"Step in," said Donnegan, recovering his poise at length.

The silence of Gramercy gave him back poise which the citya terrible companionhad torn apart.

Sobered a trifle, her mental processes somewhat less incoherent, still she knew she would hardly regain her poise until she was alone.

After this, as it becomes weaker, it loses its poise, till the tail turns over, when it comes to the surface, and floats with its belly upwards.

" Though she flushed a little she kept her poise admirably.

It was the old struggle in which they were so evenly matchedof the woman to preserve her poise; of the man to break it down.

The oars got their justest poise and widest sweep, and the wrists of the men accustomed to their play.

There was a sickening crash, a ladylike scream from Miss Prettyman, and Betty heard Bob's voice in a tone of suppressed fury: "You've done it now, you idiot!" Bobby giggled, of course, but Miss Prettyman, who had followed the boys into the hall ("I think she thought we'd steal something on the way out," Bob confided later to Betty) maintained her poise.

The wonted serene, balanced nature had found its habitual poise, and she looked up innocently, though with tears in her large, blue eyes, and said,"No, mother,I have nothing that I do not mean to tell you fully.

It explained the poise of the universe by a great and hitherto undiscovered law.

Beth saw upon his brow and face the poise and fineness of a love-child....

FELIX FEJEVARY, now nearing the age of his father in the first act, is an American of the more sophisticated typeprosperous, having the poise of success in affairs and place in society.

Bohannan could hardly hold his poise.

In soothing accents, sweet as spice, I offer them my best advice, Or deftly show them how to plant a Propulsive pole in oozy Granta, Observing, "If you only knew it This is the proper way to do it;" Till soon each watching Looty's face Grows full of wonder at my grace, And daring Subs in frail Rob Roys Attempt to imitate my poise.

But man needs poise and balance before he can act.

Her glass might tell her that her eyes were as softly brown, her hair as abundant, her cheek as clear and delicately moulded as ever, but there was no one to assure her that the early bloom had not passed away, and that she had not rather gained than lost in dignity of bearing and the stately poise of the head, which the jealous damsels called Court airs.

She lacked, indeed, that poetic fancy which belonged to the author of "Phantasmion;" nor did she possess her mental self-poise and firmness of will; but in other respects, even in physical organization and certain features of countenance, they were singularly alike.

By properly proportioning the poise and its distance above the wire to the resistance of the wire, the top-heaviness may be made to exactly neutralize the torsional resistance, and when this is done the beam is infinitely sensitive.

To rub elbows with normal people tended to restore my mental poise.

Rounded shoulders become square, the awkward gait disappears, and there is seen a graceful poise to the head and a bearing of the body which mark those whose muscles have been well trained.

I never saw him thrown off his poise in any emergency.

His manners improved, his back straightened up, he acquired a not unimpressive poise of the head.

" "You certainly see that the first thing is to stretch out your arms to your papa Dugrand, since you are so pleased to see him again!" I stretched out my arms to their utmost extent; but my body, not following the movement, still wanted poise, and recoiled into a grotesque attitude.

One had found that time had merely added poise and self-possession and a certain opulence to the beauty which had caused one's voice to play fantastic tricks in conference with Anne Willoughby,ancient, unforgotten conferences, wherein one had pointed out the many respects in which she differed from all other women, and the perfect feasibility of marrying on nothing a year.

But her eyes spoke in reality to the young man; who walked slowly behind her, admiring the poise of her gait.