48 Verbs to Use for the Word posing

Turning over the pages of this book now we have the impression that it is a collection of literary essays by a man who had his eye on posterity and assumed a pose most likely to attract the admiration of generations as yet unborn.

Moffatt himself dropped back into his seat and took the pose of easy narrative.

I know that I know At weddings or funerals, dinners of taste, You can bet that her hand will dive into her waist, And every few minutes she'll strike up a pose, And the whole world must wait till she powders her nose.

"The Chariot of ConcordWhat's the Matter with Mother?the gaping or jibing crowdthen you, going by" Her eyelids drooped; he stood now erect and motionless; in spite of the determination to maintain that matter-of-fact pose, visions appeared momentarily in his eyes.

" "Well, for my part," declared Santerre, resuming the pose of an elegant pessimist, "if she wishes to die, I shan't oppose her.

The watcher, whether he had seen them or not, was in no hurry; for with chin propped among the weeds, he held a pose at once alert and peaceful, mischievous and leisurely, as though he were master of that hollow, and might lie all night drowsing or waking, as the humor prompted.

one fair visitor announced, while the office force watched her pose in the center of the room.

Without changing his pose by so much as the lifting of an eyelash, Victor spoke in Chinese: "To-morrow afternoon, late, I shall motor down into the country with the girl Sofia.

She might merely be keeping up her pose as a divinity.

She spent hours in admiring herself, in studying out poses for her head and body and arms, especially her arms, which she regarded as nature's last word on that kind of beautya not wholly fanciful notion, as they were not bad, if a bit too short between elbow and wrist, and rather fat at the shoulders.

Does he ever seek a pose that is characteristic of the model, a pose that the model repeats oftener than any other?Never.

He detested posing, but why wouldn't it be worth something to have laymen report on missionary work?

Thus we diagnosed their mental poses.

This intermediate Beauty is the essence of the age of Pericles; and in it "the capable eye" may discover the pose of the Cnidian Venus of Praxiteles, of the Jupiter Olympius of Phidias, and the other lost wonders of ancient chisels, and, more directly, the tender severity of Doric capitals, and the secret grace of the shafts of the Parthenon.

He crossed his legs in a superior sort of way, his head thrown back after a fashion which always made Max want to throw something at him and disturb his pose.

CHAPTER VII I TURN SPY MYSELF Meeker stood with folded arms and grinned at me as he saw my pistols taken by the captain; and for the first time since I had seen him he dropped his sanctimonious pose and looked anything but the decrepit old missionary which he had always seemed.

He was in much such a tumult of anger, curiosity, stubbornness, and nervousness as agitates a child on its first appearance at school; but in his struggle not to show his feelings he exaggerated his pose into a seeming of bored indifference.

A girl broke away from the knot of summer-clad figures, ran a few steps down the path toward the lake, poised gracefully, executed a stagy little pose with head back and arms outflung as though in an ecstasy of delight that the world was so fair.

He divined something new and sincere, where Bambi felt only pose and degeneracy.

"Oh, you mean figure posing!

he exclaimed roughly, forgetting his pose.

TIM HEALY on war-path; quotes TENNYSON with odd variation; represents Prince ARTHUR as saying of Irish Members, "You have not got the pose that marks the cast of VERE DE VERE."

I think I have given you the pose.

" Deeply stirred by the melancholy gravity that informed his pose, the girl protested earnestly: "AnythingI will promise anything, rather than be an anxiety to one who is so kind.

In the whole expanse, no movement came but when a distant bird, leaving his philosophic pose, plunged downward after a fish.

48 Verbs to Use for the Word  posing