Satisfied with the result, cunning Reynard at last selected a larger branch of spruce-fir than usual, and Couching himself down on it, set it adrift as he had done the others.
"Stories of Animal Sagacity"
W.H.G. Kingston
But it was only the words of its Couching that troubled him, and presently Brussilov raised a hand and let it fall while his reply came in few syllables and blunt directness: "Makailoff is dead."
"The Tempering"
Charles Neville Buck
Lanyard reckoned on anything from fifteen minutes to an hour before her Couching would be accomplished and the maid out of the way.
"Alias The Lone Wolf"
Louis Joseph Vance