Couchant

“The crest is a Stag couchant, vulnerated through the neck by a broad arrow; on his side is a Martlett for a difference.” ❋ Unknown (2004)

In the aisle stands another altar-tomb, which has the sides panelled and adorned with shields of arms and bears the figure of an earlier Sir Thomas Markenfield, clad in armour of the period between Poitiers and Agincourt, and wearing a very curious collar of park palings with a stag couchant in front, possibly ❋ Cecil Walter Charles Hallett (N/A)

* And if descriptivism is rampant, would prescriptivism be "couchant"? ❋ Unknown (2005)

In Curzon's figure the lion is standing, not 'couchant', as stated by ❋ William Sleeman (1822)

a small pug-dog "couchant" before it, resolved to guard the treasure even at the sacrifice of life -- and a front-door standing invitingly half-open. ❋ Lewis Carroll (1865)

How one couchant beast, with its imperturbable gravitas, a heraldic chunk of London itself, moved without lifting a paw, from the site on the south bank of the Thames being cleared for the Festival of Britain in 1951, to Waterloo Station with its martial trappings, and on to its present eminence alongside the decommissioned County Hall. ❋ Unknown (2011)

I asked, peering at the crest, with its faded leopard couchant, and the printing below, more legible than the handwriting. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Lorsque au soleil couchant les rivières sont roses ❋ Unknown (2008)

In one courtyard, a mangy, flea-ridden griffon lay couchant, chained to the wall, flies buzzing around its slow-blinking head. ❋ M. T. Andreson (2009)

The entrance to the port is still guarded by the marble statues of the two couchant lions from which it took its name, though they are now half-buried in alluvial earth, symbols of the illustrious city that Herodotus called "the glory of Ionia." ❋ Unknown (2009)

There's even a small couchant lion at the top of the stone steps up to the porch. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I need not enlarge on the Madness of a Multitude, it being too well known; but as a Mob rampant is a most formidable Monster, so nothing is more serviceable than that Beast when couchant; to which State, by the Assistance of the Gods, I reduc'd the Egyptian Mob, (for an Army of Rebels deserve no better Title.) ❋ Unknown (2008)

These seemed to be a couchant leopard, with the motto, “I sleep; wake me not.” ❋ Unknown (2008)

The grasshopper—rampant and couchant—was much in evidence among the blazing banners. ❋ DEE BROWN (2007)

Then these little sly rogues, how they lie couchant, ready to spring upon us harmless fellows the moment we are in their reach! — ❋ Unknown (2006)

The apex stones of these dormers, together with those of the gables, were surmounted by grotesque figures in rampant, passant, and couchant variety. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Maybe this rock was important because it had almost a head, so it was like a lion couchant or a snake rearing up, and I think that's why it attracted so much attention, because you could immediately spot it from a distance. ❋ Unknown (2006)