Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Squat (Verb)
Squat like a toad.
—John Milton
Squat like a hermit on a tree stump lonely.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
Squat into the ground like moles.
—François Rabelais
The soul squats down in the flesh, like a tinker drunk in a ditch.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne