There he stands, like a lion at bay; see the poise of his head, the set of the lips, the brooding light in the eyes.
He regained his poise in an instant, however, and treated Fenton to a cold glare.
Her perfect poise and freedom from all conventionality put us at once at our ease, making us forget she had only been among us a few minutes.
See how beautiful is the Madonna's face--it is very seldom that so lovely a smile has lived in marble--and the tenderness of the mother suggested in the poise of the head as it bends over the Child.
She perceived the strength of the man, and his poise and assurance.
The man liked what he saw; he liked not so much the beauty of her, as the strength and poise that lay in her face.
But there was a tremor in his stride; there was a trembling about the poise of him; there was a cracking quaver in his voice.
They are so naturally excitable, I suppose, that a scene like this is merely an episode in the day's work; and they recover their mental poise much more rapidly than persons of a more phlegmatic temperament would be likely to do.
One may thus achieve the top of his condition through serenity and poise of spirit, and thus be enabled to see events and combinations in their true perspective.
To achieve the state of absolute peace and reconcilement with the Divine will is to achieve poise and power.
There was a quality of large personality in the burr of the voice, in the poise and soldierly bearing, in the very silence of the man, which made his slow words of importance.
The full sunlight gives man poise and shows him the practical side of things, but in the early morning and late at night man is seldom quite rational.
But I could not stop long to dwell upon any one especial feature, for there were still to be seen her divine round chin, her large white throat, and the infinite grace in poise and curve of her strong young form.
Her every feature, every poise and gesture, unconsciously bore the stamp of "I will" or "I will not.
The poise of her body and of her limbs, the wild glint in her eyes, and the turn of her head, all told eloquently that Sir George had no chance to win and that Dorothy was an unconquerable foe.
He turned to the Three--and did I in their poise sense a rigidity, an anxiety that sat upon them as alienly as would divinity upon men?
His cool steadiness and poise contrasted strongly with the strained tension of his guests; he spoke for both himself and Elsie with the assured masterfulness she had nursed to life in him during these many months.
It is enough to make one remain stupefied in a poise of inaction, void of all desires, of all designs, of all friendships.
In comparing two weights, poise one and then instantly the other, in the same hand; the few seconds of time that pass between the poising of the two weights will not prevent their accurate comparison.
She destroyed forever his poiseand his pride in it when she sat upon his unaccustomed knee, rested her tired head upon his immaculate shirt front, and wept for very happiness.
The trimness of her figure, the absolute neatness and propriety of her dress, the poise and restraint of her manner.
Mother, who usually had all the calmness and poise a doctor's wife soon acquires, was weaving her hands like Zasu Pitts before Mimi focused her blue eyes on the column.
Under Madge's patient direction, she was gaining poise and balance.
Mimi had recovered herpoise when she dashed by Tumble Inn between dinner and class time.
For a space he looked at Kent, as if measuring the poise of the other's mind.
She came in half an hour after the kill, and there was no longer the lithesome alertness to her slender legs, or gladness in the tilt of her ears or the poise of her head.
He regarded Kazan with a dubious questioning poise to his splendid head, and then looked again to the expectant and excited faces of the waiting men.
No longer was he lord of the wilderness about him; no longer was there defiance in the poise of his splendid head, or the flash of eager fire in his bloodshot eyes.
Once, while one of the warblers was in the tree, the other was seen to poise near the tree on fluttering wings, remaining for two or three seconds as nearly stationary in the air as a hummingbird.
At times a Calaveras Warbler will poise on rapidly beating wings to capture some insect otherwise out of reach.
They are less active and vigilant than the hawk; never poise themselves on the wing, never dive and gambol in the air, and never swoop down upon their prey; unlike the hawks also, they appear to have no enemies.
Yet these fine fellows walked fearlessly to the brink, and jumped from boulder to boulder, holding themselves in easy poise above the whirling, confusing current, as if they were doing nothing extraordinary.
Humming-moths and hummingbirds seldom set foot upon a flower, but poise on the wing in front of it, and reach forward as if they were sucking through straws.
No wonder that Evelyn had that air of gentle breeding and calm poise like Madam Chartley's.
But he had not expected this gentleness of manner, this unconscious dignity and a certain poise that reminded him of--he was puzzled to think of what it did remind him.
The fruit of right poiseis the strength to resist the shocks of infatuation or sorrow.
Right poise is to be gained by steady and temperate effort, and by setting the heart upon the everlasting.
It applies further to the poise of the soul, that fine balance and stability which nothing can shake, where the consciousness rests on the firm foundation of spiritual being.
Elephants possess not only force, but poise and fineness of control.
The two together make for the right poise which sets the spiritual man firmly and steadfastly on his feet.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "poise" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
