When his violent paroxysms possessed him he would arrange bedroom chairs in rude resemblance of a motor-car and would crouch on the foremost of them, bent forward and staring fixedly ahead, making uncouth and ghastly noises, till the climax was reached, when, turning a complete somersault, he would lie prostrate amidst the ruins of the chairs, apparently completely satisfied for the moment.
Peter Crouch"".
I remember you had to crouch to enter the prison cell-sized store, and then had to lift a trapdoor to creep down a set of wooden steps to the dank basement where Saifo stored his coveted kites.
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891 Why comes temptation, but for man to meet and master and crouch beneath his foot, and so be pedestaled in triumph?
