Maurice cried with astonishing truculence, contorting himself into what he may have considered a posture of defense.
He walks much alone in theposture of meditation, and has a book still before his face in the fields.
His audience are often-times iudicious, but his chiefe admirers are commonly young wanton chamber-maids, who are so taken with his posture and gay clothes, they neuer come to be their owne women after.
Suddenly the fellow resumed his upright posture in the saddle, his manner showing that he had solved the problem that perplexed him.
That's what I think it is," replied Ruggles, who instantly started down the trail rifle in hand, his posture a crouching one and his senses strung to the highest point.
In this posture he gained a complete view of the vault, which to his astonishment he now discovered to be a subterraneous church of vast dimensions, such as are sometimes found in the old monasteries below the ordinary chapel of the order.
The only other figure, that of an older man, and who therefore cannot be Benedix, is standing in a most theatrical posture with clencht fists, eyes upturnd, rigid and ridiculous.
These light masses throw the main figure into relief, but Tieck objects to the unnatural posture of the dying man.
Nevertheless, the mind of a great designer is evident in the wonderful variety of posture and action which the figures show.
Canachos was undoubtedly an innovator, and in the stronger modelling of the head and neck, the more vigorous posture of the body of his statue, he shows an advance on the more conventional and limited art of his generation.
Sitting, the usualposture of mourners, was forbidden by both Roman and Jewish Law "in capital causes".
An opposite or opposing view; opposition; a posture in which two persons front each other.
At last they feel their power, and aware that their fate is sealed, they cease to struggle with their inevitable doom; they deliberately assume the posture of repose, and fall asleep in death.
The arch of his back was towards me, and one forepaw lay over his nose in a natural posture of sleep.
The king seemed very well pleased at the emphasis with which he expressed himself; and having raised him from the posture he was in, be it so, cried he, henceforward we will be inseparable.
In this posture she flew down stairs, and reached the hall before he overtook her, quite breathless and ready to faint.
He threw himself at her feet, and even thought that posture not humble enough to testify, as it deserved, his gratitude and joy.
He was speedily introduced to Sir Francis Varney, who was seated in the same posture as he had been left by Henry Bannerworth not many minutes before.
Believe me, I have some hopes that in that short space of time I shall be able to accomplish yet something which shall have a material effect upon the present posture of affairs.
But to wait in the same posture for hours was rather tiresome, so he rolled over on his back, and folding his arms under his head began to gaze on the skies.
Those who were present assumed any posture imaginable, provided it gave them comfort.
Cayamo took advantage of his cowering posture to fasten the war-sandals to his naked feet, and then rose and took the trail towards the north, but Shotaye held him back in token of misgivings.
I heard a confused noise about me, but, in the posture I lay, could see nothing except the sky.
I had scarcely placed myself in this posture when one of the eagles, having taken me up with the piece of meat to which I was fastened, carried me to his nest on the top of the mountain.
Mary screamed, and the noise of the shot startled her from her posture and she fell on her knees.
She, undisturbed by the suddenness of it all, held yet her posture of the stage, glowing in her silk with something dangerous and ominous about her, something blatant and yet potent, like a knife in a stocking.
He roused to a sitting posture and gazed through the open side of the shanty down toward the water.
The sheriff hastened into the house just as Rose, pale and agitated, rose from a crouching posture at the window.
A few years afterwards appeared "The Foreign Address, or the Best Argument for Peace," occasioned by the posture of affairs in which the British fleet was then placed, and written in the character of a sailor.
He slipped into a sitting posture in front of the tiny table and leaned upon it, his chin supported by his elbows, a look of expectancy tinged by humor in his eye.
He heard her stir into a sitting posture and, as her feet were freed, felt her rise to her knees.
And then she knelt beside him, put her arm behind his back, helped him to shuffle into an uneasy leaning posture against the bulkhead.
But her stooping posture becoming uncomfortable at last, she glided down from the chair upon the floor, and knelt, with her chin resting on the table and her eyes fixed with enthusiastic fervor on the little card.
Balder smilingly protested against his tyranny, and declared that he did not suffer at all; nay that he could breathe more freely and easily when in his stooping posture at the turning lathe.
He bended unconsciously in the posture of a fencer.
They strewed the deck in every posture of human anguish, and when the Foundling ducked and water came sluicing down from the bows, they let it sluice.
And Beda will have it to be the posture * Siste, viator.
He is no Teuton giant, like some of the rough and boorish gentleman-farmers of the eastern provinces, but a little old man, very simple and retiring, whose usual posture is one of silent attention.
It was not merely a rapid assault that the General recommended, but a surprise attack before the declaration of war, as if, in a duel, one were to strike one’s opponent before he had had time to assume a posture of defence.
