The beggar is crouching in a corner of the room.
Creepbalso suggests secrecy and, in animals especially, indicates a crouching position
She began taking off her uniform, then stood there, hands cupped over her breasts, crouching at the pubic bone.
She did not notice me until I was already there, crouching over the animal, my hand upon its warm flank, its pulse racing alongside my own.
Halfway to the desolate Taldyk mountain pass we saw a young boy wearing a balaclava and crouching down against the cold.
He knew that it would come again-the darkness was full of demons crouching, waiting to worry him with their teeth again.
But modern jockeys-crouching, tightly coiled atop their galloping steeds-actively work to make sure their weight doesn't slow things down.
Old Pretty by this time had looked round, puzzled; and seeing two people crouching under her where, by immemorial custom, there should have been only one, lifted her hind leg crossly.
Between la Courtille and Saint-Laurent, your eye had already noticed, on the summit of an eminence crouching amid desert plains, a sort of edifice which resembled from a distance a ruined colonnade, mounted upon a basement with its foundation laid bare.
