The brown-mottled butterfly may often be seen hovering over it, or delicately poising upon its golden table, fanning his wings.
There only poisingfor an instant, as they came within view of the village and saw the conflagration was not in, but wide away from it; the glare and sparks ascending over the spot where Hollymead House should be, but was no more.
Nor does she pause while plucking them, only poising an instant on one limb, and, with a whirl, or pirouette, continuing onward.
As it closed, the ladder, poising for an instant, fell with a crash on the gravel below.
For it had not the form of a bird of the air but kept poising its long wing-feathers like polished oars.
Lifting her glasses from her nose and poising them in her fingers, she gazed with astonishment at Bess Fletcher.
At St. Kilda, I have watched it gracefully poising itself in the air, its narrow wings beating rapidly, and its two orange-coloured legs spread out behind acting as a rudder.
It may be watched flying along the coast, a short distance from land, in a slow irregular way, every now and then poising for a second, and then dropping into the water with a tiny splash to seize a fish or a crustacean.
The bird may often be observed fishing at no great distance from shore, flying to and fro every now and then, poising and hovering previous to pouncing down upon a fish or other floating object.
Dalton looking in his face, and poising on high the oar he had so vigorously dipped in the blue wave--"My true-hearted boy!
When the combatants were perhaps a dozen yards apart, he raised his tomahawk over his head, and poising it a moment, hurled it, with a most deadly force, full at the head of the hunter.
While watering our horses a great many from the outskirts ran at us, poising and quivering their spears, some of which were over ten feet long; of these, every individual had an extraordinary number.
They began operations by poising their spears and waving us away.
If an attempt were made to land a wild looking crowd would swarm upon the shore, poising their spears threateningly or placing their arrows in their bows.
I took the largest of the stones in both hands, and, poising it over this, I let it fall.
Over and through the spray dashed the gull, answering the wind's howl--shriek for shriek, poising over the fearful battlefield of sea and shore.
Lying prone on the ice we may see them poising with slowly undulating fins, waiting, in their strange wide-eyed sleep, for the warmth which will bring food and active life again.
I remember a small purple kingfisher poising in the air over a shoal, his head bent downward, his wings vibrating swiftly.
The newly-lighted street-lamps blinked dismally through the wet fog, and the pedestrians hurried along, poising umbrellas, and buttoned up to the chin.
Mrs. Danton was chatting gayly with her husband, and Rose, poising a dainty azure parasol, looked at the well-dressed Parisians around her.
That is the cream of the joke," he replied, poising his heels on the ice so that his skates stood vertically at legs' length from him, and looking at them with a cynical air.
Gertrude, not catching the serious turn he had given to the conversation, and poising her cue for a stroke.
Lo, he all the fiercer was poising another weapon high by his ear; while they hesitate, the spear went whizzing through both Tagus' temples, and pierced and stuck fast in the warm brain.
Poising this flat on the palm of his hand, he threw it, with a quick jerk, with much the same motion of a cricket-bowler.
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