William Dodge sees himself on trial for the murder of Alice Webster, with Pierre and Paul Lanier posing as friends of justice, aiding its commissioned officers in vindication of an outraged law.
A powerful bully, posing as leader, steps on Oswald's foot, aiming a blow at his drooping headgear.
Having no intention of posing as factional disturber of the public peace, his indiscreet utterances reach ear of vigilant official.
Rock-posing Barjona, think not to question this outgoing!
For amusement and instruction of the vulgar, buffoons in herds of ten or more in fested the streets, hopping and posing to the sound of a drum.
If she could get evidence that the directress of the Grey Sisterhood was the leader of a criminal gang, posing as a charitable reformer, I could not only say "I told you so!
There was a glimpse of venerable whitish beard tucked into the cloak; but I knew, in my dream, that the man was Rameses posing as the leader of the caravan.
One does such a lot of self-posing and self-imposition.
But to-night her appeal was very direct, although he had not the least idea whether she was posing or was entirely natural in an unusual mood.
It was at Gabriel Pochard's that Harry Horton spent much time, for he had come with a letter to Gabriel from Monsieur Quinlevin, who had known Pochard since the days of posing for the great Monsieur Gerome.
I've been posing for Monsieur Valcourt--La Liberte.
Evidently this queer individualposing as a cowboy was not such a fool, after all.
The cowboy, while posing as friend and adviser, was in reality working out a subtle plan of his own, a plan of which Corliss had not the slightest inkling.
There was but a step from the posing of this question to the inevitable inference that Mr. Oxford's line of defence was really too fantastic for credence.
There can, therefore, be no question of her having been deceived by the valet posing as the master.
He had been thinking the same thing, though he was fond of posing as a man devoid of sentiment; a not unusual affectation with those who are conscious of an over-soft heart.
He's posing as a pagan of some kind, and we don't know any other Filipinos.
And after finding that Chahda had gone underground and was posing as a Sikh.
The idea of holding a man in that way is repellent to me," said she, obviously posing for my benefit.
There's no longer any occasion for our lying or posingto each other.
She is looking hopelessly conceited, and is plainly bent on posing as one of the most remarkable housekeepers on record--as really, perhaps, she is.
She was casual in her greetings to Miss Morton, discreet about entering the studio during posing hours.
No uncomfortable pretences; no black bog posing as white fire; no driven snow business, London snow nicely trodden, in.
And did he stand there, in his immaculate evening dress, posing as an English gentleman?
Figs, no longer posing as a pastime of the palate, were accepted seriously as pièces de résistance.
Among the mass of fantasy there were not a few notable solutions, which failed brilliantly, like rockets posing as fixed stars.
For general work, my rule about posing children is, 'Never pose them at all.
For instance, Mr. Byrne conceived the notion of posingchildren in a big boot, such as appears in two of the accompanying reproductions.
The next thing to be considered was, how could he first obtain entrance to the apartment building, and, subsequently, to the flat of the woman posing as E.
I can understand that you must be tired, after posing all the morning.
Was he posing as Ruth Morton's brother, and if so, for what reason?
As for Thuillier, the mania for posing as a publicist and getting himself talked about so possessed him that although he moaned over this fresh bleeding of his purse, he had decided on the sacrifice before he even spoke to la Peyrade.
But for hiding the unfortunate alliance and posing here as an unmarried girl, the tongue of gossip would undoubtedly drag both her own name and Ford's through the mire of half-truths and suppositions.
That she was married back East, long before she come out here, and isposing here as an unmarried woman.
It was well and truly said, and there was no posing about it.
Here was the grave, businesslike nature of the man, plainly posing awkward questions that had to be answered.
But the biggest coup of all was achieved by the "baronet" posing as a messenger.
A carriage was to take him there with his best man, who was his eldest son Philip, and the young rogue was posing for the occasion as a friend and not a relative of the bridegroom-baronet.
He knew that everybody leaving the country would be under suspicion, and so he trekked inland, posing as a merchant in ostrich feathers.
I am not an ignorant mountebank, posing as a Messiah of science.
If I had been a hairdresser posing as a duke, he could not have been more violent.
Drops bag on arm, posing as Goddess with the horn of plenty, and spewing groceries over the table, fruit rolling to floor.
Something in Kate's eyes, while you were posing for her, suggested it.
Spain, posing as their representative, claimed the inheritance, ignoring the superior title of his cousin Katharine of Braganza.
If they were determined not to submit to Papal claims, they were equally disinclined to submit to the claims of a Calvinistic Ministry, posing as the mouth-pieces of the Almighty, demanding secular obedience on the analogy of Samuel or Elijah.
There was Tyrone in Ireland, similarly posing to Spain as the champion of Catholicism, while intriguing with Essex and James indubitably for something like sovereignty for himself as the price of supporting the Scots King.
