The dogs, with eager yelp, / Are struggling to be free; / The hawks in frequent stoop / Token their haste for flight; / And couchant on the saddle-bow, / With tranquil eyes, and talons sheath’d, / The ounce expects his liberty.
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Couchant
//ˈkaʊtʃənt//
Synonyms for "couchant" (46 found)
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Russian
1 entries- лежащий adj (lying with belly down; crouching)
Swedish
1 entries- liggande adj (represented as crouching with the head raised)
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There were the tawny rocks, like lions couchant, defying the ocean, whose waves incessantly dashed against and scoured them with vast quantities of gravel.
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Two figures faced each other, large, austere; / A couchant sphinx in shadow to the breast, / An angel standing in the moonlight clear; […]
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Or again, have you ever watched fine collie dogs couchant at twenty yards' distance?
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