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Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Crouch

Crouching as for refuge.
—Æschylus

Crouch’d like a slave.
—Mark Akenside

Crouched like two bulls locked horn in horn in fight.
—Robert Browning

He crouched as the panther crouches for its deadly spring.
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Crouchest like the faunying whelpe.
—Thomas Churchyard

Crouching about like a cat a-mousing.
—George Farquhar

Crouched … like a wild beast in his lair.
—Henry W. Longfellow