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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Crouch
 
  Crouching as for refuge.
            —Æschylus		  1
  Crouch’d like a slave.
            —Mark Akenside		  2
  Crouched like two bulls locked horn in horn in fight.
            —Robert Browning		  3
  He crouched as the panther crouches for its deadly spring.
            —Edward Bulwer-Lytton		  4
  Crouchest like the faunying whelpe.
            —Thomas Churchyard		  5
  Crouching about like a cat a-mousing.
            —George Farquhar		  6
  Crouched … like a wild beast in his lair.
            —Henry W. Longfellow		  7
 
 
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