Lurked [verb]

The menace of a thunder-cloud approached as in his childhood's dream; disaster lurked behind the quiet outer show.

For behind the mothering words lurked, he knew, the other self that any minute would return.

Another account, according to Barbour, was that the King's companion lurked in a thicket and shot the hound with an arrow.

Their rides were taken mostly in the open country, however, for in the woods they knew lurked very real dangers.

She had looked so small and young; and who could know what deviltry lurked abroad that night?

Without a word Bud took him, but the quirky smile hid at the corners of his mouth, and under Cash's beard still lurked the grin.

I lurked round Glastonbury until I saw the girl, and knew that some fresh trouble was on hand for you.

The glowing logs sent a red glare over all the room; in every corner lurked black shadows.

She opened the drawer where she divined that it lurked hidden, the thing that was the sign and symbol of their secret.

It appealed to his sense of the absurd, and to the savagery that lurked, like a beast of prey, at the foundation of his nature.