lurked

Better to think of it as the creative force that has lurked behind the last 999 of them.

But rot lurked beneath the gleaming efficiency of British trade and industry.

Far more difficult to acknowledge is the fact that evil has always lurked in our shadows.

If this comes to pass, the question that has lurked beneath the crisis will rush to the surface: Who or what will fill the vacuum?

King dwells on "the darker city that lurked behind the enlightened one" a bit much for my taste.

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?