Got ready for an ambush, perhaps

Usage examples of lurked.

They lurked just outside the path carved by the lights, but would not venture inside.

In his eyes, behind the glow of terror, lurked a weird light she had never seen in the eyes of a man wholly sane.

In her eyes alone of all the dark-skinned people there lurked no brooding gleam of madness.

It was not fear of the dominant strength that lurked in the princess' limbs that made Valeria a helpless, quivering captive in her hands.

Panic had momentarily touched his soul at the shock of that unexpected reverberation, and the red rage of the primitive that is wakened by threat of peril always lurked close to the surface of the Cimmerian.

Like a whisper at the back of his consciousness rose the vague memory of the name of an ancient god of darkness and primordial fear, to whom once both men and beasts bowed and whose children - men whispered - still lurked in dark corners of the world.

Evidently reassured no assassins or Mils lurked anywhere, Sinnall threw open both of the big doors leading into the main room of the suite.

The stored eggs in each facility were vacuumed out of their repositories and those were flung into the seas and lakes for whatever denizens lurked there.

Behind it lurked the curlycorn, quite as if, Minkus thought, the two beasts were conspiring against the hunting party.

During the morning the shadow of the biggest peak lurked over the retreat, like a broad digit pointing directly at her.

But she was an exceptionally graceful young woman, with a charming smile and great, dark, expressive eyes in which lurked a sort of secret bemusement.

Master Shonagar had called Piemur, and Menolly agreed, for a gleam lurked in Piemur's eyes for all his plaintive voice.

Right now, a huge herd of mixed varieties was stam­peding from the edge of the jungle where the predators lurked to ambush the unwary.

Coral glided to the door and Sallie opened it for her, feeling rather like a servant opening a door for a queen, but laughter still lurked in her eyes as she returned to her writing.

The small, knowing, infinitely pleased smile that lurked on his lips made her flush.