The creature reverted to her alien nature and went swarming up the drapes to cower on the rod.

Seven hostile children cower on the bed of their new governess, who gives them a lesson in her favourite things in life.

Helicopters have sprayed fire from above, and police on the ground have let off volleys of shots, forcing residents to cower on the floor.

All eyes went from Lagerfeld - impassive behind his black shades - to the glass of Sauternes, which seemed to cower on the tablecloth.

At the shrill whine of the bomb everyone cowered on the ground.

Rozsi was in a corner in the office, cowering on her cot.

She wrapped herself in her robe and cowered on the bed.

Then she gives a frightened exclamation and cowers on the sofa.

Cowering on the floor against a wall was his wife, clasping his child.

The Turkmen driver was cowering on the front floor under the steering wheel.

There it cowered on the floor beside his design; and lo!

Hanne's little girl lay cowering on the floor, on a tattered patchwork counterpane.

Jake was halfway across the stable yard, cowering on the cracked, rubbly hardpan.

But mostly it was Sadie, cowering on the couch and drenched in blood.

I looked down upon their senate; the grim Phantom sat cowering on its floor.

The rest stood cowering on the slope under the smithy.