When he removed them, they packed into a compact nest, which he stowed beneath his cloak.

I know how, with horn and water, to find the trail of a pocket and trace it step by step and stage by stage up the mountain to its source, and find the compact little nest of yellow metal reposing in its secret home under the ground.

Two to four greenish white eggs are laid in a small and compact cup-shaped nest made out of grass and bound with cobwebs and placed in the fork of a tree.

Trumpeters, drummers, waterboys and cooks followed in a compact nest, protected by many soldiers, and not until this stupendous preamble had passed did the actual fighting men appear, thousands of soldiers, six abreast, marching shoulder to shoulder down an empty road as if they were already in battle.

The species builds a compact nest which is a cup of plant fibres and spider webs.

Each pair builds a compact floating nest of vegetation-typically a variety of aquatic weeds-which is anchored to rooted plants in still open water as deep as 1.5 m (5 ft).

In real estate parlance, the term "loft" connotes rambling space, while "studio" suggests a compact nest.