He sought to break down her reserve by paying her extravagant compliments, and to excite her admiration by accounts of battles in which he would not have posed as hero so plainly had he not been flushed with wine.
John Law posed as a benefactor and accepted all the benefits that accrued to him from the praises of those who followed in his wake and gleaned the rich wastage of his empire-moving theories and schemes.
This arrangement left Della, her brother and sister to the care of their grandmother, who really posedas their mother.
Dey wuz s'posed to have done lots of beatin' of colored folks, but nobody knowed who dem Ku Kluxers wuz.
Mr. Jeff Davis 'posed freedom, but Mr. Abraham Lincoln freed us, and he was all right.
Vivie: "I have never posedas being other than what I am, a woman much interested in claiming the Parliamentary Franchise for Women; and I do not see what these questions have to do with my indictment, which is a charge of arson.
Counsel: "I put it to you that you are David Williams, or at any rate that you have posed as being that person.
If she had been posed for a picture, it could not have been done more artistically.
The troopers had crowded forward a trifle and, posed in lithe, nervous attitudes, were watching him like cats.
The sentry had apparently been about to resume his declamation, but at these warnings he suddenly posed in a soldierly manner.
Two years later he married Olympe Pelissier, who had been his mistress in Paris and had posed for Vernet's "Judith.
So the weighty alternative posed itself: Either I got my liberty at the cost of a life, or I married.
He wore a conspicuous and foppish costume, and posed with a little cane; he cultivated a waving pompadour, and his silky moustache and beard were carefully trimmed to points, and kept sharp by his active fingers.
John had inherited the bulk of the enormous Havens fortune, and he posed as his father's successor in the Steel Trust.
Francis Magan posed through life as the pink of propriety.
It is an object with Mr. Froude to show--and evidently as pointing a moral--that men who posed as the greatest patriots were secretly betraying the plans of their colleagues.
Orde posed as a man rather liberal for the time, and was the correspondent of Grattan and Lord Kenmare.
All these manoeuvres of the Whigs, aided by the Democratic underworking, resulted, of course, in the protraction of a war which they posed as hating.
Den dey went out laughin' fit to kill, and dat wuz de onliest time de Ku Kluxers ever wuz at our house, leastways us s'posed dey wuz Ku Kluxers.
If we didn't git up when we was s'posed to we got a beatin'.
Next to come wuz de gyards to take charge of de town, an' dey wuz s'posed to set things to goin' right.
He was lots bigger dan me, and I jus' s'posed his old marster had done told him he could git some apples out of dat big old orchard.
Any problem posed by one group of human beings can be resolved by any other group.
The music rooms are so wee that the group seemed like a gracefully posed genre picture.
Sarony, who took it, told me he had never posed such a subject, and I believe him.
Group by group posed for its particular picture and returned to seats in the audience to enjoy the remainder of the performance.
Malcolm, with a pole in his hand, posed as the old dumb servitor who was to row her up the river.
One was the reproduction of a famous painting called June, in which seven garlanded maidens in Greek costumes posed in a bewitching rose bower.
The "Blues" posed as partisans of the house of Justinus, and as strictly orthodox in matters ecclesiastical.
This last word posed the etymological skill of even Prof.
But all that he had seemed to see with his keen black eyes was the lovely girl posed on the last step of the ornamental stairway.
They, their women and their children, posed untiringly for sketches.
She had learned, with a feeling of great relief, that the bearded stranger who had posed as a witch-doctor had gone away from the village.
He had posed among the natives as a spirit-doctor and had, according to reports, worked many wonderful cures by his incantations.
The Chancellor, having carried through his army proposals, posed as a peacemaker; and Germany for some weeks bent all her thoughts on the struggle between life and death which made up the ninety days' reign of the Emperor Frederick III.
Germany fastened her grip on the Turkish Government, exploited the resources of Asia Minor, and posedas the champion of the Moslem creed.
Outwardly he posedas the aggrieved but still faithful friend.
As the woman looked upon that portrait of herself, into which Aaron King had painted, with all the skill at his command, everything that he had seen in her face as she posed for him, she stood a moment as though stunned.
I mean--have you been coming since the picture for which you posed was finished?
For some time the painter stood before the picture on his easel, without touching palette or brush, studying the face of the woman who posed for him.
VI THÉRÈSE Posedin a blaze of lights, the Princess Sofia contemplated captiously the charming image reflected in her cheval-glass.
There was a questioning look in her beautiful eyes; the finely posed head with its crown of bright hair bent toward him inquiringly.
He posed before a small mirror stuck up beside the window and gave the blade an experimental sweep across his face.
The figure is rather stifflyposed if carefully observed, the brushwork highly skilled.
To my mind the patterns and colouring of everything we saw were particularly hideous, though some of our party who posed as connoisseurs went into raptures over weird designs and glaring blues and browns.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "posed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
