He dropped upon his haunches and looked straight at me. From Wordnik.com. [Black Beaver The Trapper] Reference
Then squatting on its haunches, it said, in tones polite. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Hanging Fork and Other Poems] Reference
Wienerwurst got up from his haunches and stretched himself. From Wordnik.com. [Half-Past Seven Stories] Reference
At the girl's command, it sank obediently down on its haunches. From Wordnik.com. [The Servant Problem] Reference
He crouched there on his haunches, at the dry bottom of the Pit. From Wordnik.com. [The Eternal Wall] Reference
Just stood there while the snow drifted up around their haunches. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Ranchers on Roaring River or Diamond X and the Chinese Smugglers] Reference
Jinks sat down for a few moments on his haunches to think it over. From Wordnik.com. [Rataplan, a rogue elephant; and other stories] Reference
He urged it forward, but it only threw itself back upon its haunches. From Wordnik.com. [When the Holy Ghost is Come] Reference
There'd be a freezer, with haunches of frozen venison, ready for sale. From Wordnik.com. [The Warden] Reference
The woman's hand disappeared behind the lowered haunches of the cat. From Wordnik.com. [Inner City] Reference
Ellis is down on his haunches, eye-to-eye-socket with the triceratops. From Wordnik.com. [The Saurians' Revenge] Reference
He was on his haunches between her thighs, growling deep within himself. From Wordnik.com. [The Snow Child and the Fiendish Lover] Reference
It arched its neck back to almost touch its haunches, stiffened, and was still. From Wordnik.com. [Cat and Mouse] Reference
He fairly pulled the horses back on their haunches, and the wagon came to a stop. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Girls] Reference
He sat on his haunches in his underwear beneath the center of the table, listening. From Wordnik.com. [Song of the Needle] Reference
The forelegs are almost stubby, and the shoulders look less muscular than the haunches. From Wordnik.com. [Hunting the Thylacine] Reference
Its claws were shabby and split, and numerous black flies were crawling over its haunches. From Wordnik.com. [David and the Phoenix] Reference
The slants he slid down on his haunches with his forelegs stiff and the iron shoes scraping. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference
The horse crossed his front legs and sat down on his haunches with an air of patient endurance. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Senior Year at High School] Reference
Those who have the haunches too narrow, take care not to have the bottom of the dress too wide. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World] Reference
The soldiers pulled with all their might on the bits, and many a horse was thrown back on his haunches. From Wordnik.com. [Southern Stories Retold from St. Nicholas] Reference
With a manual canvas top, the Boxster Spyder rear was redesigned, characterized by two muscular haunches. From Wordnik.com. [Inside the Porsche Boxster Spyder] Reference
The house squatted on its haunches, simpering like an old dog, hiding behind curtains of grass and weeds. From Wordnik.com. [The Museum] Reference
As the black dog's haunches began to rise, the white dog squatted, taking up where the other had ended. From Wordnik.com. [Inner City] Reference
It caught sight of the tank when tramping over a hill, and, stopping somewhat comically, dropped to its haunches. From Wordnik.com. [The Plunderer] Reference
He sits on his haunches and roars, but his is an inexperienced, unconfident roar that sounds like more of a moan. From Wordnik.com. [Moving Among Them] Reference
He sat on his haunches and alternately moved his fingers, then knuckles, back and forth across the grain of her muscles. From Wordnik.com. [The Spear Master] Reference
The mayors of the other villages had been awaiting him since early morning and were shifting impatiently on their haunches. From Wordnik.com. [The Servant Problem] Reference
A giant bipedal tiger, with the powerful haunches and hind legs of a kangaroo, bounds toward you in powerful, aerodynamic leaps. From Wordnik.com. [Everyday Zoology] Reference
But the lion lifted his paw off Vincent's body, stretched like a kitten with its haunches in the air and headed back to the corner. From Wordnik.com. [The One Ton Woman and the Amazonian Half Man] Reference
Some of the smaller species are no larger than a small rat; the large-sized species are six feet tall when sitting on their haunches. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
Seated upon their haunches, with their mouths close together, they had made all the noise we had been hearing for the past ten minutes. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Wienerwurst had no iron to slide on, but he did pretty well on his haunches, and how swiftly the brown sides of the earth slipped by them!. From Wordnik.com. [Half-Past Seven Stories] Reference
The animal may sit on the haunches, with the limbs projecting forward, or swing the hind quarters from side to side in walking or trotting. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
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