There was a hunching of his shoulders when he said it.

The hunching of his shoulders said plainly that he could think of reasons to fear any examination.

He collapsed in a hunching, writhing pile, clutching his testicles, which felt crushed.

But it moved, at a hunching, lurching amble, and it was coming straight for him.

On reflection, I decided that the hunching of his shoulders occurred when he stopped; rather like a runner sets himself to spring off the starting line.

Once again I felt the icy clamp fit around my spine, and the involuntary hunching of neck and shoulders.

No hunching, either.

Father Cronin nodded, but there was no conviction in his face or in the defeated hunching of his shoulders.

In size, the man was of magnificent proportions, except for the hunching of one shoulder and a malformation of his neck.

Rather than sparkling eyes and excited mouth I find a squint, a hunching, a dyspeptic pinch of nostril, a grim behavior.

The Madman made no response to this trial other than a low hunching of the shoulders, but his gaze remained fixed on the head in the bottle.

But Linden read the nature of his tidings in the hunching of his shoulders and the unwonted darkness of his gaze.

His fingers extended, and Bek could see the sudden hunching of his shoulders as he forced his way closer His intent was unmistakable.

The change was almost imperceptible, just a small movement of her head and a slight hunching of her shoulders, but he was coming to know what it meant.

A certain gathering of the brows, a certain tension of the lips, a certain hunching of the shoulders, mark him as an android of strength and purpose.

The only reaction from those around the fire was a squeezing shut of their eyes and an instinctive hunching of the shoulders, as though the blow had landed upon their backs.

In some cases, it was as subtle as a wrongness of posture, a peculiar hunching of the back, or an elongation of the face, but in others it was far more pronounced.

As they hurried out across the frost I saw the quick sidelong glances into the shadows, and the hunching of cloaks close round their shoulders as if the night were breathing on their backs.

Bane couldn't see the lord's face, silhouetted against the bright light, but the child knew by the rigidity of the stance and the slight hunching of the shoulders that Xar was irritated at the interruption.

Butts clenched his fists and damped his elbows tightly against his ribs, but made no attempt to shield his face or head; an involuntary hunching of the shOUlders was his only defense.

Grace could see all he needed to know from the rapid swivelling of his eyes, the furrowing of his forehead, the hunching of his entire frame and the change in tone of his face colour.

The villagers' stiff limbs and sudden hunching over express extraordinary pain, particularly in solos danced with such quiet power by Adrienne Schulte and Jesus Pastor, a power matched by Troy Cook's singing.

Submissive displays include the slender walk, where birds move through the colony with feathers flattened, flippers moved to the front of the body, and head and neck hunched, and general hunching of head and neck when incubating or standing at the nest.

Yesterday, as the market tumbled, and my hunching over a keyboard constantly hitting refresh on a Web page tracking the declining Dow revealed itself as pathological and absurd, it seemed sensible to turn instead to something more durable than the changing red figures on the screen.

BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE WILD BUNCH by Daniel T. Streib Hunching deeper into his collar, the cowboy turned his back against the wind-driven slow, his eyes sweeping the raw canyon to the south.

Evidence to support his hunch is hard to come by.

She had a hunch they were going to be right.

I have a hunch your idea is going to work just fine.

And I also had a hunch you might need some help.

Or do you think the old boy had a hunch?

And I had just a hunch where he would go.

At the same time he had decided to play a hunch.

I had a hunch he was trying to tell me something.

But now I had a pretty good hunch about where to look next.

I had a hunch he might have something to do with show business.

On a hunch, I asked him what he thought of as the age when people started getting old.

Call it a hunch, but they may be in the wrong place.

I have a hunch that something else is going on.

On one hand, I have had real hunches all my life.

Following a hunch, he walked around the side of the building.

The reason was that I now had a hunch about him.

"Maybe we can find out whether your hunch is right!"

"I have a pretty good hunch what he was looking for."

He had a hunch that someone was about the old house.

To say that they were here only because of a hunch would not do at all.

My hunch is that you have probably made up your mind on a certain point.

I had a hunch it might turn out like that.

I had never followed a hunch quite like this one.

Hunch is designed to get to know you over time.

I started to welcome them and then had a hunch.

They were hunched together in the middle of the room.

At last he was alone, hunched down in the night.

She turned her back to him and hunched against the wall.

IF you are hunched over while working, something is wrong, she said.

The girl was hunched over in the bed against the wall.

She hunched down so that her face was close to his.

The next time I saw him, he turned toward me, hunched down.

So he's hunched over a computer for most of his work day.

He pulled the light down, hunched himself over my head.

I sat hunched up against the cold and tried not to think too much about things.

The figure was sitting on a rock by the road, hunched over.

The shoulder hunched itself up and the face turned away from him.

He looked over to where the President was hunched into his chair.

He was hunched over the small screen, his back to me.

He was hunched up when they went after his legs.

They all walked around hunched over as if there was something wrong with their feet.

He hunched down in the seat, trying not to think about anything at all.

The Director still sat hunched in her chair, but something had changed.

She hunched low to the ground and moved slowly toward it.

I could stand, but had to hunch over to walk.

Now, here she was hunched over on her hands and knees.

I hunched into my jacket and went out to the car.

The man's shoulders were hunched as if he could feel her eyes.

He hunched his shoulders and set off down toward the road.

His shoulders were hunched, and he would not look at anything but the ground.