At last he spread his wings and made a darting flight to the top of a tree, where he perched and sang loudly.

I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case behind which I crouched.

She thought of the robin and of the way he seemed to sing his song at her, and as she remembered the tree top he perched on she stopped rather suddenly on the path.

Or you could go out by yourself even to a half block long empty lot, into the bushes like a creature of leaves you'd lurk, crouched, crawling, simplified, savage, alone already there was wanting to be simpler, wanting, when they called you, never to go back.