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Sentences starting with poise

Poise in a modern woman, leading a modern life. [9]

Sentences ending with poise

Once in a while, indeed, she encountered and then avoided the glance of some man, felt the admiration in it, was thrilled a little, and her sense of exhilaration returned as she regained her poise. [9]
His pulses beat slowly once again, his mind regained its poise. [11]
She would not have hesitated to require her niece's return home had not maternal solicitude urged her to deprive her of nothing which could aid her troubled soul to regain its poise. [10]

Sentences containing poise two or more times

Now he had poise, such poise as we in these days are accustomed to see in leather and mahogany offices. [9]

More example sentences with the word poise in them

I managed, somehow, when the commotion had subsided, to regain my poise, and ended by uttering the conviction that the common sense of the community would repudiate the Citizens Union and all it stood for.... [9]
As usual, she was beyond him; and despite her exclamations of surprise, of appreciation and pleasure she maintained the outward poise, the inscrutability that summed up for him her uniqueness in the world of woman. [9]
Do I seem to have lost my solemnity, my gravity, my poise, my dignity? [5]
She had been thrown off her balance, or poise, as Charley had, for an unwonted second, been thrown off his pose, and her thought could not pierce beneath the surface. [11]
The practice of the art is so mixed up with the deepest human interests that it is hard to pursue it with that even poise of the intellect which is demanded by science. [6]
As he did so he caught sight of her still in that poise of wonderment and sadness. [11]
Their silk hats shone, and their boots; their frocks had the right distension behind, and their bonnets perfect poise and distinction. [8]
By and by she turned; her countenance had cleared; the dreamy look was gone out of her face, all indecision had vanished; the poise of her head and the firm set of her lips told that her resolution was formed. [5]
One of his reasons, indeed, --in addition to the friendship that had grown up between them,--for coming to visit her had been to gain the effect of her poise on his own. [9]
Presently, with a quick move, Mallow took the offensive, and tried to unsettle Dyck's poise and disorganize his battle-plan. [11]
Here make I proclamation of my faith, And poise my fealty o'er the head of Death. [11]
The perfect personal poise of Mavick, which gave him an air of patronizing the ocean, and his lightly held skeptical view of life, made his company as full of flavor on ship as it was on shore. [4]
Before answering, he placed his visitor in the chair, and the deliberation of the act was a revelation of the unconscious poise of the clergyman. [9]
And the train of thought hurdled the rising, crying protests of that other self whose poise she had lost. [13]
During the rest of our visit he seemed to have recovered something of his former spirits and poise, taking refuge in the past. [9]
Often, in this narrow path the horse had to poise himself nicely on a rude stone step and then drop his fore-feet over the edge and down something more than half his own height. [5]
In such logical manner he gradually bolstered up again his habitual poise and dignity. [9]
They did not know that the poise with her was to an extent as much a pose as Charley's manner was to him. [11]
Rolfe, despite the inspiring intellectual creed he professed, lacked the poise and unity that go with happiness. [9]
There was sadness in the poise of the head. [11]
Bess stared as if she had not heard aright, slowly blushed, and completely lost her poise in happy confusion. [13]
In proportion as I lost poise she seemed to gain it. [9]
Mr. Hopper, with his newly acquired equanimity and poise, startled her. [9]
The perfection of her poise, the beauty of her lines, the charm of her face seized Carnac, and, with an impulse, he ran his arm around her waist. [11]
Her poise, her gentleness, her dignity, were the effects which people saw. [9]
Cynthia's impassiveness, her complete poise, had fascinated Miss Duncan with the others. [9]
His personality, his ascendency, his poise, suddenly felt by the other, were still more confusing. [9]
There was something animal-like about the poise of the head and neck, something intense and daring about the woman altogether. [11]
Hodder's poise had amazed and baffled him--he had expected to find the rector on the defensive. [9]
He did not admire her the less now he had discovered that the poise was not so adjusted as he had thought it, but his feeling about her changed, grew more personal, more complicated. [9]

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