Above the falls, poised over that rushing confusion, swaying there on a slender branch, is a tiny bird.
Poised on a rock at the very center of the rapids, she had seen a lone pelican waiting for fish.
It was the first gun in the real engagement and the surging crowd about the doors quit scrouging for a view and poised their heads to listen.
With his strap poised Pecos stood over them, reading well the insubordination in their black hearts and waiting only for some one to start the fray.
Mrs. McVeigh, unconscious of the silent criticism being passed on her son, again poised a lance in defence of the stranger under discussion.
Twice the head disappeared, and as suddenly returned, poised a moment, then, like an image moving across a screen, was gone.
For an instant Helen Young's hands poised above the keyboard, then descended; and as spontaneously as a bird begins its love song to the blue, so Tessibel Skinner began to sing.
A snow owl dropped from the gloom of a tree, poised a moment on wing, and stared at her with glittering, hungry eyes.
The fingers holding the broad-bladed knife sank to the fisherman's knee, and for a moment the stick Orn had been cutting poised in the air.
In his right hand, shoulder high, he held not his sword, but Charlotte's fingers lightly poised for the turn in the arrested dance.
He came on cautiously, and I stood with the missile poised to hurl the moment he appeared.
He was remarkably calm and self-poised through life, saying that a painter should never be agitated.
For an instant it remained poised above us, then crashed down with the shock of an earthquake.
He stood square to the plate, crowded a little, and looked at Tom steadily as hepoised his bat.
And then, while Tom waspoised on one foot, his hands overhead, two things happened simultaneously.
He tossed it to Tom, and Tom again carefully and thoughtfully arranged his fingers about it, poised it over his shoulder, and swept it forward.
But at last the outrage proved too much for her; she slowly lifted one hind foot and poised it jerkily.
He sat down heavily in the nearest chair, and with his wet handkerchief poised in one pudgy hand he stared fixedly at the speaker.
That night she lay awake a long time putting her scheme into final shape, and then for an interval that seemed longer she hung poised in those penumbral regions midway between wakefulness and slumber.
As he set a hand upon the spokes and spun them round, a tall gray ship towered above them from the side on which was the seine-boat, and seemed to hangpoised a moment on the crest of a sea before the final crash.
But that instant's delay, as the bark had seemed to be poised upon the wave, had been enough for the Shiner.
Looking at Hank, he saw that the old fighter of the seas had dropped the harpoon-gun and was holding poised the long lance.
This she knew full well, and gazed pensively at the toe of her small flexible slipper, poisedon a stool before the fire.
She is a very self-poised young woman, but extremely easy to get along with.
He drew the paper before him; he selected a pen; he dipped it in the ink and poised it before him.
No free grace is possible under a huge, slouching, heavy hat, or to a body poised on sharp-toed shoes with towering heels.
For a moment she poised at the foot of Bowinski's cot, then recognizing Miss Mink she nodded: "So you found your soldier?
As she stood on this particular morning with her net poised over a butterfly, she heard the tramping of many feet.
Farraday jumped down and helped Mary out, and the front door opened to reveal the shining grin of McEwan, poised above the gray head of a little lady who advanced with outstretched hand to greet them.
She would stand poised to listen, her ear would catch a twitter, and she was gone; flitting, skimming, seeming not to touch the earth.
Her gauzy dress fluttered as she breathed; she seemed barely poised on her slim feet.
She turned to the portrait, a clever study in lights keyed to the opalescent tones of the silk dress, and showing Felicity poised for the first step of a dance.
One hand upon the bulwarks, she seemed, even as she listened, to be poised for flight, balancing to the sway of the ship.
The circus girl poisedherself on one foot and looked doubtful.
With her pen poised over the page of her letter she wondered how she should word her confession to Mr. Howbridge.
A sock salesman at his table sat on a stool with his hand poised under his chin when the rest of his life was faltering.
The machine suddenly slackened in its speed and then hungpoised in mid-air.
All at once he bounded to his feet, poised an instant, then threw himself into a succession of handsprings until he resembled a whirling pink and gold wheel.
She stood, as natural and as beautiful, as fit and seemly as the antelope upon the hill, as well poised and sure, her head as high and free, her hold upon life apparently as confident.
The Mexican made direct assault, rushing on with battle axepoised as though to end it all with one immediate blow.
She stood poisedon a coolie's basket in the midst of a rabble of all colours, like a fallen angel--I mean a dropped one.
She poised her chin in her hand and looked away over his head, and he could not help seeing, as he had seen before, that her eyes were beautiful.
With decision he seized a quill, held it poised a moment, then he wrote four lines and signed them with a flourish, added the date, and read them to himself.
The old hound lay beside her with his muzzle resting on her shoe, and Mrs. Toft, solidly poised on her feet, on the farther side of the table, rolled her apron about her arms and considered the pair.
Her braided head, Shiny as a black-bird's In the gleam of the torch-light, Is poised as for flight.
And when he saw--against the sky, Sagged like a silken net Under its load of stars-- The black bridge poised Like a gigantic spider motionless.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "poised" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
