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"Hunched" Quotes from Famous Books

... call him. His big foot described an upward arc, and Jake a parabola, ending in a drop that almost took him through an open hatch into the depth of the hold. He saved himself, peering over the edge, too weak for words—hunched back, crawled around the steel abyss, and betook himself to a safe hiding-place under the tank-top till the siren should blow and disperse ...

— The Cup of Fury - A Novel of Cities and Shipyards • Rupert Hughes

... landscape. And yet I remember that it was that absurd, emaciated, superannuated cab-horse which held my gaze. Slowly and wheezily it was climbing the slope. Then my eye traveled to the driver sitting hunched up upon the box and finally to the young man who was leaning out of the window in some excitement and shouting a direction. They ...

— The Poison Belt • Arthur Conan Doyle

... obscurity in the back of the store an old man's narrow bristling face peered, watchful as a cat, his body hunched up in ...

— Pembroke - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

... in its velocity as told by the sound of raging gusts outside, himself raging. Once he lifted a corner of the blanket and peered out—only to suffer the sting of a thousand needles. Again, he hunched his shoulders guardedly and endeavored to roll a cigarette; but the tempestuous blasts discouraged this also, and with a curse he dashed the tobacco from him. After that he remained still, listening, until he heard an agreeable change outside. ...

— Bred of the Desert - A Horse and a Romance • Marcus Horton

... but little hope of another midnight visitor. Nevertheless, I put my light out early, and sat a long time peeping through my blind; but only an inevitable Tom, with back hunched up and tail erect, broke the moonlit profile of the back-garden wall; and once more that disreputable music (which none the less had saved my life) was the only ...

— Dead Men Tell No Tales • E. W. Hornung

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