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curled up

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The more congenial page of some tenth-rate poeticule worn out with failure after failure and now squat in his hole like the tailless fox, he is curled up to snarl and whimper beneath the inaccessible vine of song. Algernon Charles Swinburne

When things were very bad his soul just crawled behind his heart and curled up and went to sleep. Maya Angelou

I spent the weekend curled up with the Marine Corps and Army counterinsurgency field manual-because that‘s how I roll on the weekends. Rachel Maddow

She curled up and pressed her cheek against his chest. Her ear was right above his heart. She was listening to his thoughts. "I need to know this," Aomame said. "That we're in the same world, seeing the same things. Haruki Murakami

Clary curled up on the ground seeing in front of her not the shell of a destroyed town but the eyes of the brother and the sister that she would never have. Cassandra Clare

The dog that's always on the go, is better than the one that's always curled up. Irish Proverb

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