Mrs. Milvain was sitting, or rather Perching, upon the edge of a chair in the servants' room.
"Night and Day"
Virginia Woolf
Throughout that district, where the fields are small, and the trees big and near together, he has the cirl-bunting's habit of Perching to sing on the tops of high hedgerow elms and oaks.
"Afoot in England"
W.H. Hudson
The rains seemed to be so fierce and frequent there that in the course of time they had cut down the streets, leaving the houses Perching on hills above them, which were reached by flights of steps; and this impression was strengthened by the circumstance that it was a wet time, for it rained almost incessantly.
"The Mystery of the Locks"
Edgar Watson Howe