The animal crouched ready for an attack and then dashed across its cage floor towards the spot where Leyhausen was standing.

And then the orank was coming in for the third pass, and Blade crouched ready to meet it.

Instead of crouching ready to follow, the jetman had moved back in the tube.

By now the beach was littered with boats and, just clear of the water, several hundred men were crouching ready.

All they could do now was to help Nicholas to steer her through any desperate moments, and they crouched ready along the gunwales.

The fact that the brig rocked slightly under her feet, gave the impression it was alive, like a great animal crouched ready to spring.

The tiger crouches ready to seize his prey and the man leaps into the pit.

As for the monkey daemon, he glared at Will without blinking, crouched ready to spring.

She crouched ready, and at last felt the bows coming up into the wind, the motion of the hull changing under her.