She didn't try to swallow the hot jetting, but wiped her mouth on her hood and squatted silently until Blade had spent himself completely.

To the left, against the wall, eight pole men squatted silently, their livery matching that of the sedan.

When they arrived there were already many others before them, squatting silently around the base of a huge silk-cotton tree in the depths of the forest.

A robed man squatted silently on sand across from Hawat, apparently unmoved by the words.

He squatted silently before her, a hulking black shape shrouded in the night, hidden from her eyes.

The head-boy had been squatting silently in the shadows.

Behind Czemy the chimpanzee was squatting silently on the edge of a chair, watching.

Throughout that time, the shaman squatted silently, unmoving, his eyes hidden under the lowered brow and the great mane of shaggy hair.

His captors squatted silently on either side of him.

And Jon looked up at the immense batrachianoid robot that squatted silently behind them.