Then, books to my chest, I curled up beneath the afghan and looked out the window.
She told the magistrate how she hid "for hours" curled up under a bush.
People curled up in spots on the floor, while some opted to sleep on pews.
Angels appear on earrings, thimbles and dinner plates, as flying pins and cherubs curled up asleep.
Back at the patrol base, he curled up in the fetal position outside his tent and sobbed.
Curled up in her fathers' arms she is tiny, her eyes look huge on her bony face, her stomach's bloated.
He kept his graying hair long, so it curled up near the ears, but age had thinned it on top.
Overwhelming them all is a vast painting of an old woman lying curled up like a foetus by Jenny Saville.
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In one house she had seen other girls in a similar state, curled up, waiting for the sex to start again.
Rodriguez immediately fell to the ground, laying on his back, his legs curled up above him as he clutched the hand.
She made the taxi driver pull over so she could check and was delighted to find the cat curled up inside unharmed.
Three thousand people dead, bodies curled up in the streets, people gassed in their homes and their trucks, men curling around infants.
Muhammad Kasro was curled up in the back of his small hardware shop in Arbil bazaar last month when an explosion interrupted his siesta.
But the highlight of each and every week was Wednesday afternoon, when, after school, I would pull the curled up Sports Illustrated out of the mailbox.
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The barge has a few cosy reading nooks as well as a resident cat curled up in the corner and a rooftop stage where local musicians perform.
If they are not curled up under their desk mumbling to themselves, they will likely tell you that they have given up trying to pick a top here.
It was like the stray dogs Lera had suddenly noticed all over the city, trotting around the market, lying curled up beside the heating vents in the metro underpasses.
An anxious heat entered my eight-year-old mind and I curled up in bed, hoping Mother would pay me one of her night visits, kiss my forehead, lie beside me.
She had a wary, melancholic air and was curled up in a chair, as though recoiling from the camera that she knew was embedded in the wall behind her husband.
The two paratroopers took a grip on the prisoner's arms and lifted him into the crater and set him down on his side, curled up in a fetal position in the round hole.
Sweeney recalled when the company was testing the WATCH app and she saw two little children curled up together on the couch watching Disney even though there was a big TV in the room.
Finding a puddle, the hare had a good drink, looked all around with moist, conscious eyes, then lay down in a little pit to one side, curled up into the warmth of his own body, and dozed off.
Unlike the familiar three of length, breadth and height, these extra dimensions are curled up so tightly that they elude detection (though scientists are trying to prise them open in particle accelerators like the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva).
He said Saturday that he would have retired after last season if he had not hurt himself but that he would not let the image of his crumpled body curled up on an outfield warning track be his final scene.
The once-and-future candidates couldn't afford to look gobsmacked, and George W. Bush announced that he had curled up with the new biography of Joe DiMaggio, which sounded like an odd thing to do, especially since the Cliff Notes haven't been written.
The females are sitting on their perches with their fannies curled up in the air, letting the whole mantis world see their goods, while the males are usually hanging out just a few feet away from the females, collecting their guts and gear before they approach the females to mate.
Today, you can still get a taste of real beans and cornbread throughout West Virginia, whether you are curled up in small corner booth at the local diner or are one of 300 guests attending the annual Mercer County Democrats "bean dinner" honoring the likes of U.S. Senators Robert C.
So, if the Kobo reader isn't quite the future of reading devices, it's certainly firmly entrenched in the present, with enough likeable qualities at a price point that few could argue with, to keep it on our list of readers we wouldn't mind spending a night at home curled up with on the sofa, reading Wuthering Heights while our significant other plays Red Dead Redemption.
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