Poising
[pɔizɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Poise
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Examples
- I should have such strength,' muttered the robber, poising his brawny arm, 'that I could smash your head as if a loaded waggon had gone over it. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- I know he's always a saucy creature, said Rosa, poising herself on one of her little feet, and looking maliciously at Adolph. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- It seemed clear that where there was a baby, things were right enough, and that error, in general, was a mere lack of that central poising force. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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