children gnawing a stick of raw sugar-cane.
They are very patient, waiting outside their masters' doors for hours, squatting in the peculiar manner habitual to them, and which was formerly the attitude of respect they adopted when in the presence of a superior.
Again she bowed in reply, but at a signal two waiting women, who were squatting on the floor behind the couch, started up in the twilight, as if they had sprung from the earth, and approached their mistress.
In the pillared hall beyond the vestibule bearded soldiers were sitting on benches or squatting in groups on the ground, drinking noisily and singing, or laughing and squabbling as they threw the dice on the costly mosaic pavement.
I was squatting on my hams over the litter--seven sturdy, blind little beggars--when from behind came a bray of trumpets and crash of brass.
They drew back into a wider circle, squatting alertly on their haunches and licking their chops, the hair on every neck bristling and erect.
He was talking and laughing with some of the others, squatting on the ground in their usual fashion, and he just laid his head back and died.
The room was a wretched, little, low place: five of the ranees sat on silver chairs against the wall, with a great many of their slaves squatting round them, and we sat on chairs opposite them.
Every force of his being impelled him to spring up and confront the unseen danger, but his soul dominated the panic, and he remained squatting on his heels, in his hands a chunk of gold.
Still squatting on his heels, he continued examining the fragments and tossing them into the pan.
I pray your excellency to listen to me," said Yi Chin Ho, squatting on his hams by the bedside and lighting his pipe from the fire-box.
The source from which the business is at present entirely derived is the pastoral or squatting interest, leaving all other valuable and important interests to be yet developed, such as agriculture, mining, fisheries, and the timber trade.
You looked sick when I saw you there squatting on the ground.
No matter the gentility of his intentions in waiting there in this odd manner, by the experiences of squatting in traditional Asian toilets a witness to his execrable posture would ineluctably link it to excrement.
The chief, squatting on the deck, fidgeting with his hands, shivered.
Abiboo, squattingby the curtained bed, did not rise.
For a moment the squatting figure made no reply, then he rose and stretched himself.
There were at least six hundred people squatting in a semi-circle before a rough altar built of logs.
He walked leisurely toward the massed troops, and presently appeared before the old man squatting on a heap of skins and blinking like an ape in the sunlight.
He saw him disappear in the crowd of soldiers who stood behind the squatting figures, and prepared for the worst.
When he saw a little fire before his hut and a man squatting chin on knee, he twirled those spears of his cheerfully and went on, for he was afraid of no man.
Deep breathing, bending and squatting like a frog and shooting out his legs.
The men squatting before the shrine looked about dully.
But before the final tragedy there might, if skilfully thought out, be endless shades of moral torture; and the kuges, squatting in a row, crumpled their foreheads and stared at the gold ceiling in the delightful travail of conception.
In one corner of our room I discerned a brown toad of monstrous size squatting in great comfort on the damp flags.
On one occasion my horse almost trod on a couple of snipe squatting terrified in the short grass.
Benry and several old men were squatting on the floor, Benry in the middle, and he was again gorgeous in his regal clothes.
The red-leg is a determined runner, and therefore a bad game bird for the shooter, as it will run ahead when first disturbed and rise far beyond shot range, instead of squatting like the grey partridge and permitting a sporting shot.
We beheld a circle of half-naked braves in full war regalia, squatting haunch to haunch, listening to a story-teller.
The little group of people would besquatting about amidst a litter of fern, moss, and such-like dry material.
At last, Abdul, squatting silent and watchful just within the opening of the cave, saw a pair of legs dangling in front of him.
A small group of four or five men were squatting on the summit; more than a score were congregated below.
There seem to be no chairs or seats in the houses, every one squatting on the ground.
On a curtain being pulled aside he beheld a motionless figure seated in profound meditation like a squatting mummy.
I use the word 'sedent' for what ought to be called a squatting position, with the legs folded under the body.
They went then in opposite directions and the prisoners were left squatting under the eyes and bayonets of a very suspicious prison guard, who made no secret of being ready for all conceivable emergencies.
There were men in it, ten or eleven of them, all armed, squatting round the fire.
