1.   At first we could see nothing so crouched on our haunches, edging forward like crabs, feeling the soft woollen carpet.

2.   He crouched on the ground, like an animal ready to pounce.

3.   He just crouches on the corner at lunchtime and occasionally bays, like a wolf or coyote.

4.   I climbed it in the dark, found Janir and crouched on the mat beside him.

5.   Loi and Trondur spent wet hour after wet hour crouched on their knees, trying to refasten the bamboos.

6.   Prunella crouched on elbows and knees, offering herself to him again.

7.   Some of the trainees, including Jones, found the female private crouched on the floor, shaking.

8.   A cluster of vultures crouched on the carcass of a dead buffalo.

9.   Others crouched on their haunches and kicked out their back legs behind them, like men carrying out a complex fitness programme.