crouching

Though the Bull dug into the walls with his horns, he tired before he could rout out the Mouse, and crouching down, went to sleep outside the hole.

He was crouching for his final spring and blow when a cool, sardonic voice greeted him from the open bedroom door:

A man was crouching at the window.

Those two men might still be crouching in the doorway, but I could no longer see them.