Or a traeki, Lark reminded himself, crouching amid shadows.

The woman crouched amid the underbrush, her eyes so bright the whites seemed to shine.

Up on the eastern hill the little Disappointed House crouched amid its shadows, dreaming, perhaps, of the false bride that had never come to it.

They must have been crouching amid the leafage as I passed.

One moment he had been there, crouched amid the baggage, and the next he was gone along with everything else.

Then he crouched amid his vines and lit a cigarette, watching the sun diving toward the sea, waiting for the show to begin.

There she crouches under a dark bank, amid the roots of trees, as her companions from the farm come searching for her.

Fyodor followed closely, alert for any beasts that might be crouching amid the stones and shadows.

So I crouched in a green tree and hid myself there completely amid the thick and somber branches.

In the third, a woman crouches amid the debris of a broken mirror, scrawling a note on college-ruled paper: "I am nothing."