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Sentences ending with poised

He did not put up his hand even, but stared at the tailor, who, within a foot of him, stopped short with the iron poised. [11]
It is possible, indeed, that at one time it had really rocked, and that the rocking had worn for it a shallow cup, or socket, in which it poised. [11]

More example sentences with the word poised in them

The slender figure was poised on one foot; the other, covered to the ankle with the long robe, hovered in the air. [10]
As the bottle was poised in the air with a fiendish cry of "A baptism! [11]
How wonderfully, he thought, it was poised upon her shoulders. [9]
But because of this he was the better poised, the more evenly balanced, the more perceptive. [11]
For a moment they poised motionless, borne up by the air, circled round each other, then wheeled to the left and vanished behind the mountains, denying him the fulfilment of his desire. [10]
He had caught the ring in the voice, that rash enthusiasm of eager youth, and, taking a step towards Iberville, Count Frontenac's letter still poised in his hand: "Were your words meant for my hearing, monsieur? [11]
As I neared the house I spied my young doctor in the garden path, his hands in his pockets watching a humming-bird poised over the poppies. [9]
Suddenly she stopped, the bunch poised in her hand. [9]
There is a tap on the drum, a tuning of the strings, a flash of light from the rear of the room inundates the white canvas, and suddenly a figure is poised in the space, her shadow cast upon the glowing background. [4]
Her neck was so full and round and soft, and her voice--surely he had never heard a voice so sweet and strong, a tone so well poised, so resonantly pleasant. [11]
For a moment she peered at Honora over the glasses lightly poised on the uncertain rim of her nose. [9]
More unaccountable still, she did not move, now that she was free, but stood poised for flight, held by she knew not what. [9]
Indeed, The Stone seemed more a thing of life as it poised above the hill: The Man was sculptured rock. [11]
Janet did not reply, but sat with her pencil poised over her book. [9]
Delicate, refined, perfectly poised, and Kitty beside her like a sunflower to a sprig of heliotrope! [11]
His sword was poised against me. [11]
The road was pleasant, lying between beautiful pastures and fields of corn, about which, poised high in the clear blue sky, the lark trilled out her happy song. [12]
She stood balancing on one foot, poised for departure. [9]
A very small matter might turn the balance which held life and death poised against each other. [6]
Myrtle Hazard no longer required the physician's visits, but her mind was very far from being poised in the just balance of its faculties. [6]
There was a little bridge at one point where the lake narrowed, and Lali, evidently seeing it all at once, went towards it, and ran up on it, standing poised above the water about the middle of it. [11]
At that instant Li Choo slid softly into the room, caught up the tray, poised it on his three fingers over his head and said: "Old Mazaline, he come. [11]
It was a lad of not more than sixteen years, erect, well- poised, having an air of self-reliance, even of command. [11]
In the same instant a rainbow-radiance flashed along the spacious transept; for with one impulse every individual in the great concourse of nobles lifted a coronet and poised it over his or her head--and paused in that attitude. [5]
It would be inspiring to summon the vision of Honora, in rustling garments, poised as the figurehead of this craft, beckoning him on to battle and victory. [9]
She saw him in high places, simple, reserved, poised evenly as he was now. [9]
Once Honora perceived him flying the length of the field, madly pursued, his mallet poised lightly, his shirt bulging in the wind, his close-cropped head bereft of a cap, regardless of the havoc and confusion behind him. [9]
But his face had a strange and absent look, and he held the hand poised, even when the man had risen and mounted his horse. [11]
That grove of gnarled oaks summoned up before me visions of some classic villa poised above Grecian seas, shining amidst dark foliage, the refuge of forgotten kings. [9]
His arms were empty now, and he caught a glimpse of her poised on the road above him amidst the quivering, sunlit leaves, looking back at him over her shoulder. [9]
I can almost bring myself to pity the first citizen of Brampton as he sits there with his pen poised over the paper, and his enemy waiting to read those tender epistles of forgiveness which he has yet to write. [9]
There were flower beds of equally barbarous design; and two iron deer, which, like the figures on Keats's Grecian urn, were ever ready poised to flee,--and yet never fled. [9]
Twice he glanced back, after he had started, and once surprised her poised lightly among the leaves, looking over her shoulder. [9]
Saws stopped, and axes were poised over shoulders, and many times that day the General lifted his head anxiously. [9]
Standing rigid for a moment, his pen poised, the Duke looked sharply at the Intendant and then still more sharply at Philip. [11]
Here and there a hawk swooped down from the azure to break the surface and bear off a wriggling fish that gleamed like silver, and at eventide we would see at the brink an elk or doe, with head poised, watching us as we drifted. [9]

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