" "You're awful ugly," said a fat, squat little miss, nearly as broad as she was long.
It did not matter that the little squat apple-tree between Adam-and-Eve had become a thing of rose-and-snow beauty—that the hills beyond the hollow were of green silk, purple-misted—that the daffodils were out in the garden—that the birches were hung all over with golden tassels—that the Wind Woman was blowing white young clouds across the sky.
The Tree of Knowledge looked exactly like the squat little apple-tree, and Adam and Eve stood up on either side as stiffly and rigidly as did the spruces.
He saw Jumper the Hare squat down under a low-hanging branch of a hemlock-tree and prepare to take a nap.
The gold angel of the town-hall gleamed in the evening light, and the dark, squat tower of the parish church, sole relic of the past stood out grim and obdurate amid the featureless buildings which surrounded it.
); its high bridge; its hawsers as thick as trees; its funnels like sloping towers; the multitudes of passengers; the whistles, hoots, cries; the far-stretching panorama of wharves and docks; the squat ferry-craft carrying horses and carts, and no one looking twice at the feat—it was all too much, too astonishing, too lovely.
I caught one glimpse of his short, squat, strongly built figure as he sprang to his feet and turned to run.
The washerwoman's squat figure in its familiar cotton print seemed a passport for every barred door and grim gateway; even when he hesitated, uncertain as to the right turning to take, he found himself helped out of his difficulty by the warder at the next gate, anxious to be off to his tea, summoning him to come along sharp and not keep him waiting there all night.
A squat little chair with a cushion was prescriptively Banjo's.
Completely different, the mounds of Western Xia mausoleums look like squat Buddhist pagodas, round or octagonal and about 20 meters high.
Dr David Raichlen, a professor of biological sciences at the University of Southern California's Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, and lead author on the study, said: 'Even though there were long periods of inactivity, one of the key differences we noticed is that the Hadza are often resting in postures that require their muscles to maintain light levels of activity – either in a squat or kneeling.
Lastly, get those legs prepared for the squat toilets in China – they are everywhere.
Classes will fill up, you'll have to fight people for the squat rack, and it will be hard to have any real fun.
get out ,When word gets out, your life's not gonna be worth squat.
Others selling egg noodles with BBQ pork and crab still squat in the area.
Lacy, 79, is a former garden columnist for The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, and a professor emeritus of philosophy and horticulture at Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, and he shares my loathing of those squat little red-and-blue salvias you see in all the garden centers every spring — "the torrid red annual bedding sorts that pain the eye and made me long for a black freeze in early August," he writes in "The Garden in Autumn," one of his dozen or so excellent books.
Squat as far as you can comfortably go and then straighten back up 5-10.
Attention wearers of skinny jeans: don't squat — at least not for long.
2 billion people around the world who squat have almost no incidence of diverticulitis and fewer problems with piles.
The squat windows of his basement apartment were always grimy, opaque with steel-factory soot and ash, but in the spring there were lilacs blooming, sprays of white and lavender pressing against the glass, their scent drifting in like light.
