I found her all scrunched up on her bed in the dark with her face in the pillows.
"Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906"
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Suddenly the soles of our boots "scrunched" something underfoot.
"Leaves from a Field Note-Book"
J. H. Morgan
"Miss Nannie, she'd watch him, too, from behind de kitchen door, or scrunched down lookin' over de pantry winder sill, an' den she'd tell Dinah an' me what he did, an' how he got off his horse an' han' de reins to de boy, an' slap his boots wid his ridin' whip, like he was a-dustin' off a fly.
"The Other Fellow"
F. Hopkinson Smith